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by kedean 11y ago
He's not saying "I would never pay for a text editor, that's ridiculous!", he's saying $70 is just a little steep for a text editor. What exactly is it offering that makes it worth $70 vs something more reasonable?
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by kedean 11y ago
Many cities and developers would either rather have bigger houses and the kind of people who can afford them, or squash as many people per square foot as possible by building up.
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by kedean 11y ago
It's also worth noting that the resale value of a mobile home is next to nothing, due to that stigma. Nobody wants a mobile home if they can avoid it, and even fewer want a used mobile home. One of the main benefits of owning your home
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by kedean 11y ago
Well sure, every language has its quirks, but those last four aren't going to show up unless the person starts diving into an existing codebase, which shouldn't happen if they're still learning. The keys/parenthesis bit
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by kedean 11y ago
Sometimes, but not always. City accountants certainly fall under this, since accountants can work in the private sector, but what private-sector competition exists for police employment? Are they meant to be comparing their salaries with th
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by kedean 11y ago
Interesting, but maybe not all that useful. The purpose of a major is to give others an implicit idea of what you studied. If I say I have a major in Robotics, then everyone can infer what that consisted of, even if it varies across univers
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by kedean 11y ago
I applaud the cryptography work here, it seems like a damn cool application of ZKPs, but I think their missing what made Bitcoin work. The tech people took to BTC because it was something that they could verify worked correctly, and had no
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by kedean 11y ago
Additionally, my old university has built 4 new buildings in the last 4 or 5 years that I can think of. Brand new buildings, even while none of the existing buildings are ever actually full. Couldn't this, for example, go to actually t
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by kedean 11y ago
Interesting take on the meaning of "practice makes perfect". Practice can be abstracted into extending a stream towards it critical mass (perfect).
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by kedean 11y ago
Ehhhh, it's a grey area. They are definitely in the 'embrace' stage, but they're doing it on iOS, where f.lux doesn't really have a presence. You can argue that makes it different, or you could argue it's close
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by kedean 11y ago
One could avoid privacy issues by not collecting any information outside of email and chats, I would imagine. You don't HAVE to collect lots of user information. As for porn, why does a social network have to allow embedded images? If
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by kedean 11y ago
No, it all still comes back to licensing. They offer different catalogs per country because they are not legally allowed to distribute certain content in certain places, because they don't have the rights. If they go "oh you live
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by kedean 11y ago
I think what he's saying is that you must decompress the entire thing before you can look at those headers. If all you want is the width and height, you still might have to decompress a gigantic image, which is lots of wasted work and
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by kedean 11y ago
I'm not trying to be sour, sorry, I'm just pointing out that jQuery didn't win due to some special superiority that it has. It is in no way better than any of the competition that it had in the early days. jQuery works , of
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by kedean 11y ago
Hey, something I know about! I actually worked on one of those research projects in college, programming the experiments. The idea is that there is a certain radius around the focal point where you stop being able to detect changes. I'
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by kedean 11y ago
jQuery was popular because it was easily grokked by people who were more designers than developers. It had lots of competition early on, my favorite being MooTools, many of which were far better designed and had equal cross-browser support.
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by kedean 11y ago
Particularly events. I think there are technically 3 different ways to create event handlers, one for each of the major js engines of the early 2000's.
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by kedean 11y ago
On a more constructive note, I've found that it does have significant problems with certain text structures, namely really long single lines. Just the other day I had to debug a json serializer, so my q&d solution was to copy the t
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by kedean 11y ago
That's right, LIE to fix the deficiencies of developers!
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by kedean 11y ago
Then what was the point of using the PY3 constant?
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by kedean 11y ago
Those people wouldn't have been willing to put forth the effort in any of the old systems either. Why does that mean Spotify made things worse?
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by kedean 11y ago
Because someone needs to hold them in escrow, otherwise it's a 'he said she said' argument. How would SH know whether or not the seller actually withheld the tickets, if they've never seen proof that the tickets even exi
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by kedean 11y ago
I'm going to say yes. I thought it was common knowledge at this point not to base your entire service on the good will of another service? They're also banking on Slack not changing their API without telling them.
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by kedean 11y ago
At which point you can no longer use this fmt construct, so what was the reason for having it?
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by kedean 11y ago
I'd argue that it's not a good thing that you can just disregard block scoping willy-nilly from within unprivileged code.
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by kedean 11y ago
This seems like one of those ideas that could have been cool on the web of 20 years ago, but just won't work now. Internet users aren't trustworthy anyway as a whole when given anonymity. This is quickly going to turn into a strea
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by kedean 11y ago
Well I mean yeah, that is an argument that floats around lately (one that I support). Namely, that the idea of every startup getting acquihired encourages low-quality startups with no purpose except getting eventually bought out. People nee
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by kedean 11y ago
Their moral standing doesn't have anything to do with their wealth. 'In History' naturally has to include companies going back hundreds of years.
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by kedean 11y ago
I'd agree on the music part. Timeless is something that stays unique, that will never be replicated. The Beatles have been successfully copied and mass-marketed, and are no longer really timeless. "Smells Like Teen Spirit", I
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by kedean 11y ago
Not necessarily. Pepsi and Coke have both built quite legal relationships with a number of institutions like universities and fast food chains with the agreement that competitor products are not served. My university was a "pepsi campu

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