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by marrs 13y ago
You make a post like that and then accuse foobarbazqux of being a troll. Nice.
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by marrs 13y ago
But it's the same as the problem with ASI. By making the parens optional you are inviting ambiguity and mistakes.
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by marrs 13y ago
My interpretation of "hipster" is being different because you think it's cool to be different. Being different because you think it's a better approach is called "making progress", either because you'll be
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by marrs 13y ago
Why does it seem hipster to use a language feature? Is it hipster to use null coalesce as well? The article linked above explains the reasons to omit semi-colons very well. I would personally prefer if JS forced you to terminate all stateme
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by marrs 13y ago
So what part of this is censorship? The iPhone's not preventing you from spelling those words correctly, is it?
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by marrs 13y ago
Would it also be a problem if they listed qualities like happy and frivolous? Or is that a legitimate definition of gay in your eyes?
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by marrs 13y ago
And farmers still plough up mines in the Somme, because they still have to plant next years crops.
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by marrs 14y ago
Tough shit. If they didn't want to take responsibility for these people then they shouldn't have interned them in the first place. Also, this definitely isn't hacker news but I'm glad it was brought to my attention anyway.
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by marrs 14y ago
because they're funny
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by marrs 14y ago
> No, you're paying Elsevier to digitize, index, catalogue, and host publicly funded research. None of that is free. The Web/Google?
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by marrs 14y ago
>> Perl never had a monopoly on a runtime environment with an install base of pretty much everyone who owns a computer, tablet, or smartphone. Sometimes it's not about engineering principles. This.
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by marrs 14y ago
C++ is notoriously bad at scaling. I'm told that Ada is both very safe and painfully slow to code. JS certainly has its problems. I don't think its type system features all that high. Newcomers trying to make it behave like their favourite
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by marrs 15y ago
That sounds to me like an application oriented switcher. The application is focused, not the document. This has really annoying consequences in OS X where it trips me up all the time. For example, I open a pdf from within Safari. I finis
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by marrs 15y ago
Debian Testing is stable enough for the desktop. It should be fine, plus you don't get the inconvenience caused by upgrading every 6 months.