primatology

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by primatology 14y ago
I think your reasoning suggests that brick-and-mortar stores will never be fully obsolete. As a manufacturer, I don't see how shutting down my online presence would benefit me. Simplified, there are three types of customers. The first shop
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by primatology 14y ago
I can't imagine many manufacturers would be willing to lose online sales. Even the highest-end manufacturers draw a large percentage of their sales from online orders. And, as a consumer, I sure as hell am not going to pay a brick-and-morta
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by primatology 14y ago
Agreed that Firefox gets less credit than it deserves. But Google realized with Chrome that the biggest part of the browsing experience is not the browser chrome or features, but speed. The single greatest user experience enhancement is res
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by primatology 14y ago
Unless you know the project's or framework's conventions, there's always a fair bit of poking around involved. Folder names are often descriptive enough, though. "docs" is documentation, "lib" usually contains third-party libraries, "bin" c
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by primatology 14y ago
A high school diploma in a developed country doesn't get you that far these days.
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by primatology 14y ago
I assure you Amazon is well aware of this practice and current prices account for the small minority of customers who shop like this.
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by primatology 14y ago
You didn't truly explain. Why is the essay low-quality? Snideness doesn't require an emotional investment. It does, however, require "slyly disparaging" remarks; you were quite direct.
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by primatology 14y ago
But Github pull requests are not pure garbage. They work very, very well for plenty of other open source projects. To call them "pure garbage" is clear exaggeration. Honesty and courtesy are not mutually exclusive. "Github pull requests s
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by primatology 14y ago
Friendly encouragement is a far better motivator. Psychologists have demonstrated that positive reinforcement causes lasting, long-term change, while negative reinforcement only impels temporary change.
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by primatology 14y ago
I absolutely agree in theory. But I've found certain individuals tend to have a disproportionately high number of idiotic ideas. My frustration builds quickly with said individuals, and I'm only human. I insist, however, upon giving everyon
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by primatology 14y ago
> I'm glad <insert name here> is a jerk because it allows him to spend more time doing <insert cool thing here>. I'm convinced that's a fallacy. Is "[Github's] pull requests and the online commit editing, are just pure g
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by primatology 14y ago
I firmly believe we shouldn't ridicule people for mistakes. You don't have to feel like shit to recognize and learn. People who occasionally behave idiotically are not idiots. People who repeatedly behave idiotically are the true idiots.
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by primatology 14y ago
Sure, but why isn't it good enough? I don't disagree with you, but I'd have liked to hear your reasoning.
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by primatology 14y ago
Good point. There are friendlier (better?) ways to discuss flaws.
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by primatology 14y ago
I don't necessarily think so. He draws you in with said outrageous remark and proceeds to raise some good points.
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by primatology 14y ago
Agreed it's sloppy coding. Here's my guess: it's probably because you can have multiple people on one reservation. Each passenger on the flight gets an ID, and each reservation contains the IDs of the involved parties. Invalid reservation I
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by primatology 14y ago
Fair enough. But even if I accept your definition of a "use," there are millions of files you could legitimately download with BT. There are a handful of locks you could legitimately open with a lockpick.
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by primatology 14y ago
That's not entirely valid. There is _one_ legitimate use for a lock pick set: to unlock something you own that you've accidentally locked yourself out of. There are literally billions of uses for BT: every large public (legal) file that's c
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by primatology 14y ago
Yes, and he calls GH's pull/commit functionality "braindamaged crap." That's implying that "they're idiots for doing this." I apologize for the misquote; again, that was unintentional.
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by primatology 14y ago
Please don't insult my English skills. I apologize for failing to copy/paste the last two words; it was an honest mistake, not an intentional misquote. Your rudeness is not appreciated nor warranted. My point still stands. Calling GitHub a
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by primatology 14y ago
> He's not saying "they're idiots for doing this". Well... "github is a total ghetto of crap" "make a real pull request, not the braindamaged crap that github does"
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by primatology 14y ago
That's what I call support. Awesome! EDIT: Looks to be working!
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by primatology 14y ago
Push the scantron-less grading. That's your biggest selling point, hands down. A pack of 500 forms (see link below) retails for $60; you'd be saving school districts literally tens of thousands of dollars per year. https://store.scantron.c
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by primatology 14y ago
Fair. But Zynga's games still suck. Perhaps their infrastructure is sound, but I run screaming every time I see their latest badly-programmed, ad-infested game take over my newsfeed. A skilled independent dev actually puts time and effort i
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by primatology 14y ago
> As for how easy it is to make a game, that's actually hard. I believe you should also separate "normal" games from "social" games here as both are radically different. Valid, but I think the author's point still stands. "You merely ne
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by primatology 14y ago
Agreed. Memory tends to be trigger-based for most of us mortals. Even short-term, here's what I've noticed: I could verbally list seven terms and their definitions. If I then proceeded to ask you the definition of any one of those terms, yo
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by primatology 14y ago
From domainbrokers.com: > The owner might not respond to offers under $299520 Yikes.
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by primatology 14y ago
Is that valid if employees keep their own backups, and the subpoenaed emails do still exist?
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by primatology 14y ago
Off the top of my head: Ever tried removing a submodule? Why is there no git submodule rm? (No, "it's confusing" is not a valid argument.) If the pull fails (say, from the wrong protocol), you end up with a half-baked submodule. Impossible
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by primatology 14y ago
> all the irritation to end users rather than developers that both Mozilla and Google cause when they subtly change their UI around for no particular reason. This is why I use Safari. Despite the fact that Safari crashes routinely when

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