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by newobj 14y ago
I don't think it's much of a rhetorical device because you could replace every "you" with "they" and lose no impact. The rhetorical device is a meta one, in the sense that there was something novel about a public communication at one point,
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by newobj 14y ago
Is an open letter just a blog post you start with "Dear such-and-such"? Please stop saying open letter. Just delete the "Dear such-and-such" part and remove "An Open Letter to such-and-such" from the title. Now look, it looks just like a no
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by newobj 14y ago
Did a single woman comment anywhere within this thread?
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by newobj 14y ago
Too late to complain about lack of circle pit and wall of death. However, I will point out that it kind of seems like it assumes a uniformity of violence, whereas empirically speaking you always have at least one person who is just seriousl
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by newobj 14y ago
I love the smell of hubris in the morning.
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by newobj 14y ago
Not sure how impressive this was. My recollection of 1996 was very much a lot of talk about Java terminals, e.g. machines dedicated only to running some dumb/thin client with backend servers doing all the work/persistence. That was a "futur
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by newobj 14y ago
Glad I'm not the only one who immediately balked at the name. I just spent like the last two minutes repeating it in a trance to see if it would become any easier to say. Nope, sounds like I'm trying to say "kernel" while balancing a grape
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by newobj 14y ago
Who cares? This thing called Atari is really just Infogrames with a borrowed name. And Infogrames is really just GT Interactive. So it's more like "company currently in possession of borrowed and reborrowed name declares bankruptcy."
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by newobj 14y ago
I don't think Smykowski was a manager in Office Space.
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by newobj 14y ago
Find an example that shows using a timeout channel along with another async activity on another channel, and then switching on that. Then you will start to see some elegance versus the Java way. (Sorry, in a hurry otherwise I'd provide the
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by newobj 14y ago
Great article; concise explanation of most of the points I would have expected to be there. Especially some of the more subtle things like backpressure everywhere, measure with percentiles, and the importance of being partially available.
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by newobj 14y ago
"Designer Eats Engineer" "... I don’t think designers are going to replace most engineers" Did you the write the title or the conclusion first?
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by newobj 14y ago
I think he is saying he's a Trello developer.
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by newobj 14y ago
Some letters are best left closed. "An Open Letter To..." is just short hand for "blog entry I wrote with link bait name drop".
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by newobj 14y ago
"people taking pictures of their weed and their 18 children with their baby daddies" ...
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by newobj 14y ago
If you weren't able to get a date from any of those sites then maybe the problem is you?
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by newobj 14y ago
I would love to understand how any message queue can offer "one-time" delivery. At best it seems like a misleadingly under-qualified description, e.g. "one-time-if-the-consumer-successfully-acks-the-message". Ultimately dequeueing a message
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by newobj 14y ago
And those mechanics are exactly like dozens of BBS door games from the 80s and 90s, so...
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by newobj 14y ago
I read the copy on the front page three times and still can't figure out what it does. Maybe it's just me.
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by newobj 14y ago
huh? this is like selling a strtok web service. i must not be understanding the target audience or intended use case -- what is it?
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by newobj 14y ago
The idea of a flat charge back fee is weird[1]. If I think about a store where I sell things for $1, it means if I exceed a 7% chargeback rate, my business is no longer profitable. Is that really all there is to it? Edit: [1] Not weird as i
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by newobj 14y ago
1) I think a lot of people have had this idea. It's kind of "obvious" IMHO. 2) There's a big technical challenge, but... 3) There's an even bigger content challenge. Where is this furniture content going to come from? Are manufacturers goin
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by newobj 14y ago
How is this done atomically? e.g. a scattering of html/js/css coming down in random order is going to cause issues, for sure.
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by newobj 14y ago
Armchair Doctoring on Hacker News, my favorite kind of thread.
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by newobj 14y ago
Homeopathy killed someone once. Allopathy killed someone once. I guess we're just screwed.
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by newobj 14y ago
I suppose. I got an ad in my feed this morning from "Deals4every1" selling a set of DVDs(!!!) containing a "viral blogging system" howto. This godforsaken thing was right up there with the very worst banner ads.
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by newobj 14y ago
"Why do you use CamelCase in JavaScript but underscores_in_ruby?" Uhh, because the languages' runtime libraries use that convention? For the same reason that Windows C/C++ coders typically use a different style than Unix C/C++ coders? The p
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by newobj 14y ago
Actually, how to reverse a string in Python is just "s[::-1]" -- you omitted the printing from the C++ version. In terms of readability, they both beg the question - is the reversed string ever actually held in memory at some point or can i
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by newobj 14y ago
It's really hard on mobile safari :-P
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by newobj 14y ago
Not to judge this presentation up or down; I'm not a Rubyist... but a reflection for myself - you know you're getting old when you see ideas that have come and gone and come and gone come again.

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