nollidge

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   by nollidge 14y ago

   Please don't do this. A) it is futile: people upvote what they upvote. No amount of whining will affect that. B) If something gets upvotes and comments, then obviously it's of interest to enough people. If you have genuine confusion as to
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   by nollidge 14y ago

   Chrome on Windows 7, clicking play button does absolutely nothing. EDIT: started working after like a minute of sitting. Maybe it had to wait to download the audio file?
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   by nollidge 14y ago

   But knowing color theory doesn't make you a bad programmer. Why in hell would knowing basic programming inhibit your emotions?
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   by nollidge 14y ago

   I want to live in a world where I can find and talk to somebody who has not learned to write, who does not have any idea how the alphabet works, but is exceptional in some other completely unrelated field.
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   by nollidge 14y ago

   It's more than that, though, it's when a program won't DWYM despite an error message indicating that the programmer knew exactly what was meant, but decided not to do it anyway.
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   by nollidge 14y ago

   Put it in your toolbox. You can apply functional concepts in basically any high-level language.
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   by nollidge 14y ago

   Low-contrast typography is not powerful enough.
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   by nollidge 14y ago

   The Wisconsin Humane Society actually assesses their animals and assigns them a color based on personality and temperament so you can find what you're looking for in a pet. I have to imagine lots of other shelters do this also.
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   by nollidge 14y ago

   > and that they have a good idea whether they want a website to use that space or not. "What's a website? I just double-clicked on my e-mail google and now Foxfire wants to fill up my disks. Is this going to put a virus on my Microsoft?
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    Thank you.
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    This is a show on a premium cable channel, so advertising is not at all part of the equation.
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    Benioff and also D.B. Weiss.
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    David Petrarca is not "the show's director", he's a director of two episodes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_of_Thrones_episode...
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    The point is that, in tptacek's estimation, she provides no evidence for her assertions, relying on us, the audience, to trust in her purported experience and authority. Another way to look at it is that she's committing an appeal to (her
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    I should think discriminating based on a proxy for a protected class is still a no-no.
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    I'm not talking about loop syntax or stdlib argument order. I'll google around for algorithms or concepts or data structures too. I'll bring up the docs and study them to figure out what data structures I've got so as to do the least amount
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    This is something that bugs me about whiteboard-style interviews - they test almost none of the typical day-to-day aspects of programming. Without Google, without docs, without a REPL, without the code-run-debug cycle, how is it that you
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    I think it's about more than willpower and means, though. It's about education, having an example set for you, having healthy behaviors psychologically reinforced, food availability (cf. "food deserts"), awareness of marketing (most people
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    I believe I detect a tacit assumption that there's a correlation between quality and message length. Long-form encourages repetitive rumination, digression, and purple prose at least as much as it does detail & ornate linguistic aesthet
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    Totally weird observation, but this is the first time I'm seeing an aesthetic quite like the background [0] on that fat gray header area - sort of gritty like a blackboard, but yet nice and gridlike? [0] Link: http://jquery.com/jquery-wp-c
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    Ack, no, you're good. I usually think of myself as adept at identifying sarcasm but that totally went over my head. Sorry!
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    That's a good point, actually. I should have read closer.
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    That's true, but I'm not sure I want to model my language usage after overzealous RIAA lawyers :-)
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    What does any of that have to do with whether or not "pirated" is the best word choice for this?
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    In the context of software, "piracy" has come to mean downloading and distributing copyrighted material. And I think it's fine to use it for that, even though it doesn't happen on the high seas (usually?). But this is more like plagiarism
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    OP is mad that Popova is claiming to be ad-free when they believe affiliate links constitute ads. I think it's reasonable to disagree on that point, but that's not what you spent your rant doing.
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    Source?
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    They keep saying "explosion" but was there actually one? There was a sonic boom, and the rock disintegrated in the atmosphere, but I've not seen any evidence that it exploded all at once. EDIT: well, lots of news agencies are using the word
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    It's not going to change. The only changes I have seen in ~4 years are A) hiding the up/down vote counts on comments, and B) adding the search bar at the bottom. I'm not complaining, by the way. There's plenty of extensions out there if you
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    by nollidge 14y ago

    This was written in 2004.