voicereasonish

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by voicereasonish 13y ago
The US is all on the same land mass (mostly). They all speak the same language. They've all lived there pretty much the same amount of time. With Europe, the UK is a different landmass, we all speak different languages, and we have cen
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
Exactly! And that's how it should be.
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
I'm not wondering. I fully expected hackernews crowd to be gushingly pro-european. This view is thankfully not echoed in the UK. It's not about being selfish. It's about democracy and freedom. Imagine laws being created by pe
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
The fact that some people, in some foreign country I will never visit, feel better, isn't much comfort to me I'm afraid.
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
I agree. I am British. I'm in no way whatsoever "European". We'll be better out of the EU, and the EU will be better without us.
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
Even if they'd much rather be doing girl things...
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
> Because fuck those people who don't speak a certain language, amirite? No, because it shows how idiotic the EU is to start with. Trying to create laws that fit all countries, and then translating them into every language is just a
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
> You may be waiting a lot longer than you think. No, I won't. The public is overwhelmingly hostile, and demands a say in who is creating our laws. There will be an absolute landslide victory for UKIP in the may elections, and the g
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
The EU has only existed for a couple of decades. To suggest that the EU is a reason we haven't had any wars recently is ridiculous, yet it gets trotted out time and time again by pro europeans. It's as scientific as saying vaccina
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
> she's in love with it > I can't talk her out of it. I've tried. Why would you try and talk her out of something she's in love with? If she "knows some python", is she in love with it? Is she a
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
Anything related to gay marriage has become totally "good vs evil". There's no middle ground, no nuanced arguments. If you're against gay marriage, then you're obviously a homophobic religious gay bashing evil hitle
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
Just because a law exists, doesn't mean it should exist. For example, sending "offensive" tweets should not be illegal IMHO.
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
There is almost no difference between "obfuscated code", and "badly written code". Source code should not be patentable.
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
Is "nasty tone" really the basis of silently banning people? Just because something offends a moderator, then all of their subsequent comments are censored? Being offended shouldn't offer anyone any special rights. If somethi
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
I don't know of another forum where reasonably long standing members are banned silently, without even the courtesy of telling them. It's kinda a douche move. Silent banning is more like censorship than banning - you're silen
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
The far more damaging part of HN IMHO is the silent banning. It's a very ugly sledgehammer which is routinely used to censor dissenting voices. Victims of it have no real recourse even if they do notice they've been censored. It d
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
That's the thing about tuning based on metrics though. You end up with a product that the majority tolerate, but no one really loves.
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
The design is terrible. So much of the width is wasted with two sidebars that are seldom used. "People you may also know"? Really? And big areas of grey. Also don't get me started on the ridiculously persistent desire for fac
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
It's still absolutely ugly code. And in many cases direct DOM manipulation beats it in terms of speed.
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
If you want to enable user markup, then build a simple parser, and use that to generate the correct styling you require.
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
Just to clarify: var t = document.createTextNode(msg); content.appendChild(t); That code sanitises all possible content in msg. I don't need to list out HTML tags, script/style tags, do special case for unicode exploi
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
If you're working with IRC, your backend will also get DDOS'ed very quickly and very often. So there's that fun to deal with as well.
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
This should be a major red flag to anyone. You don't make an app/website secure by deciding on a list of things you need to sanitise. You sanitise everything to start with. A very common rookie error.
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
It's about as relevant as what size shoes she wears.
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
Because that's how you get in the news.
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
> just as shop floor assistant and a corporate VP who both had equal holdings in the relevant company's stock on things that go to votes of the shareholders. That's the point - in that logic, the amount of votes you get in a de
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
I don't consider myself especially smart. But giving everyone an equal say in the running of a country is pure madness. The better alternative is a friendly dictator, or a good monarchy. My original comment was to point out that "
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
Imagine if companies were run that way: Shop floor assistant at an Apple store gets the same say as the VP legal, about whether or not to sue someone for trademark infringement? One person one vote! yay democracy. > If enough people thin
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
Nobody would even attempt to run a company like that. You wouldn't give a checkout assistant the same say in a company as the CEO. Why do we suppose it's a good idea to run a country like that?
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by voicereasonish 13y ago
You talk about democracy as if it's a fantastic system. It's not. One vote per person? So a guy who has a political degree has the same voice as a guy who votes depending on which candidate has the nicest eyes?

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