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by mcantor 16y ago
I don't really have a huge problem with it. I dislike Rails in general because it's a 500-pound gorilla that people use instead of understanding what's actually going on in their app, and I'm frustrated that it's the first point of contact
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Tell HN: What is design?
1 points by mcantor 16y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 16y ago
I usually don't approve of laconic 4chan memes on Hacker News, but this one actually seems like a pretty fair summary of the article.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Sorry--I'm not trying to be condescending here, but, are you familiar with what exaggeration really means?
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by mcantor 16y ago
I believe he was intentionally using hyperbole there. For example, if he were being literal, why would he mention "firing" anyone, since he obviously can't actually do that?
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by mcantor 16y ago
Why are there THREE stories about this on the front page of HACKER NEWS?! THREE !
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by mcantor 16y ago
Ahhh, the Rails inflector. An entire library dedicated solely to making things less explicit, more magical and more confusing.
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by mcantor 16y ago
I've had an @gmail.com account for many years now. At some point, though, I realized that if Google went all Skynet on us, I would lose control of my incoming e-mail account. So, I used Google Apps to create an @maxcantor.net account, and
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by mcantor 16y ago
"First you get your Bachelor's degree, and you think you know everything." "Then, you get your Master's, and you realize you don't know anything." "Then you get your Doctorate, and you find out that nobody knows anything."
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by mcantor 16y ago
It seems to me that, in my opinion, as to all practical intents and purposes, it's arguable that what you meant to say was something along the lines of, "Your post seems to be no more than 113 words in length; I have no choice but to assign
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by mcantor 16y ago
I bet this could be a great answer to the poster in the "Shadow Scholar" thread asking how he could possibly write 10 pages per hour.
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How to Say Nothing in 500 Words(apostate.com)
69 points by mcantor 16y ago|30 comments
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by mcantor 16y ago
I think my reservation may come more from what I'm saying in this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1898053 Even if a computer could translate netspeak to "Proper English," it would still be computer-translated "Proper Englis
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by mcantor 16y ago
I agree that morality and mortal danger have no correlation. I haven't been trying to argue that, though--if there's someplace where it seems like I was, please point it out so I can clarify. In your first paragraph, are you saying that a
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by mcantor 16y ago
Ah, I see. You're saying that the shorthand exists only for brevity of input; when a tween types "lol ur rite," they first think of what they mean ("That's funny! You're right!"), and only then do they translate it into the correspond
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by mcantor 16y ago
I believe that those qualifications are important, though. And they're different for every person. You wouldn't do it if they were in a gang. What about Gandhi? ( "Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love." )
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by mcantor 16y ago
Perhaps it depends on the person? My "disgust," or worry, in my original post, came from the vision of someone internally or unconsciously deciding, "The computer will make my communication effective for me, so I needn't bother learning to
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by mcantor 16y ago
Obligatory: http://www.translationparty.com/
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by mcantor 16y ago
Honestly, the more I think about this, the more I think that we'll have an English-to-English translating algorithm as soon as we have a "classical-masterpiece"-writing algorithm or a "painting-so-beautiful-it-makes-you-cry"-creating algori
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by mcantor 16y ago
The linguist in me recoiled in disgust at this idea, instantly envisioning a nightmare universe where laconic tweens fingered anti-prose into their touch-screen phones ("lol i tnk ur rong cuz he wuz @ skool ystrday"), to be Googled into cor
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by mcantor 16y ago
I don't really understand where my point fell short. So, if a bully punches you, you will punch them back. Good. Okay. I honestly have no issue with that. But why do you feel the need to suggest that it's the only possible way that c
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by mcantor 16y ago
"I think there’s quite a bit of promise in the technique of using “real” statistical evidence to back up claims." That, or, you got punked into blasting a hundred bucks by Zed Shaw via Twitter...
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by mcantor 16y ago
The whole fiasco could have been avoided if someone had simply gotten back to you, though.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Congratulations! You've found a formula that works... FOR YOU !
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by mcantor 16y ago
Oh for fuck's sake. People, there are many reasons why bullying occurs , and there are many types of bullies , and there are many types of kids who get bullied . Does anyone out there honestly believe that there's a single solution th
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by mcantor 16y ago
This kind of makes me want to fight fire with fire and return any such question with an exhaustive (and exhausting) list of probes for edge conditions: "How big is the database? What OS are you running? Do you have shell access? How is
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by mcantor 16y ago
The only problem I have with caveats like this is that on all the hundreds of occasions when I've heard someone say, "Actually, that's not irony," the subsequent explanation of what does qualify as irony has been different every single t
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by mcantor 16y ago
internet | grep -v Calacanis
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by mcantor 16y ago
I could care less about common usage!
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by mcantor 16y ago
The home screen is where I "do stuff," like make wall posts. It is not intuitive to go someplace else to upload photos into an album.

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