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by lowboy 13y ago
As creepily as possible, as is the FB/Google way!
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The ErgoDox keyboard a year in, and why you should get one(jjt.io)
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by lowboy 13y ago
90/100, and I agree with jawns that it should be agreed upon by multiple typographers, not just one.
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by lowboy 13y ago
Fucking good. Just because it's publicly viewable doesn't grant a license for use. Getty should know that.
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by lowboy 13y ago
Javascript was created in camelCase, and most major open source projects I've used have been camelCase. I can't find any data on it, but it fits with my experience for what that's worth.
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by lowboy 13y ago
I would, just because it causes fragmentation. PEP-8[0] is a big win for Python. Javascript relies on adhoc standards and best practice docs from respected entities. I'm open to change and debate, but it should be approached carefully.
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by lowboy 13y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but how does Bootstrap's popularity make it better for backend design?
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by lowboy 13y ago
Hopefully by v5 they'll have kept the changes non-breaking. edit: Apparently it's mostly js fixes for migration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6776912
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by lowboy 13y ago
Are you talking about Zurb's grid system[0] specifically, or referring to Zurb/Bootstrap as "grid systems"? If it's the latter, a simple Google search for "how to use Bootstrap" turns up a lot of resources
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by lowboy 13y ago
They do for me - maybe your device has the contrast set too low?
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by lowboy 13y ago
I don't have any of the studies on hand to link to, but IIRC simulating negative desires (CP, rape, violence, etc) doesn't always reduce a person's incident rate and might actually increase it in some cases.
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by lowboy 13y ago
Hmm. That is a tricky area. On the one hand, the presumption of innocence should be maintained. OTOH, any video could be simulated.
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by lowboy 13y ago
People have found success in managing large Javascript codebases through good design choices like module systems (AMD/CommonJS), using the SRP to keep modules tight, and testing. It's tough (nigh impossible?) to retrofit those des
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by lowboy 13y ago
Because the article quotes someone who has a misunderstanding of the word "decapitation": > “I was playing at the park and we came into the clearing and we just saw a body on the floor,” said Maria Delgado, 13. “He was just dec
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by lowboy 13y ago
This is the only quote from those two news articles that contains "decapitation", and indeed the only instance of the word: > “I was playing at the park and we came into the clearing and we just saw a body on the floor,” said M
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by lowboy 13y ago
Searching those two pages yielded one instance of "decapitation": > “I was playing at the park and we came into the clearing and we just saw a body on the floor,” said Maria Delgado, 13. “He was just decapitated — the whole top
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by lowboy 13y ago
> an 18 year old in the NYC area actually was decapitated ... Yes, Decapitated. Let us not sensationalize when we don't know the facts either, shall we?
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by lowboy 13y ago
I agree with the second part. I think this example is unethical because of the standards it creates for women. It makes women think that their primary role is for sex, which is shitty. I don't like the standards placed on men either, l
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by lowboy 13y ago
> You can't honestly expect IT to be the ones that pioneer more ethical marketing practices. It's okay because everyone else is doing it?
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by lowboy 13y ago
IIRC, they've been working with nutritionalists and doctors to continually check on how Soylent is affecting its testers. I'm too lazy to find the sources, so feel free to dismiss my claim.
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by lowboy 13y ago
That's the thing, absent any negative information a dietary change shouldn't need rigourous proof. Unless there's any indication that Soylent will do irreparable damage from day 1, I see no good reason for an individual not t
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by lowboy 13y ago
Yup, agreed. I never meant to imply that it was a simple machine. I too see Soylent as an experiment, and a possible way to push our models of nutrition forward.
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by lowboy 13y ago
It's only a problem if it harms a human suddenly and irreversibly. I'm guessing that anyone who was suffering problems from a dietary change would have time to correct. Show me some evidence or even some indication that Soylent wi
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by lowboy 13y ago
Yeah, I agree that there's a lot that we don't know about the human body, and I disliked any claims by Soylent that overreached in this way. But we do know about nutrients and have a good idea of the proportion of them for the avg
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by lowboy 13y ago
Does biointensive === organic? Organic is a loaded term nowadays, so maybe it's just semantics.
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by lowboy 13y ago
Going back to lawnmowers, it would be like not wrapping the handle with leather for comfort because we can't prove that it's safe for the lawnmower. We think it's safe, we're pretty sure from our understanding that it&
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by lowboy 13y ago
Ah. That wasn't very clear in your comment. Yes, breaking humans is bad. Is there any indication that Soylent is going to break people though? As far as I can tell, it's unknown what the long term effects will be, but we have some
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by lowboy 13y ago
Eh. I'm not so squeamish. I know that pretty much every restaurant will have or has had rodents, it's just part of life.
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by lowboy 13y ago
Agreed. I think part of the backlash is from Soylent's hubris about how it's perfectly optimized, etc. I think we have a long way to go before drawing any conclusion, but it's a promising technology.
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by lowboy 13y ago
That's a poor analogy. 1) We're starting from a functional state, 2) Changing diet is nowhere near as violent as hitting something with a wrench. Humans are very adaptable wrt. food, generally speaking. Look at the different diets

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