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by lowboy 14y ago
1. Yeah, this will probably be an accepted fallacy for day to day usage. You could quote leading geologists/physicists and the implication is that they have a vested interest in being correct. But the reasoning there isn't just "Because the
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by lowboy 14y ago
Whoosh
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Your examples are too broad and/or poorly defined. An appeal to authority fallacy has to be without reason backing up the appeal other than the fact that they are an authority. You can suggest that a source of information might be unreliabl
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by lowboy 14y ago
I look forward to replying to misguided online arguments with a simple link. If everyone started doing that, no one would be committing logical fallacies anymore! https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/slippery-slope
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by lowboy 14y ago
What's the incentive for free market solutions to the problem? The free market is motivated by profit. The gov is ostensibly motivated to serve its citizens. There's a better chance of the latter being effective, IMO.
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Then they release it to users who have control over their devices and can modify how their device displays the app. Users are under no obligation to ensure that the app runs as-designed, and if it's not explicitly disallowed they should be
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by lowboy 14y ago
Yeah, but no app developer is explicitly saying that. > If a farmer's market set up shop in your town, and little kids stole the merchandise all the time I've found that comparisons between physical theft and digital "theft" are always
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by lowboy 14y ago
Also helpful would be a brief list of functionality so you can make a comparison more fairly. Bootstrap's minified 122kB css weight (with responsive) is huge compared to that of Skeleton's 12kB, but the former has more features. Or Toast, w
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by lowboy 14y ago
The latter.
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I hope you understand that global usage is totally relevant, when as a web developer you don't have a specific audience to target. Can you elaborate on usage stats of "public businesses" and where you got those from? If you have usage stats
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by lowboy 14y ago
A big heads up to those people who still support ie7, that is. Google and Facebook dropped support a while ago, and ie7's usage share is around 0.6-2.0% globally. http://clicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/versions/ http://gs.stat
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by lowboy 14y ago
Great concept! I'd suggest offering Vundle[0] as an alternative to Pathogen, or even replacing it altogether. I've found it to be a better system managing bundles by config in your vimrc and running :BundleInstall/Update/Remove/etc instead
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by lowboy 14y ago
Hmm, yes I suppose it would be. This whole thread (and my objections to the use of language here) was based on onemorepassword's comment[0] that ended with a definitive "LayerVault are copyright trolls and bullies", which I read as speaki
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I don't think that claim would have any merit though, much as if someone opened up Chrome dev tools one day, edited an html attribute and solely based on that experience called themselves a web developer. I feel it would be dishonest, or at
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by lowboy 14y ago
The dictator doesn't have to be multiple countries, but a dictator for at least a while. Would someone who was a dictator for a day but was otherwise a civil servant for 30 years be called a dictator? I wouldn't say so. You can say he was a
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by lowboy 14y ago
I read it. LV is engaging in one act of trolling at the moment, and they have the "personal constitution necessary to engage" in said trolling. No arguments there, and I don't condone what they're doing. But having the constitution to do an
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by lowboy 14y ago
Sure, but has LV engaged in this behaviour previously? If they haven't, then I don't think they could be described as patent trolls. Right now they might be engaged in patent trolling, but as my singing example hopefully illustrates, doing
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by lowboy 14y ago
That doesn't really speak to the issue. Please answer my question about me describing myself as a singer. Would you feel I was being dishonest as describing myself as such?
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by lowboy 14y ago
Maybe literary was the wrong word for me to use, but I get the sense that it is a purposeful use of the word for stylistic purposes, and that Tim Pope isn't leaning on it as a crutch. I feel like you're treating your prescriptivism of how t
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by lowboy 14y ago
Murder is too loaded of a act to serve as a good example for this discussion, IMO, but just the once? I would describe myself as someone who had murdered, but not a murderer. There's an active/repetitive component to being described as an *
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by lowboy 14y ago
So how would you feel if I described myself as a singer upon meeting someone, having only sang for 3 minutes out of the decades of my life? "Oh, hi, I'm lowboy, and I'm a singer".
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by lowboy 14y ago
I sang in a choir in grade 5 once. Would you consider me a singer?
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by lowboy 14y ago
Seeing a blinking cursor and a potentially-highlighted search box (not for me on Chrome at least) might distract a portion of those users. edit: Mouse movement = tracking content with eyes? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5333496
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by lowboy 14y ago
Similarities in design doesn't warrant a DMCA takedown notice, period.
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https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/tree/3.0.0-wip
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Esp for this crowd.
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by lowboy 14y ago
Could there be under-reporting at play in your data set? I imagine that there would be a number of unknown smokers on a scale of thousands of people met.
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by lowboy 14y ago
I read his usage of "fuck/ing" as a literary style considering the context and name of the repo. If the amount of swearing here was from commit messages in an unrelated project, then yes, that would be excessive and the author should invest
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by lowboy 14y ago
It's a great book, well-written. Anyone touching JS should get it.
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by lowboy 14y ago
Out of the half-dozen or so Svbtle network articles I end up reading in a week, this is the only one I've noticed with a referral link to Amazon, let alone the repeated history of them like this author has. I think if anything it's this one

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