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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Sigh. I understand that perfectly, and I thought it would be implied that I meant "multiple user-defined namespaces" where I, and the commenter I replied to , typed the shorter "namespaces". Sheesh. Bring the pedantry, eh? Your vitriol is
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
I shouldn't have bitten. This is like arguing over why a Phillips screwdriver is better than a flathead with someone who particularly and angrily hates Phillips screwdrivers because he doesn't like their appearance. They're tools, bud. I'm
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
I actually vastly prefer a language without namespaces, and the naming conventions are not due to the absence of namespaces. You're talking about the NextStep API (the "NS") and the conventions that were born from that -- there is no mand
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Fine, I'll bite. Assuming you're belittling Objective-C, let's not forget that Objective-C is simply C with Smalltalk bolted on. I'm having a hard time imagining a plane of reality in which either is not "half decent". Objective-C is, in my
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
The Wikipedia article is good at explaining the rationale. According to it, it was added around the time the two-space opening move for a pawn was added to balance the game. Oddly, though Wikipedia deletes programming languages like Factor
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
I've had people shout at me about making up rules after capturing en passant .
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
I've come across words in the OSPD that Words with Friends didn't take, as well as words not in the OSPD that it did take. A casual Google suggests that Words with Friends uses a modified version of a dictionary called ENABLE[1], so while i
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Sadly, it's only the postmortems. Their entire status gameplan involves being very vague.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
There is also zigzag encoding, something Protocol Buffers (I believe) introduced for general usage. Thrift later copied it for the compact encoding. It's pretty interesting.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
While I tend to agree with this exact comment (since it's Facebook specifically), I don't agree in spirit because administering your own Wordpress install takes time. That time might be valuable for some. I'd certainly run my own Wordpress,
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Thanks for chipping in. You guys do absolutely great work, and I'm sorry that these discussions usually turn to avoiding paying your employer for that work. I know a couple people that are getting picked up by newsrooms for "startuppey" dig
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
I don't think the next big thing will be a new operating system -- that's thinking too shallow. We've tried dozens over the years, and right now we're dividing between consumer experience and server work (and poorly at that; no Linux distri
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
At a fundamental level, they're still very similar to every computer on the market. They're very nearly IBM architecture, and the security features you're discussing are added after the fact (not inherent to the architecture itself). An ope
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Well, it can be argued that any security feature can be circumvented in theory, which is why super-secure networks are fond of air gaps. The NX bit isn't really an air gap, just like ASLR, DEP, and so forth. The features of a processor desi
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Definitely not comparing value. Comparing cost.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
I have a theory that big interactive pieces like that are Googleesque 20% time for the journalists and/or interactive folks that work there. I can't speak for the Times because, as another comment points out, they stand alone in journalis
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
> Anyone can build a subscriber base with that kind of ad blitz. Advertising isn't that simple; if it were, it'd be a lot different.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
It's the most applicable comparison I could drum up. You could also say it's one typical lunch for two people. It only keyed in my memory because I watch people pay $4 for coffee every work day but balk at something that's $80/month, or e
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
It's an interesting reflection on the Hacker News community that a not-insignificant portion of these comments are about circumventing the paywall. (I count 13 of 53 as I write this.) There are a number of conclusions to draw from that, som
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
That's correct, hence my point. I'm not comparing to anything else, I'm thinking of the Flex Fuel engines that can use E85 and regular gasoline.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Even you admit that it's not a 100% chance, which is my point -- we're using an IP address to identify the studio as the responsible party here, which we frown upon for home users. You talk about the stuff that all defense attorneys do in t
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
If pedantry in the law has influenced your ethics that much, it's hard to call those "ethics".
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
My comment has nothing to do with the law.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
> I don't write poor quality movie reviews anyway, then rage on anyone who tells me that my taste in movies isn't so good. That's some American Idol shit right there. Quit being disingenuous. You didn't just tell me that my taste in d
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
This isn't the first time. As with the last time a similar story made the rounds, I'm surprised by the cognitive dissonance among those that would sympathize with pirates: when it's Joe Homeowner, an IP address does not identify a person!,
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
It's a scientific fact based upon the free energy content of the same amount of gasoline versus the same amount of ethanol. Ethanol just doesn't have as much energy as regular gasoline. If you've observed the opposite effect, you're experie
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Thank you for replying. Did you ask permission or forgiveness, to use the common expression? (Did you reach out before doing it or after?) I find if I do work and then approach people, people tend to be guilty about revealing their true fee
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Whenever a reply to me starts with "I don't mean to be insulting," I know that the comment ahead is doomed to be insulting. Yours was certainly no exception and delivered every bit of insult that you claimed to not intend. I'm going to tack
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Am I the only one that gets slightly annoyed when people redesign a Web site without being solicited? I understand redesigns like this are part of practice for a designer, but sometimes I feel like these designs are "I don't like yours, min
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
That this comment is the only one in the thread is indicative of the applicability of this article to Hacker News.

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