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by jordanpg 12y ago
> few proposals from feminists This is ludicrous. Womens' rights activists have talked about this since the beginning and often. Women have been explicitly banned from almost all sports that are associated with men only for mo
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Why do we care about a hypothetical that is about as likely as an alien invasion? The more interesting questions are the sociological ones which ask why anyone cares so much about sports in the first place. I don't care about sports i
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I think the growing disenchantment that pops up towards makers like this from time to time is most closely related to a certain smugness that accompanies the presentation of the thing. A certain sense that maker culture is onto something s
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Most of it sounds like run-of-the-mill new products to me. Might be good, might not. Unlikely to make waves in either case. The open sourcing of .NET is the real news and as far as I'm concerned, the jury is still out on what that ac
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by jordanpg 12y ago
This custom homepage idea has been around since Google Home and probably any number of internet portals before that. MS's version just ropes you into the MS App Store ecosystem. Found anything you want to download there recently?
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by jordanpg 12y ago
> Enterprise applications must also be platforms if they want to scale into the largest enterprises...every SAAS application should have APIs that allow their users to plug enterprise software together An API does not a platform make. Th
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by jordanpg 12y ago
That G+ is likely to fizzle is much less interesting to me than why a company with the might of Google was unable to make it work. I suspect that G+'s seeming fate is not particularly surprising to anyone in the tech sector under the
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I agree that it's not the most nuanced picture, but it correctly captures the ongoing debate on meta about this very question -- a debate whose very existence suggests that these guidelines aren't cut and dry at all. For example,
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by jordanpg 12y ago
There is an ongoing religious war among avid SO users (don't know about the rest of SE) about what kinds of questions should be allowed. Roughly, there are two camps. Those who say that any well-formed, non-dup question of interest sh
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by jordanpg 12y ago
> support requests from people who'd lost the email containing their tickets "Losing email" is a problem completely distinct from the UX question. Since "losing email" is more-or-less impossible in year 2015, it
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by jordanpg 12y ago
He's not talking about requiring accounts for all users, only visitors. You can browse HN without limit without an account. Also, it is trivially easy to make HN accounts. My guess is that the OP approves of HN. These are just usabi
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I disagree. The OP is talking about usability, first and foremost. Everything you said is true, but none of it speaks to usability and UX. I agree so strongly with the bulleted points made, that it made me imagine a standard, a symbol of
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by jordanpg 12y ago
The recovery of these images is a great story to be sure, but the WWII photos remind me of the kind of photos that I usually take: terrible ones. Mostly just pictures of uninspired landscapes, buildings, and nondescript groups of people.
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Maybe these publications are hesitant to comment because they realize they're not economists. They write and think about products. If we concede for the moment that, as product, Bitcoin is sound then we are left with what Bitcoin&#x2
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I didn't mean to imply they're below me, but I do stand by the idea that those kinds of conversations are only a shadow of the real big picture. But I definitely raise a glass to preferring Interstellar over What the Bleep. :) H
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by jordanpg 12y ago
It's a dirty little secret. There are two physics, the public-facing one and the actual one. The public-facing one is the one that builds and maintains public interest in physics in the name of maintaining the substantial amounts of
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by jordanpg 12y ago
This is just an attribute of good leadership. It's applicable to teams in any context, and can't be enforced except by leaders who themselves are led by strong leaders.
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by jordanpg 12y ago
The problem is really the redirection. The guiding principle of this document is wrapping every single functional block in a self-contained, statically-analyzable function. If there is anything that pointers must be used for, then they
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by jordanpg 12y ago
> All code must be compiled, from the first day of development, with all compiler warnings enabled at the compiler’s most pedantic setting. All code must compile with these setting without any warnings. All code must be checked daily wit
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Even at 35, I have a weird feeling like I'm walking into a religious cult or being watched when I'm in these stores. I've avoided going into them since I was young and this has persisted to this day. It has to do with the c
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by jordanpg 12y ago
State-sponsored defense spending of the kind the US government engages in is safe from being replaced by the private sector, ever. The cost is astronomical. Individual units like carriers, submarines, and bombers cost hundreds of millions
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I agree that it's "fine." I wasn't questioning the right to hold any particular view. I'm just arguing that it would be better if we held belief in fairy tales and belief in traditional god(s) to the same standard
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by jordanpg 12y ago
This is exactly the sort of wishy-washy point of view that is as culpable as the extremist one. Here is a fact: there is no reason -- none -- to think that there exists an invisible, magic being in the sky that concerns itself with things
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Coverage of these events, with or without anti-Muslim sentiment, almost never takes the point of view that it is the fact that people are brought up to really believe that there are invisible, magic beings in the ether who care about the
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Agreed. This avalanche of pro-community news out of MS since Nadella took over is about MS rebranding itself, particularly with younger people who (incorrectly or otherwise) believe that MS technologies are "greying". They can no
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I can give you an Inbox invite if you're curious about what the gmail team thinks the future of email looks like. It is a platform built around various functional groups that email is used for, which may or may not be urgent.
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Is it worth noting that if wearables caught on, this would offload some of the work from phone batteries, effectively extending battery life? A big if, to be sure.
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by jordanpg 12y ago
An LG G3 with the auto brightness feature enabled, maybe. With brightness bumped up to a more user friendly level, my battery lasts <<1 day. I like this phone, but consider the battery life to be laughably bad.
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by jordanpg 12y ago
To the extent that anything is "wrong" with OOP, it is encapsulated (!) well by the Reactive Manifesto [1]. The global computing paradigm is outgrowing the domains where OOP is useful. And I'm pretty sure that if you look cl
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by jordanpg 12y ago
It's interesting to consider this observation in the context of young people who will grow up largely without the abstraction of local file storage at all. Anyone over 30 or so still feels slightly nervous or protective of their files

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