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by polemic 14y ago
There should also be a push for better use of discretion and 'common sense' from the US judiciary. Most (all?) laws are, by their nature, crude sticks that have to be wielded carefully. I'm not sure that in this case, the law is 'wrong'. As
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by polemic 14y ago
And me arguing your opinion about designers <air quote>engineering</air quote> <air quote>secure, scalable, easy to maintain</air quote> apps is not pedantry either. But one side of this argument seems to be
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by polemic 14y ago
Well, I guess plugging Heroku to Stripe has "nothing to do with" engineering as well. But, for the sake of discussion between rational people, we should bypass excessive pedantry. EDIT: -- I see the comment above was modified to add the emp
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by polemic 14y ago
"Bootstrap works for internal tools but if you want to make something consumer-facing it doesn't even come close to being adequate." Except that it actually is adequate, a lot of the time. Much like your 'designer-as-engineer' code is oft
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by polemic 14y ago
Should read as: "Specialized subset of designers and engineers share skill-base." OP also misses the other side of the coin: design-lead tools like Bootstrap have made it much easier for engineers to design great looking apps. It's conver
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by polemic 14y ago
Related to mit.edu Anon takedown?
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The fall of Empire
2 points by polemic 14y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 14y ago
Fair enough, but the only Proven Successful (tm) solution to trolling is to ignore it. If it's not productive, disregard it.
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by polemic 14y ago
Worthwhile reading the email that preceded it: http://news.php.net/php.internals/64763 The response hardly seems warranted. The vision is pretty stated there.
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by polemic 14y ago
Yeah, the `new Array...` questions as well - they should all be trick questions with the answer "don't use the Array() form" .
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by polemic 14y ago
This misses the point. The problem is not that unsafe SQL is produced it is that the method signature is not always what is expected by the user. This isn't actually an SQL injection flaw.
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Yeah, very impressed with their API documentation and example building tools. As an API publisher, it's an excellent product.
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by polemic 14y ago
Perhaps the German government is attacking this from the wrong angle then. It's not that Facebook should require psuedo-anonymous access, but rather, services that rely on Facebook should allow psuedo-anonymous access. For example, Spot
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by polemic 14y ago
> "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui."
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by polemic 14y ago
My reply, that might have been eaten by Wordpress: ---- You make these too statements [in comments], seemingly unaware of the implications: “I don’t think we can blame guns, or taking God out of schools, or poor mental health care” … “The b
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by polemic 14y ago
Weeeell it's a brand campaign, right, so they'll be measuring it in all sorts of fuzzy terms that provide resistant to boring stuff like "numbers" and "statistics". :P Don't forget that you are not likely to be the target audience. I'm not
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by polemic 14y ago
The author argues that Microsoft should create an open source version of IE so that it's marketing for IE would be more successful. The commercial goal of the advertising is not to drive IE usage vs Chrome/Firefox on Windows - it's to get p
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by polemic 14y ago
MAX was cool, but it tended to turn into a out-range/out-research battle. A lot of the games we played turned into a grind of turtling missile towers into enemy territory, while trying to buff their range faster than the other guy. You coul
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University of Chicago researchers discover empathy in rats(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by polemic 14y ago|1 comments
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by polemic 14y ago
Another reminder of how brutal employment law in the US is. Hard to believe that it's legal for a company to act in that way.
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So, really, just like all the other long-tail internet market segments?
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by polemic 14y ago
One quibble: > "no point giving commission to a travel-agent when you can plan it yourself." Travel agents often purchase in bulk and can get discounts that you can't get via 'do it yourself' flight tools. I recently travelled to Vanc
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by polemic 14y ago
Everyone should realize this by now, but if you must use Wordpress (or, host your own blog) please physically & logically separate it from critical files and infrastructure.
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by polemic 14y ago
You're avoiding the issue by framing the question in specific terms. Please specify how, in this case, what is beneficial about the illegal operation of a taxi company for consumers (and taxi drivers) concerned about safety? See what I di
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by polemic 14y ago
Oh please. Regulation doesn't exist in a vacuum, and acting as if you're exempt from the law in the noble pursuit of lower prices is bollocks.
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by polemic 14y ago
Disagree. Simply "doing something better" is not disruption - that's just business as usual. Disruption is radical change through technological innovation. The author seems to think that all industries are equality ready for that sort of sh
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by polemic 14y ago
If I'm doing business with you, I'm not really concerned about how you perceive yourself, more so, whether you can sign my contract. So, it's not douchy at all to call yourself CEO. Adding extra stuff afterwards, however...
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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time(cnu.org)
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For those unfamiliar with the back story of Pacific Fibre - it failed partly because of US opposition to Chinese commercial and technological interests in the project. While Kim Dotcom might be willing to fund the cable, the issue of US pro
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by polemic 14y ago
I stopped at the "Motion Activated Screwdriver" (#3). Some things just don't need inventing. --- Note to self: 1. add WiFi. 2. put it on Kickstarter. 3. profit.

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