theknown99

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by theknown99 13y ago
If you went around capturing and torturing spiders, would you be called an arachnophobe? It's just a bit silly. Yes, words get misused all the time, and English is imperfect, but this one just seems ridiculous to me.
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by theknown99 13y ago
So instead of evidence, you've stated a case of a rock group who vandalised a church... Well that proves it then! Russia is obviously clearly a "baddie".
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by theknown99 13y ago
Verging offtopic I guess but: As an example though, I'm not a pedophileaphobe - I'm not afraid of pedophiles. I think what they do is wrong. The number of people who are "afraid" of homosexuals is miniscule. Most people
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by theknown99 13y ago
Cite some evidence to show that "saying someone is hot" is illegal in Russia. Perhaps if you said it amongst some school kids...
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by theknown99 13y ago
Both are offensive to some section of the population...
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by theknown99 13y ago
It's a contentious issue, and a bit of an inflammatory comic. I'm not surprised they pulled it. Imagine it was about abortion or gun control.
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by theknown99 13y ago
Perhaps because "homophobia" isn't a good word for it. Hitler wasn't a jewphobe.
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by theknown99 13y ago
Not really. You don't need to know about iterators, closures, generators, concurrency, exceptions, etc etc to be able to make useful software. Sure, learn about those things if it looks like you might need them for something, but all o
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by theknown99 13y ago
The crutial thing for people wanting to learn programming is to get "hooked". Once you're hooked, you'll learn everything there is to know about programming as and when you need it. What is more important than teaching p
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by theknown99 13y ago
Depends where you are. Sadly, he cannot opt out of R.E which seems like a massive step backwards to me. His school also allows you to opt out entirely from foreign languages, which he has done, which is a good move IMHO. I hated having to d
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by theknown99 13y ago
Disagree. You can learn all you need to know in a day to get "hooked". As stated elsewhere, 10 print "Hello!" 20 goto 10 Then just variations on that theme, lookup other functions etc. We don't need schools to teach
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by theknown99 13y ago
I'm not sure it's quite arm chair quarterbacking. I've written a few webchat clients. The point is, if you bought campfire, all you'd really be buying is the existing customer base.
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by theknown99 13y ago
That's the point though. It's largely down to luck. It's not about some cutesy generalizations you distil into a formula for success and release as a book. It's certainly not about what language/framework you decide
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by theknown99 13y ago
"Talent and know how"? Seriously? Is writing a webchat client some black dark art? There's nothing much you need to know to write a webchat client. Campfire isn't high volume, so it doesn't need to be too efficient
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by theknown99 13y ago
So why did they cry and make google remove the webchat client then? The idea that campfire is refined to perfection is laughable.
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by theknown99 13y ago
Github would be better to write a campfire clone in a day or so, and roll it out. I'm betting github has a larger userbase than campfire, so what would be the point in paying a few million for campfire?
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by theknown99 13y ago
It was also a pretty dick move when they complained after someone (from Google?) reimplemented campfire in a day, and made them take it down. If your entire product can be copied in a day, it's probably not that great.
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by theknown99 13y ago
They made basecamp, and write articles about how awesome they are.
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by theknown99 13y ago
How can you be a "startup" for 10 years? Will they ever stop being a "startup"?
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by theknown99 13y ago
Do you remember being at school, and being told that coal would run out by 2005, oil would run out by 2010, etc etc? Didn't happen. Remember seeing Al Gores film where he said the ice caps would vanish by 2012?
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by theknown99 13y ago
Also reducing population growth would be a good thing. The worlds population has doubled in the last 30 years, placing ridiculous demands on our planet.
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by theknown99 13y ago
The amount of time, energy and money wasted on this "problem" is staggering to me. Imagine if we put that time, money and resources to better use to solve real problems that affect peoples lives day in and day out.
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by theknown99 13y ago
Also wouldn't it basically be unprecedented if the climate didn't change? Of course the climate is changing. Like it has done for millions of years. Big whoop.
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by theknown99 13y ago
It's far easier to just logout, and create a new account.
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by theknown99 13y ago
Until the next time... Seriously. Hellbanning is the worst part of hacker news.
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by theknown99 13y ago
Bad language/platform/library choices. People go for what's hip rather than what's efficient.