peterevans

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by peterevans 13y ago
"I'm Bobbin Threadbare. Are you my mother?"
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by peterevans 13y ago
They'd need more than to open source it, I think. For .NET to make it, they would need some kind of killer app -- something that makes people use .NET despite whatever natural inclinations they may have. I don't see that happening. I mean,
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by peterevans 13y ago
The first picture I clicked into ( http://www.sunhelp.org/unixworld/coherent.jpg ) is an ad for Coherent Unix, which was a commercial Unix clone sold in the '80s and '90s, by Mark Williams Company in Northbrook, IL. I look them up to see wh
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by peterevans 14y ago
The person you've responded to never said we should live forever, nor did they say they hate the fact that people die; rather, they said they hated cancer. That's an important nuance you left out from assertion, isn't it? Sure, you may not
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by peterevans 14y ago
I did miss it, thanks. It would be nice if the instructions were linked on the site itself, of course, but I didn't see them there.
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by peterevans 14y ago
I think the problem I have with your comments is that you haven't put yourself in her shoes. You've simply related how you see things and drawn your conclusion from that alone. Her point was that women engineers seem to have a hard time a
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by peterevans 14y ago
I think this is probably the best point to be made over Yahoo's change in policy -- there just aren't that many remote workers at Yahoo. With the emphasis they'd put on this particular change in policy, it's natural for people to conclude
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by peterevans 14y ago
Would Yahoo be willing to give other employees the opportunity to build a nursery inside their office space? Likely not. The article is contrasting the resources that Mayer has and that her employees do not in light of their ban on teleco
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by peterevans 14y ago
It varies. Baseball fans I think would look at advertising on uniforms as distasteful if not disrespectful, but soccer fans don't seem to mind. Context matters, and that goes for stadium naming rights. In Newcastle, efforts to rename a s
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by peterevans 14y ago
> OS X is degrading into a base for an entertainment platform. As it stands, the trend is entirely downhill for serious work (albeit a mild grade so far, but steadily downhill nonetheless). When was OS X not an entertainment platform?
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by peterevans 14y ago
You have absolutely no way of knowing that this post would not make the front page if the 'H' was for Henry. That sentiment is a huge pet peeve of mine. Forget the gender of harthur, and look at what's left: someone writes a tool that's us
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by peterevans 14y ago
Yes, I did read the section. And I'm not blind to the fact that languages will age, and there are certainly many, many languages more advanced and higher-level than C is now. I think that's good. It's a bit weird to me to see people who
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by peterevans 14y ago
Here's the thing: "high-level", when applied to a programming language, has a historical context. It means something specific (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_programming_language ), and what it means and has always meant is
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by peterevans 14y ago
You really think that the OEM-installed apps on a Windows machine make it terrible, and the OS contributes nothing? It's hard to control the user experience when you don't control the hardware. Apple's been saying that for years, in deeds
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by peterevans 14y ago
I think he mentioned 50-80 as the ideal measure. Here's one source that's pretty close in agreement (45-75, with 66 as an ideal): http://www.webtypography.net/Rhythm_and_Proportion/Horizonta...
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by peterevans 14y ago
So what, in his grasp, was wrong? I'm curious. He says "Instagram is now going to use photos taken by its users in advertising, and they may or may not disclose to viewers when the advertising is happening" -- is that incorrect? That's p