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by icambron 13y ago
I have no expertise here, but I wonder if the Alzheimer's rate in Washington and North Dakota reflect differences is how deaths are classified.
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by icambron 13y ago
I came here to say this, basically. The glitches exploited here are perfectly acceptable , and it would be really weird to do the QA required to get rid of them.
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by icambron 13y ago
It's an interesting idea: that the real problem is that things are really tough for beginners now, and since women are more likely to be beginners, it hits them harder as a group. But if so, you'd also expect a chorus of young men
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by icambron 13y ago
> I want to challenge implicit assumptions about the audience of technical writing. I think this is the problem other people are picking up on. Implicit in the idea that you need special technical explanations targeted to women is some
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by icambron 13y ago
> Cory also postdates LinkedIn's security drama; he was brought in after the credential leak Thanks, that was the thing I was most curious about: has LinkedIn really started taking security seriously and does it have any idea what i
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by icambron 13y ago
I think the way to do that--and the way I've seen it done in other contexts--is to detect what features can't be saved in the original format and warn the user about about it (with an "I don't care about this" check
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by icambron 13y ago
Getting OT here, but the thing that kills me about Gimp is how badly it doesn't want to save the file in its original format. You have to export it (totally different menu option) and then it will whine when you close the file becaus
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by icambron 13y ago
Or to put it a different way: extinction happens all the time. Entire branches of evolution are lost to its inability to adjust to rapid change. That bacteria evolve doesn't mean we can't beat them.
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by icambron 13y ago
> I suppose it would be more reasonable to just compare it to a security firm though. That's why the analogy is not interesting; the use of "mafia" is silly because it implies there's some criminal element to Google&#
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by icambron 13y ago
Sure, and I'm not saying otherwise. But I stand by my take that what people (including people on HN) mean by "code" is "text instructions for a computer". That we disagree on that is fine, but I don't think it
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by icambron 13y ago
I'm not surprised. Robots like QinetiQ's Talon and competing iRobot products have been deployed in the field for a decade doing things like recon and ordinance disposal. I'm not sure they're awesome pieces of engineering
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by icambron 13y ago
I do doubt that, especially if it were phrased as "Is CSS code?" or similar. Though now I'm curious...
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by icambron 13y ago
Descriptivism is all well and good, but I don't think your definition of the word is well established, even in this context. Did I miss a vote or something? What this whole thing sounds like is, "I unilaterally made up my own defi
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by icambron 13y ago
It's a textural representation of instructions for a computer; it's certainly code. I think the distinction you're looking for is whether writing HTML/CSS/etc constitutes programming or not. That's a recurrin
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by icambron 13y ago
Tried that-- didn't seem to help.
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by icambron 13y ago
These are really neat, but one thing I don't understand is the animation they linked to (i.e. the post that inspired the OP) [1]. Unlike the animations in mathgifs, my brain isn't interpreting anything there as rotational motion.
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by icambron 13y ago
I have no real editorial opinions to add, but some cultural context might be useful: - Management is not supposed to be represented by unions, because, in part, their jobs are to oppose the union's demands. They sit (or are generally e
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by icambron 13y ago
> Space is no longer pioneered by nations, it's pioneered by people making money. Why is this bad? That space is a viable destination for private businesses shows just how far we've come.
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by icambron 13y ago
Agreed. I'll add that if you can't touch-type, your keyboard layout is the least of your problems. Take a few days off and learn.
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by icambron 13y ago
TIL, thanks. I have had that wrong for, like, ever.
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by icambron 13y ago
That's an interesting angle. But presumably if someone comes along and creates a non-commercial FB competitor and people post photos of you there instead, that doesn't really address the real issue here, right?
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by icambron 13y ago
While the bar is a noncommercial setting to tell stories, it's hardly a private one. The analogy seems to suggest that the distinguishing feature that triggers the more is on one side commercialism and on the other side publicness, but
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by icambron 13y ago
Pictures are a subcategory of information generally. It would be really awkward not to be able to talk about your friends (online or otherwise) without their explicit permission. And what about strangers? Criticism and news of all kinds wou
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by icambron 13y ago
Yeah, it would look subversive on the part the developer. Not a good career move in the best of circumstances, which these are clearly not. I could definitely see this happening with the developer's best intentions, and not as part of
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by icambron 13y ago
It's that last point that's so strong: "Yes, yes, you have the right not be subjected to unreasonable search and seizure, but not if you're walking on the public sidewalk." The key here is that the government is not
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by icambron 13y ago
I envy you, then, 'cause I freaking hate it. SASS and LESS provide really nice language improvements, but they don't fix all the crap about box models and positioning and polyfills and byzantine precedence rules and the necessity
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by icambron 13y ago
I don't know any developers who like CSS. It's just a thing we have to do.
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by icambron 13y ago
> I would personally be happy to sacrifice that feature and add an explicit "global" keyword but not everybody agrees, and it would break a lot of code. For sure. That ship has probably sailed. And, like you said, linters allev
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by icambron 13y ago
> Personally, I’m hoping for Rust. That was my thought while reading article; Rust seems like the answer here. I'm coming from the opposite direction than the OP: I'm unwilling to give up the expressiveness of Ruby and friends
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by icambron 13y ago
...or maybe it's just for fun.

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