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by spoiler 11y ago
> Or is the word pusillanimous a derogatory term? I'm extremely confused by your distain of the phrase "pussied out." I think they meant "manning up" signifies to act like a man, while "pussied out" is
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by spoiler 11y ago
Makes you wonder if @jlgaddis set us on this path of discovery on purpose. This is hilarious, by the way! Thanks for linking it.
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by spoiler 11y ago
Whole PC freezes (except the cursor) with GeForce GT 610 in Chrome (Linux) on the demo. Can't even switch to another tty to kill the process. The PC is average otherwise (AMD FX 8320 with 8GB of RAM).
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by spoiler 11y ago
It's like @uptown described it. It's not so much about what technology is used, but the overall design, work flow, and the user requirements of the Web app. Let's take Facebook.com for example, feels more like a website, whil
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by spoiler 11y ago
I wasn't aware that kernel did that. Now that you said it, it's obvious that they would, but it never actually crossed my mind. Thanks for providing some insight and making me a bit wiser! :-)
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by spoiler 11y ago
This is a very nice analogy! I might borrow that in the future. :-) It got me thinking: it's quite easy to come up with effective car/garage/road analogies.
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by spoiler 11y ago
It feels to me like the author used WebSockets for the wrong thing. I don't think WebSockets belong on a website (even an interactive one as discourse, it is still a website based on my criteria). They'd be more apt in web appl
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by spoiler 11y ago
Well, the only drawback that comes to mind is that you can't mutate the state of that blob (well, you can , but you really really shouldn't). Also if it's obscenely large, it might be better to keep it on disk and load onl
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by spoiler 11y ago
I think everyone can agree that Linux's biggest shortcomings on desktops/laptops are the graphical and audio part. So, even though I agree with "As soon as someone is willing and able to put in the effort on desktop Linux, it
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by spoiler 11y ago
I rarely work with cstrings directly, and even then I don't tend to use them (`strcat`/`strncat`) myself; I tend to use `memcpy`/`memmove` instead. However, I'm curious why do you say they shouldn't be used? Is ther
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by spoiler 11y ago
Not to mention, I don't really see all the fuss about EventMachine. I worked with it a few years ago, and it had some very subtle bugs that caused me hours upon hours of headache; it would deadlock under more stressful workloads, or it
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by spoiler 11y ago
This. Is. So. Amazing. Specially since I am a horrible typist. This is a great and extremly fun way to improve one's typing skills! The effects are also great
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by spoiler 11y ago
OS X only, though. I noticed a lot of similar tools are specifically tailored for OS X. Is there a reason for it?
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by spoiler 11y ago
I took the tech support job because it was the only tech-related job. If I do get to doing work remotely, I'd enjoy development more than TS.
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by spoiler 11y ago
I could leave, but I am not sure I want to. I like the people and some of them have become my good friends and the job was genuinely fun until I became a donkey. I have enjoyed most of it, apart from the parts highlighted earlier which fr
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by spoiler 11y ago
It's nice to see someone have such a nice experience with their employment history. I actually have the opposite experience. tldr: I am happy you had such good luck; mine sucked. Worked in Tech Support (for a tech-related company), mad
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by spoiler 11y ago
Same here, also, I would like to add out that we in generally tend to use Bootstrap only for internal admin interfaces, not for the ones that out end-client would see, though. Even then, those are prototypes that get replaced by more adequa
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by spoiler 11y ago
I fail to see how privacy/crypto apps helped them. They could've as well used DIY "apps" or alternate channels of communication (which could be encrypted).
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by spoiler 11y ago
tl;dr ant escapes. Bites human. So it begins; the end. P.S: It's just a joke!
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by spoiler 11y ago
> Many, many people define "critical thinking" as "thinking like I do." This should be emphasized more. I was dating a guy who claimed to be a critical thinker, which actually was worse than what you described here. E
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by spoiler 11y ago
> Look, it's the guy's own personal twitter account. He can say what he wants. And he's put his own work into an open source project, voluntarily. He's promoting Opal on that same Twitter account, though. A parallel:
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by spoiler 11y ago
> why on earth do you feel that you're an authority on how people _will_ behave? I am not an authority on how people will behave; it was simply a prognosis. I am sorry, if I somehow implied otherwise. > don't judge everyone
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by spoiler 11y ago
Sorry for the late reply. I still don't understand why special syntax is needed for it, though. As far as I understood your arguments, they keep pointing out flaws in my implementation (which is far from optimised). You could mimic its
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by spoiler 11y ago
> If we detect sites serving dodgy links then they're instantly shut down until the customer can prove they've secured the site. We have a similar approach to this actually. The exception being that we clean the malware ourselv
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by spoiler 11y ago
I agree with CoralineAda on her views, however her approach to these issues is almost always wrong (the two of us had discussion on this many times). With that being said, I wouldn't personally contribute to Opal because of Elia. The
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by spoiler 11y ago
WordPress in itself isn't that unsafe; they are pretty diligent in fixing bugs and security issues. However that is not true about plugins, themes, various theme/plugin frameworks developed for WordPress[1], or custom-tailored t
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by spoiler 11y ago
> So, "nil" is not a primitive value in Ruby Almost nothing is a primitive value in Ruby. Not even true/false/numbers are "traditional" primitive values. > Let's get back to the example, let's s
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by spoiler 11y ago
I am aware of where it's used, and I am aware it can be convenient, although I am not very enthusiastic about using it. > I suspect it's related to HTML forms only including successful controls Yeah, this is a good point, since
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by spoiler 11y ago
It would be trivially easy to support arguments, though. What comes to mind is to send a Hash or Array after a method (represented by a Symbol) that expects/accepts an argument: o.chain :foo, [1, 2, 3], :bar, :baz, {key: 'va
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by spoiler 11y ago
It's arguable whether NilClass#blank? is very -useful (the same can be said for #to_a, #to_c, #to_f, #to_h, #to_i, #to_r, and #to_s). I'd call it marginally convenient, because you have to type less, but it doesn't increase

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