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by mcantor 16y ago
StackOverflow: * Posting a question: I go to the site, click on "Ask," and post my question. * Searching for answers: I go to the site, type in my search, and search. Facebook: * Posting a photo: I go to the site and look for a camera icon.
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by mcantor 16y ago
What are the detractors saying? This looks totally awesome.
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John Wiswell on [Programmer] Burnout(johnwiswell.blogspot.com)
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by mcantor 16y ago
Forming isolated cliques is definitely a risk. However, not all sub-communities are isolated. When you're "Doing It Right," sub-communities exist to support their members in joining the parent community. If you're a Ruby programmer, you'
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by mcantor 16y ago
You are correct; it does not reflect equality. But, unfortunately, it does reflect reality. In addition to being outraged at our distance from equality, I believe it is constructive to celebrate each step we take towards that goal.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Why not both?
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by mcantor 16y ago
Yes, it does make a difference. Finding a community of "People Like You" can make or break someone's journey into a new field. That means the hacker community at large needs to be equally supportive of queer hackers, or a queer hacker sub-
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by mcantor 16y ago
Yeah... and Google has their own implementation called "African or European".
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by mcantor 16y ago
You weren't being trolled; I am simply a moron.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Very interested to see what the experts have to say about this. I gave it a shot a few weeks ago, but I could barely get to hello world. As a Ruby/Python programmer, I seem to be spoiled by having de facto interpreters (MRI and CPython,
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by mcantor 16y ago
I can't put a finger on why, but it bothers me how many businesses, websites and services are built to address a very specific deficiency in a single product. It's like the company whose product specifically exists to output Balsamiq m
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by mcantor 16y ago
This reminds me of the anecdote about the math student who showed up late to a lecture and saw three equations on the board; he assumed they were homework, so he copied them down and worked on them. When he came to the next class, he said,
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by mcantor 16y ago
Exactly. Since when is space less awesome than we think it is?
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by mcantor 16y ago
That's a good point. Maybe in another million years or so, my descendants will be space-faring badasses who have evolved hydrogen-sulphur-oxygen-vision because you don't want to run into a nascent galaxy while you're making an interstellar
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by mcantor 16y ago
Re: the "what if" Facebook scenario: And so a thousand jilted exes had their egos soothed. (" OMG , he forgot to opt out, and he's been stalking me every day for two months even though I unfriended him. He's like, totally still into me
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by mcantor 16y ago
You're right. It's a fucking tragedy, is what it is.
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by mcantor 16y ago
That link may be exactly what I need. Thank you!
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by mcantor 16y ago
This is basically irrelevant to the linked post, but I have to ask: Was I the only one who felt crushed, betrayed and crestfallen upon making the terrible realization that space doesn't actually look like all of the awesome "photos" floatin
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by mcantor 16y ago
You're right bro! I need to put down the NEWSPAPER (which is read by DINOSAURS) and get AMPED about some SWEET SHIT. If I can't chill out like a COOL DUDE, then I should just go narc out. With the narcs. In narctown! Thanks, guy! Dude
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by mcantor 16y ago
Thanks! It sounds like you definitely blazed a couple of trails. Nicely done! I shall certainly peruse all of this; I appreciate the thorough response.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Use asterisks to surround whatever you want italicized. Sometimes, but not always, you can click the little gray "help" next to the input textbox to get such hints.
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by mcantor 16y ago
It's not that it would be counterproductive; it's simply impenetrable. I read libev's awful homepage and perused the epoll manpage, but they don't mean anything to me--I don't have enough context for them to sink in. (Also... and I say th
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by mcantor 16y ago
Just FYI, http://ajaxgist.com results in a 404. What library/technique did you end up using to make your app asynchronous?
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by mcantor 16y ago
Please, don't apologize--if you hadn't reposted it, I wouldn't have seen it just now, and my mind would not currently be blown!
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by mcantor 16y ago
Yeah... it's kind of like putting two dozen pictures of human faces next to each other and saying, "Look! They're different, but they're all clearly human faces!" I mean--that is kind of amazing, but I think it has more to do with faces-
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by mcantor 16y ago
Yeah, I hadn't made it to that part yet, when I wrote my comment. It confused the bejeezus out of me, actually; every time I made it to one of the interstitial images with the juvenile captions, I kept thinking I had accidentally alt-tabbe
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by mcantor 16y ago
Is it possible to gain a thorough appreciation for the benefits and technical implementation of a project like Node.js without being knee-deep in the scalable web app universe? Nothing I have written has needed to handle more than, oh, six
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by mcantor 16y ago
Why can't you run the same code...? Can't you at least use the same domain objects?
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by mcantor 16y ago
I can't believe I'm turning into "that guy who bellyaches about profanity," but... did the "beep beep, motherfucker " really add anything to the post?
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by mcantor 16y ago
> The things you list are not "this is why automatic driving is impossible". They are just "here's special cases we have to make sure to catch". You are exactly correct; this is actually all I meant to express in my post. I suppose I

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