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by madair 17y ago
If by elite people you mean talented entrepreneurs then you might have something ;-)
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by madair 17y ago
I think that the Python moratorium has a very good chance of being Python's Perl 6 moment. It's just to easy to lose mindshare. People complain about new being unstable, whether strategically or technically, but a lot of them still like n
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by madair 17y ago
References? [Edit:] Thanks!
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by madair 17y ago
The Closed By mechanism seems so obvious in retrospect. What a great improvement to stability of applications overall by embedding that simple and error retardant pattern into the language. I'm trying to understand why the collections synta
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by madair 17y ago
Ahahaha. Are you going for Sociopathic Posturetalk, or sarcastic Gametalk, also by a sociopath? In either or any case, nice! Edit: Oh, you're serious. Oops. Well I enjoyed reading it as sarcastic gametalk ;-)
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by madair 17y ago
Curated != Censored.
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by madair 17y ago
At a certain point the semantics of the content get translated into an output format. In a browser it's italic. In an iPod it's ignored. The semantic tags are the means, but output presentation is still the end, and there's certainly no rea
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by madair 17y ago
It's a twist, but if we say that an iPod cannot emphasize text, then we can instruct the system to ignore <em> tags. Because the semantics of <em> are clearly defined, a judgment call is available to us to feel confident t
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by madair 17y ago
Cool metaphor, I'll have to remember that.
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by madair 17y ago
For that the key is the privacy controls. We can argue about whether Facebook's privacy controls are good enough, whether they are selling our data, and so on. But that's got nothing to do with the Apple walled-garden comparison. I can writ
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by madair 17y ago
What is implied by a roach motel for data? I hate walled gardens. But I really don't think they are objectively the same tune different band. You're saying they will be spanking platform devs who's apps prove detrimental...well that's prett
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by madair 17y ago
An interesting response. Thanks. My wording was lame and included unnecessarily expressed social forum fears. However, it's incorrect that I'm karma baiting. Rightly or wrongly I mention that I essentially worry I'll be attacked. But my cen
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by madair 17y ago
I'm really hesitating to comment. It's way too easy for us types to miss really good ideas due to our preconceptions. But it's hard for me to look past the fact that this looks like a really bad abstraction over the top of the structure doc
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by madair 17y ago
I thought they shut down that program recently?
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by madair 17y ago
I'm not sure all of us see the quality benefits quite so obviously. Are you implying that dictionaries with censored words are better quality?
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by madair 17y ago
Ummm, Facebook's wall is quite a bit less ominous than Apple's. You may want to return that irony to the store, they cheated you and watered it down.
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by madair 17y ago
It's not reverse psychology. It's my disappointment at this public forum when it collectively decides something is too far out of the norm of opinion.
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by madair 17y ago
Corporations are so very dehumanizing. The good of the few shareholders at the expense of the human experience for the individuals who labor typically a minimum of 1/2 of their waking hours but are summarily fired if they so much as speak t
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by madair 17y ago
Perhaps you mean to say that the sad thing is SF isn't protecting the blind from being discriminated against?
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by madair 17y ago
Totally with you on this. And the herd votes you down (maybe me now too).
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Marc Fleury: Open source, a modern day Marxist Utopia? - fascinating discussion(thedelphicfuture.org)
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by madair 17y ago
Companies try to make tough products. They want to show that they tried for and tested for such things. All you're asking for is more fine print. Fine print makes America stoopid. (Don't stick your head in this bucket, you might drown.)
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by madair 17y ago
That sounds more like a shakedown than anything. Shame so many people laud it.
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by madair 17y ago
Heheh. Spoken like a person in their 20s
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by madair 17y ago
For the less likely to hire, because I desire being a part of breaking down class barriers. For my belief that it's a pseudo-class structure, it's just based on the invisible lines drawn between management and workers in the corporations th
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by madair 17y ago
BTW, I've made this decision several times before, I'm not just guessing what I'd do.
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by madair 17y ago
Less likely to hire. And the popularity of MBAs is because (a) that's where the pool of leaders tends to go for education (I said tends , people), but (b) it's also a self-reinforcing psuedo-class system. Look for correlations in the milit
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by madair 17y ago
Your comment, while interesting in other respects, easily misleads someone to think that there isn't an immigration element available, which there clearly is. Okay, so it's not Brazil: "Imma let you finish, but Brazil has the best visa prog
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by madair 17y ago
You should have read further...there are also easy to get visas for tech workers.
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by madair 17y ago
That's really horrible. It's not hyperbole to compare this to the Stasi, and what we're doing is adding more and more power to corporate management structures, precisely the last place that should be receiving more power to make judgment

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