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by phillmv 13y ago
>It also means that having tools where you can quickly apply different techniques, ahem, composable functions The key word there is composable, and not functions.
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The Swiss suggestion aside, it's not really meant to be a free middle-class experience. In the minds of most people it's more of a "you will not go hungry or get cold in the winter" level of support, and I would make the
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The part that bothers me is that it's not self -censoring. It's being actively censored, and sometimes the motives being the penalization are obnoxious; everything that doesn't directly promote california imperialism gets
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That's easy. We don't really know what it means to write good code. We can't measure it. We can barely talk about it meaningfully. It's rarely taught except via osmosis: you pair with someone more experienced and you rea
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My theory goes, it's part and parcel of phase 3 in the language adoption cycle: it's now what a lot of people learn straight out of college. It's really popular and quickly maturing - so lots of cool stuff that pays money is
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They also primarily target female women consumers, which I can only imagine is a major reason it doesn't get much press.
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Whelp, diminishing marginal utility of the dollar, I suppose. With a billion dollar valuation, the founders will have found ways to make themselves rich - http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57591017-93/snapchat-founde...
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by phillmv 13y ago
Y'alls be talking about different things. You're talking about "feature minimalism is a good design philosophy". The other dudes are talking about "bridging the gap between a sweet demo and a final product is a trem
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I knew I was no longer at the forefront of youth culture when I only joined snapchat a week before they were valued at 4 billion - and that I was one of the first amongst my friends.
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One of the articles listed below quotes the notion that without a pop the stock "looks bad", which sounds insane to me. It sounds like an a posteriori justification of the status quo for playing on Wall St, to me. I recall a lot o
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He is 87 though. And your great grandmother is still alive. You're gonna do just fine.
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Do they list the ruby versions they use? Also, what's up with the "errors" column?
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>even if you were a white male, you were statistically speaking poor and fairly unimportant, and also shut out of 'the conversation'. Well, it's not about your individual, direct contribution but your place in that system
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Well, if you're going to compare two scenarios using a numerical example, I think the assumption that the total pool of opportunity would decrease is a rather strong one! >In the argument from justice, you think it's a moral ma
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>But at the end of the day, it's this culture that is often hostile to white dudes on principal, and just... okay? So, the premise that this begins with starts not with the notion that you're a bad person who doesn't dese
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Why is the total going down in the after picture? Because our points only belong to the set of natural numbers ;)? We're assuming in this totally contrived example that points are a measure of total resources + opportunity in our close
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by phillmv 13y ago
Well, by your own metaphor on _average_ society would come out the same, by definition. (I suspect you meant median). As a result, it sounds like you're saying "screw you, I got mine". We can flip the question around: why doe
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It's not that it doesn't apply, it's just not as straightforward. As a white, cis, straight male (with a good job, I might add) there are few venues you aren't automatically welcome at and compatible with. Flip any of th
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Not coincidentally, that's also why so few .io domains are parked. Overall, I'm OK with this.
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Well… the FB IPO went great for existing (vested) stockholders. If your stock doubles immediately after going public, you just lost a ton of money and were probably grifted by your market-maker.
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I would just not use SimpleForm, especially if you're pushing it on newbs. It does for views what Inherited Resources does for controllers, i.e. replace a really simple system with horrendous workarounds should you want to do anything
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by phillmv 13y ago
It's amazing to me how much money companies can waste hiring new people - albeit a not unwelcome redistribution of profit from shareholders to developers - yet once you're hired you're stuck in that role unless your manager s
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I end up with a lot of "Interim commit on foobarbaz" because I'm leaving work and want to push my code just-in-case. Refolding those into "foobarbaz: feature 1" is a lot nicer.
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And even then, large capital projects are routinely wildly off estimates. I think the delta in "how far off we were" just tends to be larger more frequently.
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>I'm not sure it's a translator by that definition. The input and output are legal Javascript. It's moreso a demonstration of a functionally complete subset of the language. Well, okay, so it's still strictly speaking
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Many people here on HN never took compsci in school, so strictly speaking it's just a translator - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translator_(computing) . It's more a showoff of a js idiosyncrasy - they found a
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by phillmv 13y ago
Uff, there's so much to go through there. It's turtles all the way down. Start with a course on computer architecture / digital design. Something that'll have you put together a simple 8 bit CPU. Move your way up with a
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S3forme is clearly meant to refer to Amazon S3. If you had lawyers on retainer, why wouldn't you be sending them a strongly worded letter?
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>Why the hate? Well, it's not even going to give you the same kind of resolution the actual photo is stored at! You're taking a downsampled analog representation (the light coming off the screen) of an image and further reducin
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>I think getting companies pay tax in the US for sales in the US would be less internationally antisocial... IIRC, that's precisely not what these tax repatriations are about; they're about sales abroad that are received by a f

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