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by tdavis 17y ago
Hey! Your comment is the same length as this "post"! I'm pretty sure, "Can an iPhone replace your laptop?" is a question I am capable of asking and answering for myself. I really don't see the point in this.
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As an entrepreneur, I disagree. If anything, I'm under-confident. I give pretty much every other developer (and designer) the benefit of the doubt that they're better than me. I just make websites; it's not kernel hacking or compilers, you
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Because he doesn't take himself seriously, no one is harping... I watched his talk at ART && CODE ( http://www.vimeo.com/5047563 ) and it was full of some awesome jokes at his expense. I think self-deprecation is the best of chara
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shrug You certainly could! Though judging any group of people by my comments would certainly do a disservice to that group.
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That part under "July" is meant to be mildly sarcastic; hopefully it doesn't come off as disappointment that it didn't take two months. It has been a very fun and educational ride.
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Still, some awesome enhancements nonetheless! Congratulations are in order for all contributors and the community :)
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August, 2007: Hmmm, a ticket aggregator, huh? Yeah, I can throw that together in a month over the summer. Then we can find another idea so I can work on something *hard*! July, 2009: Fuck, I'm *still* working on this thing?!
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I suppose these just seem odd to me, which was my point. Not that I find something absolutely wrong about them, anymore than I can find something wrong about a language which doesn't have mutable variables or whatever the case may be.
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To claim that Ruby is a tangled soup of options and syntactic sugar is to miss the point really. What is the point? I sincerely wish to learn, for my own intellectual curiosity. Because I have read Ruby code and I have done Ruby tutoria
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I thought I was rather clear on the fact that I wasn't speaking in absolute truths. My answers reflect my personal opinion of why I (and others like me, in some cases) choose Python over Ruby.
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Yes. Please don't do this stuff. Like, ever. Except the really twisted road taken to show that functions are first-class objects and can be passed around. That's useful. I've ran into this particular site before and something about it just
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Why is that? It can easily be proven. I'm not trying to suggest that everyone who uses Ruby is an arrogant child as I even have friends who certainly don't fit that bill, but when you have an especially abrasive attitude like that within
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Quoting an article on the topic: Having ploughed through several tutorials, I did not find Ruby particularly "elegant", or its syntax particularly obvious. Much of it seemed ad hoc, thrown together, in particular when there were several di
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Python is far more mature, isn't a strange ad-hoc combination of other languages, has a third-party library to do anything and everything (which is probably also reasonably mature), and doesn't have a community rife with arrogant children.
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A good review, other than the fact that the article incorrectly places Posterous in the same [manufactured] niche as Tumblr. Posterous is just a blogging platform that lets you use existing technologies to author and publish posts (to vario
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by tdavis 17y ago
Why would a vegan blog do this in the first place? Presumably the vast majority of vegans are so for ethical reasons; they can't possibly be allergic to anything that has once been part of an animal. In which case, veganism (?) is basically
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I've lived various stretches of my life in balanced and utterly imbalanced states and I can say with quite a bit of certainty that balance always wins, both in terms of happiness and performance. The other thing about sacrificing everythi
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I have been appropriately corrected (by you and others), thank you. I think I've spent so many years battling with anti-standards folks that I now take it personally when people advocate leaving out tags and not using a proper Doctypes and
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Right, and I'm saying that it's presumptuous to just figure "Oh, fewer bytes == faster page loads!" The data transfer may be quicker (and their costs certainly cheaper), but does it do anything to speed up the experience of the site? Not
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Being a douche is bad That's vague and subjective. Your definition of "douche" could be far removed from mine and even for douches I don't really paint things in terms of "good" or "bad". I could use this service and see it as a way to pr
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I demand to see some evidence supporting this assumption that closing tags "take up time". It seems to me that logic dictates it would take longer to parse a broken schema than a valid one. Perhaps leaving out those tags saves Google $1MM p
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Not particularly, though perhaps the technical term (which escaped me during the authoring of that comment) may help you: I was referring to Microexpressions .
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I don't know if it is really indicative of anything, but I remember micro-optimization being a rather prevalent topic during my PHP days. Perhaps it was just the folks I was reading, I don't know. The only thing worse than an article about
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Another way to be "even happier" is to learn these and other cues so that you can notice them when other people do them. Most of this stuff is involuntary, especially things like head tilting. Also, if this stuff interests you, learn about
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Well, almost anything is possible ; your argument is specious. Drug tests shouldn't rationally tell you anything more than marital status because any reasonably intelligent drug user can beat a simple piss test. If anything, a drug test is
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Awesome example of this I just found: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=675881 The original post nor the reply are particularly interesting or insightful, yet the negative one is at -4 and the positive one is at 8. Something goes here a
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How is it more about you as an employee than anything else? A positive drug test merely indicates that one has done drugs in some capacity over some recent span of time. It gives no indication if one would engage in illegal activity on comp
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"Armageddon," in this case, is more about price gouging and control than anything. They're not worried what people will do to their shitty network, they're worried about the bottom line. What if everybody ran an app that allowed you to SMS
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AFAIK, nobody yet supplies an Android handset designed for hacking itself. I think they're targeting slightly different markets (which do overlap in some areas).
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It doesn't have to even be near enterprisey before having solid schemas and relations are indispensable... Amen! Some operations necessary on our site would be so slow as to make it unusable were it not for stored procedures and multiple

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