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by sofal 17y ago
Keep in mind that "wrong" and "should be outlawed" are not interchangeable either. When someone argues that something is wrong, that doesn't always mean they want to strip people or companies of their right to do it anyway. Don't fight the
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by sofal 17y ago
The point is that it is a rant on a blog, and the real idiots here are you and I sitting here in a forum discussing its merits as a literary contribution to society.
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by sofal 17y ago
Let's be realistic here. Just because you can technically view a rant on some blog somewhere from anywhere in the world doesn't mean it's going to be on the minds of millions of people. This whole "publish to the world" idea is a kind of de
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by sofal 17y ago
I see this come up again and again on HN and this kind of logic keeps getting voted up: "You're complaining about [lesser evil] when there is [bigger unrelated evil]. Therefore what you say is irrelevant." Sometimes it takes on this flavor:
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by sofal 17y ago
Imagine this purely hypothetical situation for a minute: some classes are actually required for your major, and even though you are having exorbitant textbook prices extorted from you, it's still not enough to warrant quitting the major ent
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by sofal 17y ago
sigh So in the end, this is more mindless, ignorant Microsoft bashing. It simply isn't justified. Cut the guy a break. He's letting off some steam about something absolutely ridiculous that has happened to him. Don't always expect people
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by sofal 17y ago
I'm a drummer and I'm saving up for this bad boy: http://www.yamaha.com/drums/drumproductdetail.html?CNTID=568... Oh, and I would rather stab myself with a fork than play punk.
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by sofal 17y ago
For all we know, he may have given all of the same answers you did. Have you ever tried to give intelligent responses to someone who has already decided you are wrong? This is what is meant by an "emotional argument masquerading as logic".
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by sofal 17y ago
Thankfully this is not a problem at all with Vim. No doubt Emacs can easily avoid the problem as well.
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by sofal 17y ago
I think you have some interesting points. I'm going to play Devil's advocate: An assumption that you make there is that all forms of social control used for discouraging debates/speculation on certain topics are inherently bad or stem from
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by sofal 17y ago
I can verify that stuff like this works. I once wrote a Ruby script that imported drawings into Visio from XML. It took a while as you sat there and watched the boxes and lines move around and adjust themselves, but you could speed it up by
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Fingernails on Blackboard - Possible Explanation(amasci.com)
33 points by sofal 17y ago|8 comments
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by sofal 17y ago
Woops.
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by sofal 17y ago
Nice. Does this use a Markov-like algorithm for word generation?
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by sofal 17y ago
I disagree with your demands for higher quality. Why? Because it's too hard? Does the difficulty of organizing that many people and interests cancel out the need for a better user experience? Is the market going to forgive AA because it k
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by sofal 17y ago
It strikes me that there could easily be a mismatch between the actual intent of the person utilizing these tricks and the perceived intent. To the extent that these two are the same, these are great methods to use. If they are different, t
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by sofal 17y ago
Put up or shut up. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. ...or retract your insipid allegation. I want whatever you're smoking. It may help you to understand that... Good grief. Can we keep this kind of meanness out
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by sofal 17y ago
This is absolutely true for me as well. I'll turn something as simple as writing a blog post into a gigantic project because I'm too strict with what I output. If the open source tool I'm working on doesn't perform quite as well as I'd hope
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by sofal 17y ago
I also couldn't get to HN until switching off of OpenDNS.
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Google is down for OpenDNS users(search.twitter.com)
1 points by sofal 17y ago|2 comments
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by sofal 18y ago
Expressiveness isn't about saving time discriminating among different options. That's more like a form of simplicity. Expressiveness is a soft quality and is about being able to convey the thought or feeling of an algorithm in a natural way
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by sofal 18y ago
Just curious: Are you now a true believer in the "single exit always" doctrine (as well as whatever the other 37 rules were) or are you just saying that the benefits of enforcing discipline on the developers' output outweighed the disadvant
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by sofal 18y ago
This is a disaster if the senior programmers are less skilled than the junior programmers. It happens a lot in big corporations. "You have more than one return statement! Go change that." Of course if you work in a shop like that, it's advi
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by sofal 18y ago
"Ender's Game" is like the Harry Potter of the sci-fi genre. It's good adolescent reading, but I prefer more sophisticated science fiction; like Vernor Vinge, for instance.
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by sofal 18y ago
"Your concept of a woman needing to be 'pure' and fitting some set of standards you impose on them is a recipe for disaster." You have got to be kidding me. He's imposing standards on women? Since when did being selective about people who
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by sofal 18y ago
Advertising, by its very definition, is only meant to promote a product. Just turn on your TV, you will see plenty of misleading advertising that's not really illegal. Ignoring the fact that there are various degrees of misleading, from t
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by sofal 18y ago
Other perspectives: http://coderific.com/employers/7 http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Amazon-com-Reviews-E6036.ht...
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by sofal 18y ago
Is there something wrong with making more profits because of free labor performed by those who willingly give their consent for that use? I'm not sure who you think is getting hurt in this situation. Is it supposedly some third party who wa
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by sofal 18y ago
It's easy to branch the source code, but harder to branch the community, which can be one of the most important things. Sometimes a request for a feature comes with an implicit desire that it be in the main branch that everyone uses. Having
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by sofal 18y ago
The main reason why I eventually need to end up in an actual house is because when I'm finally able to afford my dream drum set, nothing is going to keep me away from it. The amount of soundproofing I would need otherwise is probably excess

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