lotyrin

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by lotyrin 14y ago
Also the rotation controls are strange. Why would I want to do anything besides rotate around the vertical axis? I don't really need to see what my hero looks like leaning like the tower of Pisa.
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by lotyrin 14y ago
1. Only if they're licensed as such, or we're willing to completely disregard IP (which would be very bad). 2. That's nice, and in some cases successful web software causes significant contribution to FOSS (many examples from Facebook), but
843.
by lotyrin 14y ago
Precisely. Lugging around all the amenities from the article has a huge fuel cost, and they don't compare to the quality of their stationary counterparts. I feel like the OP article's "futurist" has a decent grasp on HOW, but completely dis
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by lotyrin 14y ago
The browser does to decide if it's safe to use them. JS should be able to just use feature detection.
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by lotyrin 14y ago
Yes. Because graceful degradation isn't a thing. Obviously they didn't apply it here fully, but it would have been possible for them to reuse their text divs on text-only browsers, drop their svgs for some prerendered raster graphics on SVG
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by lotyrin 14y ago
Yeah. And I could easily set up a box with postfix, an IMAP daemon a webmail and a spam filter. But in my personal case it's a waste of my time compared to just using GMail. Obviously that's not true for everyone and I'm not trying to say i
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by lotyrin 14y ago
You have to use your own local git for doing anything non-trivial. Github does not intend to replace your CLI, it intends to augment it. Reimplementing send-email/am would be a waste of their effort toward their true goal.
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by lotyrin 14y ago
You could easily use a send-email/am workflow with a github repo. It'd be identical to using your own git remote. It would also be possible for github to add a yourproject@github.com that accepts a send-email formatted patch mail and create
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by lotyrin 14y ago
Is there a reason why session storage isn't local, with clients only given the index into that storage? Allows for any size/types of data but the worst case scenario-without code execution is that an attacker hijacks an existing but valid s
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by lotyrin 14y ago
Let me translate: 3 things I hate about (the culture surrounding) git(hub): 1,3,4,5 - I'm expected to understand the information model. 2 - The CLI is inconsistent. 6,7,8,9,10 - I'm expected to work harder so that life is easier for the mai
851.
by lotyrin 14y ago
Yep. SVN having a culture where history is expected to be full of junk commits is not a feature. Pretty much all of the points here are things I love about git. I'd personally hate working in this author's ideal repository: too many people
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by lotyrin 14y ago
That's what live CDs are for. If your system gets owned, you can't trust it anymore.
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by lotyrin 14y ago
Grandparent obviously meant the entrenched-but-ultimately-mediocre sort of monopoly. What Microsoft has individually gotten hand slapped for isn't as important as the history of their character.
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by lotyrin 14y ago
Perhaps, except that hypothetical code-hungry orcs are imaginary and have nothing to do with anything while the value of any of my very real examples is well understood by pretty much anyone. (Though - if you'll forgive me drawing further f
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by lotyrin 14y ago
Yep often all the accrued "bug fixes" accumulated in the complicated solution are "fixes" for "bugs" like "Jim didn't know that the language standard library already had a solution for this, so he made it himself, poorly" or "Pam,Bob,and Da
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by lotyrin 14y ago
The wants of the many outweigh the wants of the few.
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by lotyrin 14y ago
>it says "I went to a good school system and was taught correctly!" I cant imagine how people can manage to make it past 25 without learning the majority of the rules simply through diffusion; eventually being exposed too enough correct
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by lotyrin 14y ago
This seems to imply that programmers never write natural language or that their ability to do so is unimportant. If you're writing more code than natural language (documentation, discussion of specs, interaction with the team, etc) somethin
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by lotyrin 14y ago
I personally don't find any of their products to be very interesting or inspiring. The ideas were all in the ether already as far as I cared about them. Of course, Apple managed to realize them, polish them and place them in the hands of co
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by lotyrin 14y ago
Oh god yes. I ran into an extreme case of this recently. 200 something lines of class definition, class variables and internal private methods that end up chaining 5-deep, with a single public method. Refactoring to a single function took i
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by lotyrin 14y ago
> Your example of feeding in "sort=xyz" to produce the column name in the ORDER BY is also a pretty awful practice - I haven't seen that one in like a decade, but sure. This still happens every day. Google how to do dynamic sorting and
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by lotyrin 14y ago
That and misusing "begs the question" aren't the only things wrong with this article. When I noticed the name of the publication - "Failure Magazine" - I laughed out loud.