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by jgon 7y ago
Why is this marked 2017? This is the newest chapter of a book that isn't finished yet, and was released literally today. It couldn't be more (2019) if it tried!
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by jgon 7y ago
The W3C gets 0 credit for any of the cool tech you're talking about. Basically all of the good work for browser standards gets done by the WHATWG which is essentially just the browser makers and a few other large and concerned tech co
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by jgon 7y ago
I guess China is a shining beacon of freedom for it's people too then.
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by jgon 7y ago
What's truly unbelievable is that even the goalie used to not wear any headgear, as any good Canadian can tell you having watched one of our Canadian Heritage Moments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcolbkAAgag
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by jgon 7y ago
My good friend is an engineer whose job has been to work on transmission line construction projects for several utilities including our local one. He just finished testifying at a court case because the utility was being sued by a group of
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by jgon 7y ago
Right, but in one case hundreds are dead and in the other case we made a physics discovery 15 years later. Not sure if this is the bullet-proof equivalency you think it is.
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by jgon 7y ago
I don't want to get into the weeds discussing the ins and outs of the various things that have happened with RMS and the FSF. I have my own opinions on whether or not these moves were warranted. Separate from that I guess my largest w
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by jgon 7y ago
You expect them not to kick someone for supporting gay rights but even that might be a bridge too far for Blizzard. They made a big fuss about having the character Tracer be gay, but that only happened in a comic book and in Russia Tracer i
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by jgon 7y ago
R6RS was the one that really sparked the divide, and for a long time only had a limited number of implementations due to this controversy. The big thing that R6RS brought, in my opinion, was a syntax for creating modules and sharing them.
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by jgon 7y ago
This assumes that starting up a competitor is frictionless and has zero-overhead. If the market which is now dominated has a large enough barrier to entry the monopoly can temporarily return to their loss-making tactics to starve you out. C
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by jgon 7y ago
This is just off the top of the head spitballing, but what about this as a definition: A tech company is a company who could not continue their business in largely the same fashion if computers did not exist. Is Uber a tech company? Well I
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by jgon 7y ago
Ok so the parent says that when small towns have a library, it's not because they are run in a more enlightened fashion than revenue guzzling big cities, but because these small towns are subsidized by the economic contributions of sai
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by jgon 7y ago
It makes perfect sense! That's why Transformers is a better movie than the Godfather...
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by jgon 7y ago
The small print on the page that mentions this stat says that the measurements were taken on a new 12.9 inch iPad Pro using the Gen 2 Apple Pencil. Not sure what latency reductions may make their way to the other iPads, but nothing is stat
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by jgon 7y ago
I actually think that this metaphor proves the opposite point you are trying to make. Mechanical engineers are definitely segregated based on the types of systems they work on, in much the same way that we would describe the "back-end&
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by jgon 7y ago
This quote stands out to me: "just as a dog is much better at finding drugs than people, but you wouldn’t convict someone on a dog’s evidence. And dogs are much more intelligent than any machine learning." Because in my head I fol
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by jgon 7y ago
I feel like it also ignores the effects of the ocean on one's residence. Maybe I am thinking this in ignorance, but I would imagine that the ocean is essentially eating away at the boat as time goes one. Yeah it might be cheap to live
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by jgon 7y ago
We'll see what happens after the election, but the current government literally paid billions of dollars in order to EOL those coal plants by 2030, ahead of schedule. So the previous commenter isn't giving the whole story.
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by jgon 8y ago
Why do you think it is sad? Negative comment scores on Hacker News provide a motivator for you to improve your comments, thereby indirectly improving the quality of discourse for many others. Votes on HN aren't totally random, you have
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by jgon 8y ago
This bill bans every "religious symbol", including a hijab. The niqab is, from my understanding, a full face and body covering garment, and most people would consider that different from what this bill targets. I don't think
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by jgon 8y ago
This isn't a "Canadian" bill, as much as a specific provincial government bill. It has already received condemnation from the leaders of every major Federal party which is probably the only thing they've agreed on in th
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by jgon 8y ago
This is like saying the Rust doesn't have memory safety because you can use "unsafe". C++ offers you a safe Api and an unsafe API if you want to go that way. If you decide to use the unsafe api the consequences are on you, t
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by jgon 8y ago
The web is a global open standard platform for the free exchange of information. I would call it one of the great achievements of computing and mankind. To hear someone say "Meh I'd trade that to save myself a bit of effort"
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by jgon 8y ago
If that's your takeaway from the context this quote was used in, you should take a step back, take a break and then come back and read it again. This is an almost laughably aggressive misreading of the intent of that post.
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by jgon 8y ago
I remember being caught off guard by the main character being black, or at least dark-skinned. It was a really nice off-hand comment that shakes you out of the default world-view you can acquire or project when reading by inserting onself
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by jgon 8y ago
Even the 200ms reaction time seemed overly slanted towards the AI. I don't think that is the actual reaction time of top pros, in the matches the AI played the human player would teleport in from complete invisibility and try to use an
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by jgon 8y ago
By his own reckoning he sleeps for under 5 hours every day. Maybe he's one of the vanishing few who can get by on that amount of sleep (you are not though, so don't try to emulate him), or maybe he's not listing naps he take
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by jgon 8y ago
He doesn't have a point. He has whataboutism. So I decided to address his whataboutism by pointing out that Google is honestly even worse at what he is talking about, and thus his whataboutism is in fact invalid. So in a roundabout wa
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by jgon 8y ago
Wait a guy who works for a company that uses the world's most popular website (the google search homepage) to aggressively proselytize it's own browser is complaining about Windows prompting you to use Edge? For real dude? Edit:
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by jgon 8y ago
I think another thing that bothers me about this mindset is that we have started viewing "consumer" action as the only valid response, which is really convenient for some people for the reasons you mention. But in a society where

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