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by mapgrep 15y ago
Good men had to die to give us due process; yet our government can now officially assassinate citizens without trial. Good men had to die to firmly establish habeas corpus; yet today our government detains people indefinitely without trial.
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by mapgrep 15y ago
If you want to communicate your meaning to people who do not have time to read your entire text, the solution is to put a clear, short summary first within said text, in proper English. A cryptically brief, ungrammatical special section i
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by mapgrep 15y ago
If you find yourself writing a "tl;dr", consider just writing a clean, full English sentence instead. For example, INSTEAD OF.... "tl;dr Trying to draw attention to the importance of lifecycle marketing. I build up the case, talk about wher
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by mapgrep 15y ago
There's actually not a lot to cover here? The question is why you're so scared of git and in six paragraphs you managed NOT to answer that question. This is really sad. One might hope an open source fondation would be forthright and fairly
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by mapgrep 15y ago
The discussion was on the pitfalls of the user not knowing something was sent, and one of them is data loss. The fact that a web app /can/ ameliorate a lost connection is orthogonal. If the user was told the email was "sent" he's going to f
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by mapgrep 15y ago
This. In the case of Gmail specifically, there can actually be data loss, if you're disconnected from the network and the app optimistically closes out the message screen. So not only was it not sent, it's not even in your Drafts folder, be
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by mapgrep 15y ago
The person you are replying to was suggesting that since the book "is anything but fawning," as you say, the "fanboy" critics are upset. The OP, in other words, already knows what you are telling him; in fact it was the basis of his comment
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by mapgrep 15y ago
A "TLDR" is written by someone who HAS read something for the benefit of those who haven't. Thus, TLDL, when followed by an explanation (as in this case) is implied to be written by someone who HAS listened. (Note that there is a difference
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Fair enough, I enjoyed your comment overall, a lot of good points. Maybe I read too much into it. Apologies if I did!
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by mapgrep 15y ago
You make Java's decline sound almost inevitable. Perhaps it is. But Java retains significant performance advantages thanks to the (by now) well optimized JVM, and SaaS has actually helped it replace more elegant languages like Ruby in conte
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Compared to Ruby, one liners are more efficient in Perl because the normally infuriating cryptic variables and defaults save space. For example in Perl you can run a foreach without naming the current iteration value and it defaults to $_.
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by mapgrep 15y ago
^^^This is an accurate and very important rebuttal. Groupon has taken flack precisely because its cash flow depends on delayed payments to vendors. The vendors emphatically do not get paid up front. If they did, Groupon would actually not
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by mapgrep 15y ago
I didn't see anything about a signed contract. A bonus is simply an incentive until it is paid and that incentive can be taken away at any time. Of course, these generally low wage employees are free to try and retain lawyers to argue other
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by mapgrep 15y ago
"SIB is Schneider's third company. Now 30 years old, he started his first business, a retail mobile phone company, when he was 18... [In] November of 2008... SIB was born." The average period of ownership for his prior two companies was und
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Using a POST seems like a solid workaround. It might even be possible to include a POST form from your default email notification.
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by mapgrep 15y ago
User receives password URL on an iPad, opens it, loads the destination login page, switches back to password tab, but it's gone forever because the iPad closed it to harvest memory. User gets URL via webmail on Chrome, Chrome pre-fetches th
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by mapgrep 15y ago
This is correct. In fact, the book said this was what finally got Woz to quit HP and go full time at Apple: One of his friends told him he could start a company without going into management, which he hadn't realized. Jobs had convinced all
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Using PostgreSQL for full text search is a bad idea. There is no native support for exact phrase searching "like this;" there are some hacky workarounds but you lose stemming and have to do a scan ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/148961
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by mapgrep 15y ago
>Every computer comes with a browser. There was a time when this was not true. No computers came with browser. Then the web got really, really popular. Browsers were added after the fact. Even today, the share of non bundled web browser
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by mapgrep 15y ago
What you said is is way more reasonable than what the original posting said. The original posting referred to "platforms without a default client," whereas you refer to, roughly, "a commonplace convention for some higher level platform to s
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by mapgrep 15y ago
The web has no default client. Email has no default client. TV has no default client. The telephone network, after a lengthy battle involving AT&T, has no default client. SMS has no default client. Somehow, people find a way to use thes
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by mapgrep 15y ago
"Why would I want my social network profile attached to and controlled by my school or work?" The better question is why would you want your email address controlled by one company? Those of who decided we want something portable that does
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Come now, Paul. Yes, Yuri is smart. But he also has huge sacks of money to throw around, most of which comes from oligarch Alisher Usmanov. Wolff confirms here for the first time (I believe) that "Milner has created a separate fund to inve
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by mapgrep 15y ago
No need to hypothesize, Google has spoken on this. Chairman Eric Schmidt: "If we knew that it was a real person, then we could sort of hold them accountable, we could check them, we could give them things, we could you know bill them, you k
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by mapgrep 15y ago
It is roughly as unstructured as a typical 5by5 podcast. There are often topics and/or guests selected in advance, with some or a lot of rambling. (Personally, I like some rambling. A good podcast is like a good essay in that it will go off
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by mapgrep 15y ago
This essay sets up a straw man. The "creative class" was originally defined, in the book "Rise of the Creative Class," as people working in industries "from technology to entertainment, journalism to finance, high-end manufacturing to the a
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Of course it should. But a rule that says you're banned because you're too open with search engines is insane. robots.txt should have nothing to do with it.
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by mapgrep 15y ago
No one should be banned from Google for failing to fill out robots.txt in the manner Google prefers. This is a horrible abuse of power -- and a competitor -- by Google. "Quite simple really."
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by mapgrep 15y ago
This is moronic. The pages are "autogenerated" because it's a web app. They have affiliate links because that MAKES TOTAL SENSE given the nature of the app ("show me as many products as possible that cost $X"). You know who else generates i
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by mapgrep 15y ago
This app is pulling data from Craigslist. But how? There is no API and the company is ruthless about going after scrapers. Search for 'Atwood' here http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/17-09/ff_... This is a fantastic idea,

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