superswordfish

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by superswordfish 10y ago
Regarding language, I'm going to guess that you downloaded a localized build that set that locale as the preferred language, or that it is coming from your OS: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/94954
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by superswordfish 10y ago
This is neither here nor there, but how could agile be a noun? Did you mean an adjective?
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by superswordfish 10y ago
It seems like we're discovering a bunch of technologies that involve removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere now (and even using it as a resource). That isn't the only problem gas, but I'm optimistic that we will solve th
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by superswordfish 10y ago
You're going after my hyperbolic recommendation (it follows "hell,") and calling me ignorant when we merely disagree. This is a waste of time.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
It really depends on the project. I'd prefer Clojure or Erlang for most frontends, a Lisp for the backend of an expert system, and C++ or OCaml for any heavy lifting. Python still can be a great choice for all sorts of systems too. Swi
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by superswordfish 10y ago
> ignoring years of research and good ideas And people are falling over themselves to use Go in places that seem inappropriate. Most of Go's strengths shine in a large team of mediocre developers: Low build times, low abstraction, q
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by superswordfish 10y ago
This sounds like fear-mongering. Is there reason to believe that foreign researchers will have a hard time getting into the UK? This surely is not an issue for the US, which is not part of the EU.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
They probably ought to recast ballots until the desired outcome. You can't let people make the wrong choice.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Would you say marmalade is healthy? It's certainly tasty. It has calories so in the context of starvation, it's absolutely healthy. What's so tacky about this is that there are only cynical reasons to discuss manifestly unhea
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by superswordfish 10y ago
That woo is everywhere now though. Not sure why you're bringing race into it.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Worth noting that that is best fixed with a "viewport" <META> tag rather than CSS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Mobile/View...
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Just as bad is how it's made trash-grade corn the preferred livestock feed.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Fair enough, I saw it as an attack on no-frills developer-oriented content in favor of some notion of beauty. Mailman pages, like most GNU HTML, are simple and excellent. They're accessible, resize predictably, readable, and they fill
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by superswordfish 10y ago
In the US sugar is listed without a DV% as well. People might reconsider a Milky Way if they knew it had 70% of your daily recommended added sugar intake (per the article's 45g). I LOLed at https://www.milkywaybar.com/n
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by superswordfish 10y ago
There are many upsetting things about Whole Foods, but the food there is pretty varied, no?
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Have you seriously never seen mailman before? You must've taken a wrong turn getting here. Of course bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com uses #444 on white. bestestmotherfuckingwebsite.com probably dials it up to #777 with a light sans-seri
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Pensions. There will likely come a time when most of us are no longer employable. We have (or will have) put our lives into this and made a small group of people very wealthy. Without negotiating from a position of relative strength, we wil
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Almost every reply to my comment talks about saving jobs, but I never even brought that up. Organization is important because you want to be left with something more than a seat at the unemployment office when your job does disappear.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
In any case, HN is not one person, and you will not find me defending those businesses.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
We already have a post-scarcity economy. There is enough of everything to go around for everybody. Kropotkin talked about this in "The Conquest of Bread" in the 19th century . If history is a lesson, no degree of abundance will r
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by superswordfish 10y ago
This wouldn't harm me in the short term alone, it would be a lost career and a life catastrophe. A taxi driver can work as an Uber driver. I cannot become an automated programmer. So I don't give a damn about the "greater goo
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Well that's why they're courting not just experts, but "strong experts" of machine learning, whatever that means :P
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by superswordfish 10y ago
> 2. Build an agent to win online programming competitions. A program that can write other programs would be, for obvious reasons, very powerful. The people on top desperately want us gone, and when it happens it'll happen so quickl
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Once upon a time. Sadly, now a position as a Google SRE seems most prized here, followed by work for other big corps.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
> triggered enough to actually do it. What does this mean? Do you mean "provoked"?
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Good point, either way it is ugly that normal code is now a string. It is in rollup.config.js so maybe this is imposed by "Rollup", but I'm not about to go find how the "outro" option differs from the "footer&q
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by superswordfish 10y ago
I wonder what justifies turning normal code into a string to eval(): https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/pull/9310/files#diff-2ac7... becomes https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/p
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by superswordfish 10y ago
That's assuming that what's in this book is exceptional (which you can't tell without a preview). I didn't think that Practical Object-Oriented Ruby was incredible, though it is a well-written tutorial of basic OO techni
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by superswordfish 10y ago
One objection I can think of is that Ruby is dynamically typed. Something that is elegant in Ruby might be a horror in Java.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
This is nothing, I've seen some pretty substantial JS apps that are only one line.

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