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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
Fortunately, although it is pay-to-play, it's not pay-to-win. Oracle (or any other well-heeled player) can spend half a million or more in legal fees trying to go after a small company, but that doesn't mean that company has to m
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
That marks attempt #3 here at begging the question.
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
This is the second instance of an attempt on your part to use circular reasoning so that it might be impossible to argue with you. It's clear now that you're just here for the conflict, and not (sound) resolutions. This is a dea
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
The remark "you might want to reconsider whether your powers of self-diagnosis" is not using "consider" in the same sense that I used it in the comment you're replying to. You are not really asking me to consider a
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
> I never said that I know . I said it. Why am I having to repeat this? > what part of your description was condescending What? I'm not saying my description was condescending. It is a description of your reply. It pinpoint
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
Two straightforward questions. You already dodged one when it was framed as an observation; I'll repeat it again as an explicit question. 1. Do you think that your comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26628064
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
You're right, it's my quote--where I gave an inline description about what was condescending about it. Since you asked, I repeated it.
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
> how to human
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
> Given that you felt the need to say that, you might want to reconsider[...] You're responding to an anonymous comment on a message board with zero IRL context. Consider your own ability to diagnose here.
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
Actual problem: not understanding the distinction between a bug report and form meant for "asking others to do something for you".
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
You're pointing to cases to invalidate the claim as if that claim was supposed to be interpreted to be bracketed by a universal quantifier. It wasn't, and arguing in that way is not particularly insightful. "You can write a
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
So you're doubling down on condescendingly explaining how to human. Cool. Consider this: I have a high emotional IQ and acutely understand whatever lesson you think you're imparting here, I just don't have the kind of bulls
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
I'll note that you didn't start your response here with pleasantries, and no one else has, either. By leaping at the opportunity to condescendingly explain human behavior, you've slipped into attacking a strawman. Take your
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
Strong disagreement from here. I don't want that kind of stuff in bug reports for the same reason that I don't want to have to deal with "hello", "good morning", from coworkers in messenger applications, and I
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
No, you're done. > language that's already ~30 years old by now Relevance?
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
Sounds like a double standard and possibly moving the goalposts. There are strongly typed languages that don't have those features, and compiler codebases that don't use that kind of architecture. Do they get a pass or not?
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
You know all those jokes that people like Linus make about Real Programmers—the ones who have hair on their chests, etc—you know those are all jokes , right? Jokes in the laughing-at-them sort of way, the way Colbert did it—not something
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
Write a compiler in a strongly typed language, and then remove all the type annotations. This may come as a shock, but this is what a compiler (or any codebase) could look like when developed in a weakly typed language.
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
You are limited to one *.neocities.org site, otherwise it's $60 per year.
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
> I swear I didn't see factories-making-factories-making-factories until that thing was published No? That's a pretty good description of the sort of metaprogramming that Lisp gives you, and Lispers are really enthusiastic a
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
Google Reader ≠ RSS.
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
Hacker News was never good.
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
That’s right. I use an 18-year-old laptop.
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
> "crook" [...] Better to just not say anything if you're only parroting buzzwords. The buzzword of 2020/2021 appears to be "grifter" and its variations. On topic with the article and related to this is the
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
> more of these as wikis, or GH repos The people who live on GitHub are unfortunately unable to recognize any distinction.
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
That's fine, because it's not exactly clear what "ld" stands for to begin with. If anyone asks, you could just say that the W and E stand for "Weally Efficient".
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
It genuinely surprises the shit out of me that people haven't created a "middleware" layer that treats GitHub as its backend / source of truth, but everything gets routed through a custom domain. E.g., spin up this glor
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
It's not easier than HTTP sans TLS, which is the point that was being made.
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
What if I write 4.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa. instead?
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by pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
Isn’t one Twitter horrible enough? Why create another one?

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