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by kick 7y ago
More complex ≠ better. There are Lisps that are almost universally seen to be great. There are absolutely terrible Lisps as well.
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by kick 7y ago
We're essentially in agreement, then.
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by kick 7y ago
Programming is not a particularly difficult skill. During the 1980s, it was taught in grade schools. JavaScript may be a worse and more difficult language than the ones you could find in the micros scattered across schools, but it's no
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by kick 7y ago
I know many people who are technical geniuses but refuse to deal with the necessary business and marketing aspects. Surely you've known people who are/were technical geniuses, dealt with both of those, and still failed? It seems
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by kick 7y ago
I've never met anyone who was rich and fun to be around or intellectually stimulating. It's not that uncommon, though I don't think it's a 100% thing, either.
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by kick 7y ago
(Sorry for the late response; had to sleep and then forgot about it.) Isn't it? I don't think so. Windows and Mac rule the desktop, proprietary Android and iOS rule the mobile space. Your average person's computer is runnin
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by kick 7y ago
So Jobs was lower middle class, and led Apple to be the biggest company in the world. Middle class is different from someone in the actual lower-class, which more Americans are than in the middle. Yeah, a few bucks. So much money that he
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by kick 7y ago
The genetic argument doesn't really hold much water. You've got a lot of great ground to argue on, using something that's as contested as an argument in genetics isn't worth it when your argument can stand on its own mer
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by kick 7y ago
Jobs was raised by two people middle class-enough to adopt, in the middle of one of the most progressive parts of the United States during one of its most progressive eras. He also wasn't harassed by the law for doing illegal things th
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by kick 7y ago
A lack of constraints mixed with a lack of real benefits. Late-stage iPhoneOS was magical because of the constraints people were working with. If you tell a developer, "Hey! Here's hardware with effectively no possible limits,&quo
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by kick 7y ago
That file extensions are not the best way to handle metadata is neither here nor there at this point. They don't seem to be going away, so better get used to them. I think they're pretty great at it, actually. I'm fully use
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by kick 7y ago
HDD LED in old computer cases Old? I'll admit I haven't changed my case in a couple years, but mine currently has one, and I can't remember the last time I've used a desktop computer that didn't have one.
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by kick 7y ago
There's a large button. It loads before the text does. When the text loads, you'll see in big letters, right next to the button, Dark Mode , italicization and all. If you click on the button, suddenly you get a very blue-purple
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by kick 7y ago
It's one of those things that seems like it would make things simpler, but actually makes it harder to understand. Normally I agree with this point of view, but file extensions don't make sense for what's probably the most
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Origin of the Cookie Monster (1995)(multicians.org)
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by kick 7y ago
Why not put a soft limit on the amount of signups-through-mail a day? After xyz signups through it, make the rest of the day's accounts require manual approval for the first few posts. You can also mitigate the disposable mail proble
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by kick 7y ago
You can turn the font size up across the board on iOS. It probably won't help you now, but I figure it's worth stating for anyone else who may have one in this thread.
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by kick 7y ago
On the other hand, these are engineers you're talking about. They tend to lean more toward 'nocturnal' on average than people in most fields.
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by kick 7y ago
How many OS X users do you think are actively using awk in any of its variants? What percentage of total awk usage is on OS X, do you think? OS X may not be rare, but it seems highly unlikely that many OS X systems see frequent usage of awk
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by kick 7y ago
My claims were that GNU awk is everywhere that awk sees substantial use, and that it runs everywhere. These were two separate claims, and are very different. It is very rare that you see a system that awk is frequently used on that doesn&
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by kick 7y ago
gawk is pretty much everywhere now that awk sees substantial use, and presents rather great enhancements over POSIX awk[1]. I usually don't think that GNU tools make much sense to focus on, but gawk is something that's, generally-
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by kick 7y ago
There probably won't be much of a celebration. This is nowhere near as catastrophic as WWII (it doesn't even alter how most people live their lives, unlike WWII, let alone death counts). Life will probably go on as normal.
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by kick 7y ago
I think you accidentally replied to the wrong thread. Consider reposting your comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22749076
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by kick 7y ago
Legere announced he was stepping down ages ago. It wasn't forced by any means.
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by kick 7y ago
The demographic targeted by the meme was teenagers. This does not imply that teenagers were the majority of people who ended up consuming the pods. Kids don't flawlessly execute every piece of good advice given, sure, but if you give t
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by kick 7y ago
The anti-solution isn't even attempting to be a solution. It's not that it isn't perfect. It's that it's not even resembling anything close to a solution: it's actively harmful to the goals that are apparentl
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by kick 7y ago
Literally like North Korea. Right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies#Red_herring_... Fallacy of relative privation (also known as "appeal to worse problems" or "not as bad as&qu
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by kick 7y ago
This filter does not block sites encouraging self-harm. This filter blocks adult sites. My claim was that the filter only blocks things that are less harmful than what I listed. I don't think that's untrue, and stand by what I sai
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by kick 7y ago
Surely you'd agree that's not the fault of the information as much as leaving small children in reach of poisonous objects without teaching them that they shouldn't consume them, wouldn't you? The article notes that it w
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by kick 7y ago
I mean, it's probably an April Fools' Day joke. However, for the person who committed it (who lives in France), it was not April 1st, as far as I'm aware.

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