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by nollidge 14y ago
> It's not that you were wise enough to not fall for the bullshit, but that you have not yet realized that it is bullshit. Are you a mind reader, that you can see what this person does or does not know? I am disinclined to accept "wisdo
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by nollidge 14y ago
> That's the mass taste. I seriously doubt that. Just because it's what the available data show doesn't mean that that's the popular taste. If you surveyed 100 people who have seen both The Avengers and Godfather Part 2 , I highly
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by nollidge 14y ago
This really doesn't seem to solve the main problem that most current ranking systems have - it doesn't compensate for recency. Newer critically-acclaimed movies like The Dark Knight rank higher than much older but just as well-liked movie
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by nollidge 14y ago
I'm having a hard time viewing "responsibility to do something" and "owing someone something" as distinct ideas.
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by nollidge 14y ago
However, now (14 hours after you posted this) it's mostly insightful stuff at the top. Perhaps you were too quick to judge.
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by nollidge 14y ago
I'm kind of OK with that.
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by nollidge 14y ago
This one reason I don't read blog articles in an RSS feed. I aggregate them with one, but follow links to the blog owner's site so that I'm reading their content as they designed it .
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by nollidge 14y ago
I think you mean "declaring the variable name before the type ". So C is "int x" where Go is "x int". BASIC is typically more like "DIM x AS INTEGER".
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by nollidge 14y ago
My point (probably didn't make that clear) is that might be a reason it's not more popular - because it's not really obvious how it's supposed to work.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Probably because that landing page doesn't tell me much about how it works. It's "limited to 500 characters"... for the sender? What happens if it's more than 500 characters or has an attachment? Or wait, is this a walled garden thing? I ca
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by nollidge 14y ago
I would argue that there is no "underlying point" of skeuomorphism except to make shit feel nice by alluding to familiar real-life objects. There's no requirement that the source material be functionally similar.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> Purposeless high-resolution backgrounds So you're against textures full stop, not just skeumorphism? Because of course high-resolution textures are not necessarily skeumorphic. > Time/money spent adding a fake leather texture is t
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by nollidge 14y ago
> calling people "uncultured" for sticking to the conventions of their country is ridiculous It's the opposite of ridiculous, actually; it kind of exactly fits the definition of the word. I feel like you're going out of your way to take
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by nollidge 14y ago
By that criteria it could be posted on any web dev article. THIS one was specifically about internationalization and localization.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Typically not for emphasis pauses, though, just for clause or item separation pauses. I find it disruptive to visual parsing when they're used this way because I don't expect it. It's becoming common to use sentence breaks ("Every. Single.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Not everyone around here is a programmer, or has really thought about how fractions are represented in binary.
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by nollidge 14y ago
This is pretty good. Currently I use NetVibes, which is buggy and actually TOO customizable. I like the strict grid layout. If you made this a service, here's what would make me switch: - customizable feeds (kind of obvious I guess) - abili
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by nollidge 14y ago
If that's the case then "anonymous" shouldn't be used as a noun.
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by nollidge 14y ago
That seems perfectly consistent with the OP's discussion.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Flagged. This is non-authoritative blog spam.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> The effective approach was seen as deeply unkind What I'm getting at is you have an overly narrow definition of the word "kind". I would argue that Guttmann was actually MORE kind, regardless of how shortsighted people may have seen i
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by nollidge 14y ago
I don't see what your anecdote has to do with kindness. Presumably both Guttmann and his colleagues were all kind enough to want to reduce suffering; Guttmann just happened to be more correct about how to do so. Neither approach was more or
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by nollidge 14y ago
This is cool. I'm a beatboxer and think of rhythm in that "language" (the way I always see musical notes on a piano, because that was my first instrument). At this stage (at least based on the videos), it doesn't really offer any efficiency
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by nollidge 14y ago
Website appears down, I think this is the same article except on Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/ten-rules-for-shared-working-...
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by nollidge 14y ago
I was talking about the companies mentioned in the original article which have stood up to judicial scrutiny despite having ridiculous setups that exist solely to circumvent prosecution. Judges clearly don't mind that. > Congress will r
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by nollidge 14y ago
Why have meeting alerts? I could just check my calendar. Why have text message alerts? I could just check my inbox...
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by nollidge 14y ago
> "I'll just do X' instead of X and then everything is legal!" Except... this is exactly what has happened.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> MAC filtering will only deter the casual, passing wifi-borrower, not anyone actually determined to gain access. Isn't that true of WPA and WPA2 though also?
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by nollidge 14y ago
> Reductio ad absurdum That's not a logical fallacy, it's a valid form of argument.
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by nollidge 14y ago
You're totally misreading the tone here. epo is Socratically playing out the thought process of potential customers who visit your site. Obviously "middle men" aren't necessarily without value (as your examples demonstrate), but a lot of th

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