mantrax5

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by mantrax5 12y ago
Valid points, but you need some strategy for pruning the archive. We can't just keep everything forever. First it was text files, then html files, then html files with images, and now videos. Without pruning, the task of archive.org wi
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by mantrax5 12y ago
If you'd re-read my post, you'd notice my focus is on the content's quality , and not its age . Age serves as a useful threshold to review if something should stay or not, but it's not the sole criteria. Important thin
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by mantrax5 12y ago
"If the destruction of all this unique user-generated content pisses you off -- and it should" I'm not sure why it should. When did we get this strange idea that when you make some piece of content, no matter if it's qua
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I don't like this spin on humans as imperfect compared to the perfect computers. Of course humans will make more mistakes, when the immense complexity of the business logic models they deal with surpasses what even the most advanced co
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by mantrax5 12y ago
What is this thing you call "newspaper"?
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I don't know where you live, but actually yes, you can just change your name.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
You don't actually believe a product marketing photo matches reality? Any piece of ice will crack as it melts, so it won't look like this. Yes, you can avoid the bubbles, but you can hardly see the bubbles behind the cracks that w
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by mantrax5 12y ago
That's kinda useless, isn't it. First, there are hundreds, maybe thousands of "M. Vanger" in any bigger city. Second, M. Vanger has the right to request that information above hidden as well, so in the end the informatio
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by mantrax5 12y ago
It seems counterproductive to ask every possible data aggregator (of which Google is just one) to allow data to be taken out and hidden from view. If John Doe has something so embarrassing in their past that would warrant this, it can be ac
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I'm highly interested in all of this, but I can't understand a damn thing from the article. How does Quasar implement fibers? How is code transformed to CSP (is it at all?) Where are the yielding points, etc?
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Apple has no dominant position in smartphones, so you may at best argue they have a dominant position specifically in their own iPhones.... But if Apple making design decisions for their iPhone product line constitutes an "abuse of dom
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by mantrax5 12y ago
You can't download executable code to an iPhone app outside the App Store, only data.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Oh yeah. Without UIPopoverController on iPhone, it's like you lease your phone, and at any moment Apple may pull the string to that UIPopoverController and take their phone back. Do you even read what you write or you just mash the key
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I like how your rant about "trying to tie people into their ecosystem" has absolutely nothing with the situation here, which is the fact Apple's apps use some harmless private APIs before they finalize them to a degree to mak
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by mantrax5 12y ago
There's this notion that because a service is free, the provider shouldn't give a fuck about the service they're providing, and the user better be thankful the service exists at all. There's also this notion that if some
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I don't advocate deleting the history of my clients, do you have problem with reading comprehension? The thing I "advocate" happens to be the best practice recommended by Google (if you'd care to dig into the docs, and n
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by mantrax5 12y ago
We've done business with pen and paper for thousands of years. I think we can handle spreadsheets. While I'm a programmer and often find it easy to whip up a program to do what many would do in a spreadsheet, I don't have the
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by mantrax5 12y ago
For as long as I remember IDEs have had said drag-and-drop interfaces, usually centered around the coding of GUIs, and no one has said that just because an IDE has a visual form editor it's not programming. You're the one making u
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Why yes, we're not stuck with 80x25 green on black terminals. Why even mention it? By the way that nested hierarchical tree is also written in text (HTML and CSS). So is the hyperlink. URLs? Text. Check any modern IDE and you'll s
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by mantrax5 12y ago
This is like arguing with a religious fanatic, to be honest. I don't think you'll ever get it.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
An account specifically created to host a site analytics group, and which clients always accidentally remain logged into. I think I'll get above your cheap outrage and say I did the right thing by going in and disabling the search hist
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by mantrax5 12y ago
If anything, it'll improve your searches. I always disable search history, on all my accounts.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
So I always tell my clients to not create new Google accounts just for their site analytics, because Google tracks all kinds of shit in there. But they don't get it. So when they inevitably give me that account, I go and delete and dis
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Yeah. Copying software is free, dude. 1. Fuck supporting your software though, your time is not free. If people keep calling and asking questions, fuck 'em. 2. Fuck dealing with the resulting fragmentation from people forking it left a
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by mantrax5 12y ago
It's been the case for decades. Literally before PARC had their Alto nailed down, there have been visual programming languages where you draw and connect boxes in order to program. And you should think really hard why (for the most par
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Let's continue with that approach. Then maybe hitting a letter should only render the letter at the same size and font as the one printed on the keyboard. And if you want to change the font, well it's just a drawing, so you can&#x
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by mantrax5 12y ago
The seeds have been "everywhere in the last couple of years" for decades now. It's the programmer version of "flying cars are coming".
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by mantrax5 12y ago
> I believe, contrary to almost all programmers, that this is in fact fundamentally a cultural problem, as the author points, out, and NOT a practical or technical problem. I think the problem is more fundamental than the author suggests
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Yes that's what it implies. There's a privileged truth and we don't get to know it. Don't feel bad, though. You can describe the laws of physics like little gremlins who follow a book of laws that happens to be the laws
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Uhmm. Ok, let's say you're Tour de France competitor, and you're told to use this: http://www.christydena.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/t... Is "fear" the correct word

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