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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
This comment is perfect, in that it simultaneously gets my goat and pulls the wool over my eyes.
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Because they don't start out with well-designed systems (that costs money), and they don't want to upgrade their systems to be good (that costs money). It's very simple, but it's only obvious after you've seen it ha
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Bootstrap is a very useful tool in some situations. As a developer with little to no graphic design ability (but a reasonable understanding of basic UI design), Bootstrap enables me to skip a massive chunk of work on projects that don&#x2
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
There is no such thing as an unbiased fact... This is incorrect. Facts do not have bias by definition; only the presentation of a fact can show bias. If you're showing all of the data you have objectively, you're at least limiti
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
The presumption here is palpable. There do exist factors other than the financial -- whole categories of them -- that people take into account when making value judgments like this. Maybe some people view the Oculus acquisition through th
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
This is really, really idealistic. Most people do not have the flexibility to just up and quit, and most people in this situation do not have the influence to "destroy" a salesperson without getting fired or at least censured.
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
That really depends on your definition of "good" in this context. I've worked in more than one place where a "good" salesperson is one that brings in the most revenue, damn the torpedoes, feature creep, impossible r
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Your (a) and (b) do not nearly cover the scope of possibilities here. They don't even address the (more realistic) situation suggested video: You don't have to be an idiot to have a less-than-complete understanding of the technica
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
People love to say this, but it just isn't true. Ideas can be very valuable, particularly when they come from a well-informed perspective in an untapped niche/market. Of course an idea isn't useful without execution, but with
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
It's trivially easy to say "metric x is meaningless" if you assume the person interpreting it doesn't actually understand the context of that metric. You might as well say "metrics that aren't based on a solid
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
As pointed out by slazaro, this is incorrect. A decrease in usage and/or a change in the market size potentially lowers penetration as a percentage, which could enable it to double again. As stated, it's either ambiguous or false.
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
There "cannot be two opinions?" Actually, there can be as many opinions as there are people (not just companies, but individual people) who have gone through the process. And they can reasonably vary, because not everyone and not
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Agreed, and I do believe this would be pretty realistic in many places. I don't know whether she chose San Fran to start in or whether she had no other choice, but if she did choose this, it was a mistake and cost her a great deal of s
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
I realized over that week that if getting rich means hating your neighbours/being hated by your neighbours, having no one to reach out to, maybe I don't want to be rich. At least not financially rich. Or at least not in that nei
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
This is not true. It's almost always true in most contexts, but to say that it's a fact is to encourage a false sense of security... sometimes things are that bad, and it's important to be able to realize and accept that,
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
The idea that somehow we've hit a point where clones should be rejected or purged misses the fact that this has been happening constantly almost since the inception of the app stores. They state there's only one Flappy Bird clone
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
The set of states with vetos may be a little out of date - it's basically the major powers left standing after WWII - but the principle is still useful. I'd call that a contradiction. The principle can't possibly be that us
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
What I'd like to know is whether there's the potential to have their UN security council seat revoked. I don't know if there's even a contingency in place for that (if not, that was a foolish omission), but if there is,
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
How useful Django's forms are (and which ones to use) varies widely based on your requirements. I've had projects where the combination of the UI I had to work with and the data that was being manipulated required Form classes to
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
This is an amusing suggestion... do you really think the people who are bugging just about every line of communication in existence and subverting every possible method of secure communication and storage give two shits about the terms of
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
We use the API to enter invoice payments from a Stripe-based payment site we set up for our clients... it's definitely convenient. Of course, we also use the web UI for consultancy time tracking and a couple types of invoice generation
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
So much of the rhetoric surrounding 'Agile' is, as stated in the article, 'Waterfall'-bashing. But I don't subscribe to the idea that the actual original intentions behind it are somehow infallible or even necessari
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Having just read a particular Philip K. Dick short story, that's what came to mind here. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Withered_Apples
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Thank you for posting this. Pages like that are nice for pointing out to people who don't have issues that many of us do . I think people tend to forget that most programming languages are not single-purpose and can be used in widel
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
That depends. If you intend to work on other people's code or currently-active projects (or anything likely to be active soon), starting with 2.7 and learning the differences later would be a good approach. If you're just using it
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Obligatory: No, they're not. More relevant to HN: The comments so far suggest that many of us are pretty far removed from not only the demographics that use malls, but also the people who run them and the shop owners and managers that
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Aside from the facts that not all malls are dying and that there are still new malls being built, they offer exactly the benefit you stated: "lots of stores being located closely together." I don't believe the existence of se
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Well put. I'm definitely a "never assume the government is telling the truth" person, but even if finishingmove were right in this case (I don't think the idea that wealthy governments release false data explicitly for t
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
The main techniques we have now will make the planet uninhabitable even if nothing goes "wrong." Pollution is an ongoing disaster. I think it's clear we should be spending more time, money, and effort on truly renewable a

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