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by mwfunk 10y ago
To the degree that open source projects have marketing, one of the things that has historically always come up in Guile marketing is that any language can be expressed in Guile, therefore if only every application adopted Guile as their ext
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Surely cancer has always been a threat, it's just that in more recent centuries or millennia humans have achieved long enough lifespans to actually see its effects. Nowadays we live long enough to actually see the results of accumulate
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by mwfunk 10y ago
There's a similar surge over a similar time interval for 'scary', so maybe it's just correlated with other properties of the content they're sampling (not unlike https://xkcd.com/1138/ ): https
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I think if someone gets mad or ignores someone because they claim that the other person is bikeshedding based on a single comment or suggestion, that's most likely a misuse of the term bikeshedding. Bikeshedding is when an entire discu
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by mwfunk 10y ago
7.4% of the worldwide computer market is hardly rounding error. Lenovo/HP/Dell put together account for a hair over 50% of the market, although it wouldn't surprise me if the total profits from Apple's 7.4% were greater
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by mwfunk 10y ago
As crazy as it sounds, yes, it's possible to have positive interactions in professional settings without making jokes about people's race/religion/gender/appearance/etc. That's not being PC, that's li
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I think that's just the medium, nothing unique to HN. Any sort of online forum where people post comments is going to be overwhelmingly biased towards negative comments- either people going on about how much they hate whatever the subj
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Pixel art is really treble but it can't help it- the relative lack of shading and gradients means it will always have more high-frequency content than higher-resolution alternatives.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
"Surely adults were doing something wrong if they were never bored." FWIW, I know plenty of adults that complain about boredom and they are most definitely the ones that are doing something wrong. Not because they aren't fill
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Sorry, you are correct! That's exactly what I was referring to.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I'm pretty sure AWildDHHAppears was being satirical, please don't downvote him/her.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
From what you described, to an observer it would have sounded like you were arguing with them against the whole concept of protected classes, rather than pointing out that they should add ageism (etc.) to the list of things to be wary of. U
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Me saying this is downvote-worthy in itself and I'll gladly take my lumps because I'm only adding to the noise, but let's break this down: (1) You claim that because someone wrote malware that requires root access to install,
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Perhaps not, but if it didn't it would be because the rest of the org that didn't want to do Steam would have been more empowered to stand up to Gabe, whereas with Valve's flat org, Gabe is God and everyone has to do what he
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by mwfunk 10y ago
If you're just describing people who can't or won't think for themselves (or have very poor judgement when they do), your options are (a) work alone or with a small group of people you respect, (b) work for a company with hig
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by mwfunk 10y ago
This is fascinating, I guess it really did come from Eisenhower but I've heard many variants. The first time I heard it, it was attributed to Bill Gates deciding where the paths on the MS campus should be (this was during peak Microsof
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Age has little to do with it, it's more a combination of maturity, professionalism, intellect and talent. These things are correlated with age, but not as strongly as one might think. I've worked with 22-year old developers who ha
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Skinny jeans (comically, impractically skinny jeans even, IMO) are extremely common in California. Possibly even the norm, if there is a norm.
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If I were addicted to nicotine I wouldn't be quite so smug about people eating junk food.
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Unfortunately people always haul this quote out as proof that because they're being ignored and ridiculed, they must be onto something and about to "win". It's supposed to be an inspirational quote to keep you motivated
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Honestly, with all the big tech companies in SV that would be anywhere from 20-30% IME. And many of them would be among the best people at those companies. I can't imagine a better way to needlessly drive away good people than to have
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by mwfunk 10y ago
This is all anecdotal evidence of course, but my exposure to this sort of office culture has been much more negative than what you described. Every place I've ever worked, I've played video games or done other fun stuff with my co
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I would have a similarly visceral reaction to that line, but I wouldn't interpret it as a "keep out" sign for older developers. Rather, it's a gigantic red flag for wiser developers of any age. They're looking for p
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Not surprised at the system requirements- it has to emulate a 486 MHz PowerPC CPU. I have no idea why it would require a discrete GPU though. It only needs to output SD-quality video. Maybe shader performance is a limiting factor in the GPU
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by mwfunk 10y ago
AppleScript can and does use the accessibility APIs to drive UIs, it's just not very well documented (like much of AppleScript in general :( ). Pretty much anything used to drive a UI on OS X is going through the accessibility APIs to
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by mwfunk 10y ago
So, either there's a global conspiracy to silence you, or you might be immature and/or kind of a jerk. Go back and read what you literally just wrote right here on HN; one of these is far more likely than the other.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Try none of the above! There is no "large scale movement" that I can see, this literally only exists in your imagination. If you say something that pisses people off, you could blame their negative reaction on (1) some abstract &q
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Sad, isn't it? It's even sadder that there are people who use terms like "social justice" as epithets. I don't know that I've ever met one of these "SJWs" in real life (and I live in the Bay Area FFS)
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I don't think anyone is opposed to this for classist reasons like you're suggesting. You're bringing up Kickstarter as an example of a successful crowdfunding service, but in this context Kickstarter seems like more of a caut
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It looks like it's the successor to PC-BSD. It's from iXsystems, the developers of PC-BSD.

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