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by gambler 13y ago
Being a critic is far more difficult than being a complacent tinkerer. Criticism requires analysis and pushes you into conflicts. Tinkering can be done inside of a cozy turtle-shell. Anyone who creates something fundamentally new has to be
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by gambler 13y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I hate how current web technologies force people to register separate domains for static content. This is not how domains are supposed to work.
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by gambler 13y ago
It reminds of JS-based spellcheckers that plagued many web apps in late 90s. This kind of stuff simply cannot be implemented properly without browser integration. What if I am using a Latin-base language that is not English? Besides, auto-c
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by gambler 13y ago
You can spread malware through Open Source projects.
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by gambler 13y ago
If it's so easy, I am sure you have your own article detailing how you did it, right? Also, you spam statistic sounds way off for a setup that doesn't explicitly deal with spam.
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by gambler 13y ago
The point isn't very clear from the article. Frankly, I've never seen anyone changing working code simply for the sake of showing off their sophistication, so it feels like a straw-man argument. What does happen quite often is w
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by gambler 13y ago
For no matter how good or bad the Agnostic’s code is, why did the Librarian rewrite the Ascetic’s code? Because rewriting code that looks ugly is one of the ways people use to begin to identify with the codebase and make it easier to unde
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by gambler 13y ago
All of the factors you mentioned existed before Blockbuster went bankrupt. I found nearly half of the good movies I ever watched simply by looking at DVD covers of older titles there. Yes, it had lots of filler. Netflix has even more filler
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by gambler 13y ago
Is this specified in your position description? Because that's anything but standard. I feel a lot of employers are exceptionally bad at communicating their actual requirement. Ironically, one of the sure sighs that your job descriptio
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by gambler 13y ago
I'm tired of people asserting that TDD results in better X, while simultaneously stating that TDD does not guarantee good X. What does that even mean? It sounds like a non-falsifiable statement, that aims to blame the person whenever
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by gambler 13y ago
As far as sales - yes. As far as profits, or at least ROI is involved - no.
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by gambler 13y ago
I have one on my desktop, one on my laptop and one on my mobile. If any get compromised, I only have to delete one public key in authorized keys and generate a new one. Personally, I still don't like SSH keys. Yes, they are "mor
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by gambler 13y ago
<img intent in-standard-src="med.png" in-mobile-src="small.png" /> Why not <img intent src="med.png" in-mobile-src="small.png" />?
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by gambler 13y ago
I think I get the overall idea, but why are we encouraged to write <x-slider> instead of <input type="range">? I know that most of JS ninjas go bezerk at the mere mention of progressive enhancement these days, but in t
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by gambler 13y ago
When someone gives you a sufficiently large codebase written by other people and asks why when they click A they get B, you have two options: 1. Read the code and try to reason about it. 2. Fire up the debugger and replicate user actions. G
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by gambler 13y ago
I'm tired to the utmost degree of all these posts about people (supposedly) coming from PHP/C#/Ruby/Python background and seeing "absolutely no problems" with JS syntax, object model and programming paradigms.
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by gambler 13y ago
It's possible that the public does understand the issue and disagrees with you. Disagrees based on what ? Labeling someone as traitor doesn't constitute a rational counter-argument to concerns regarding privacy and government c
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by gambler 13y ago
Applied Cryptography taught me several new modes of thinking about software design (which is not directly related to crypto at all) and provided a good overview of things that someone probably solved or failed to solve with cryptography. Pl
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by gambler 13y ago
The real problem is not monetization. The real problem is that most people don't have imagication rich enough to envision how such ideas can improve everyone's lives. I can't recount how many hundreds of times I've heard
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by gambler 13y ago
I guess all I'm saying is that not establishing contact is also a choice that we're making on their behalf. Assimilating a culture is an irreversible action. Once it's assimilated, there is no going back. Once we assimilate
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by gambler 13y ago
The Dark Knight is good despite using a lot of Hollywood conventions, not because of them. What Nolan can shrug off might annihilate the remnants of creativity in a lesser director. I've seen similar things happen in writing.
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by gambler 13y ago
I'm a big fan of desktop computers, but I honestly don't care about larger monitors. When I hear about immersion, I think about something like Oculus Rift and Leap Motion, not a gigantic LED display, which I might not even have sp
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by gambler 13y ago
Great way to put it. I think this is a part of a larger problem. A lot of IT interviews are based on a gigantic set of "ideal criteria" that no single person can realistically fulfill in its entirety. Because of that every hire is
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by gambler 13y ago
it was wholly devoid of intellectual merit... I think the notion that purpose and intent behind art is far more important than the amount of effort involved in its creation has considerable amount of intellectual merit. Even more so consi
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by gambler 13y ago
Nor will I, or much of anyone else, I imagine. Yet people gladly upvote stories about computers implemented insite Minecraft and life-size spaceships made out of Lego blocks. Are you saying it has nothing to do with the difficulty involv
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by gambler 13y ago
You using a quote of a quote to launch a personal attack, while explicitly doing the thing that you're accusing me of. That is, you assume that the motivation behind my comment is to feel superior to certain other people by excluding
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by gambler 13y ago
The effort involved in doing this is incomparable with the things you just mentioned. This is nothing like baking a cake, more like spending thousands of dollars to build a life-sized Eiffel Tower out of matchsticks.
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by gambler 13y ago
Art that only exists for the sake of existing, without intent to express, explore, or otherwise stimulate human mind - art of that sort is garbage. There are plenty of people who vehemently defend that garbage, but it doesn't make it a
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by gambler 13y ago
So true. It's frustrating to see people spend hundreds of hours to advance some "fringe" web technologies that don't really affect much in the end, while stuff that we use every day, everywhere continues to have the same
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by gambler 13y ago
Yes, most of the confusion is the author's misunderstanding of how arrays work in JS, combined with his tool not showing everything he put into the array. There is nothing in the post that shows that author doesn't know how arra

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