sirmarksalot

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by sirmarksalot 6y ago
I was about to weigh in on how 9-slicing is absolutely a valid strategy for UI components, and give you an example from my professional work, only to realize that I can't think of a single example that wasn't, "hack around so
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by sirmarksalot 6y ago
Especially considering how unforgiving the battles can be at times. The slapdash "throw every mechanic in" gameplay design and stair-step leveling curve makes for an ever-repeating swing between complete invulnerability and intens
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by sirmarksalot 6y ago
For these kinds of purposes, I liken most video games to drugs, or junk food -- they're designed to appeal to some of our instincts without actually satisfying the needs those instincts are meant to address. They offer us novelty witho
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by sirmarksalot 7y ago
While lots of legacy code emerges organically the way you describe, there are in fact many people in the industry who I'd call "legacy coders." People who saw Dijkstra's "Goto considered harmful" and scoffed, &
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by sirmarksalot 7y ago
I don't buy this. There's significantly more work involved in organizing a new union vs. improving an existing one. For one thing, the channels of communication in a non-unionized workforce simply do not exist. Companies like Amaz
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by sirmarksalot 8y ago
For all your apology, you're still basically arguing that since a few cyclists flout the rules, we should actively make traffic more dangerous for them and encourage them to drive more.
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by sirmarksalot 8y ago
It's really just a clickbait title. If you look at his channel, he has an entire series called "What's RUINING/RUINED," all of which is basically him reading Wikipedia while playing cartoon footage.
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by sirmarksalot 8y ago
The problem with the expert beginner is that they refuse to learn the new tool, because in their mind the old way worked perfectly fine. The developer who recognizes the value of these systems and takes the time to learn their intricacies i
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by sirmarksalot 8y ago
Not a lawyer, but I'd presume the reason a defendant would file for summary judgment would be to avoid the financial burden associated with a meritless case. If summary judgment is rejected, then making an appeal would likely be more e
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by sirmarksalot 8y ago
Just a note, "Legend of the Drunken Master" is more heavily edited than you may be aware. Here's a video illustrating some of the problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A1vMKS6jFg I wouldn't recommen
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by sirmarksalot 8y ago
I don't think most people truly appreciate how good his direction is, even if they enjoy watching him on screen. This oversight extends to Hollywood producers, who insist that his classic movies require "adaptation" before re
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by sirmarksalot 8y ago
Necessary but not sufficient.
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by sirmarksalot 8y ago
When people routinely park in bike lanes, the problem is usually cultural, i.e. people know they're not supposed to do it, but they decide to do it anyway. Near where I work in Bellevue WA, they recently restriped the road to have a br
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by sirmarksalot 8y ago
This sounds like a difficult problem, because compostability and shelf stability are contradictory goals. Pretty much by definition, anything that doesn't break down on a store shelf after a day, is going to pile up in the compost pile
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by sirmarksalot 8y ago
That seems like a very small efficiency gain. At one bag per week, a single, recyclable cardboard box of 45 garbage bags will last you just under a year. Each box folds down to about one legal-size manilla envelope. I'm personally okay
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by sirmarksalot 8y ago
Japanese privatization is an interesting phenomenon, where crony capitalism gives the corporations immense power, but simultaneously a huge responsibility act like societal patriarchs. At least on the outside, a big corporation can't b
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by sirmarksalot 8y ago
This is the right answer. An internet message board is going to give you all kinds of advice, some of it good and some of it bad, and all of it made without key information about your situation.
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by sirmarksalot 8y ago
While we're at it, I hate when you click on a search result hoping to see the location, but instead it covers up your entire screen with pictures of food.
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by sirmarksalot 8y ago
That also doesn't seem surprising in the least, though some properly incentivized individuals might feign surprise. Using the same gut logic, very few people are thinking 100 years in the future when they decide to take on a project. 5
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by sirmarksalot 8y ago
There are no studies because the only data set we have is the world we live in, where all the wealthy nations have some notion of copyright. It seems obvious that IP provides some incentive to create, although how much is completely unkno
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by sirmarksalot 9y ago
Even as a teenager, I found it pretty cringy.
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by sirmarksalot 9y ago
So many video game movie projects are missing the simple question, "why?" So many of these games are inspired by movies in the first place, and their stories are mostly just cliches based on their source material. It's fine i
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by sirmarksalot 9y ago
Not only that, but SMS was extremely expensive in the US. If you didn't have a text plan, they cost $0.20-$0.30 a message, and unlimited plans were in the neighborhood of $30 a month. Texting didn't really take off in the US until
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by sirmarksalot 9y ago
And you're typing this comment from a full-featured Javascript IDE.
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by sirmarksalot 9y ago
Guessing that would fall under "performance" as well, but each jukebox would be separately licensed. In the case of something like Spotify, it's n jukeboxes, where n is the number of total users. Of course, that's absurd
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by sirmarksalot 9y ago
Depending on the timeline, this may have overlapped with the dot-com crash, in which case a programmer would be happy to have any job they could get.
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by sirmarksalot 9y ago
Most importantly, the page could easily wait until the login manager fills it in, and then immediately hide the form.
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by sirmarksalot 9y ago
So implement "rotateToTop" in an AVL tree?
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by sirmarksalot 9y ago
The issue isn't with the level of abstraction, but with the side-effect based workflow of some of the more common commands. The most visible of these is unstaging a file. The syntax is "git reset -- <file path>". What d
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by sirmarksalot 9y ago
I disagree here. Case-insensitive file systems have existed for decades, and are part of the development landscape. Any tool that works across multiple machines needs to support them. In this case, I blame Bitbucket, for not providing any w

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