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   by endgame 9y ago

   Hear, hear. If you want to incentivise not delivering multi-megabyte "experiences" to people, I could see a case for feeding page weight into the ranking algorithm. Then people would be less inclined to have tag managers loading t
2. 662.▲
   by endgame 9y ago

   Is it just me, or does the article have a giant animated GIF of the word "simple"? Shouldn't it, y'know, have a picture of the browser or something useful?
3. 663.▲
   by endgame 9y ago

   Reinventing proprietary wheels is a proud Free Software tradition. Look at the GNU project for the largest example.
4. 664.▲
   by endgame 9y ago

   I'm lukewarm on 3 because it's got that feeling of "made by fans" instead of original ideas coming from the original minds. So you see repeats of insult swordfighting, the lazy crew that do nothing once you put to sea, e
5. 665.▲
   by endgame 9y ago

   Note that the "contributor" (Mark Nottingham) is also the author of the document in OP, and deserves a lot of credit for taking this approach. Given that his area of work is HTTP standards, I think he initially started removing 41
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   by endgame 9y ago

   The closest thing I can think of is the old Australian "holey dollar" and the "dump", which was punched out from it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holey_dollar#British_colony_of...
7. 667.▲
   by endgame 9y ago

   That argument gets increasingly flimsy when all public spaces that matter are owned by private corporations, both online and off. The quotes from Alexander Hamilton and J.S. Mill in the below link sums it up well, IMHO: http://se
8. 668.▲
   by endgame 9y ago

   I've only written a small amount of elisp but I've found that while you don't actually do all that much arithmetic manipulation, the ease of manipulating S-Expressions outweighs the price of entry.
9. 669.▲
   by endgame 9y ago

   Get a better phone browser?
10. 670.▲
    by endgame 9y ago

    Also, you can teach nearly anyone to be a scrutineer. Good luck teaching a layman to audit voting machine source code.
11. 671.▲
    by endgame 9y ago

    I'm not thrilled by languages the do "rules for thee, not for me". (Another example: old Java had a two-valued enum type (bool) but you weren't allowed to make your own.)
12. 672.▲
    by endgame 9y ago

    That's exactly what I mean: A type like a -> a -> Bool says that it will work for _any_ a, but we can easily find counter examples. We could pass in functions (say) and write something like (\x -> x * 2) == (\x -> x + 1). T
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    by endgame 9y ago

    Agreed, but Elm is hurting for some way to deal with this stuff. Currently, the API reference lies by claiming things like (==) : a -> a -> Bool, because it lacks a generic mechanism to let the programmer think the necessary thoughts.
14. 674.▲
    by endgame 9y ago

    I'm really looking forward to the day when all these new-to-Elm people start hitting the complexity ceiling of their language and convince the maintainers to add just a little more power. Example: Haskell's typeclasses have a high
15. 675.▲
    by endgame 9y ago

    Gawker didn't have to defy a judge and leave the sex tape up. Why is the author blaming the victim here?
16. 676.▲
    by endgame 9y ago

    The [ ] around the args are the giveaway.
17. 677.▲
    by endgame 9y ago

    If a business is failing THAT BADLY, they're not likely to have resources to implement the safeties. And if they don't, who's going to get in trouble?
18. 678.▲
    by endgame 9y ago

    Oh good, it's not just me. I've set it as my default font for emacs, terminal and window manager, and it's really great watching people get all nostalgic when they visit my desk. (Though I'm on PxPlus VGA9.)
19. 679.▲
    by endgame 9y ago

    Agreed: http://sealedabstract.com/rants/re-xkcd-1357-free-speech/
20. 680.▲
    by endgame 9y ago

    Spelling and grammar checkers.
21. 681.▲
    by endgame 9y ago

    The biggest one I ever was was the (planned) 12-book Fabled Lands series (of which 5 were published), where you'd be directed to pages in other volumes as you roamed the land, and you had to keep track of code words (i.e., boolean flag
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    by endgame 9y ago

    Came here to post this, so instead I'll just back you up with a source: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Reading-No...
23. 683.▲
    by endgame 9y ago

    Do you believe in nominative determinism?
24. 684.▲
    by endgame 9y ago

    At what point do you say "no, the app store experiment has failed" and give users control of their own devices? Never, I guess.
25. 685.▲
    by endgame 9y ago

    That's the kindest spontaneous compliment I've received in a while. Thank you. But: while the pithy comment might farm more imaginary internet points, the essay may actually teach a lesson to the person who doesn't yet get it
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    by endgame 9y ago

    One of the problems with ORMs is that because it lets people forget about the annoying details of their databases, it also makes the forget the useful details of their databases.
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    by endgame 9y ago

    It's also well written and rolls along at a decent pace.
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    by endgame 10y ago

    All of you nostalgics in this thread need to get together and write a book. I loved Exploding the Phone, and I'd love a volume that covered the BBS era.
29. 689.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    Malus est?
30. 690.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    Watch something with Clifford Stoll in it. His enthusiasm is also incredible.