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by macavity23 14y ago
I really feel for the boss in that meeting! That is one hell of a tough situation to work through: people crying, accusations of racism that could have enormous implications for the company. And they handled it perfectly, very professionall
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"Javascript is so far removed from what most programming languages look like, that people who know almost any other modern language still require extensive education to understand Javascript." Eh? Anyone who has ever programmed any functi
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by macavity23 14y ago
In what way is MintChip superior? As far as I can see, it is a system for cryptographically signing transactions denominated in existing real-world currencies (eg CAD or USD), i.e. it's not really a currency at all. Seems terribly inferior
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by macavity23 14y ago
The core jQuery idea - using CSS selectors to find DOM elements and then changing their properties and firing/monitoring events - fits so naturally with the HTML/CSS model that it feels like it should be part of the standard DOM API. I'm no
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by macavity23 14y ago
Hard to argue with his conclusion. In the UK, the three main political parties are shockingly similar; I can't think of a single truly-significant policy difference. As an example, the 'left wing' party wants to restrict university tuition
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by macavity23 14y ago
Maybe occasionally. If you spend a lot of time hacking at a ergonomically-poor workstation (which coffee shops pretty much always are), you will suffer as you get older.
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by macavity23 14y ago
I'd be surprised if they weren't indexing these links. But so what? Are they disobeying robots.txt? If not, I don't see the issue.
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by macavity23 14y ago
This is undoubtedly true. For complex documents, and those specifically for print publication, MSOffice is light years ahead of GDocs, and probably always will be. However, my feeling is that this is a relatively small proportion of the MSO
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by macavity23 14y ago
Oddly, "Modern UI" (ie Metro) isn't in this list. Surely that's what every server admin needs, no?
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by macavity23 14y ago
Agreed that it'll be discussed, but that's a hell of a precedent: outlawing legal transactions between private citizens in any specific currency. Given that Citizens United held that money is speech, it seems there would be an obvious first
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by macavity23 14y ago
Yep, working smoothly for me now. Nice work on the speedy redeployment, guys. Puppet FTW!
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by macavity23 14y ago
Not only a great idea but also free load testing for the playcanvas.com guys. Their appserver appears to have melted: the CTO's hands are currently a blur on his keyboard!
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by macavity23 14y ago
'Century of the Self' is indeed amazing (as is everything else by Adam Curtis) and can be found for free here: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-century-of-the-self/ It's not specifically about American conditioning though... it starts w
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by macavity23 14y ago
Valve has authorized us to distribute the Steam Linux package to our users and host it in our repositories Suggests that Valve are happy to see Steam spread to other distributions (presumably with certain compatibility checks). A good sig
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by macavity23 14y ago
Actually I think the limitations on this device are a good thing, AS LONG AS there is the 'developer switch'. I don't want the normal user to have any kind of root access to their machine - and actually most users don't want it either! With
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by macavity23 14y ago
Google contributed 2620 changes to the Linux kernel in 2012 according to http://go.linuxfoundation.org/who-writes-linux-2012 (PDF) - and presumably many others to user-space projects.
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by macavity23 14y ago
A question for iOS devs out there: how tied to ARM is iOS Objective-C programming? I ask because Android already supports Atom-based devices, and presumably Win8RT apps are easy to recompile for Intel - so it seems likely that it would be s
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by macavity23 14y ago
The sound effects in the video clip attached to that article make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up! The level of coding chops in the original game is hard to comprehend by modern standards. It had a (wireframe) 3d engine, eight gal
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by macavity23 14y ago
It's interesting what Total Information Awareness does to relationships. I'm reminded of the (excellent) episode of Black Mirror, 'The Entire History of You', which is apparently available in full on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/wa
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by macavity23 14y ago
Agree 100%, but I would add a suggestion: buying google ads will often give a better return than SEO optimization for 'organic' results. It's all well and good to say 'create interesting content', but for many sites it just isn't worth it -
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by macavity23 14y ago
IV and RPX are so-called "patent aggregators" which dedicate themselves to buying and then licensing out patent rights. should be: IV and RPX are so-called "patent trolls" which dedicate themselves to buying patents and then extorting mon
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by macavity23 14y ago
PlayCanvas is an awesome collaborative 3d game creation kit: if you're an indie game dev, check it out. Disclosure: creator is a friend.
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Battle other players for souls - awesome playcanvas (webgl) 3d game demo(ludumdare.com)
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For the same reasons that many people find learning mathematics so hard: it requires abstract thinking and the ability to layer abstractions on top of one another. I think anyone can learn to code, or learn maths, but there's no doubt that
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by macavity23 14y ago
It is hard to quantify, but having done the remote working thing for a while myself, there is a lot of communication that one misses. Skype, Facetime, G+ Hangouts etc all help, but there is still a significant qualitative difference to be
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by macavity23 14y ago
Silly article. I agree that regulation of the Internet is futile, but this article gives no evidence. How about some basic discussion of: * Packet-switched network principles * Transport-layer encryption (e.g. SSL) * Onion routing * Peer-to
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by macavity23 14y ago
No, I don't think so. I use Java/Spring in my day job, Python/Django for my own projects, and I don't think the use case for each is changed significantly by faster disks. Ruby/Python aren't only best for 'prototyping', they're best for bui
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by macavity23 14y ago
Please don't be afraid to keep posting that link, it's awesome :-)
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by macavity23 14y ago
Great article, thanks for posting. I find the 'Mistakes we made with X' posts to be the most useful thing I read on HN.
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Toy gendering is neither stupid nor inane: indeed it's almost universal amongst animals who play with things identifiable as 'toys', e.g.: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18452921

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