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by rjknight 14y ago
Ditto. I had actually decided to move away from Natwest before this outage - as part of RBS acquiring some bank branches from one of the other bankrupt banks, the EU competition authorities forced them to sell some of their accounts to Sant
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by rjknight 14y ago
I think this issue generalizes to other content management systems. Drupal aims to allow users to create sites without needing to understand the underlying HTML, and most general-purpose Drupal modules produce class-heavy HTML because that
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by rjknight 14y ago
Yes, it's long. But it's a lot more thoughtful than the usual "where's my jetpack?" article and makes a number of points that seem to confirm the general world-view of the startup community. Graeber is an academic, mostly known for his boo
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David Graeber: Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit(thebaffler.com)
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Our main problem is that computers have never been good at making suggestions to users. "It looks like you're trying to..." Clippyism was a disaster, but nobody ever came up with a better alternative. The trend on tablet computers seems t
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by rjknight 14y ago
I agree with some of OP's points, but I think he could explain the mechanisms at work better. OP quotes the example of the 35+ command-line switches supported by ls , some of which are clear violations of the 'Unix philosophy'. However,
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by rjknight 14y ago
There are two scenarios here. In the first instance, you're an innocent member of the public who has been arrested for {wearing a hoodie, being the wrong ethnicity, photographing something} and the police take you into custody briefly befo
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s/wipe/encrypt/, or will they be able to force you to give up the key?
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It's not an unheard-of rate for contractors, and the kind of people who become contractors are probably more similar to the kind of people who work for startups than either are to the kind of people who work for BigCorps for normal develope
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by rjknight 14y ago
This was exactly the point addressed in the OP. Quote: * SGML is a good idea when the markup overhead is less than 2%. Even attributes is a good idea when the textual element contents is the "real meat" of the document and attributes only
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by rjknight 15y ago
Functional at lower levels, message-based and asynchronous at higher levels - isn't that Erlang, with Actors as Objects?
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by rjknight 15y ago
Actually, you just need this: Hello world If all you want to do is print some text, just put some text outside the <?php delimiter. If you want to do nothing else, you don't even need the <?php delimiter.
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by rjknight 15y ago
I don't want to condemn Brendan Eich until I've heard his side of the story, though I think he has almost certainly acted in a way that I can't approve of here. I'm disappointed by his donation, though no more disappointed than I am about
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by rjknight 15y ago
And it succeeded! More seriously, if you genuinely have a problem with Simple using the CSS from Obtvse, I think you don't understand how open source software works. Either that, or you're being somewhat obtvse yourself.
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by rjknight 15y ago
Two points. First, Microsoft's status as a "cool" or, at least, "not eyeball-gougingly awful" company is inversely proportional to the power they wield over customers. MS was universally loathed when they were forcing people to use their
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Operation Victory Denial: A Modest Proposal for the 2012 election(theamericanscene.com)
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Game changers: the women who make video games(guardian.co.uk)
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Out-of-body experience: Master of illusion(nature.com)
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by rjknight 15y ago
I think you've misjudged the tone of the discussion. I don't think that most people commenting here are greatly troubled by what's happening.
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Speak for yourself. Most people aren't evolved to resist serious strains of flu, but when an epidemic happens the next generation will be those who were . There are probably people who are perfectly capable of adapting to virtual reality
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DCI doesn't necessarily mean fewer tests - done correctly it can make testing easier since it can help to separate concerns and allow for easy testing of discrete components. I don't think this is the killer feature for DCI though; you can
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Pay Attention: The Great American Adderall Drought | The Fix(thefix.com)
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by rjknight 15y ago
Am I the only one who finds the use of the term 'human' here to be really annoying? Like, anyone who actually enjoys using a Kindle Fire is somehow less human? The implication that 'humans' like a certain kind of device that works in a ce
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by rjknight 15y ago
I think the headline might be slightly over-the-top, especially since the article is basically a plea for better university. The fact that non-university-educated developers can, fairly regularly, turn out to be better developers than th
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Want to be a software engineer? Don't go to university(smh.com.au)
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Testing Schrödinger's cat theory(telegraph.co.uk)
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Lemmings retrospective(reghardware.com)
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Moore's law vs. conservation in solar energy(digitopoly.org)
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Beyond English, the language of the future(salon.com)
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I think you need to be much clearer about the exceptions to your theory, otherwise it's far too easy to refute by example. I'd guess that most people on HN have been online since before Facebook was a twinkle in Mark Zuckerberg's eye, and l

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