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by lowboy 14y ago
This comment needs some editing by a less haughty writer it it's to be widely read. Error-wise I didn't notice a ton of things, but: > This [could use] some editing by a more experience English speaker if it's to be widely read [without
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by lowboy 14y ago
I agree - s/he had a complaint about "denouncing gentrifiers as being "neoliberal colonizers"". But the sexual orientation is extraneous, unless s/he is going to relate sexual orientation to gentrification or colonization.
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by lowboy 14y ago
His racist comments and the thuggish comment are both on the "bad" side of the moral scale when taken alone. But when we look at the overall situation in the US, racism against black people is worse to me than racism against white people, s
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by lowboy 14y ago
Without a doubt it's racist. But if you consider power structures and privilege, not all racism is equally bad. As a white male, I'd rather he not have that opinion of me based solely on my race, but I'm willing to give him some leeway due
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by lowboy 14y ago
> I quit reading once I realized I was reading a gay man denouncing gentrifiers Why does his sexual orientation factor into his credibility for you?
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by lowboy 14y ago
Critical difference is that pacomerh is speaking about the JS developers s/he knows while Camus had no such qualification.
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by lowboy 14y ago
If I develop an RSI and a doctor tells me it was by a matter of a hundred keystrokes, I'm coming for Ballmer's pelt.
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by lowboy 14y ago
I had suspicions from their choice of styling and typeface.
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by lowboy 14y ago
Please don't speak for javascript developers without some substantiation of your opinions.
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by lowboy 14y ago
AFAIK, stux did replicate on the computers of users without their knowledge, which is a key component of malware from my understanding of the term. So stux is malware.
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by lowboy 14y ago
If an unscrupulous person were to install and knowing use a malicious program for personal gain, that might make the program malicious or unethical, but it doesn't make it malware by (what I believe to be) the common definition of malware.
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by lowboy 14y ago
Let's consider both the DDOS botnet (most would consider "bad") and a program that contributes CPU cycles to Folding@Home (most would consider "good"). If it was buried in the TOU and we don't have a reasonable expectation that the user was
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by lowboy 14y ago
That is a poor definition of malware.
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by lowboy 14y ago
What about ad-supported installs that have a screen in the installation process with "Would you like to install ______" with a checkbox? Although I disagree with that practice, I wouldn't consider that malware because it does inform the use
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by lowboy 14y ago
The US Gov't as an entity isn't afraid. But lobbyists and other politicians might be afraid of not being able to buy that second house if they don't act in the interests of the RIAA/etc. edit On the surface this sounds like the stuff of t
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by lowboy 14y ago
The only way website operators can be victims of malware is if their site gets a script injected into it. Otherwise they're not a "victim" as much as someone who is negatively affected by a piece of software that a user runs on their comput
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by lowboy 14y ago
Your definition of the word "malware" goes against the common definition. IMO, most people would consider malware something that is installed without the user's intent. Just because a piece of software negatively impacts website owners does
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by lowboy 14y ago
Shouldn't it be up to the user to decide what she wants to run on her own browser? If I want to block all ads, I should be able to do that. If I want to replace those ads with kittens, I should be able to do that. If I want to replace those
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by lowboy 14y ago
That does clear things up a bit. Thanks!
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by lowboy 14y ago
> Another example: the late Steve Jobs. Doubtless he received the best medical care that money could buy—but it wasn't enough to save him because a cure for his pancreatic cancer didn't exist at any price. I'm not a Jobsologist, but did
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by lowboy 14y ago
Very good point. FYI, it's whose .
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by lowboy 14y ago
I don't see how the lack of (IMO) optional parens would prevent tools from working - they'd just have to be adjusted. Assuming this example from the ParEdit page is well-formed lisp: (defun paredit-barf-all-the-way-forward ()
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by lowboy 14y ago
I agree with your priorities on how long term concerns trump up-front discomfort when learning a language. But to me it would be of long term benefit to never see parens that could be otherwise indicated by sig whitespace patterns like the
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by lowboy 14y ago
True, and to me the ease of use increases by getting rid of what I perceive to be superfluous parens. I'd rather write the first code block and have mean the same as the second. This is a trivial example, but when LF + indentation become si
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by lowboy 14y ago
I appreciate the need to have parens to remove ambiguity and for something like an AST it is a very concise expression. It just seems like there are common patterns that could be abstracted out, such as the code at the bottom of this lispys
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by lowboy 14y ago
It's got a very strong design which you executed well. It's quite polished. The rails part is hard to comment on because we can't see your code - but from the url structure, it looks like it worked well for you. Having said that, I'm not re
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by lowboy 14y ago
I was just coming here to wonder at the need for those chubby little lines with their quadruple chins. Seems like if you have blocks of regular indention you should be able to trim some of the fat. I'm not a lisp guy though, so I'm sure tha
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by lowboy 14y ago
I am a proponent of ALTAP and of using significant whitespace such as Python and Haml so I appreciate Jade's style. Although I can see the utility of being close to HTML, the jump to simple Jade or Haml shouldn't be that bad for a competent
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by lowboy 14y ago
I imagine a lot of projects have both CS source for development, with compiled JS for deployment. That might skew the stats between JS+CS, but it's a good indicator of CS' popularity compared to other languages. Considering that, releases w
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by lowboy 14y ago
I've made a one-time investment of a minuscule amount of time and have been raking in the saved time and effort from not having to type var statements or track down lack-of-var bugs. Pure profit for me, but as always YMMV.

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