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by jccc 13y ago
That remained my opinion just a moment ago. But reading though the thread now I wonder if at least some significant number of the signers might become more invested in the issue than they were before. Not to mention others who read about th
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by jccc 13y ago
Readers of this thread should be made aware that there is an actual article following that headline. Here's some of it: Just for the record, I am not advancing a theory here. I noticed a lot of people who I don’t consider knee-jerk c
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by jccc 13y ago
But these are closer to end results. The contrasts being drawn between Orwell and Huxley are about the means toward those results -- fear, force, violence vs. drowning entertainment, drugs and distraction. I think the point is that if we c
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by jccc 13y ago
This seems much less to be about TDD and more to do with just not letting a paradigm obscure your judgement. In this case TDD helped someone break through a bit of fog. Not disagreeing, but if that's the case then there should be add
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by jccc 13y ago
I'd sincerely like to hear what people think about the contrast between Poulsen's behavior and sentiment toward Swartz and (separately) Adrian Lamo vs. his behavior and sentiment toward, say, Bradley Manning: http://www.salon.com/2010/06/1
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by jccc 14y ago
Not objecting to the specific idea, but ... I'd prefer to think more about ways to elevate everyone's contribution than just about ways to filter people we perceive to be unhelpful. (Unfortunately that requires letting go of us-vs.-them, an
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by jccc 14y ago
There is another explanation than the one given for seeing examples like this in someone else's code: // Indications of Confusion $( ".widget" ).each( function() { $( this ).css( "color", "green" ); }); I think this is at lea
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by jccc 14y ago
I won't argue that other thread either, but we do have a good case about HN behavior that's on-topic here. The broad point of the article was that FizzBuzz (still) reveals an amazing number of unqualified applicants. "Why, look what happen
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by jccc 14y ago
From my FizzBuzz comment: "I do not object to the broad points being made here." I am not dismissing anything, I am agreeing. I am then trying to add what I believe is a very important problem being missed -- that there are many valuable
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by jccc 14y ago
I apologize -- I meant "punished" somewhat poetically. I meant only to convey that HN had shunned my comments with downvotes, fading those comments into the background of the page. The point is that I am questioning what those expectations
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by jccc 14y ago
These comments of mine were valued by HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4631280 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4431975 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4754809 These comments were punished by HN: http://news.ycombinator
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by jccc 14y ago
Programming on paper opposite an examiner with a stopwatch is indeed unrealistic. I don't disagree that FizzBuzz is crazy simple as a programming challenge.
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by jccc 14y ago
40% of the candidates passed the FizzBuzz test I do not object to the broad points being made here but I do object to this interpretation. It's beyond awkward for many good valuable programmers, stifling really, to do this kind of unreal
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by jccc 14y ago
(Not that I'm saying I like 'em.)
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by jccc 14y ago
Apple revived them with the original Macintosh: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_E...
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by jccc 14y ago
The first comment on Ars Technica FWIW: (I take no stand, have no expertise, just posting someone's sober response so it'll be seen here.) I think most people don't understand what it means that this is a design patent - it's not the same
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by jccc 14y ago
Oh good lord -- The question was, "If I were president..." If he'd answered the question straight instead of the way he did, I doubt we'd see his answer as arrogant. The context matters quite a bit.
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by jccc 14y ago
Interesting that he uses only one space after each of his colons.
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by jccc 14y ago
May we just let comments = referrer links? Comment on your own blog, twitter feed, etc. and traffic from those sources list automatically under the content. Fighting these kinds of problems makes for interesting mental challenges, but a te
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by jccc 14y ago
Your experience in the world -- and the experience of those around you -- will improve dramatically when you focus more on the meaning and intent of people's words and less on analysis of their grammar. I agree with other commenters who que
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by jccc 14y ago
From the opening paragraph of the article that you didn't read: "activist who has campaigned for girls' education"
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by jccc 14y ago
Android users are not using their devices the same as iOS users: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/21/real-time-research-ios-domi...
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by jccc 14y ago
> That's what they say, but realistically Samsung is the most successful Android vendor and thus the biggest threat to Apple. I think it would be helpful to consider how it is that Samsung became the most successful Android vendor.
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by jccc 14y ago
Most likely it wasn't that way on the test. They just saved it for last in the report.
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by jccc 15y ago
Your outline of the thought process behind Mikey7 downvotes is a lucid, intelligent argument with his belief about "the market." And you're saying this is the reason you vote to have him silenced? I kind of think maybe a better reason migh
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by jccc 15y ago
I was muzzled for arguing that Craigslist middlemen are bad. Then again I did say some things so out-of-bounds they should not be heard: "Do buyers and sellers go to this man the way people go to real estate agents for their services? Wh
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by jccc 15y ago
Feedback histories show that eBay dealers are active users with the greatest number of transactions, and that those with the longest histories are successful because they continue to conduct themselves well. But it doesn't say much of anyt
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by jccc 15y ago
Does it matter at all that buyers and sellers ought to have that choice, to determine whether this really is a value to them? If liquidity and risk transfer is such a value, wouldn't you want this service-for-sale to be clearly visible to a
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by jccc 15y ago
Who hired this guy for his "services?" The buyers or the sellers? Someone at Craigslist? If he's in the business of helping people buy and sell things on Craigslist then he should go to prospective buyers and sellers on that basis. And i
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by jccc 15y ago
What kind of "value" is added that is secret? Don't you think buyers and sellers alike should know up front what they're paying for? To the seller: I'm going to make probably $100 on this washer in a couple days by Windexing it and taking

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