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by unconed 14y ago
Falkvinge makes an excellent rebuttal to your point. There IS a huge market for videos of violence. It's called the evening news, and they are all over that shit.
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by unconed 14y ago
"Why would you want to accept and encourage behavior that is not sane?" Because the evidence continues to stack up in staggering amounts that sexual preference is innate and out of our control. That attempting to suppress it without any out
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by unconed 14y ago
Did you not see the Samsung internal slide deck that came out in the proceedings, showing page after page of comparisons between iPhone and Touchwiz apps and which parts Samsung should copy? As a software developer, I'm really tired of peop
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by unconed 14y ago
"I didn't want to share the user profiles with non-users." And yet, if someone wants to harvest profiles, they'll just sign up with a fake/throwaway email address, while legitimate users have to give up real information to do the same.
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by unconed 14y ago
A long time ago I made some silly music visualizations for Winamp that ended up shipping with the official download. Years later, a picture surfaced showing an astronaut on the ISS using Winamp on his laptop... which means my code made it o
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by unconed 14y ago
Seeing that I would be a web developer designing real products for the real world, yes, I would appreciate being exposed to the grander political and social context of my work, because nothing is created in a vacuum, and anything involving
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by unconed 14y ago
Meanwhile, the Mac OS X users are buying magic trackpads in droves, scrolling and swiping between their windows and virtual desktops with ease, and enjoying non-crippled desktop apps... A lot of the awkward controls in Windows 8 seem to ste
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by unconed 14y ago
What's funny is that D-Wave is actually taking the smart approach. They're not trying to build a general purpose quantum computer, they're trying to build an architecture to solve a particular class of problems using quantum computing, whic
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by unconed 14y ago
It's pretty hilarious that this is in one area in which Linux put the user first, while OS X has been plagued by the engineers saying "there is no problem" over and over again.
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by unconed 14y ago
The 'sound_alarms' call looks more like a local method to me, which could invoke the speaker in a loosely coupled fashion. The point is more about putting the behavior itself in the object. For unit testing, you'd want to move the individua
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by unconed 14y ago
Excellent. As a self-taught hacker, I always felt like I was missing something about OO, because it's introduced with an analogy to real world objects, while glossing over the more subtle contracts that programming objects have with each ot
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by unconed 14y ago
What i don't get is why they made this one feature bundling all the new behavior, as opposed to letting you decide for yourself if you want css inheritance, auto sizing, auto targets, etc
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by unconed 14y ago
But mods generally fall into two categories... those that take place within the existing game's world, and total conversions. In the case of total conversions, what's being reused is typically the engine, not the assets, and in the other ca
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by unconed 14y ago
My main objection comes from the fact that I do both development and design, and I've seen a lot of developers act like art can be reused just the same as code, with no ill effects. But humans are excellent pattern matchers, and we do pick
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by unconed 14y ago
If everyone used the same assets, games would all have the same blandness. No thank you.
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by unconed 14y ago
Mentally, I always think of multiple monitors consisting of one space. Mission Control ruins that by displaying each space on each monitor separately, so windows that are side-by-side on different monitors no longer appear side by side in M
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by unconed 14y ago
The emoji unicode range was created to standardize the various characters used on Japanese mobiles. Hence why it contains e.g. the Love Hotel icon.
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by unconed 14y ago
Which is fine for SQL injection, but completely ignores every other context, of which there are many, and which don't have PDO-like APIs. That's what I meant by PHP getting it wrong. The entire filter pipeline is built to assume you're outp
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by unconed 14y ago
This is true for all structured data, but the problem always comes from freeform text fields, which you cannot filter for one context without mangling or destroying the data for all other purposes—except perhaps trivial things like trimming
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by unconed 14y ago
This the wrong way to look at it, and yes, the PHP world always does this wrong because they're too focused on HTML. SQL injection occurs when you're not escaping data while producing output , namely, an SQL query sent to the DB. XSS attac
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by unconed 14y ago
"completely bullshit reporting, completely oblivious to what has gone before drowns out everything else." This is really the crux of the problem. Reporting has lost its memory, and PR-copy-pasting substitutes for in-depth analysis. Everythi
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by unconed 14y ago
It's not a mix up. It stands for computer-generated imagery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-generated_imagery
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by unconed 14y ago
Probably because the guy's presentation style is terrible, rushed, and his slides are a graphical disaster. He jumps from overload to overload, connecting with "obviously" and "as you can see". There is no overview, nothing connecting the e
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by unconed 14y ago
This is a complete fallacy and ignores everything inside. The iPhone wasn't just the hardware—though it was very good for what it did, with e.g. Android taking 3 years to match the multi-touch or accelerometer sensor quality even on their f
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by unconed 14y ago
The only thing that works well for lots of people is Facebook, twitter and google login. Mozilla's browserID might change things, but I'm neither holding my breath or expecting it to work well anytime soon. This is Mozilla after all.
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by unconed 14y ago
OpenID is dead. It was flawed from the beginning, they botched the deployment, and it's useless outside of the you-sitting-in-front-of-browser context. Mobile apps, delegating access, exchanging profile data... not supported.
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by unconed 14y ago
At which point does "considering the wider impact of what you do" cross into "pandering to people with an inflated sense of self-importance" though? I've seen endless discussions online where the latter isn't even acknowledged as an actual
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by unconed 14y ago
You have nothing against them, except the belief that they should't accept who they are?
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by unconed 14y ago
I really wish I could find an article I read a while ago, in response to efforts in an open source community to create a "Code of Conduct" for their tech conferences. It was from a woman who had worked in blue-collar industry before and had
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by unconed 14y ago
But it's still the right thing to do, and pointing this out is not victim blaming. And posting a blog to an audience that already agrees with you is not going to effect change. Confronting the perpetrators will.

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