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by polemic 13y ago
I don't understand this comment - I'm not suggesting you should use jQuery or nothing, or jQuery and Dojo. My point is the reasons given in the post for not using a DOM library of some sort are not valid.
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by polemic 13y ago
This be right on a purist level, but on every practical level there is little reason not to use [library of your choice]. If you're loading from the google/jQuery CDN (with suitable fallback, obvs.) you've got a good chance
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Footage from the Titanic Struggle of B-R(youtube.com)
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by polemic 13y ago
"Shall we play a game?"
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by polemic 13y ago
I've had bad experiences with this "feature" lately too - scammers can pop notifications into my phone simply by "inviting" me to events. I have no idea that anything is afoot until my phone pings me the notificatio
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Kim Dotcom launches NZ political party(rt.com)
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by polemic 13y ago
It's not just the human cost: in a billion dollar nuclear bomber you have powerful economic and political motivations on making sure it doesn't fail at an inopportune time.
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by polemic 13y ago
It depends on what you mean, but as a general rule? A very long way. There is far more to military tech than the speculative lab and consumer goods startups that Google has acquired. There is a good reason that the latest fighter jets run s
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by polemic 13y ago
It's worth considering the value of IP to a business like twitter. Fundamentally the mechanics of twitter are exceedingly simple - especially when you consider the complexity of apps like Facebook and Google+. They key difference betwe
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by polemic 13y ago
I wonder why the writer can't handle basic grammar.
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by polemic 13y ago
There always have been, and continue to be, people making perfectly good money from this sort of software. I'm not sure why you're surprised, given that people make profitable fart apps for phones, and that it is apparently ration
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by polemic 13y ago
Don't be so dramatic. Governments around the world shut it down because kids kept getting horrific internal injuries from them. Note that it's not their fault that irresponsible people let children play with them, but there was
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A Nationwide Secret Santa with Social Media(blog.hootsuite.com)
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by polemic 13y ago
Less explicit, but perhaps more telling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...
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by polemic 13y ago
Nice one including the XSS injection flaw posted to inj3ct0rs within your own page there. Did your forget to sanitize your own HTML? Secondly, publicly publishing the email addresses of the (innocent) victims, and emailing those clients w
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Track pan(en.wikipedia.org)
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by polemic 13y ago
This can be a suckers game... I've been there and I understand the desire but you need to be careful to manage expectations. There will come a time when you can't or don't want to work like that, but you're trapped by yo
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by polemic 13y ago
As commented: This post could only come from someone sitting comfortably in a position of considerable privilege and unawareness. If you’re going to completely ignore issues of societal pressures, open misogyny in technology industries and
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by polemic 13y ago
"Creepy" seems like a massive understatement. It serves to highlight the creator's priorities though. Someone who believes in the cryptoanarchic ideal to such an extent that they're willing to get in bed with murderers.
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by polemic 13y ago
I only objected to you defining engineering as "what an engineer does". It does not devalue the profession to challenge that assertion.
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by polemic 13y ago
Heh, well I actually say "developer", because "artisan" sounds douchey, "engineer" is (imo) incorrect and "programmer" tends to be a very narrowly defined role. Design and operational sides of a &qu
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by polemic 13y ago
This doesn't contribute anything. You're missing the important question "what is engineering?" . Saying it's just "whatever engineers do" is meaningless.
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by polemic 13y ago
It's a slightly flowery (haha) way of putting it, but I agree whole-heartedly. I recently held a talk at a Python conference and I asked the question: degrees and job titles aside, are we scientists, engineers, artists or a combination
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by polemic 13y ago
Similar in New Zealand, although NZ Post is a "state owned enterprise" rather than a government agency.
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by polemic 13y ago
Perhaps their endgame is to use a vast collection of compromising images collected under the pretence of privacy to extort protection fees from their users.
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by polemic 13y ago
> "Bitcoin was apparently designed by good cryptographers and peer-reviewed before it was released" I think this understates the effect of outliers. If you consider the incredible ability of Srinivasa Ramanujan to, quite lite
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Don’t Start None, Won’t Be None(preposterousuniverse.com)
2 points by polemic 13y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 13y ago
Heh, you could probably blame many of Perth's failures on the role of the mining industry there. Engineers have to be flown in from as far away as New Zealand to make up for the shortage, a flush city administration happy to double-dow
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by polemic 13y ago
I disagree that "government projects" are uniformly terribly executed between industries. I can't vouch for the American case, but New Zealand has a similar history of disastrous government-run IT projects - from a terrible t
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by polemic 13y ago
The Azerbaijan election results app was built by Jeff Dean. ;)

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