philh

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721.
by philh 12y ago
FWIW, this sounds like you agree with eunoia that there's more to life than supporting yourself and being validated in your creativity. And it sounds like you're not getting everything you want from life, and if that's the ca
722.
by philh 12y ago
On the subject of "call me lazy", I really like the % syntax for string interpolation. I'd like perl-style interpolation even more. "".format() is going in completely the wrong direction for me. (I don't think
723.
by philh 12y ago
The thing that annoys me most about this post is that > to reject a pull request that eliminates a gendered pronoun on the principle that pronouns should in fact be gendered is not what Ben was doing, and nothing Ben said on the subject
724.
by philh 12y ago
throwaway wasn't suggesting that Bryan should be fired for that.
725.
by philh 12y ago
I agree, that version is absolutely a personal attack.
726.
by philh 12y ago
> We literally have the president of ycombinator making a personal attack against someone who dares to ask why a set of anecdotes is interesting. Describing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8653669 as a personal atta
727.
by philh 12y ago
Thanks to reddit, I've had the exact opposite experience - but if it weren't for that, I suspect I would feel the same.
728.
by philh 12y ago
The other node doesn't depend on the settings, it depends on not receiving a duplicate SYN.
729.
by philh 12y ago
To be precise, it didn't prevent that crime from happening. You seem to be assuming that the law-abiding folks reacted to the non-working camera but the criminals didn't.
730.
by philh 12y ago
There are valid criticisms of lisp syntax, but I'm not sure this is one of them. This kind of mistake [writing f(g(x,y)) where you want f(g(x),y)] is easy to make and (sometimes) hard to spot in many languages.
731.
by philh 12y ago
I suspect that "worry about wasting other people's valuable time" is also part of it.
732.
by philh 12y ago
No, I think it's directed at anyone who can afford to donate, which probably includes you even though you don't own a house.
733.
by philh 12y ago
> I accidentally discovered the hourly wage that some of my newly hired female coworkers make (offer letter left in the open) When you say "some" of your female coworkers, do you mean "one"? As others have said, you c
734.
by philh 12y ago
If jealousy is a common trait amongst humans, and it doesn't interfere with their ability to do their jobs, then why would you choose not to hire jealous people?
735.
by philh 12y ago
The problem with backslash is that it's already used by the JSON parser. If you happened to have a key `\/`, that would need to be written "\\\\\\/".
736.
by philh 12y ago
"Money needs to be free from electricity and endure the elements." He's talking about the consumer side, not the merchant side.
737.
by philh 12y ago
That was incredibly underconfident of Socrates.
738.
by philh 12y ago
If SSL isn't supported by the Arduino chipset, then that sounds like more than a "little" reason not to use it. That sounds like it might be an "it would be a whole lot of work" reason not to use it. (I don't a
739.
by philh 12y ago
To be precise, what you're suggesting is that we have prompts which are allowed to be colored except for the $/# at the end , because you can't color those without following them by escape characters. And that prompts must
740.
by philh 12y ago
So is your proposed solution not to have colored prompts? (I vehemently disagree.) Or not to put them in a .bashrc? (I still disagree, but only strongly.) Or something else?
741.
by philh 12y ago
Are you suggesting that colored prompts violate the rules of consistency and least surprise? (Actually, if you are suggesting that, I'm not going to disagree. But I am going to say that if so, those rules don't apply in the case o
742.
by philh 12y ago
You can't simply say that it's meritorious to work hard at whatever it is that makes one succeed. Otherwise any non-randomised culture is meritocratic. For meritocracy to be a meaningful term, the concept of merit needs to be deta
743.
by philh 12y ago
It is in today's culture. In another country, maybe it's hugely valuable to know the correct officials to bribe. That doesn't mean it would be valuable in a meritocratic culture. The question is whether or not SV is meritocra
744.
by philh 12y ago
You probably also meant Diaspora. :) (That's where I got it from - I don't remember it being in Permutation City.)
745.
by philh 12y ago
> Expanding who you know, how much they like/admire you, and how much they want to work with you is part of meritocracy. Imagine it as a multiplier to product merit and,as a founder, you NEED to imagine it as part of your job. Why a
746.
by philh 12y ago
I lump usernames in with proper names. I guess if you don't lump them together, it's not precisely the situation. But I still feel like I can use that article as validation for not wanting to use 'they' in certain situat
747.
by philh 12y ago
So, skimming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Older_usage_by_re... and http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/austhlis.html reveals nothing that feels like a counterexample to me. Nor
748.
by philh 12y ago
Singular they is one thing, specific-person they is another. I haven't actually checked, but I suspect that most-if-not-all of those historical instances are referring to a person in abstract, rather than a known person of unknown gend
749.
by philh 12y ago
> You are equating universities with trolls. Huh? Ve said, > The article equates non-practicing entities with trolls, which isn't really fair. Most universities, for example, are non-practicing entities which pretty clearly is in
750.
by philh 12y ago
Minor correction: the person who CC'd Linus was Alan Cox, directing Linus' attention to Jukka Ollila's message.

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