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by scelerat 11y ago
Wait -- what? Apple Music deletes music without asking you? That seems to be what the article is stating. Same as this author, I have a large collection of digitized music, most of it ripped from a 500+ CD collection I no longer have comple
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by scelerat 11y ago
Four front page stories about why the lucky stiff's abrupt reclusion.
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by scelerat 11y ago
In my experience, any learning curve for the popular CSS preprocessors (SASS, LESS) is dwarfed by the maintenance and productivity gains. The only downside to them is that thoughtless use of them can lead to very bloated CSS builds. But onb
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by scelerat 11y ago
Algorithmic curation is in fact very good at analyzing things you like or habitually listen to, watch, read, or buy, and present you with other things you may like. In the case of Apple Music, the curation is there primarily to take advant
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by scelerat 11y ago
Having different colors for code, keywords, comments, and string literals greatly assist in scannability for me.
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by scelerat 11y ago
Thumbnails would be great. A gallery view of thumbnails, possibly accompanied by a palette of the main colors in the scheme, would greatly assist the browse-ability of the site. This is great.
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by scelerat 11y ago
Incredibly hyperbolic, considering the not-uncommon x2.5 cost for developing for both IE and Netscape, pre-IE7 or so. Not even in the same ballpark. But I get it, Safari is lagging on a lot of things, and it's frustrating.
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by scelerat 11y ago
I almost never program exclusively 8 hours in a day. When it does happen, it's either because I'm uniquely inspired -- some insight to a problem that I badly want to resolve -- or there is some crunch deadline approaching fast. Ty
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by scelerat 11y ago
I'm all for honest public reevaluation of the symbols of the CSA, but this strikes me as a cheap (for Apple) PR move and not conducive to that discussion. If anything it will feed into the paranoid narratives advanced by those who trul
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by scelerat 11y ago
> The problem with private prisons is the conflict of interest. And ought to be outlawed for this very reason, IMO.
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by scelerat 11y ago
> The point of rebasing for clarity, IMHO, is to take what might be a large, unorganized commit or commits (i.e. the result of a few hours good hacking) and turning it into a coherent story of how that feature is implemented. Isn't
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by scelerat 11y ago
My breakthrough moment with JavaScript was reading Mark Jason Dominus' ''Higher Order Perl'', and realizing everything described there could be applied to JavaScript. That and just building a lot of things with it.
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by scelerat 11y ago
Apple IMO has never really understood the social dynamics of the internet, let alone "social networking." The company they bought to incorporate into their music service (Beats) has the executive DNA of the major label music enter
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by scelerat 11y ago
Not too young here; San Francisco was one of the original bitmapped 'city' fonts which shipped with the original Macintosh operating system, alongside Monaco, Chicago, Geneva, Los Angeles, Toronto, New York, Athens, Venice, London
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by scelerat 11y ago
In the instances I encountered, 'culture fit' was the phrase we used to describe it. Communication style counts. Does the person have a sense of humor? I'm not talking about enduring off-color jokes or remarks, but are they g
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by scelerat 11y ago
In my free time I'm a musician. I play in several different projects, and know a lot of people who do the same, even making a living doing so. There's a rule of thumb in that world: "Good hang, good music, good money: don&#x2
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by scelerat 11y ago
I flew a week ago from Oakland to Burbank. Prior to showing any boarding pass or ID to a TSA official, or identifying myself in any way, my colleague and I were waved into the TSAPre line. I've never signed up for TSAPre. Basically we
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by scelerat 11y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arterial_road
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by scelerat 11y ago
You know you can bike 8-10 miles in an hour or less, right? Not saying that's the solution for your specific situation, but a lot of what we're talking about comes down to collective inability to move beyond 100% car culture and i
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by scelerat 11y ago
Waze has synthesized voice instructions to "turn left at Oak Glen Circle." I call that "direction." You call it "information." Potayto, Potahto? Also, "promise," meaning indicative of potential.
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by scelerat 11y ago
I agree with grandparent. It's rude to cut through residential streets just to bypass traffic. Residential streets are there to support the activity of those residents, which includes getting to and from their homes, walking across the
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by scelerat 11y ago
Waze is more than information. It provides directions to drivers, with the promise of speeding a commute. It appeals directly to people in a hurry, and it directs them through residential neighborhoods not designed for through traffic. A re
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by scelerat 11y ago
Part of me is with this councilmember: cities put effort into planning and zoning for the benefits of all citizens, not just those who are driving automobiles. Another part of me says, traffic has gotten bad because transportation infrastru
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by scelerat 11y ago
Stewart's comparisons remind me of Eddie Izzard's riff on mass murderers. Small numbers of crimes, committed by a small number of people: easy to grasp and easy to prosecute; large numbers of crimes committed systemically: the min
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by scelerat 12y ago
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Waldo E. Martin http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15722514-black-against-em... A comprehensive study of the origins, actions, philoso
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by scelerat 12y ago
I'll make no strong apology for JavaScript besides saying that compared to other "popular" languages I have had the opportunity to use professionally -- a list that includes perl, php, and vbscript -- JavaScript annoys me con
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by scelerat 12y ago
"I would much rather read about what companies are doing than the state of the markets." This statement rings true for me when applied to much writing that passes for journalism. "Horse race journalism," is the word for
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by scelerat 12y ago
Loss of MagSafe is huge. I can't count how many times it's prevented a mangled receptacle or saved a laptop from flying to the floor.
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by scelerat 12y ago
No, the coffee is quite good. Their roasts are unlike anything at Starbucks or Peet's or Blue Bottle. They are distinctive and tasty. There's a definite Turkish spin to the flavor of most of their roasts. That's the best I ca
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by scelerat 12y ago
I think packaging falls under the rubric of "trade dress" -- different than trademarks, which generally involves words and symbols. So if a competitor is selling red hot sauce in a bottle shaped just like a Huy Fong Sriracha bottl

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