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by mherkender 12y ago
Wow, his father sounds like a piece of work. He decides that culture is the only real reason he shouldn't marry someone who was "about 9 to 12" when he's 36. Then his long absences put her at risk of being brutally gang-
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by mherkender 12y ago
Says who, you? Do you think phrases that are commonly used can't be offensive? What do idioms have to do with anything anyway? You can pretend it's the PC police, or if you want to be the kind of person who isn't insensitive
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by mherkender 12y ago
> With no Net Neutrality, what's to prevent Comcast from blocking P2P traffic? Encryption. > but what about smaller shows and old movies that may only have a half-dozen people watching them at any given time? A user could distrib
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by mherkender 12y ago
I sorta disagree, actions are what really matter. I think it's good to cut people slack and avoid grudges/judgement in general, but how are we supposed to deal with society-level problems if each example of the problem can be writ
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by mherkender 13y ago
Using dates is a good alternative, but they're not a universal solution. If Microsoft open-sources Windows XP you can be sure that dozens of articles titled "Windows XP open-sourced!" will end up on HN that day, and a site th
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by mherkender 13y ago
Expecting users (or even yourself) to manually enter URLs like "/movies/terminator2" is just not going to work long-term if you can generate the URL based on the title of the page. It's also not necessarily duplicat
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by mherkender 13y ago
Maybe they wanted a patch that could be easily applied to older versions. It might have an elif later too, although I'm guessing that's not too common after debug blocks.
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Fed up, developer removes the No. 1-ranked Flappy Bird from app stores(venturebeat.com)
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by mherkender 13y ago
I wanted to know what HN consensus was on this sort of thing, because it seems to me this is not something that inexperienced programmers do (like SQL injection). Also, full disclosure: I work for Google.
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by mherkender 13y ago
Poorly designed applications like this one? https://accounts.google.com/Logout
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by mherkender 13y ago
I think it's a throwback to older tiny music players. Think Winamp.
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by mherkender 13y ago
I'm an atheist, and there are atheists I don't agree with, but there isn't one way to be an atheist and I don't really expect anything from them except to not believe in god. I see feminism to be the same way, and I thin
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by mherkender 13y ago
How can I be wrong about the dictionary definition of a word?
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by mherkender 13y ago
> There is no formal definition of feminism, and everybody that claims something stupid under it's name just hurts it. A feminist advocates or supports the rights and equality of women. Full stop.
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by mherkender 13y ago
Size is not diversity, nor does it prevent shared interests.
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by mherkender 13y ago
I see it a bit differently myself. All online communities seem to end up the same way, people group together based on shared interests, which tends to lead to a false-consensus bias. Ironically, I think much of reddit has fallen victim to t
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by mherkender 13y ago
I suspect people are using granddaddy more often for emphasis, as in "the king of a social networks--Facebook", not describing how old they are, since that comment was followed by details on how big Facebook is. Not saying I like
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by mherkender 13y ago
I am suggesting that it is either evidence of discrimination (men hitting on women) or evidence of nothing (recruiter spam). I'm not sure what you think I'm saying. And it's hard to think in terms of Bayes' Law when this
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by mherkender 13y ago
I doubt it's actual job offers. More like recruiter spam. But even if it was true, I doubt the enthusiasm towards offering a job to a woman they've never and know little to nothing about could be considered positive. Hitting on jo
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by mherkender 13y ago
This is an incredibly biased article with an attention getting title (and subtitle) that doesn't have much to do with the article.
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by mherkender 13y ago
You want OSX to keep network connections active while asleep? It seems to me that going to sleep means not actively doing anything. The most common solution to this problem is to use tmux or screen, or just disable sleep.
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by mherkender 13y ago
I disagree, it would be a disaster. People can barely agree how to store dates independently of JSON, choosing one would be add extra work for implementers, probably not be used by people who prefer other date formats, make JSON un-eval-abl
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by mherkender 13y ago
People are hostile because they're tired of Microsoft holding things back. These decisions, while reasonable, ultimately don't add up to good decisions. They're not obligated to do anything else, but I'm not obligated to
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by mherkender 13y ago
Interesting! I gotta say, I find it hard to believe it. RTS games generally have to be designed around a controller, much more so than other games. Maybe they're doing exactly that for Dota 2? I can't even imagine how a game like
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by mherkender 13y ago
It supposedly has very advanced tactile feedback. I'm hopeful this bridges the gap between touch and buttons. Time will tell, I suppose.
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by mherkender 13y ago
"The living room" isn't about meeting the needs of every PC gamer, because what meets the needs of every PC gamer is the PC. StarCraft 2 requires dozens of buttons, and isn't even on Steam. It's not going to happen
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by mherkender 13y ago
Why don't we have mipmapping on the web? I've never heard anyone suggest it before, but it seems like a good solution to this problem and all the other pixel ratio kinds of problems.
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by mherkender 13y ago
That's an interesting idea, but how does a language distinguish between memory leaks and regular non-leaks? Maybe some kind of metadata that informs the GC about how memory will be used so it can optimize memory usage and issue errors
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by mherkender 13y ago
> there are psychological differences on men's and women's willingness to spend time on different type of subjects Citation needed? I've spent time with women in science and they seem pretty dogged in the pursuit of their
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by mherkender 13y ago
Well, I don't think that's completely true. I like the majority of the changes they've made in recent years. I think Gnome Shell is the best desktop around. It's not perfect, and the GNOME people do make the occasional UI blunder, but I'm n

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