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by sapphirecat 15y ago
I thought when you said you find it really weird, that you didn't really understand it, or the reasons behind it. Now, it seems you do, and you simply think it's irrational? Irrationality in humans and their dealings is not something I fi
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
My post was not about the specific buzz words, which is why I borrowed the example from the grandparent. If I were describing a technology stack, it would include the actual development language and further specific, relevant details. That
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
And until a certain point, a programmer may not recognize when the code is out of hand. Even still, I sometimes spend an absurd amount of time working on something that seemed trivial, because it spent the whole day looking five minutes ou
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
> A good programmer can pick up a new technology in a couple of months. I would love it if things worked this way. But I told someone I could get coding in C# in a week, and probably be quite comfortable in a few months, and they sent
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
> The prejudicial reaction to buzz words is one of the things that I've found really weird in the programming fields. At one level, like Google aggregating signals, responding to an abundance of buzz words is one of several ways to clas
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
Yeah, that was interesting. The default circles include 'Following'--I didn't realize you could invert the process and push stuff into other people's streams.
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
On my iPod touch, holding it eventually gets you to a flaky voice control system. I also have the option of setting up a11y functions on triple click. Once I got used to it, the home button is okay, but it can register anywhere from 0-2 cli
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
It does, but then it downloads some CD-sized thing, which you can cancel at any point. I have clicked update once. After slowly fetching the update, the download was corrupt, and iTunes wanted to pull the entire thing down again. Slowly
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
> Canvas on Firefox is hardware accelerated (at least on Windows), so it's really fast. If your video drivers aren't blacklisted, after I found out by whining about the lack of speed with hwaccel--which wasn't actually active. Check it
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
> You know, where you put some light sensors in front of something you did not create yourself and pretty much just collect the photons that bounce off it. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess the original in this case was a studio s
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
Beware of what? It does look quite straightforward and readable to me. The JS actually helps me understand the CoffeeScript (note, I have never seen real CoffeeScript code before.) Even the class definitions and destructuring assignment fu
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
This is something I learned both at my first tech job and in reading about the quest to make the "lightest possible Windows installation" for Hotmail: if you don't pay any attention to your dependencies, you'll eventually code your way into
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
Source: http://johanneskopf.de/publications/pixelart/index.html submitted as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2578706
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
This reminds me of PG's The Age of the Essay: specifically, where he mentions that writers for popular magazines ask hard questions, then recoil in terror. I'm left with a feeling that the summary here is really all I needed to know about
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
When I think "string handling" in a Perl-vs-Python sense, I think "regex syntax". There are 3 distinct tiers: Perl and Ruby's built-in syntax, PHP's preg_* functions, and finally the Python (and perhaps Java?) Extreme OO style. (In descen
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by sapphirecat 16y ago
> Or you could configure a whitelist of sites that are allowed to keep your cookies for a longer time. This, I do. All cookies are session cookies except for my bank, to save their "I use this computer a lot" cookie so I don't have to
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by sapphirecat 16y ago
> Why not just say that IE9 makes use of features available in Vista and 7, but not in XP. Then the knee-jerk reaction becomes "But why did you do that?" and the response still seems unsatisfying. I think asking for IE9 on XP is like as
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by sapphirecat 16y ago
It always scares me when I go to 'log in with twitter' and it tells me "$APP wants permission to ... update your feed." I always hit DENY and forget the service if that happens. Maybe I'm being harsh, and the app doesn't actually want to t
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by sapphirecat 16y ago
I don't think you can say Linux is better in that regard. Every 6 months, there's a new Ubuntu or a new Fedora, and within a couple of years (except for Ubuntu LTS releases, which last three! years on the desktop) they're gone again.
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by sapphirecat 16y ago
> It's a drag on the whole Microsoft ecosystem and heavily rate-limits the cycle time for new products. I don't see this as a problem; I like the stability of MS vs. Linux (having watched the rise and fall of devfs and hal now, along wi
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by sapphirecat 16y ago
> Just buy more unlocked phones. In my experience, if you buy an unlocked phone, you hand the carrier a bonus payment of the cost of the phone. They don't give you any cheaper service. And, when I went to replace a Nokia POS that died
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by sapphirecat 16y ago
> cheap projectors that seem to alternate between red, green, and blue If you were curious, those would be single-chip DLP projectors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Light_Processing
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by sapphirecat 16y ago
> By default in SVN, everyone is committing to the same - and indeed the master, de-facto, controlling, always perfect - branch. Trunk. It's worse than that; svn asks you to maintain the trunk/tags/branches directory structure yourself,
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by sapphirecat 16y ago
> stocks, homes and startups all have to eventually produce value I have to disagree. Companies fail and homes can burn or be subject to other natural disasters. And, at least part of a home's value is judged not on what the home actu
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by sapphirecat 16y ago
> If the design is somehow more functional, ... The problem is that the design barely functioned at all. The light switch was hard to discover, and used gestures even harder to discover. How different would it be if the "smooth panel"
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by sapphirecat 16y ago
> (otherwise why would Android market share be growing?) Because it's the least-awful alternative if you don't want to go to AT&T. People will live with bad things or bad situations quite well, if they believe they have no choice.
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by sapphirecat 16y ago
Unladen swallow is still based on the 2.x series: http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/source/browse/trunk... What I'm writing today to distribute is targeted at 2.x, where x>=5. If I didn't want to distribute it, I'd be using 2.
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by sapphirecat 16y ago
> 2 - only accept solutions less painful than the problem That sounds good, but it doesn't work unless you have the experience to tell how painful the solutions you thought of actually are--which you don't have if you haven't been hurt
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by sapphirecat 16y ago
The previous distribution of python will only remain usable as long as it installs and runs on whatever machine you're using. PyGame might be fun, but I don't really see it as a true beginner's environment. It's a serious library, so it ta
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by sapphirecat 16y ago
My first thought was "PYTHON!" But then, we have an ongoing transition to 3.0, and it turns out the turtle module from 2.6 is "an extended reimplementation" that is "(nearly) 100% compatible" with the prior version included in 2.5. This is

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