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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Do you carry that axe and a grindstone everywhere? (A more neutral way to share your concern might be “I would also like to see some transparency around TOS takedowns, and not just takedowns instigated by third parties.”)
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GitHub's 2014 Transparency Report(github.com)
181 points by picks_at_nits 12y ago|122 comments
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
The narrative in Why Functional Programming Matters (“WhyFP”) is that it is not enough to simply remove features, but to take advantage of their removal to add other, more powerful features. The paper gives laziness as an example. It’s made
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Interesting that calling the Kindle a “Swindle” is vilified, yet an entire generation of techies called the TRS-80 the “Trash-80.” My conjecture is that if you are inclined to agree with someone’s negative point of view, rhetorical tricks l
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
So, are you saying that Stallman makes points 1, 2, 3, ... n , and many are interesting, but point 37 is irrational? Or are you saying that although many of the points are interesting, point 37 is irrational, therefore the entire thing--po
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
"Your Stack Overflow rep is a strong indicator of how much money you make”—Joel Spolsky
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
To respond with precision, “tarted up” doesn’t literally mean to be a tart, but to dress up like a tart . Thus it is that you can “tart up” even inanimate objects, e.g. “they’re really tarted this restaurant up."
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
A “tart” is a prostitute or sexually promiscuous woman. From this we get “tarted up," to adorn, dress, or decorate, especially in a flamboyant manner. “Tarted up” is nearly always used opprobriously. I find no factual basis for your cl
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Where? Alaska in an old bus? Even there, humans benefit to a small degree from law enforcement that strongly discourages the next hunter from shooting them and taking their possessions. There are some survivalists who may or may not be able
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
I don’t think it’s dumb at all. Humans cannot survive without the protection of a tribe. Just try doing a startup in Somalia.
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
> People go to extraordinary lengths to join groups and send this membership signal... > It's dumb, but it is what it is, and people wrap an awful lot of their identity up in their chosen tribe rather than just being themselves.
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
> Whilst I dislike Beats, I admire them a lot. They entered a market where every company was focusing on sound quality first Haven’t people been having this exact same conversation about Bose for decades? Shitty quality, but aesthetics,
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Most of the time, you are not missing anything, and `bind` is faster and simpler. But if you would like to perform left partial application on methods, event handlers, or other functions where `this` is meant to be bound dynamically, the gi
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Don’t forget that for some businesses, ticket revenue is just one stream, and they’re trying to maximize total revenue, over a very long term. For example, if you take a sports business and raise ticket prices to a certain level, you will e
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
> You are asserting that the signal from race/gender is very noisy and the signal from the resume is very precise. > We can debate the precision of the signal from the resume, but race at least is highly predictive of many object
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
> Assumedly every human being, given enough time, would be able to solve the same set of problems. In the immortal words of Richard Karn: “I don’t think so, Tim.” There are lots of things that are out of scope for a given person at a giv
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
However, the wallet technology is extremely insecure.
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
I understand that some countries allow small purchases to be made with special bitcoins made out of atoms and backed by fiat currency. I’m told that in those countries, their atom coins are ubiquitous, and, there is technology that allows m
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
> even if it's not public bodies doing the collection There already are private companies that drive around scanning license plates and selling access to the data. One of their “use cases” is selling the data to “repo men.”
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
“All DSLs grow in complexity until they are Turing-Complete, then JWZ’s Law takes over.”
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
See the comments elsewhere in the thread about HN a a whole gradually changing focus from a more education/opinion site to a news site. A rule-of-thumb to distinguish the two is that a news article is the kind of thing you read right a
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
A similar thing has been done many times by submitting the same resumé with male and females names, or with names statistically more likely to be white and names statistically more likely to be a person of colour, with different ages, and s
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
You can expect privacy in your home through clear windows even if the shades are not drawn.
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Lookback.io: capture feedback, user experiences, and bug reports(lookback.io)
32 points by picks_at_nits 12y ago|5 comments
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Thank you. And may I say, gitbook is awesome. Imagine teleporting back to the 1980s and showing this to an author trying to write the next Windows 3.1 Missing Manual. They would swoon.
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
I used to feel the way you do, that “guys” is gender-neutral. However, I have encountered a large number of women who appear to be unaware that they are included when people say “you guys,” and they feel dismissed. I could lecture them abou
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
A “nit” is a louse egg. On its own, it is nearly invisible and unlikely to trouble you. But left alone, it hatches into a louse. You can probably survive a louse or two quite easily. But if a couple of people in a community each have a lous
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
> You guys are giving great feedback My feedback is, "Avoid making needless assumptions about gender.” :-) p.s. Thank you!
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
In addition to supporting previews of AsciiDoc files, you’ll find that GitHub also does the “rendered prose diff” trick for commits and pull requests that include changes to AsciiDoc files.
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Frank Lloyd Wright used low ceilings in entranceways so that the house would “open up” as you walked into it.

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