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by qu4z-2 12y ago
Just to clarify terms here, "opt-in" means disabled by default, with user action needed to enable the feature. "opt-out" means on-by-default with the ability to disable it: exactly the situation you describe. At least, t
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
I was amused that they introduce it as a "[b]ackwards-[c]ompatible [b]yte-[c]ode interpreter". Not sure whether that's what the GP meant.
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
What is it?
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
And if they're all busy, they could put ATT on hold. That I would love to do, even if they just immediately went on to the next call.
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
Knowledgeable about what, though? I'm sure there are a lot of things that were widely known then that people don't generally know now. Also, I'm fairly sure a lot of the common knowledge of our time will seem absurd to people
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
If I would be a dick, I'd guess you haven't been in the field long enough to know everything that you don't know? Even if you're, say, a competent assembly programmer, I'm sure there are plenty of areas you're
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
I agree. I went through it a year or so back, and it helped me go from knowing very little vimscript, to writing a 200-line plugin, to modifying it to take advantage of vim built-in behavior (like filetypes and <cword>) to be about fi
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
In fairness, I suspect reading a paper written in the first style would be even worse. EDIT: I can totally get behind the "classic" style referenced in the Pinker link elsewhere in this thread.
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
"Predictable, or agrees with a human implementer/trainer. Pick one." ?
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
Clearly he should make another JavaScript framework. Say what you like about the utility of the system, but it's definitely interesting .
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
Links aren't usually one of the things you expect to require javascript for, although obviously in some cases when the page tries to override default window/tab management ( hiss boo ) it makes sense. It's more like disallo
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
In fact, in this case it's more or less exactly like 'correlation is not causation'.
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
In my case, irssi is already installed, I have no real issues with it, and if I reviewed every time someone created an alternative to a program I use I'd never get anything done (not that I get anything done now, but one can dream).
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
I like to think of syntax highlighting as a quick draft-parse. It lets you know how the computer is parsing the code structure. I know, "Code is written for humans to read and only incidentally for computers to execute", but you&#
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
Regarding your point about the percentages, the OP states that between 10-90% of positive or negative posts are removed, depending on the group. Looking at just the positive posts for a moment, if around 50% of the posts in the news feed ar
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
You may only reclaim your dignity in one of the following pre-approved fashions?
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
My favourite bit is the bait-n-switch where they show the correct url, then change it under you as soon as you click. That seems very underhanded to me.
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
Closed products always have that visual polish Wow. You must use different closed-source software to me. I agree a lot of open source software is very ad-hoc and seems to have no overarching design in place, but the same seems to
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
My SNES muscle memory prefers the Japanese version. :)
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
I'd argue that depends on your accent. I'll grant you that "he's" is probably a bit tricky, but I can totally see people writing "hers", stopping, looking at it, "Hm, ownership... apostrophe!". E
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
In that case I'm looking forward to the days of he's and her's!
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
Sometimes you're so busy looking for ways to survive that improvement doesn't really even enter into it. Also, I'd imagine the whole "being poor sucks" would provide motivation to do better. Finally your embedded as
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
I like that the "them" in both cases is "lazy". The "us" group, on the other hand, nicely changes from "wealthy" to, essentially, "deservedly wealthy". I'm fairly certain they believe t
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
Hah! The way vim extensions are going you'll have emacs-in-vim soon enough. Not that I think it's a good idea, mind you. People spend too much time in vim as-is. (it's fine for emacs; that one's essentially a desktop env
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
Not directly relevant, but for Firefox users: I highly recommend pentadactyl (you have to install the nightlies for compatibility with recent FF)
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
I'm sure there's some small difference between waiting a second for the page to load and receiving a notification a second later. Presumably the notification hadn't existed at page load, or what are you doing delivering it by
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
I wonder whether this study really shows what people are inferring from it. Aside from the somewhat unreliable metrics ("not happy" contains happy => positive!), an increase in negative posts when being shown negative posts cou
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
Not everything is about money.
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
To be fair, new code frequently has those attributes too.
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by qu4z-2 12y ago
That is a very good point.

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