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by ry_ry 10y ago
> Yes newspapers in the past had a political bias, sometimes. I'd argue that newspapers still very much follow and propagate their own political agenda through the tone and treatment of news items. The sentiment and tone of tabloid*
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by ry_ry 10y ago
a Roguelike dungeon crawler is cool, but i'm not-so-secretly hankering for a procedurally generated text adventure in the style of.. well.. text adventures, requiring programming-orientated input.
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by ry_ry 10y ago
Shotokan? I studied it for a few years as a kid, and came to a similar conclusion but had assumed it was that particular flavour of karate being an overly formalised, functionally ceremonious, branch emphasising discipline, flexibility and
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by ry_ry 10y ago
Oh I dunno, virtually every evolution of the web has been a reaction to what came before being roundly abused. Sometimes it takes following an approach to its illogical conclusion to recognise what needs fixing. I like to think of it as des
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by ry_ry 10y ago
True enough - the open nature of the client makes a joke of so many do-called security measures implemented there.
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by ry_ry 10y ago
We have, but it didn't seem all that relevant in this thread ;)
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by ry_ry 10y ago
You can get/set HTMLInputElement.value on [type="password"] anyway so if you wanted to shim the PW field copy/paste functionality back, you could just create a bookmarklet or something. Edit, threw an example together. I
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by ry_ry 10y ago
My WiFi isn't working, do you mind popping over to sort it out? Also, all my websites fonts look weird on my mum's computer ???!???
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by ry_ry 10y ago
Thank you Peter, that is very useful. Much appreciated.
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by ry_ry 10y ago
I'm an English programmer working in the UK for a site owned by, via another company, a very large privately owned US company. I have a child and a partner I am not married to. I have no criminal record. I'm unsettled by the brexi
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by ry_ry 10y ago
If the UK ceases to exist I wonder if England would be permitted to rejoin the EU at some point?
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by ry_ry 10y ago
Time dilation is, and remains, the single most beautifully elegant piece of problem solving I think I've seen applied to spaghetti legacy codebase like Eve's, and saved the game from a slow descent into unplayability. Not played f
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by ry_ry 10y ago
Were that the case, robot CEOs would quickly become the norm. Just in case.
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by ry_ry 10y ago
It seems closer to pingdom-for-apps, with added Twitter.
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by ry_ry 10y ago
At a branch of downmarket discount retailers B&M recently, I asked the cashier if I could make some change for a trolley. He handed me a sardine-can key and asked if I knew how to use it. That jimmying the coin operated locking mechanis
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by ry_ry 10y ago
It sounds like a throwaway side project where he/she has to practically apply the skillset they want to cultivate would be a more useful experience than hitting the textbooks, which is how I interpreted their last comment. It could als
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by ry_ry 10y ago
I rather liked the banana throwing gorillas game that came packaged with QBASIC
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by ry_ry 10y ago
Although I suspect that if the tech crowd embraced this instead of weirdly ambiguous billboard, we'd quickly have several different competing definitions of 'free' and half a dozen rival working groups speccing the next itera
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by ry_ry 10y ago
Fetch has its own issues - not being able to abort a fetch, or recieve progress notifications are frustrating if you require them. But the deficiencies of fetch() are another topic entirely, and I tend to use it (polyfilled tbh) for the maj
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by ry_ry 10y ago
Absolutely nailed it. To continue the theme - When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
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by ry_ry 10y ago
It already exists as an informal social arrangement! When I was a small child and caught chickenpox several of my friends were brought round to play so they could 'safely' catch it as children, rather than waiting to catch the alt
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by ry_ry 10y ago
I know it's frowned upon to discuss downvotes, but I think it's relevant to the conversation. Godwin-evoking private forum moderators exercising their right to police their turf aside, I always find self-moderating upvote/kar
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by ry_ry 10y ago
$.incrementNumber(n, 1); // From stack overflow
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by ry_ry 10y ago
Including Godwin himself. I'd always assumed it was a clever piece of off-the-cuff satire, and related to ill considered or reactionary responses in a debate. It hadn't occurred to me the whole thing might a po-faced social experi
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by ry_ry 10y ago
Did ryanlol/l0l switch to a special arguing account, or is that a different user? Seems very meta :D
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by ry_ry 10y ago
Be that as it may, I'm not convinced having no access to current documentation would help the situation!
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by ry_ry 10y ago
I'm primarily a frontend dev, the vast majority of libraries and and browser APIs don't include offline documentation.
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by ry_ry 10y ago
This is very much on-point, many of us are working with a bunch of disparate technologies loosely connected by standardised protocols and considerably less standardised APIs.
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by ry_ry 10y ago
Coding without searching basically boils down to coding without docs, and that seems pretty self-defeating. Sure - If you just can't resist Stack Overflow's dubious charms, or find yourself updating your LinkedIn profile three ti
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by ry_ry 10y ago
What even constitutes email growth at this point - more people gaining access to the Internet? Creation of new MX servers? Signups to Gmail?

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