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by jfager 16y ago
The first and most major hurdle is to convince people who are used to and still have the option of pretty much the exact same service for free that they should pay anything at all, and that needs to be very low. Letting people choose their
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by jfager 16y ago
The bigger story is that they've changed Reddit Gold from a feel-good, pay-what-you-want model to a standard, fixed-price model. It went from being the neighborhood self-serve coffee bar to Starbucks. It will be interesting to see if the
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It eliminates them from the api, but how does memoize work? There are still hashtables, you just never get a hook on them. I'm just saying that I prefer having that hook, and that destructuring assignment lets me do so with brevity and cla
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by jfager 16y ago
The point was not "Coffeescript is better than Clojure", it was "destructuring assignment (like in Coffeescript, for instance) is a better solution than the one proposed in the post". If Clojure has sophisticated destructuring assignment,
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by jfager 16y ago
One of my favorite features of Coffeescript (and other languages) is destructuring assignment, which lets you use pattern matching over an object to pull out values from nested structures. It's way more useful than this proposal: brief wh
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by jfager 16y ago
This is bad advice. 401k matching is the easiest way to double your money, and tax deferral means ~30% more working for you now (when it matters, for compound growth). When you're young, the market being down just means you're getting mor
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by jfager 16y ago
About 80% through the post: Well, I think this whole debacle demonstrates the power of the Internet to report in the wrong way, as opposed to the Tiger Woods incident, which I think demonstrated the Internet’s strengths Um, what? What ki
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by jfager 16y ago
Are twitter, reddit, or youtube making any money off this at all?
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13" MacBook (first unibody model) driving a 24" Dell U2410. Microsoft Natural 4000 Ergonomic Keyboard. I just started trying to go mostly mouseless using Optimal Layout and vimperator, which together cover about 85% of what I ever need on
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Except that they are implementing the realistic algorithm...
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by jfager 16y ago
Except that same article explicitly says real-world antenna performance is actually better, despite the increased drop. Can this whole stupid nonstory please go away?
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by jfager 16y ago
Engineers cry over how many pixels are used in an already simplistic arbitrary visualization of a set of complex analog values? Really?
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by jfager 16y ago
PHP is 1000 times easy to pick up than Scheme. Yes, Racket is Scheme, but it's much more practical than a vanilla R6RS implementation, and it packs a lot of libraries, tool support, and clear and simple end-user documentation, exactly the
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by jfager 16y ago
Languages don't get much more user-friendly than Racket (formerly Dr Scheme): http://www.racket-lang.org/
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1st-party accessories are a rare move for them. What? They've had tons of first-party accessories.
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by jfager 16y ago
Once a site's above a gameable threshold, Alexa's a decent metric of how unsophisticated users interact with it. If that's an interesting demographic to you, you can probably get some value out of Alexa numbers.
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by jfager 16y ago
I think you're overstating how often you're only going have a sorted vector of unknown type and an opaque comparison function, and understating how often you'll know your types and be able to make a reasonable guess at their distribution. Y
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by jfager 16y ago
I'm not saying his problem description was great, but it did become clear through the course of the article the additional constraints and assumptions that he was working under. He certainly never said "you're given an array of unknown obj
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by jfager 16y ago
But that's a different problem. Of course different problems may require different solutions.
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Of course that could have happened, too, but that wouldn't make for a very good storybook ending, would it?
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by jfager 16y ago
That's not backfiring, that's exactly how it's supposed to work. The only way it could possibly be more storybook is if you had been fired and those 7 figures ended up directly in your pocket.
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by jfager 16y ago
"Ask forgiveness rather than permission" is not equivalent to "forge ahead without thought for the consequences". Completely rewriting a codebase by yourself to show up a team that has been working on it for a long time might mean better c
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by jfager 16y ago
Fossil has a wiki, issue tracker, etc, all in a small little portable package - it's far more deserving of the 'swiss army knife' label than git. Git's more like an industrial lathe or something.
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by jfager 16y ago
Did you add the bold and the underline yourself? If so, you should say so. Without that, I really can't agree that it was so horribly rude as to justify slamming the guy so publicly.
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by jfager 16y ago
Earlier in the thread, you specifically said that you thought they would try to censor material served by 3rd parties if they could, as that was their vision for the platform. That's hard to square with the idea that you've been talking ab
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by jfager 16y ago
Again; I see no ambiguity there. I never said the policy was ambiguous, I said it was nonsensical. Apple are directly responsible for content on the App store. So, surely, to avoid this sort of ball ache their policy isn't ridiculous. M
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Pointing to a technical distinction that makes no real difference to a user's experience is just geek-wanking. Whether from a 3rd-party server or from Apple itself, if adult content ends up on a kid's screen, a parent somewhere is getting
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by jfager 16y ago
Okay, that's how Apple sees the platform, and it's their right. It's also my right to point out how ridiculous their policy is, to complain to them about it, and to try to convince others to do the same. If their goal is to be family-frien
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I don't understand why this distinction is important. You have to click past the same "Are you 17?" scare warning to download both apps that can access external content and apps that are adult-oriented by themselves, and both can be limite
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So because they have progressive and decent policies for the ~20k or so who work for them, we should be willing to excuse the repressive and reactionary policies they have for the millions of developers and customers who use their products?

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