ponyfleisch

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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
> [It's a term established in the language specification.] I'd say JS getters/setters are syntactic sugar for the OOP concept the author is talking about.
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
> Netflix's model of creating content to justify their subscription is going to stop working eventually, content is a "long tail" type problem and their strategy of self-funding content is going to be increasingly unworkab
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
I suppose the theory is that fear of embarrassment makes people put in extra effort before submitting anything. This would reduce the time spent politely rejecting submissions. Intuitively, in my opinion this sounds plausible.
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
> micro-unicorn Microcorn!
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
you could just sign your content yourself using a publicly known key (e.g. keybase.io) Support for keys as a separate content "field" could be added to itty bitty i suppose?
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
nice! how did you do it?
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
> Where I live, it would be hard to find anyone who didn't feel adults should take responsibility for the consequences of their own actions. This is a very general statement and probably won't hold up in a number of specific ca
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
> Of course adults should be free to choose for themselves what risks they are willing to take. It's not universally the case though (see: drugs, seatbelts), and if you think it should be, you're in a small minority with that o
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
Wouldn't it follow then that all drugs, even the potent opiates, should be legal to produce, sell and consume? I know some people think that way, but it's a fringe position.
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
Are you making the argument that bicycle helmets are ineffective or that people should be free to choose for themselves what risks they are willing to take? The former is a dubious claim and the latter is likely a fringe position. Given tha
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
Yeah seems to be a paid post, it says "Brought to you by Zilliqa" right there.
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
> > Why deprecate OpenGL and not support Vulkan, Apple? Even with DirectX, Microsoft always maintained updated OpenGL on their platform... > A platform owner is free to do whatever it feels like on their platform, provided it respe
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
No i had a different issue. I think it was after hard resets when excel goes "do you want me to restore the stuff i had open before?" I would ignore this for a while (since plenty of other apps would also start up again) and then
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
Skype for Business is really, really bad on MacOS. Half of the time i'm trying to use it, messages don't get sent with an error message. Sometimes they do get sent but i still get an error message. Skype on MacOS tends to get stuc
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
> it's a very simple system to install & update, uses all the same LAMP stack everyone is used to I think that has not been true for a while now. Maybe it's just the world i live in, but putting a bunch of files into a dire
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
I fail to see how any of this is offensive. Do you find it offensive that people prefer to live in countries with a high standard of living if given the choice? Is that somehow disrespectful to the people who do not have that choice? Bringi
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
> because it seems to not only be implying that these businesses are likely to be operating in bad faith I think there is a subtle difference between negligence and bad faith. > but that the world would legitimately be better off with
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
> Grabbing source code is problematic. There is more than one repo -- in an org this size there are probably millions. Google is using a monorepo.
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by ponyfleisch 8y ago
The use case of having hourly updated data (e.g. weather data) on an S3 bucket behind a CloudFront distribution is not that niche. Thundering herd may or may not be an issue depending on the amount of traffic you normally get, the architect
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by ponyfleisch 9y ago
Extremely competent, perfectionist healthcare. Ideally the money would directly fund studies and the program would offer opportunities to participate in studies as well. Focus should not just be on acute issues, but the smaller quirks that
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by ponyfleisch 9y ago
> - "Thieves are everywhere". Not gonna comment on that one. But I will on the "the evil taxi drivers in cahoots with the police" one. If this was commonplace there would obviously not be much demand for the legions o
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by ponyfleisch 9y ago
it's certainly not supply and demand if 80% of the market is heavily regulated by the government. nor does it need to be. i didn't say i don't like it. i said i'm conscious of the consequences of high population density.
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by ponyfleisch 9y ago
You have not provided any further details on why this is better. And you mention living a transient lifestyle. Please tell me more about the property you own in Singapore then, because i'm sure you're happy paying a double digit p
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by ponyfleisch 9y ago
if only there was a process for collective decision making. perhaps we could delegate the more complex decisions to representatives chosen by the people using this process. somebody should invent that. (sorry for the snarky tone, but why is
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by ponyfleisch 9y ago
one would think so. it is so weird to me that this is called racist and xenophobic by so many people. collective delusion happens all over the spectrum.
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by ponyfleisch 9y ago
You forgot to mention that the HDB scheme in Singapore covers about 80% of the population and the private market is also heavily regulated/taxed and prohibitively expensive. Immigration barriers are high and the immigration system is p
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by ponyfleisch 9y ago
nope, not meant to imply race. cultural factors may play a role, of course. quality of life is better when you have more things in common with your surroundings. this is about preferences, not perceived superiority though. at the very least
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by ponyfleisch 9y ago
so personal choices can't be racist? "foreigner" is not a race, and isolationist or protectionist policies are rarely based on perceived attributes of specific races.
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by ponyfleisch 9y ago
this doesn't qualify as a case of reductio ad absurdum because the original argument was not "why don't we allow duplexes?" but "why does the collective have a say in this at all?" and the answer to that is &qu
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by ponyfleisch 9y ago
that creates negative externalities as well. they are just more subtle and people are not comfortable talking about them.

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