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by the_other 10y ago
Please consider replacing all the "he"s with a word less gender-defining ("they", "s/he", "ve" etc). The entire gender spectrum can code if they want to and they should feel included rather than
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by the_other 10y ago
> This is a good point. But Google's services make a person a more powerful agent compared to others: one can navigate quicker, find better services and access information faster and more accurately. Google could provide most of tho
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by the_other 10y ago
Whilst reading, I wondered how the first guidance, "avoid abstraction", could apply to creating programmes, especially in commercial settings. "Purple", "poetic" or "tangental" function, variable and
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by the_other 10y ago
> I think the way its done in biotechnology is that the company pays and some 3rd party lab (e.g. university) then does the experiment. The OP's article suggests this method has lead to uncomfortable bises in the past.
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by the_other 10y ago
Recent car-maker shenanigans suggest industry shouldn't be trusted in this regard.
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by the_other 10y ago
Y'see, I don't think the writer "really" cares what the devices look like. I think the article attempts to hide a very serious, terrified, heart-felt objection to the f *ing horror of the Western military-industrial com
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by the_other 10y ago
That's how Dawkins treats his career as a fundamentalist atheist.
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by the_other 10y ago
I find Reddit so utterly unusable that I don't even have an account. Visiting a Reddit page, all I see is confusing tumble of interface: I can't distinguish content from controls, one level of reply from another, useful content is
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by the_other 10y ago
Fun! I like the interface and the URL pattern encoding. Here's mine: http://wa-101.net/ . I used setInterval too, because I found the web audio api docs for the timing functions rather confusing, and I'd set myself
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by the_other 10y ago
They limit their market to only those people who'll put up with DRMd music. I don't recall the dates of the decisions and changes too well but I'm pretty confident iTunes sales would have sky-rocketed some time AFTER the DRM
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by the_other 10y ago
This reads slightly hyperbolic. I suspect Apple will fight against DRM on music for quite some time having made the decision to remove it. In the past the Apple's designs needed to respect a vast pre-existing ecosystem of headphones, a
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by the_other 10y ago
In my (limited) understanding of economics, all industries coalesce from numerous small players into a small number of big players.
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by the_other 10y ago
We learned to harness ox and horses for this reason. These things don't pollute as much as a truck, and at the end of their lives we can eat them or they can become food for our ecosystem peers rather than leave them in toxic dumps. I&
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by the_other 10y ago
How much does the machinery that makes this usable (the accessors and consts) eat into your "4x saving"?
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by the_other 10y ago
The assertion and interpretation of "immaturity" on issues like this holds us all back. Perpetuating a known problem hardly seems "mature" or even "sane". I appreciate that doing things differently demands extr
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by the_other 10y ago
I've long thought that box should be checked by default (but I need it "on" so I would say that ;-) )
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by the_other 10y ago
I use them too, and like how they operate. They have the best update notes of any company I've seen (on Apple's App store) - enthusiastic, entertaining, detailed, consistent. None of this guarantees quality, but it certainly paint
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by the_other 10y ago
> If there is 'a lot of competition' - it makes cartel-like or colluding behaviour among carriers difficult, thereby facilitating de-facto net-neutrality. Can you explain this further? I struggle to see how you get from "a
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by the_other 10y ago
Is there a book or a list of ways to brush an issue under the carpet? This is one of them, one of the most pernicious. The language we use, especially the language we use casually, defines how we appear. To those outside the predominant
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by the_other 10y ago
Did his estate pay you to say that?
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by the_other 10y ago
I'm struggling to find what's different in your description from Mr Kay's. I interpreted him as saying that start-ups focus on selling a thing to a customer and your description backs this up rather than challenges it. I&#x27
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by the_other 10y ago
That's a plaster over a wound. It would be better not to have sustained the injury in the first place - and the reader didn't create the pop-up. My present interpretation of pop-ups is that the author or their publisher holds thei
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by the_other 10y ago
I nearly did the same. It's a frustrating trend in web design.
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by the_other 10y ago
Eric Schmidt would say something like that: https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
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by the_other 13y ago
> Actually, it's called "science". Science isn't about descriptions, it's about explanations. If we knew why ketamine worked, we would have finally crossed the threshold of science. Actually, science is mostly ob