jtheory

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811.
by jtheory 14y ago
> IE6 & 7 should no longer be on anyone's support matrix. That's certainly not true, to my profound sorrow; they're both solidly on my support matrix, because quite a few of our users are obligated to use IE6. See my top-level comme
812.
by jtheory 14y ago
I have an odd feeling that I've commented about this one before. Maybe this article cycles back around to HN every year or two? There are large populations of users who are forced to use IE6. Still. In 2012. They are not allowed to
813.
by jtheory 14y ago
Sure, if you're comfortable with a website that will "pretty much work" for a decently-sized chunk (YMMV) of your users. If you'd rather have it "definitely work" for those users, then test it.
814.
by jtheory 14y ago
> This post to me is an antithesis to rationality. That might be overstating it a bit, no? If you're trying to offer constructive criticism, at any rate. I disagree, though -- the central point is that you should realistically imagin
815.
by jtheory 14y ago
By extension: seeking the kindest way you can respond means thinking hard about what response will be most helpful and supportive of them . That might mean being supporting but giving them strong nudges towards working directly with poten
816.
by jtheory 14y ago
"Doing them a disservice" is by definition not kind , I think. Note that the phrase isn't "you can never be too flattering." This interpretation does make it a very vague instruction ("okay, so what's the 'kind' thing to say when someone s
817.
by jtheory 14y ago
Ha! My wife has this problem. She was teaching (as a grad student) and realized on the first day of class that she already knew the names of almost all of the students in the class, and little bits about them, from random encounters (lik
818.
by jtheory 14y ago
I used Postful for years, and moved to PostalMethods when Postful was sold a couple of years ago. I quite like PostalMethods -- it's even simpler than Postful was (Postful required the to address in the subject line of your email). They he
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by jtheory 14y ago
One interesting twist to this... If you were going to make a movie, with professional actors playing the roles, and your final goal was to create something that would be considered slanderous of Islam, there's are arguments in favor of
820.
by jtheory 14y ago
Don't think of "people" as a static entity; that's the problem. HN does have something of an "eternal September" effect that everyone has to deal with, permanently. There's a constant influx of new people, many of whom will learn to cont
821.
by jtheory 14y ago
Your language is noticeably nastier than anything you're responding to, here and in another comment below. Of course you can disagree with, or be upset by other comments, but dialing up the language significantly doesn't do anything usefu
822.
by jtheory 14y ago
Well, let us know what you find, then -- what rates, ease of setup, currencies supported, etc.. Regardless, I'm not sure why you'd say now is the time to bail, as opposed to any other time -- now that they're finally trying to fix some of
823.
by jtheory 14y ago
Both, I imagine. Though Stripe isn't yet a viable competitor for lots of businesses, because they haven't sorted out the international thing at all yet, but they're working on that (as PayPal well knows).
824.
by jtheory 14y ago
That's exactly what I'm saying -- that may well be the case (and that would be a coding error), or maybe they coded some handling; we can't tell from the results (varyingly-colored pixels in the displayed result).
825.
by jtheory 14y ago
"Most of them" seems to be the likely answer to this one. Including most of the real winners.
826.
by jtheory 14y ago
I have; but I was talking about whether the Mozilla devs, given no color table in a GIF, assume they actually found one and stored it to a memory location , or handled the case as correctly as they could (by initializing the memory with a
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by jtheory 14y ago
Ah, hey -- here's an article hitting many of my same points with some actual citations etc. going on (on Gawker of all places? It's fairly solid reporting, though): http://gawker.com/5941037/born-this-way-sympathy-and-science...
828.
by jtheory 14y ago
I absolutely was saying both could be factors (see more above), though obviously some child abusers were not abused as children, and many, many children are abused (especially girls -- the figure is something horrific like 1 in 4 girls ex
829.
by jtheory 14y ago
Feel free to drop that bit entirely, and discuss my central points; it was a tangent. I disagree with your claim, regardless. It is always both. Sexuality is influenced by lots of factors; the word "sexuality" itself refers to quite a lot
830.
by jtheory 14y ago
Shorter answer to this: That attempting to suppress it without any outlet is a recipe for a miserable life, possibly leading to dangerous and violent outbursts for perceived injustice and oppression. We want pedophiles to have miserable
831.
by jtheory 14y ago
Not the virtual children, certainly. Possibly the viewers, IF (research needed) giving them the ability to watch detailed scenarios of abuse -- possibly with willing "children" -- raises the possibility that they'll abuse a real child and r
832.
by jtheory 14y ago
Do you have research to point to, wrt this? Because the evidence continues to stack up in staggering amounts that sexual preference is innate and out of our control. That attempting to suppress it without any outlet is a recipe for a miser
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by jtheory 14y ago
The coolest aspect of this article IMO was that Gimp's output (with the right options selected) was already the minimum size for a transparent 1x1 gif. He succeeded in trimming only 6 bytes off of that before he abandoned transparency and
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by jtheory 14y ago
I don't think that's it -- I'm not sure where I saw this, but I believe it's because if there's no global color table in the image, the spec says the displaying software should supply one... but there's no standard color table, so Firefox s
835.
by jtheory 14y ago
I've been to sheep-shearings - as long as the sheep is regularly sheared, it'll know what's going on and won't be upset; it's not painful (as long as the person with the trimmer is expert enough not to nick the skin), and the wool starts pe
836.
by jtheory 14y ago
WRT edit: I think the downvote-capable readers are being harsher on belittling or sarcastic comments across the board, lately. Would you say that's a bad thing, though?
837.
by jtheory 14y ago
You're really overstating how "deep in the dirt" PayPal's reputation is, though. Some developers complain very loudly about PayPal, but just about everyone else continues to use the service. They remain an interesting choice for anyone sta
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by jtheory 14y ago
Your risk isn't far off from your risk of getting struck by lightning, and a tiny fraction of the risk you'll get in a car crash. There's no limit of the ills that might befall you, if you're willing to dip that low (honestly, I've no idea
839.
by jtheory 14y ago
That's not a problem. No one's complaining "too many usernames are taken"; people are complaining about the comment quality. When you get a HN username to make a YC application, you're going to be hyperaware that you're here visiting pg's h
840.
by jtheory 14y ago
I have a moderately-successful side project in the education sector that I'm not posting numbers about... not because I'm worried about competitors, but because I've already lost a few very large signups ("can we sign up every student in ou

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