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by trgv 9y ago
Can't they just add another argument for the options map without breaking backwards compatibility? That's ugly as hell too, but in a way that preserves backwards compatibility. My feeling is that so many compromises have been made
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by trgv 9y ago
Well I don't know what goes on at "marketing school" but here's my view: Knowing your audience seems really important to this discussion. Those of us with technical knowledge immediately want to know "what does it
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by trgv 9y ago
Meanwhile, in marketing school, there's a teacher writing on a whiteboard: "Never ever tell anyone what your company does."
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by trgv 9y ago
> a man wouldn't have to think about his personal safety as much by attending the event they won. Can you elaborate?
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by trgv 9y ago
I don't think "this" in JavaScript was a bad design decision. The bad decision was how functions create their own scope in unexpected situations. Also, I think modern JavaScript still requires a lot of "this," jus
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by trgv 9y ago
In fact it's totally subjective, for many of the reasons you pointed out. More specifically, I'd say that there are rules based on who you want to please. People who think "X popular fiction is stylistically poor," do t
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by trgv 9y ago
Definitions aside, you're just listing "groups" or "ideologies" or whatever you want to call them and then acting like you can objectively determine which are acceptable and which are not. That's also what red
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by trgv 9y ago
There isn't a single mindset about this stuff in the US, or in France I assume. I'm American and I'm bewildered as to how people can be significantly overweight, much less obese. I would note that many/most obese people
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by trgv 9y ago
> I doubt that peoples' capacity for willpower has changed, but that the exercise of that capacity has. You say this so matter-of-factly but it's actually quite a claim. I think people are right to call you on it. I understand
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by trgv 9y ago
> More and more people eat junk food thanks to food corporations propaganda and lobbying. I think there are simpler explanations. I imagine people like the way it tastes plus it's extremely cheap and takes very little time to prep
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by trgv 9y ago
I don't think the threats are credible. I don't see what NK would gain from "nuking Guam," besides the end of their country. It's just posturing, and "putting Nuclear Bombers on 24-hour alert" is also jus
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by trgv 9y ago
Amends aren't hard to do, especially if you get to type them out and proofread them. He says the question is "how can I do better?" That's not the question. The question is, will he be charged, and, if he is, what conc
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by trgv 9y ago
It's not immediately clear to me how this proposal differs from "a nicer JavaScript wrapper around Web Workers." Don't get me wrong, I'm hugely in favor of that being added to the language, but I feel like the readm
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by trgv 9y ago
I think they were violating guidelines in that they qualified as off-topic. Is that worth a flag? I'm not sure. But I don't think they should have been flagged "because I disagree with them."
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by trgv 9y ago
Here are some posts whose flags I consider questionable: Harvey, the Storm That Humans Helped Cause (23 points) ES6 imports syntax considered harmful (12 points) White-Owned Restaurants Shamed for Serving Ethnic Food (33 points) The eviden
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by trgv 9y ago
I think it's very unlikely that this company will be able to keep the bodies preserved until we develop the technology to revive them. I also think it's unlikely that a future society will allocate resources to revive these people
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by trgv 9y ago
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > Off-
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by trgv 9y ago
It's not always "anti-anti-Trump." I'm anti-Trump but I'm also anti-politics-at-work. There's no contradiction there.
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by trgv 9y ago
Take a day off if you're so emotionally affected by something that you're unable to stop crying. Or work from home. Anything else is likely to be disruptive to your coworkers. I have a lot of empathy for people experiencing emoti
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by trgv 9y ago
It's disturbing to me how many people here seem to be okay with executives and higher-ups expressing grief over the results of an election, in the office. I don't think that stuff has any place at work. It's a red-flag to me
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by trgv 9y ago
So Trump is objectively bad and it's important for business executives and higher-ups to openly acknowledge this. In the workplace. Got it.
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by trgv 9y ago
> So, in my opinion, the true benefit of WASM is the ability to compile into it from other low-level languages, but not the preformance. That may be true for now, but there are other advantages that have at least something to do with per
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by trgv 9y ago
I agree. I think man-made climate change is looking pretty good as a hypothesis, but there is a lot of noise in the media about personally observing climate change that strikes me as phony. One specific example of this is hurricane season
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by trgv 9y ago
My understanding is that there are a lot of cranks who argue with interviewers and then get declined for a clearance, which is pretty much what you'd expect.
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by trgv 9y ago
That's one theory. I find myself wondering what exactly differentiates a "government" from a "family council" or "tribal leadership" or whatever other phrase you want to use to describe an "authority
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by trgv 9y ago
Assuming that psilocybin is effective at treating depression, I find myself wondering whether actual conscious experience (that is, being high) is an essential part of its effectiveness or not. To put this another way, imagine someone takes
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by trgv 9y ago
> No one criticizes him for speaking with his dialect of English. He doesn't have to code switch. He speaks the way he speaks, he's understood and respected. This is an anecdote, not a rule. It's good that no one is judgi
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by trgv 9y ago
In my mind Ridley Scott's decision to include the voiceover in the film more or less disqualifies him from rendering a final judgement about this stuff. Scott is an interesting filmmaker. Blade Runner and Alien are two of the best fil
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by trgv 9y ago
To some degree that is what happened, though I'm sure he was screwed by a lawyer rather than the artist himself. When they offered this songwriter some % of song royalties, they knew ahead of time that it wasn't going to be a whol
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by trgv 9y ago
If you use enough of them, of course.

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