markburns

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by markburns 7y ago
The issue with this is that if you’re doing cookie cutter websites. At some point it’s going to be more efficient to abstract out the shared functionality and build a framework of some sort. You’ll become more efficient but you’ll either lo
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by markburns 9y ago
This reminds me of 設定 (settei) setting, which can be used in terms of configuration, or in terms of setting the scene. And also sounds a bit like setting.
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by markburns 9y ago
I'd have to disagree. Black mirror is gradually being shown to be fact.
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by markburns 9y ago
It's not being used twice though on any individual fork. Plus the value would have to split for any fork.
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by markburns 9y ago
Yes you can - bitcoin held prior to the fork is valid on both chains. And yes it is still going up. An alternative scaling solution (to the big blocks proposed by the 'new' fork) Segwit will be going ahead - aiding the scalability
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by markburns 9y ago
:) The Black Mirror of HN comments
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by markburns 9y ago
Someone else mentioned it: Invites still work. I still regularly use it. If you need an invite for some reason let me know.
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by markburns 9y ago
Ah, sorry, I didn't notice. That makes sense then.
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by markburns 9y ago
I am not doubting you. I was saying something simpler: One Chinese-only character is enough to show it is not Japanese.
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by markburns 9y ago
FYI I think the 绝 is only Simplified Chinese, 絕 in Traditional. I think 絶 is the Japanese equivalent.
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by markburns 9y ago
I'm not asserting people should stop this communication anti-pattern for the sake of others or that it's an insult. I'm saying that framing things in this way can be bad for the mental health of the person who says it.
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by markburns 9y ago
I'm with you on national, racial and cultural identity being fluid imprecise concepts. It's tangential to the point I was making in this post. But there's only so much appending of extra information/editing I can do and
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by markburns 9y ago
I have been an immigrant in three countries
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by markburns 9y ago
My point is that the context there being 'in Japan' and so the adjective is redundant (and exhibits the problems I've mentioned earlier). And in that context he could say "The British police are awful" vs "The
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by markburns 9y ago
It's a difficult nuance in the point I'm trying to make, so I apologise. It's probably not a great analogy but, I think that if you were in e.g. the USA and there was use of White American Judicial System, or White American P
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by markburns 9y ago
It's kind of ironic how much he generalises Japanese people. See bad thing - link to Japanese people as a whole or in general, rather than the individual. It's an easy mistake to make. Especially if you do ever hear it in the inve
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by markburns 9y ago
Does anyone know why the mosquitoes wouldn't evolve to be repulsed by others infected in this way? Or is this a similar class of problem to antibiotics becoming useless over time? I.e. it's useful to do now so let's cross tha
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by markburns 10y ago
Plus the food - volcanic fertile soil literally goes into making you what you are. In Japan in winter (and summer) I wish that buildings had thicker walls and insulation. Damn earthquakes.
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by markburns 11y ago
What would that look/behave like? I ask because I'm starting out on making some tooling for gaining insights into coupling and coherence in ruby, and I'm at a brainstorming phase. E.g. automatic domain concept detection and s
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by markburns 11y ago
This approach works well for apps of a certain size and lifespan. Too many full-stack tests can easily lead to non-parallelized build times of an hour or so magnitude. Apps that end up in this state are much harder to change even with paral
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by markburns 11y ago
I completely agree and an interesting way of putting it. Just to think of the counterpoint to this: I think my biggest takeaway from the USA was that it's stuck between two worlds -- one 20 years ahead, and one 20 years behind. They ha
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by markburns 11y ago
My point is more that if it costs more to fix it now, than it does to fix it later (including the opportunity cost), then there is little point in fixing an extreme edge case now. Especially if it means having to understand every intricacy
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by markburns 11y ago
Another possible conclusion: fix this several years from now, the first time it causes a test failure and still probably before it causes any production problems.
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by markburns 11y ago
> intended more for journalists, academics and students than web developers Have you asked somewhere else? Seems like you'd get a bias of things developers want here
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by markburns 11y ago
Neither do I, but I don't expect their prominent politicians to deny the facts, or average German people to discuss the 'controversy' about the concentration camps. Or for people to state that a lot of bad stuff happens in wa
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by markburns 11y ago
I'm talking more about the average response of individuals, a government apologizing doesn't mean as much if many citizens and some prominent politicians still deny or downplay it all. I'm talking about the average individual
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by markburns 11y ago
> And worst of all, we aren't taught anything about these Japanese atrocities at school. This bit is probably the hardest part. I have spoken to many people here in Japan who downplay, or justify, or say it is so long ago, or say th
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by markburns 11y ago
Terrible latency but still possible to conceive communicating. Also 60 years would be the upper bound for those stars, unless you are suggesting crafting a reply takes a significant amount of time. Which it may. No need to rush a reply wit
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by markburns 11y ago
I read Japanese (I think this is Japanese in this case - it just happens to use a subset that is also Chinese - maybe). This code is definitely easier to parse visually for me. It's really satisfying. As a character set, it is much mor
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by markburns 11y ago
Perhaps our descendants will.

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