ergothus

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by ergothus 8y ago
Hacky patch through or in-place incremental refactoring? (Honest question, my knowledge of the subway in general and this plan in particular are limited to the comments here)
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by ergothus 8y ago
I could be misunderstanding (I've not yet used Prettier), but I thought Prettier was agnostic to the linting rules used. I was arguing not that Prettier is bad, but the _excessive_ linting rules were bad (Prettier should be fine for
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Apple never co-locates with a Dollar Tree store Is that because Apple doesn't want to be tainted by that brand...or because there's minimal overlap in customer bases? If Dollar Trees are bringing in the money and the customer
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by ergothus 8y ago
Prettier doesn't resolve my primary issue with excessive linting rules. The way I see it, there are three kinds of syntax linting rules: 1) Potential bugs. These are where a syntax will technically work, but makes it easy for an unint
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by ergothus 8y ago
The sane argument is about avoiding escaping of nested quote characters. It's easier to use double quotes if your text is english (or other language that uses apostrophes). It's easier to use single quotes if your text is HTML (fo
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by ergothus 8y ago
> many of the products in these stores seem to be dubiously sourced, the commitments of some, e.g. Christmas Town, are definitionally short, and the branding is banal. Currently, 10% of the storefronts are occupied by these independent b
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Let's be honest, there are no other language counterparts (Java as Javish?! or JS as JSish?!) for such adjective I've seen it for other languages, including those two, and denying the term wont deny the concept. I've see
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by ergothus 8y ago
> it is surprisingly easy to communicate with the Earth while aboard a space station in orbit. He suggested astronauts can reach terrestrial phones via satellites around 70 percent of the time That SHOULD be surprising, but the real surp
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by ergothus 8y ago
I just started a new job, so to reduce anxiety about how much I dont know I'm trying desperately to hold on to beginners/childs mind - absorbing without doing my normal immediate '"let's connect this to all I know&q
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by ergothus 8y ago
PUA = pick up artist. There's a whole subculture that is somewhat terrifying.
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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm unable to read the article on my phone (ad?) so I apologize if it is answered there, but why is this a long lasting problem? My past two or three (not sure) workplaces have had to failover to alternate providers for office traffic
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by ergothus 8y ago
> I disagree with the extension solution As do I. I loathe it. But I'm struggling to come up with strong rational reasons why. Part of me says that hurts interoperability, but I think that's mostly rationalization. Why do I
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Either you make progress or get... encouragement to go find a better job This assumes one has a job where you can easily replace it with an equivalent. Even in IT, this is not the norm outside of a few limited areas and fields. Most
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by ergothus 8y ago
> If you’ve achieved star-reporter status at der Spiegel, as such that you’re sent 3 weeks to America to do investigative journalism, it goes to reason, that you also meet a high amount of trust Every place I've worked at for the la
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Otherwise he should be put on some type of do-not-purchase-from-these-founders-blacklist. Does such a blacklist exist? Given the short notice I expected that Hyper.sh would be gone (and thus free of commercial backlash) but it appears
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by ergothus 8y ago
> That, I think, explains a lot of their behavior. I honestly think the hardest part of explaining cat behavior is how chaotic they are as a species. You can explain A cat's behavior, but it's harder to explain all of them. M
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by ergothus 8y ago
> "move fast and break things" wasn't meant to apply to laws. The law is a messy area. Many places are simply unresolved until a court gets to them, and often there is no incentive for that resolution to happen, so the qu
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Also if it's not built in JS, it's not cool these days To me, it feels like if you want to be cool these days, you look down on JS/JS devs. JS has plenty of issues, but it's undeniably successful - isn't it mor
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by ergothus 8y ago
I teach coding on the side, and one of my interview tips for students is to practice saying "I don't know". Make it almost muscle memory so it doesnt throw you, because rare is the interview that wont try to find your bounda
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by ergothus 8y ago
There's an argument to be made that if you cant raise rates much above the incredible low rate this far into a recovery, then your economy has bigger problems to deal with. Without denying your statements of the power the Fed has, I ha
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by ergothus 8y ago
> that's kind of a tough thing to hang our hats on if the idea is to take Facebook down I'm not taking a position on "taking Facebook down" - I'm arguing that legal isn't the same as moral/ethical, and
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by ergothus 8y ago
It's been a long time since I've heard of an acquisition that was actually positive for the aquired/their users - can anyone working on any of these groups share such a story?
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Apparently Facebook did it the wrong way. Why? Do you honestly think that Facebook was trying to allow users to make the decision in an informed way? I suspect most people instead think Facebook was trying to get some way of SAYING t
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by ergothus 8y ago
Perhaps not "recording",but I can see a real case for an extension that: 1) automatically grabbed a screen text (so it snags the text hidden inside a scrollable container, for example) capture (with notification) when you had a pa
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by ergothus 8y ago
...completely not an answer I was expecting. It makes as much as sense as my complaint of the opposite though. (well, maybe 80% as much sense, but I'm also biased.) . Thanks for the answer!
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by ergothus 8y ago
Do you have a non-subjective reason to hate digital clocks? I have a strong dislike for analog clocks - hard to read at a glance, and even a .1 second delay in translating the display to a useful time feels wasted (and I spend more time th
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by ergothus 8y ago
> jQuery soup I'm not sure if you're blaming the tool or not, but at least for 3rd parties, I want to clarify: jQuery doesn't mandate "soup" - In fact, devs learned over time that the best approach development wi
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Some people consider forthright language to be a sign of respect. The problem is that it's like saying "I'm not a pessimist or an optimist, I'm a realist" - everyone says that. I really value when people are fo
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Most don't care True - but I still think there's a big difference between understanding that your info isn't private and not being bothered versus assuming that your info IS private. The real question is your #1: Is t
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by ergothus 8y ago
That's...fascinating. While we have lots of corporate personhood, I normally disregard blaming specific actions on a company because at the end of the day a person makes the call. But here you've pointed out that a company, oper

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