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by qu4z-2 13y ago
Isn't that what the headline is suggesting? :P
602.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
Well, I'm only 23 so any code I wrote ten years ago was hopelessly simple by comparison to what I'm writing today. But to answer your question: In general I found it over-commented, but it was simple enough that I could ignore the comments
603.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
I quite liked the previous article we had "Comments are apologies" or something. HN seemed to rail against it overall, but it makes sense to me. It's sort of "Sorry, but this has to be this way because API <x> does thing <y>
604.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
This is quite cool. I've been meaning to switch to a console mail client for a while. (although personally I'd lean towards a CLI rather than a TUI)
605.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
> it has weak keys, not weak values. Wow. That does seem backwards. What's the use-case for that sort of thing?
606.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
It's worth knowing that things you do are irrevocable. And often more public than you think.
607.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
I think the hacker ethic alive and well, and living outside the startup scene/Hacker News.
608.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
I certainly did. I was almost tempted to go :) EDIT: Maybe we should organise one. I'm not really sure what we'd do there, though. I don't usually go to conferences.
609.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
I think the problem with UDP is all the people who think that NAT is a perfectly valid firewall/use case and not a hack.
610.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
Maybe the websites are lonely?
611.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
Fair enough. I've amended my impression. :)
612.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
> to pharma corps dismay and nobodies surprise. Wow. In my head that was the most sarcasm-dripping "dismay" I've read this week.
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by qu4z-2 13y ago
It's hard to be open about that sort of thing with your friends. Maybe it'd be better to have it be anonymous, so that at least you'd see that other people have these burdens too, and you can vent without repercussions from work/people with
614.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
Fairly likely the poster got it via RSS, so we're all reading it through RSS indirectly.
615.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
Pretty sure more of them monetize the lack of privacy, and destroy privacy to do it. Just sayin'.
616.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
Hah, it's like Slashdot all over again. "You read the article? You must be new here!", etc
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by qu4z-2 13y ago
The entire site seems to have that tagline through it as a running joke. I also thoroughly enjoy it. "Watch out, Netscape Navigator 4.0!" and so on.
618.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
In my experience liberating and scary often go hand-in-hand.
619.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
I think he understands better than you, quite frankly.
620.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
Thank you for talking about this.
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by qu4z-2 13y ago
I would argue that most of these aren't "good" reasons. a) "Throwing good money after bad", see also "Sunk Cost Fallacy" b) If the functionality the user wants is "Read the fucking article in piece without having to deal with app stores and
622.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
I'm pretty sure you're allowed to say "classy" if you're talking about fake moustaches and top-hats, a la reddit. That's firmly tongue-in-cheek though. Also, replying to GP, I'm pretty sure swearing is less "low-class" and more "not middle-
623.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
I do seem to remember a fair bit of hand-wringing over "heroku fucking console" though.
624.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
Hah. Cheers for this. I was going to comment about this book, but then I realised that I didn't remember what it was called, or when I'd read it, or any actual details, and didn't actually have enough content for a comment. It's a good book
625.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
Wait, rock stars are known for being serious now?
626.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
I'm sure there's another joke at the expense of Americans here, but I can't quite figure it out.
627.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
I've always thought of the term "f-bomb" as being the domain of mothers and housewives who are uncomfortable saying fuck. Am I wrong? Is it more common in America? Also to me it always seemed less descriptive and more an attempt to link the
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by qu4z-2 13y ago
Also post it to Hacker News so the rest of us have a chance of seeing it. It sounds awesome.
629.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
While that's neat, I feel like the kind of developer who makes a fullscreen pop-up ad for their app every time you visit the site simply doesn't care enough to do this thing. Unrelatedly, I feel like I saw a presentation about security flaw
630.
by qu4z-2 13y ago
Scrolling back and forth to read each line sounds pretty broken to me. On the desktop, if I had something open in a small window I'd probably pull out Firebug and "fix" the css. Personally I'm a believer in the original scheme where the sit

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