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by nocman 9y ago
Wow, I watched the whole video and all I can say is -- huh? That looked totally painful, and not at all fun. Granted, much of this is due to the fact that it's a touch interface, but I'm not seeing it as very useful. I'm a h
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by nocman 9y ago
"So I wish people would avoid this black-and-white discussion." ^ complaint about "black-and-white" discussion "Use tabs for indentation, and spaces for multi-line alignment..." ^ totally "black-and-white&
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by nocman 9y ago
Wow, I'm not sure I'd want to eat in a restaurant that purposefully prevented me from seeing what I was eating! xD
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by nocman 9y ago
"- Show how the STL makes most things easier (arrays, maps, etc)" The problem with the STL is that you are always running into roadblocks when you try to compose things. I tried for a very long time to like the STL, and in the en
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by nocman 9y ago
Got any hard data on that (seriously, I'd like to know)? I don't know anyone who does banking on their phone -- it's all desktop. Granted, I haven't taken a formal survey or anything.
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by nocman 9y ago
Or the fact that the task is so mundane/boring/annoying/irritating (pick an applicable adjective) that it's worth it to you to spend a day automating it so you never have to do it again .
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by nocman 9y ago
In other words, please don't call your service "Serverless" if it runs on a freaking server! :-D Based on the title, I also was expecting something that was designed to run client-side.
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by nocman 9y ago
No, you did not "do it again". I almost never read anything on Reddit. So that was not the source of confusion.
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by nocman 9y ago
Nope, I know I'm not thinking of Reddit (as I said in reply to another comment, I've spent almost no time on Reddit, and would not have seen their guidelines at all).
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by nocman 9y ago
Nope. I've never spend much time on reddit, and I'm certain I've never seen that page before. Perhaps I am thinking of comments other people made on HN in the past (who thought that the policy was as I described).
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by nocman 9y ago
I'm certain that I'm not thinking of somewhere else. I'm completely open to the possibility that I just remember it wrong, but I'm sure that it was HN that I was thinking of, and not another site.
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by nocman 9y ago
Am I wrong in remembering that the HN guidelines used to say that you should not downvote someone's comment simply because you disagreed with it? I went looking, and I don't see that in the current guidelines. I could be wrong
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by nocman 9y ago
Yes people do. I know a lot of people don't, but there are still a lot of people who do.
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by nocman 9y ago
It is true that I accept more limited choices of certain things by living in a rural location. There are many benefits that I enjoy from being rural that I weigh against technological needs -- it isn't a simple "pick one or the o
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by nocman 9y ago
First off, I was neither arguing for nor against net neutrality. I was responding to "With the wide availability of cellular service that provides broadband speeds pretty much everyone in the country has multiple choices of ISP."
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by nocman 9y ago
If you live near a city this is often true (at least in the US). However, there are at least two problems with this: 1) often the broadband provided by mobile services is capped and/or much more expensive than the services provided by
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by nocman 9y ago
And even for the people who have non-Gmail accounts, Google has made deals with a ton of ISPs to host their email service for them -- so you have a Gmail account even if don't have a Gmail account (in a manner of speaking).
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by nocman 10y ago
"which you're going to get in retirement back as entitlements." I doubt it. By the time I retire I expect that SS will be bankrupt. It has been going further down that road for years, and I don't see anything stopping
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by nocman 10y ago
"The US government lends itself SS and Medicare funds" And that should have NEVER been legal. That money should have stayed in the funds. Any growth from those funds should still be in the funds. If they had not effectively s
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by nocman 10y ago
I'd be interested to see some data on what the real ratio is. I suspect that 1 in 5 might actually be high, which IMHO is sad -- not because I think less of those without any kind of Lisp experience, but because I think they are seriou
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by nocman 10y ago
From the article: "Goodenough invented the heart of the battery that is all but certainly powering the device on which you are reading this." ^ rumors of the demise of the desktop are greatly exaggerated. Yeah, I get it, a lot of
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by nocman 10y ago
"Asking about non-politicians on the face of it seems pointless" Except that the tone of your post implies: Republicans="evil rich people" Democrats="good folks looking out for the average Joe" I don't bel
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by nocman 10y ago
"They do on the FCC" Not sure what you mean by that, you mean the breakdown of Republicans vs Democrats at the FCC?
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by nocman 10y ago
That's a pretty broad brush you are painting with. Do you have some hard data that says things break down so clearly along party lines? I'd particularly like to see data about non-politicians, if it is available, since the way C
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by nocman 10y ago
Um, the first character of each key is different -- they are not the same.
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by nocman 10y ago
Ooh, I like that idea. Don't tempt me! xD
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by nocman 10y ago
I am American, and I'm sure this bothers me more than it actually bothers the queen. Between that and the incessant use of the incorrect phrase "for free" instead of the correct phrase "for nothing" it's amaz
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by nocman 10y ago
'If you are claiming that the article is a lie, written only to encourage a change in messaging rather than a change in perspective, you are violating the core principles of discussion of on HN which is "charity"' ^^ Huh
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by nocman 10y ago
P5 centric, and old P5 centric, and the videos aren't funny. He could have just said "Perl 5 sucks" and left the stage and the videos would have been of equivalent value (as in, they aren't worth anything).
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by nocman 10y ago
I painfully watched the entire first presentation a while back, and at least a small part of the second before quitting. They both came across like "look how many times I can use the F word in an hour -- aren't I super smart and

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