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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>One day they're going to do an IE6, and shift their focus away from the project, and the whole web will suffer. This would still be preferable to if they became the only browser and all web developers were subject to breakneck pace
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
Yeah, but the white apple is a very sterile presentation, and that might work if the company it represents wasn't so sterile too.
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
CNC is a way to control a tool, and the tools that can be controlled are so wide ranging that it's weird to talk about the efficacy of CNC, rather than the capabilities of the tool you're controlling.
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>No, I think changing license terms to "won't be used by a company which separates families So, Child Protective Services shouldn't be allowed to license GitHub either? Edit: I know this isn't what you meant. But suc
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>Why is the title targeted at all US Government developers? As dumb as you might think people in government are, they're not so dumb as to believe a decision could be made in a way that only applies to ICE. They can see the abstract
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>We need more people like Trey Parker and Matt Stone who aren't afraid of starting some controversy to get a conversation started. The part of Parker and Stone worth duplicating is that they they somehow have political opinions orde
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
Yeah, it would be crazy to call minecraft white supremacist. Not at all like OK-signs and frog memes. I knew something was fishy about those things from day one.
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
That wikipedia page is unintentionally hilarious >This theory remains very controversial, as it brings into question the theory underlying cognitive behavioral therapy, which posits that the depressed individual is negatively biased in t
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
Aren't people who watch the Daily Show under the false impression that the setups for punchlines are real news? Why would anyone knowingly watch them butcher the news just to make the punchlines work? Watching the Daily Show when you f
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
This is what happens when you sell out to advertising. A carefully managed image becomes a key asset. The software development world is going through the growing pains of our largest and most influential organizations making that deal with
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>If the topic is complex like something about the separation of powers, we do a little intro to that, then the news. I'm not sure it would be popular, but at the same time, i'm not convinced it wouldn't be considering the
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
I think these "lower the ceiling rather than raise the floor" rationales are cop-outs. Yes, I get it, this reasoning does technically provide a justification for the design decisions made that will shut some people up. But that d
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
Calling the Socratic method a bad faith argument, is itself a bad faith argument. It's obviously an attempt to get you to clarify your position by showing if/how you differentiate a case that fits within your previously-stated cri
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>They were reporting on the established (at the time) medical opinion. To what end though? I'm not conspiratorially asking "what was their real angle?", but the much more simple "why did they think it was newsworth
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
If prohibition had Apple's marketing behind it, a huge number of people would suddenly get onboard. Paternalism from software companies is popular these days.
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
I suspect the reason digital stores don't want to allow a secondary market is because market forces would actually cause prices to drop. I'd sell 75% of my Steam library for whatever the current bid price is right this moment. E
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
The last thing I need is another godforsaken preferences center inside a product I was forced to become a "user" of just because some asshole bought my email address.
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
Open secret: "culture fit" sounds more serious, that doesn't mean the evaluation criteria used always is.
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>5. Torrents are more convenient. I miss watching videos outside the service-branded players. I get that the floor is lower, but the ceiling is at the floor. None of them are special beyond making the DRM work, their UIs are at best re
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
I've heard that discoverability on usenet is a problem. Is it similar to private trackers and just harder to find an easy "in", or do people actually pay for access to those index sites?
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>you can’t really say Bitcoin is bad and shouldn’t be allowed to exist for that reason without also agreeing that other stupid things we do with computers should suffer the same fate That point is debatable because Bitcoin and snapchat a
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
I tried to write that post about contemporary standards with wide enough room to avoid singling out one archetype and proceeding to disparage them by contemporary standards. But you found it; as it turns out everyone on the spectrum from &q
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
Here's a probably-apocryphal story about San Francisco. The cultural tolerance and open-mindedness the city was know for happened because at some point in history the need for dockworkers was way, way stronger than any superficial diff
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
Here's an example of why I still can't take writing about Agile seriously. I'm not saying there aren't a lot of process improvements under the banner of Agile (and plenty more that Agile is retroactively claiming credit
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>don’t you think you would perceive this as a rather hostile environment? No, I'd see it as pathetic and desperate. Which is exactly how I felt about the men and women that worked for the university I attended and were known to dat
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
5°? That's basically hoodie weather.
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>should be targeted instead of other companies that are more conservatively aligned. They shouldn't be targeted to the exclusion of others based on political alignment, but neither should the not-googles be targeted to the exclusion
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
Google wasn't _chosen_, they said that they would be better and then promptly gave up as soon as they had gained a bunch of good will and it wasn't convenient for them anymore. And I still fail to understand how Google surveilling
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
That kind of perspective happens unfortunately often, where someone can't fathom a group and has no idea how to relate. They invent pretentious gibberish to hold onto the idea they know what the hell they're talking about. Unfortu
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
> Can we talk about the NYT's fairly open anti-tech bias at this point Sure. We work in tech, and see that the web has hurt the newspaper business model. Therefore, we protect our ego in the face of any criticism from the traditio

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