pointerpointer

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by pointerpointer 7y ago
Thank you for your reply. My comment was indeed a little edgy, I have my reasons for that. But the intent was not a personal attack, although I now see that some of the words used were indeed on that edge. I see in the history of your comme
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by pointerpointer 7y ago
It would definitely help if you tell me which rule I broke that made you ban this throw away account in the first place. Without that I think it's more convenient for me to create a new account instead of sending an email as you sugges
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by pointerpointer 7y ago
> It’s always people first, code is a far distant second. I'm afraid that's kinda political. In order to get the migration successful, hmm.. I assume developers did not have much of a choice, either accept it or leave. You can
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by pointerpointer 7y ago
If you've learned to appreciate the elegance, expressive power, readability and overall speed of development of Coffeescript, tell me, are you going to drop that for some virtual type safety that doesn't even exist at runtime? The
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by pointerpointer 7y ago
> Reading my old code, I was surprised by how clean it looks. How easy it is to digest. There is a certain sense of calm when your brain doesn't have to process all the visual clutter of a C-style syntax. I miss that. Indeed, Coffee
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by pointerpointer 7y ago
So tell me what's constructive in your comment? Oh, and downvoting is about the least constructive you can go, I won't downvote you :) Tell me honestly, what point I made you don't agree on? Try to make your point please.
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by pointerpointer 7y ago
I can imagine corporations totally like the idea of users not being able to save their own precious data to a file. In the end they want to own and control your data as much as possible for profit and power. And they sell that idea by telli
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by pointerpointer 7y ago
The scheme behind the lack of downwards compatibility was always a pain with OSX. It's great for the app developers because they can offer you a paid upgrade to a new compatible version. But UX wise it's so bad it makes you consid
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by pointerpointer 7y ago
I don't have accessibility issues and I don't make this up. I've seen comments with a text color of #eee, I had to go into the inspector to make it readable.. Maybe that has been changed/fixed already which would make my
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by pointerpointer 7y ago
> Marking opinions is not censorship. You mean when a comment is not readable anymore it is 'marking' instead of censoring? So if China hides peoples opinion it is 'marking', like being a good thing? I don't get
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by pointerpointer 7y ago
Well, not enterprise software only unfortunately, IMAO most software sucks.
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by pointerpointer 7y ago
Excuse me for the misunderstanding, I live in Europe where middle and high school are one. It is not compulsory anymore after reaching 18yrs old or after getting a diploma. Still then, having a high school diploma doesn't make any diff
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by pointerpointer 7y ago
> Why is Middle School so hard? Because it's mandatory, and you are forced to be around lots of people you don't really want to be with. You are forced to learn things you are not interested in at all, while being punished for
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by pointerpointer 7y ago
If you want to present yourself as an alternative for FB's libra, this is way too cheap. Even the worst alt coins have a better website and more info. > Our core team and community I mean, how can anyone take this serious? The core
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by pointerpointer 7y ago
I've quit Adobe when they moved to the cloud, what a horrible scheme. Now I'm using Inkscape already for years for all my digital graphics work. It's not on par with Illustrator, but still an amazing open source project we sh
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by pointerpointer 7y ago
The lack of money gives people with lower income a problem that the brain cannot solve. Not everyone can 'just get a job' that easily. I've experienced periods in my life where I kept thinking in circles to find a way to get