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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Yep; GMail adopting mystery meat navigation was a real step back, and it's still mildly irritating to use quite a while later. Hopefully this trend, if that's what it is, runs its course before it spreads much farther.
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
I guess that's a matter of opinion... they're changing things , and whether that qualifies as improvement is, in most cases, likely to end up being pretty subjective (unless the change is exactly limited to something like "o
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Are you drawing the conclusion that all of his points are mistaken based on this statement? If not, if you can point out the weaknesses in (the rest of) what he's saying, I'm sure a lot of us (myself included) would be interested
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Not trying to be disparaging, but how much experience do you have working with Python and the libraries that are built with it? I routinely hit the source to see where things are going while working through stack traces or extending built-i
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
I'd say the admin app already looks a bit like Bootstrap, and it's hard to claim either in its default form is more or less "homely" than the other. Granted, I like both. Also, the admin app isn't supposed to be cli
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Python here. I really enjoy working with it and recommend it often... I'd love to start using Clojure, which I keep false-starting on learning, but it's hard to find the time (which is a good indication it's just not as impor
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
That's one of the major (real) differences between the iOS and Android camps... while so much of the divide is just silly, I think it's reasonable to say that Android users more often expect and utilize options regarding how the
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Devil's advocate: This is a feature, not a bug, and it's working as intended. If the NSA wants to be able to track and review evidence of or relating to the most potentially-harmful events that could affect the US, the most influe
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Isn't it possible and actually likely that he gives a shit AND wants to score political points? Possible? Absolutely. Likely? That's impossible to know without knowing him and his motivations, and I would not call it a reasonabl
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
While I'm not disagreeing on the quality of Flask, "x uses y, so y must be stable" is the same kind of argument as "Facebook runs on PHP, so PHP must be blazing fast." Yeah, there are large web companies using all s
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Check out any other Python framework and they may have a decent api, but on the inside it is messy and confusing. This is a really disingenuous generalization. If it's not Flask, it's messy and confusing? Telling every framework
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Again? We should never have trusted them in the first place. You should never trust anyone until they've proven themselves trustworthy, and trusting a company is just over the top. The amount of trust we grant these people and comp
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
OK, not only is medium.com now monopolizing HN for no good reason, it's monopolizing HN with absolute crap . Would you people please stop upvoting this? This is the sort of painfully anti-male rhetoric that makes actual feminists crin
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
It's a ridiculous machination of a bitter person's imagination. To be sure, there are likely people who think this way. But after reading this article it's pretty clear that even if this were a prevalent stereotype (I haven&#
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
This just isn't a useful question. I can understand where it comes from, but "this could be used for bad things" puts it in exactly the same camp as cash, cars, anything heavy enough to throw at someone, and pretty much... we
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
I think considering the question of "is it a choice?" relevant is almost as bad as believing homosexuality is somehow wrong either way. Why should it matter? Was I born a programmer or did I choose to become one? I was born phys
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
I had to try very hard not to (very uncharitably and hopefully incorrectly) assume that this guy could not possibly have the slightest clue what's going on. Shame on me for both ageism and for just dismissing government workers out of hand.
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Really? Because you perceive "our" culture and society to be "riddled with pervasive sexism," it follows that we all "exhibit sexist behavior at baseline?" And if the GP believes contrary to your claim , it'll "require extraordinary evid
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Sometimes opinions are just opinions, sometimes anecdotes are enlightening, and sometimes generalizations, metaphors, analogies and other abstractions come into play. Opinions are opinions. They should be stated and treated as such. If yo
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
It's understandable that the simple axiom "life isn't fair" is so hard to internalize until you've actually seen it in action. It is nice that this article gives at least a little depth to that, but the title is a bit of a no-brainer. For p
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Aside from presupposing the fact that life could not possibly have existed in the form it currently does on earth before stars started dying... it kind of misses the direct connection the author is going for (correct or not, and other comme
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
I appreciate the information, but my comment was entirely an off-topic jab at Scientology. Where applicable, I apologize for the lack of sarcasm indicators. :)
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
I'm simultaneously disappointed and relieved that this is not a web framework powered by Operating Thetans. However, I will have to inform Mr. Cruise that his e-meter will not, in the near future, be able to predict his website's uptime. Ah
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
While I love the snark... is Zynga "failing?" My initial reaction is that this is the same kind of knee-jerk reaction that says Facebook is somehow doomed and irrelevant. I think this is good and worth reading, but the title is hyperbole,
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
"Assuming there's no fraud" makes two very nasty assumptions: That there is no fraud, and that fraud is the only way this can go sour for the donor. If both of these were the case, I imagine there would be no reason at all for articles
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Actually, it means exactly that in the "real world." All you're stating is that he could spend time in order to make someone else's perceived value of it closer to his own. It doesn't matter what you paid or what the blue book value is. You
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Perhaps I'm reading this wrong, but if I'm not, it seems to be making a great point but missing a far greater one. This is the more important lesson. Replace clever code with unremarkable code. Go has nothing to do with it. PERL has nothi
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Bootstrap is an answer to a 10 year old question posited by CSS Zen Garden: Can we make the web beautiful? If this is the question, then the emphasis needs to be on who "we" is. If it's developers, then yes. If it's an ephemeral "the worl
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
The medium.com proliferation on HN has disappointed me as well. Like at least some other recent articles, I have to assume that most of us already know (or at least have our own opinions, which are only half likely to match up and unlikely
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Considering the address is on the domain for the original post and the poster says it's his third language... perhaps, just this once, it's safe not to assume malice.

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