polemic

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by polemic 15y ago
Is there a link to more info somewhere? Maybe a small link on the right of the top header? At the moment it seems a bit 'in' to just blackout without an obvious link to more info.
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by polemic 15y ago
As an aside - it's funny how twitter memes are invariably overrun by people talking about how twitter is overrun by a meme. At the moment, "WTF Wikipedia" is full of tweets like: > bored? search for wtf wikipedia tweets. should make yo
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by polemic 15y ago
"some technology business interests are resorting to stunts that punish their users..." I wonder if the MPAA has heard of DRM. Of course, said 'interests' have evaluated the cost of annoying their customers against the social and economic c
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by polemic 15y ago
Really? An expected response from a foreign (uncontrolled) source brought you servers down? Are you validating responses now, or just assuming they'll never change / always be correct?
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by polemic 15y ago
Subvert the system from within? Now that's a plan. Volunteer for the project, form a consortium to bid on the project at cost, etc. Do a thoroughly average job with lots of backdoors and subtle exploits, anonymously drip feed to the communi
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by polemic 15y ago
Interesting that many people here think that software engineers, as a population sample, have a 'moral disposition' spread fundamentally different from any other profession. I think we all know that is not the case. Some would even go as fa
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by polemic 15y ago
This whole spat just highlights one of those truths that's evident to those in the industry: There is no such thing as a good idea, only good execution. Being first doesn't count for anything. Having a vaguely similar name doesn't count for
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by polemic 15y ago
We're oceania..
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by polemic 15y ago
The primary use of online polls, these days, appears to be for news websites to generate hooks for articles, leading to all sorts of spurious conclusions and misleading headlines. Oh wait...
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by polemic 15y ago
bitter blogger is bitter.
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by polemic 15y ago
Putting aside BA work, I seem to do most planning in code - ie, fleshing out an example implementation in code, mocking up some models, etc. That eventually morphs into the end result. So, don't think it's as cut-and-dry as coding OR planni
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by polemic 15y ago
For sure, but IMHO it makes this more of an advert than 'news'. It's certainly a much nicer implementation.
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by polemic 15y ago
I had an app on my old HTC Touch Pro 2 a couple years ago that did this. Yawn.
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by polemic 15y ago
Keeps cutting out part way through, but VERY well done.
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by polemic 15y ago
Would be interesting to look at these individuals vs their respective socio-economic background.
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by polemic 15y ago
This article mirrors my thoughts - Steve Jobs was truly a great business man who revolutionised consumer technology and the entertainment industry. But if we really think that these are the industries that betters humanity, we need a strong
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by polemic 15y ago
Python minimizes magic and maintains backwards-compatibility? LOL. (I'm a programmer who recent dived into python - it's awesome and it's easily my favourite language to use now - but those statements are fallacies).
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by polemic 15y ago
The JS can't break out of it's frame, so that doesn't really matter. The cookie comes with the request (image, html or JS, it doesn't matter).
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by polemic 15y ago
Epic. Death. Trap.
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by polemic 15y ago
The company says the data is sent because of the way the “Like” button system is set up; any cookies that are associated with Facebook.com will automatically get sent when you view a “Like” button. They have a point. This is going to be t
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by polemic 15y ago
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. The one thing I miss after moving from PHP is xdebug :/ Profiling too?
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by polemic 15y ago
These are limitations of specific ORMs or ORM classes, not of the concept in general. > Another point: your ORM would automatically pick up changes to your model and cope with it, not your hand-written SQL, making your code harder to ma
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by polemic 15y ago
I don't particularly disagree with anything in that post, but the fact is that the code time saved with an ORM is so massive, that NOT using one is effectively gross premature optimization. Sure, as your app grows, you write SQL to speed up
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by polemic 15y ago
I completely agree with the post. Most of the negative responses are clearly from people who have no clue what it means to be a parent. Firstly, it has nothing to do with raising kids with 'good manners', or anything as simple or boring a
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by polemic 15y ago
Yep. It's not magical, or new, or.. shrug .
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by polemic 15y ago
The only code that I've ever been happy with was module code I open sourced. It took a lot of time, use and feedback to get there. Hard to argue that it was really worth the time, except for my own pride.