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by venus 14y ago
> This discussion has gone from bad to ridiculous. Indeed - at this point I can't even tell what your argument is. We are not Luddites, no matter what you erroneously believe the definition to be. You do realise that you are not the fir
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by venus 14y ago
Michelle Malkin is not Japanese, and her book received near-universal condemnation from civil rights groups, historians and asian-americans alike. It's disturbing to me that you're referencing this piece of crap to make an apparently sincer
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Canon develops 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensor for video capture(canon.com)
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by venus 14y ago
Stop trying to cast people's legitimate arguments as mere products of some deep-seated fear of the unknown. If you talk like that we can't have any kind of proper discussion. I could just as easily retort that your rose-coloured reassurance
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by venus 14y ago
While I definitely agree that false accusation should be treated far more seriously and consistently than it seems to be, I think this is going too far in the other direction. Why should a victim of crime be obliged to prove a case against
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by venus 14y ago
Yeah, that is a shocking article. The site seems to be a hardcore feminist outrage blog with a strong prejudice to what they perceive, wrongly, to be the female interest. Even the use of the word "survivor" at all is highly objectionable, b
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by venus 14y ago
I understand what you're trying to say, and I agree to some extent, but you're making some very big assumptions. > The sky has been perpetually falling for 300 years, yet here we are Maybe the sky takes 300 years to fall. Did you think
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by venus 14y ago
Yes, it did. Think about it again...
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by venus 14y ago
> The number of individual nations that could produce a can of Coke is zero While I understand what the author is trying to say, I don't think that is true at all. I'm pretty sure that if they had a good reason, any number of advanced e
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by venus 14y ago
Huh, I've been playing around with a shared reusable checklist thing. "Trello for checklists". Everyone's thinking the same thing as usual!
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by venus 14y ago
> assuming something on that post could link off to something substantial regarding it's subject I don't think that is the case; it's only using the keyword so it can be indexed against it. The links themselves are either self referenti
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by venus 14y ago
Wow, they've definitely gone on a spam-killing spree recently. Following that scandal a few weeks back where someone had, uh, "inappropriate" downloads in their checked-in public .bash_history, I did a few searches and found insane amount
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by venus 14y ago
My god, the quote from that "white hat" SEO guy just defies belief: > There will certainly be webmasters out there who will strip you down to the bone asking for money in exchange of link removals. These are the most soulless snake oil
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by venus 14y ago
Actually I've seen very similar things happen in practise. "Horror scenarios" happen all the time. Look, you can sing the "works for me!" song all you like. The fact is, you are years out of date and this is very bad practise. You will: - h
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by venus 14y ago
> If you forget to re-enable Gatekeeper, you're hosed Let's not exaggerate. Everyone got by perfectly well for years and years just using common sense about what to install. Gatekeeper is a welcome layer of defense but I doubt many expe
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by venus 14y ago
I was talking about a catastrophic server failure, and the difficulty of timely recovering to an outdated software stack. Of course. Anyway, just trying to counter your terrible advice to use 2.3.x.
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by venus 14y ago
.. and after years developing, maintaining and administering rails apps, my motto is "never let your app get out of date". Rails 2.x is still functional, and still being updated, yes. It will very soon not be. And you've let such a gap open
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by venus 14y ago
Oh tell me about it! These good for nothing, lazy open source developers! How dare they spend their free time relaxing, or maybe working on something they're interested in, when they should be working on MY pet feature! They're just so INCO
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by venus 14y ago
> By this logic anything that the masses do is better? Yeah, I could have worded that better. The OP said: Why people still use Ruby? 2. Because they do not want to learn new languages and can stay in their comfort zone Which i
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by venus 14y ago
> 75%? Evidence? None really, just the startups at an incubator-type place near me. Might not be 75% but it's certainly a big chunk and probably the majority.
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by venus 14y ago
> Some people SWEAR by one of the two, and refuse to use the other Meh, I use Ruby for most of my work (day and side projects) but have nothing against Python. If I was writing a script for something on the OS I'd probably use Python. S
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by venus 14y ago
And you deserve to lose those 50 points. Why do people still write silly comments like this? 1. Probably 75% of new startups are using rails, and rightly so. You'd need a good reason not to use it. "Rusty slow legacy systems" - what nonsens
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by venus 14y ago
Furthermore, this article's entire argument seems predicated on the idea that the remote workers in question are all above-average star performers: > Having a great team with distributed members still far out perform a co-located averag
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by venus 14y ago
Well, thanks for the depressing truth. I'll have to adjust my assumptions. It's turned into a learning experience.
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by venus 14y ago
Is there an argumentative equivalent of "damning with faint praise"? Because if the best you can do to prove that Apple lied is pull out some black and white scan of a 30 year old newspaper ad where they might have taken a bit of license
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by venus 14y ago
I think you're reading the article in a quite biased manner. I didn't pick up on any of the negativity you seem to have interpreted. I don't think anyone here is against renewable energy, but certainly the storage of it represents a giganti
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by venus 14y ago
Fair enough. I don't really hang around in enterprise circles any more these days; I can readily imagine that the new windows phones are filling a role there. And it's funny you say "hip iphone kids". I'm well out of the "kid" generation bu
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by venus 14y ago
> expecting the average user to know that they can zoom I'm all for never overestimating the technical literacy of one's users, but .. really? The average person doesn't even know they CAN zoom? That seems an "ignoratum too far", like n
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by venus 14y ago
I've never seen one of these supposed "Smartphone of the Year" Lumia 920s in the wild, so I'm guessing the answer is "no". Perhaps they are turning the corner in stuffing online "Smartphone of the Year" polls. edit: from the same blog yeste
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by venus 14y ago
Whenever BTC spikes like this I think of the first pizza sale a couple of years ago: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.msg1195#msg1195 Probably the most expensive pizza in history, in hindsight.

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