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by gambler 8y ago
Looks pretty good. Not sure how I feel about including JSON as type of embedded content, though. I've used something vaguely similar in the distant past, but it was strictly internal for my hobby projects and mostly resembled lisp with
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by gambler 8y ago
First time I hear about it. Let's see. It seems to aim at roughly the same problem, but god, they've managed to design something even uglier and more verbose than XML namespaces. Still requires to use valid URLs instead of GUIds.
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by gambler 8y ago
Indeed. It could be useful for rendering custom tags, but the problem with semantic content is that there needs to be an entry point somewhere. No matter how I think about it, it seems that at some level there always needs to be a way to sa
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by gambler 8y ago
RSS/Atom is being slowly killed. XHTML was replaced by a pile or junk that can only be parsed by a single parser. HTML in general became a rendering layer for executable JavaScript. After years of doing integrations, I've seen on
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by gambler 8y ago
>these adverse weather conditions can lead to large numbers of collisions at the same time. Cars sliding out of control on a snowy road is not a systemic failure. If you have an entire fleet of self-driving cars using the same (or si
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by gambler 8y ago
>With self-driving cars, I think people kind of accept that now. That even if you don’t quite know how a self-driving car does it all, if it has a lot fewer accidents than a person-driven car then it’s a good thing. Unless there is a c
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by gambler 8y ago
>Whereas data collection currently has only one visible consequence on the individual level: what kind of ads & spam you get, and how much. The key words are "visible" and "currently". There are less visible con
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by gambler 8y ago
This reasoning works when you want to determine whether it's safe to interact with a (single) random person on the street. It does not work when reasoning about privacy, because: 1) Issues resulting from privacy loss mostly have nothin
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by gambler 8y ago
If organizational problems take a significant toll on its progress, then absolutely.
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by gambler 8y ago
"I am not important enough to be spied on" Such a familiar phrase. I'm so tired of hearing it from people I know. This is exactly like saying "I'm too broke for anyone to steal my credit card". What you think
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by gambler 8y ago
JavaScript is truly the new Java. It even has design pattern articles now.
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by gambler 8y ago
It's not like there is only one alternative. You can solve most of those problems by splitting large organization into smaller independent ones. Instead of wasting energy on elaborate bureaucracies and rules, people ought to spend some
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by gambler 8y ago
"To concatenate a Stream of Strings, call .collect(Collectors.joining())" "References to missing variables will be sent to the output stream, unless you use quiet reference notation" "You need jetty-web.xml and web.
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by gambler 8y ago
The core idea of the article is valid, but the wording is off. It's not about frameworks. There are two types of knowledge you can get in IT. Fundamental knowledge that transfers across domains and trivia. Problems with trivia: - Just
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by gambler 8y ago
I am partial to using Unicode Emoji to add graphics/icons to applications that don't support those. Surprisingly, almost no software removes emoji symbol range (HN does, wisely). But this seems more annoying than clever. I mean, i
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by gambler 8y ago
If you like this game, you might find this project interesting: http://tinlizzie.org/~ohshima/shadama2/live2017/ http://tinlizzie.org/~ohshima/shadama2/ It's a bit similar, but
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by gambler 8y ago
Somehow, they seem far more "real" than the actual photos I have taken or seen from my relatives in the last decade. And no, it's not just the gritty analog fell, it's the content. Edit: Although, the lack of digital art
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by gambler 8y ago
Maybe it's because people didn't take zillion photos a day to chose the "best" ones based on how much likes they would get on Instagram. The content is different, the dynamics is different, but grit is probably the firs
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by gambler 8y ago
About a decade ago I've been thinking about how to design a good discussion platform, and the ideas I came up with have a lot of similarities with what you posted. I think that encouraging long-form communication where quickness of rep
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by gambler 8y ago
What about it? Personally, I haven't run into any real issues with performance using advanced CSS selectors. But as with any performance statements, this applies to HTML, CSS and JS I worked with, on the browsers I tested with.
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by gambler 8y ago
I disagree with it for another reason. I'm tired of developers solving language design problems by piling on more and more complexity, tools and libraries. This is a self-defeating approach, because those tools and libraries often ha
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by gambler 8y ago
Moving CSS to JS because of selectors? Hm, I often do the exact opposite. I effectively move JavaScript logic into CSS queries and data into corresponding tags/attributes. When I started doing that, my scripts became far more enjoyable
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by gambler 8y ago
Fascinating. Didn't know they use real zero-g. Do you have links to any articles that describe the process in more detail?
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by gambler 8y ago
>let's maybe save the outrage until they announce that they are actually going to build this thing and deploy it in the real world? By that time someone will make "the train had sailed" comment. I.e. claim that nothing c
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by gambler 8y ago
The problem is giving police so much information that they can pick and choose what to act upon to justify their goals that have nothing to do with what have been reporter.
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by gambler 8y ago
There is a huge difference between locking your door and setting up a CCTV system at your house. Locking doors (in normal residential areas) is mostly a signal of intent. You signal to everyone you don't want them entering your house,
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by gambler 8y ago
I knew Walter developed some strategy game, but this is the first time I realized how big it was in the 80s. Definitely will try it out. Also, I second the comment about using games like that in AI research. I don't have time now to ex
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by gambler 8y ago
No mention of Alan Kay, who used cell metaphor for computing for several decades and used it in programming talks/presentations dating to at least to mid-80s?
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by gambler 8y ago
The article doesn't make you aware of the industry norms around Temps/Contractors, or reasons behind those norms. It just presents a bunch of factoids and insinuates ill intent. Believe me, I'm not writing this because I like
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by gambler 8y ago
I agree. It seems like a deliberate strategy. Amazon is trying to create a breed of highly paid AWS experts who will be keenly interested in promoting AWS, because their valued knowledge is provider-specific and not transferable. Similar to

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