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811.
by ebbv 10y ago
That's a silly response. Amazon is an online retailer, they are the absolute most vulnerable to cross shopping. If I'm at a local grocery store or farmer's market and see something I like I'm much more likely to buy it t
812.
by ebbv 10y ago
This is interesting but I think based on a false assumption. Speaking only for myself I currently buy a lot from Amazon, but it's based entirely on whether a given product is a good deal or not. I have no particular loyalty to Amazon (
813.
by ebbv 10y ago
I really like writing in Swift. To be honest I am strongly considering looking for jobs writing in it even though I have a great job, just because I want to write Swift.
814.
by ebbv 10y ago
This is a cute but ultimately wrong argument. It's like saying we live with a black hole because there's one in the center of our galaxy. Yes you could stretch the term of AI to say that a large system made up of people and simple
815.
by ebbv 10y ago
I agree with you except for this: > This is not a setback for automatic driving. This is just a Tesla problem. If the general public doesn't get the distinction it can become an automatic driving problem.
816.
by ebbv 10y ago
> Not to mention that problems are relative; you think an American balking at finding out their favorite restaurant was closed because of hygiene issues doesn't feel something comparable to a Chinese person who finds out their favor
817.
by ebbv 10y ago
The subject of interesting gear designs is cool but this is just a link to a store, it's not very informative.
818.
by ebbv 10y ago
For me this post isn't an argument against Mozilla implementing a similar dialogue; it's an argument for implementing one and improving it. To really have meaningful improvements would require totally reworking how extensions deal
819.
by ebbv 10y ago
Tech folks as a general rule are extremely ignorant about nutrition and health and tend to believe anything that seems science-y. Unfortunately.
820.
by ebbv 10y ago
I can understand why piping is attractive, and if you want it as a language defining feature as the author that's your prerogative. :) So is the .new() method in that case an alternate constructor (i.e. constructor code will not run on
821.
by ebbv 10y ago
Yeah I mean it's personal preference on some level but for me the |> operator is an inelegant, sledge-hammer like solution to cleaning up that syntax which might be better solved some other way that doesn't have so many side ef
822.
by ebbv 10y ago
I like some of the things they're doing here but I have a big problem with the language design choice of having multiple valid syntax doing the same thing (e.g. declaring a new class as Cat('Spike'), Cat.new('Spike'
823.
by ebbv 10y ago
> They're not the ones that picked that focus, people that rally against GMOs did, they're just refuting the most common "mainstream" complaint about GMO. I disagree. I think the pro-GMO people like to pretend it&#x27
824.
by ebbv 10y ago
> There is no fundamental difference between genetic modification done in a lab then done with selective breeding. That's just not true at all. You cannot selectively breed corn to start secreting Miracle Gro. You cannot selectively
825.
by ebbv 10y ago
You've hit upon my concerns. For me the consistent messaging from Monsanto and other GMO backing corporations about "There's no evidence it's unsafe to eat." is a red herring. I know some people are concerned about
826.
by ebbv 10y ago
I count myself as a big Tesla fan but this announcement is too heavy on the disclaimers and ass covering and too little on empathy and sympathy.
827.
by ebbv 10y ago
Give me a break, I am not complaining about advertising period. Ars has always had advertising and it used to be fine. But over time the ads have gotten more and more intrusive. There's more and more auto play ads with sound, and ads t
828.
by ebbv 10y ago
It's hard to answer this as an outsider because it's hard to know what exactly your manager(s) consider toxic. It's cultural. At my company we have very open and frank discussions of what our systemic problems are or what our
829.
by ebbv 10y ago
That's not the only reason, though. There's other factors going into that decision that make it totally rational: APFS isn't designed as a server file system. It's meant for laptops, desktop and most importantly (to Appl
830.
by ebbv 10y ago
John Siracusa's departure was after Ars already had gone downhill significantly. Also he was not an editor or regular contributor outside of his OS X reviews, so his departure doesn't have much effect on the day to day. It's
831.
by ebbv 10y ago
I knew someone would make this lame excuse. That's like saying "Hey if you don't want me to take a shit on your sandwich it's really easy to order it without the shit."
832.
by ebbv 10y ago
Considering Microsoft recently added ads to the Windows 10 login screen, I wouldn't hold my breath on Edge coming with an ad blocker out of the box. EDIT: Downvotes? Really this is factually accurate: http://lifehacker.com&#
833.
by ebbv 10y ago
You're nitpicking man. It's not about the exact wording Trump used. Candidates are constantly paraphrased, that's part of the way it goes. Trump agreed with the reporter's assertion, and the basis of what he says is the
834.
by ebbv 10y ago
If Trump were any less of a lunatic I would say that people are definitely bending the truth around him. But he supplies so much fuel for his opponents there's really no need.
835.
by ebbv 10y ago
Admire that you felt the need to say something Sam, but unfortunately I don't think anything productive is going to come from it. If you really want to stop Trump, unfortunately at this point the only thing you can do is hold your nose
836.
by ebbv 10y ago
Probably nobody who is against Trump is bending any facts to try to stop him. The only one who has no respect for reality is Trump himself.
837.
by ebbv 10y ago
It's not fact checking, it's repeating Trump's spin on what he's said, and it's just not true.
838.
by ebbv 10y ago
This is really cool Matt, but here's hoping your appointment ends before January 2017 just in case the orangutan wins.
839.
by ebbv 10y ago
I also disagree strongly with that piece of advice. Even though, as others have pointed out, if you become a PHP developer you're going to have to deal with nasty legacy code; there's nasty code written in Ruby, Java, Python, etc.
840.
by ebbv 10y ago
There's a lot of great specific examples in this thread but I think it all boils down to this one quality; being able to put your own ego aside. I think what lets a developer graduate from one level to the next is realizing that your o

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