slang800

24 ms·

211.
by slang800 11y ago
> Medium is a blogging platform. The comparison is just plain wrong. Yes, I'm familiar with the type of work they publish, but I'm talking about those beautiful full-width images they use ( https://help.medium.com&#x2
212.
by slang800 11y ago
> Piece-mealing helps people remember the content better. Chunking (in the context of cognitive science) does help with recall, but I rarely see pages being used to group relevant information... The tendency seems to be "fit as much
213.
by slang800 11y ago
If being nice precludes offering a legitimate criticism, then I'm happy to be mean. I didn't use an ad-hominem, or attack some trivial mistake in their implementation. I am opening a conversation on, what I see as, a growing trend
214.
by slang800 11y ago
I'm so tired of sites trying to bring animated/turnable pages to the web. Pages make sense when you're constrained to to the size of a physical book, but here on the web you can have infinitely long pages with sections divide
215.
by slang800 11y ago
> Guess what? In the real world, this model quickly leads to a multitude of issues. The most obvious example is that if a package is removed for any reason, chaos quickly spreads... That’s actually not the main problem though. Not only i
216.
by slang800 11y ago
No - this spec is just for defining a media type. I doubt that browsers are going to touch Markdown anytime soon, given the number of flavors we have right now. However, you can do it with a plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org&#x2
217.
by slang800 11y ago
No - then you won't get updates easily and everyone reading your project would have to make sure that your copy of the module hasn't diverged from the original module before working with it, especially if it's a larger module
218.
by slang800 11y ago
Not for financial reasons at all - it's convenience, the ability to get releases earlier, and the lack of DRM-free video on legal sites.
219.
by slang800 11y ago
> Do you realize that many researchers would be ashamed if others saw their latex code? The exact same think could be said about HTML, but that hasn't stopped people...
220.
by slang800 11y ago
Then you just use more specialized content aggregators or more specific searches. To make an analogy to reddit - rather than following r/math, you'd follow a specific topic like r/compling.
221.
by slang800 11y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the argument behind this piece seems to essentially be "ignorance is bliss and science is bad because it takes away the mystery"? It's hard to imagine a more anti-intellectual view than that.
222.
by slang800 11y ago
"One user sends an image and the other cannot display it" deals with features between two clients... I fail to see how this would be a more general issue with allowing different UIs. Especially since most chat clients do support t
223.
by slang800 11y ago
Does Google actually have a history of destroying companies that they acquire?
224.
by slang800 11y ago
Maybe, but does anyone think about the ad-buying system that they are supporting before they click on an ad? Personally, I doubt that ethical consumerism runs that deep.
225.
by slang800 11y ago
Especially since the robots that BD is making are prohibitively expensive, and will remain that way for several years. If anything is going to take away human jobs, it's the software at the core of Google's business, which costs n
226.
by slang800 11y ago
Then just compile the library and everything will read like really well-written JS.
227.
by slang800 11y ago
link for those who aren't familiar: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/Ambrosia_Times/January_96/3.1HowTo...
228.
by slang800 11y ago
Yeah, I agree about the term "threads" - it doesn't make for a very direct metaphor. As for functions, I think the term makes sense, even with the non-mathematical definition, and especially in the context of OOP: > an act
229.
by slang800 11y ago
I'm not sure if a term like "tasks" / "jobs" / "actions" makes more sense. You wouldn't necessarily separate each thing that a program does into a new thread... Functions are for separating
230.
by slang800 11y ago
> [Lecter] calls [Clarice] at the end of the movie, relaxed, content and ready to murder (and eat) his psychiatrist. He promises her that she’s safe from him and hangs up to follow his prey, while Clarice remains on the phone, repeating
231.
by slang800 11y ago
Non-substance addictions (including internet use) lack the physical dependence created by drugs like cocaine. So, it would be hard to compare them to "super-crack". I could certainly see how, for example, repeatedly checking your
232.
by slang800 11y ago
I think you mean "Brainfuck", I can't find a programming language called "Brain".
233.
by slang800 11y ago
> Functions, arguments, classes, methods, objects, threads, locks, all these are reassuring everyday words, and yet their meaning in programming (and math) bears no relation to their everyday meaning. (from http://akkartik.nam
234.
by slang800 11y ago
Start with Python because it's relatively easy and makes sense. [Learn Python the Hard Way]( http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ ) is a good resource. After you've got a Python project under your belt, learn
235.
by slang800 11y ago
This isn't a bug or a bad default - your email address was never supposed to be private... that's how people contact you (besides the GitHub issues system).
236.
by slang800 11y ago
Not having proper resources isn't a reason to infringe upon the freedoms of the people. If the police can't handle their work, then they should just ignore less important crimes and focus their efforts on the stuff that matters. O
237.
by slang800 11y ago
You can look at https://github.com/nylas/n1 (also mentioned elsewhere in this thread)
238.
by slang800 11y ago
That's hardly a reason to not open-source. You're not required to provide support just because you release your source code. Even a dump of their repositories would be useful for people who are interested in Mailbox.
239.
by slang800 11y ago
You can use [redshift]( https://github.com/jonls/redshift ) - it's like f.lux, except it respects your freedom.
240.
by slang800 11y ago
How are those changes radical or controversial?

More ›