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by waterlion 13y ago
I have good eyesight. I don't need glasses. I still like to zoom in on text by double-tapping and pinching to zoom. What if I'm on a bus and it's easier to read larger text? You can add 'with an under-developed theory of
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by waterlion 13y ago
The book covered that in quite some detail, but I can't remember the specifics. Certainly, there are links between colour perception and language. As I recall (I could be wrong), the author's conclusion is that the ability of some
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by waterlion 13y ago
> Sapri-Whorf Hypothesis [sic] ... if the hypothesis stands I don't think it does still stand, does it? For an interesting, not-overly-academic look at Sapir-Whorf, I recommend http://www.amazon.co.uk/Through-Languag
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by waterlion 13y ago
> Gluten free mathematics Tell me more.
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by waterlion 13y ago
I thought this might be related to the fact that Keynote breaks backward compatibility. A colleague of mine upgraded to Mavericks and now cannot open all the documents she created, apparently with no recourse. Anyway, it isn't, it&#x27
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by waterlion 13y ago
I haven't made a single grammar claim. I have, quite deliberately, not taken a prescriptive approach. Please quote and prove me wrong. Are you saying that my 'regretting nitpicking' is a grammar claim? It was true when I wrot
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by waterlion 13y ago
I'm sorry to say that lots of people are using Excel in 'production' for mission-critical money things. It's scary. For example: http://financialsystems.sungard.com/solutions/hedge-funds-ma...
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by waterlion 13y ago
I don't know what the current state of Office for Mac is. But the Windows and Mac versions have an interesting and colourful history. A number of separate codebases, converging and diverging. I don't know if this is the best, but
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by waterlion 13y ago
It depends what you're trying to achieve. I took pains to say that I wasn't asserting any universal truth about the English language. I'm not taking a position on whether it has or hasn't been used in English or any othe
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by waterlion 13y ago
I was wondering how IPC was done. I would imagine that VBA works on in-process data structures whereas you'd have to marshal messages over IPC to get Python working. How does it work? Is it more COM-like?
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by waterlion 13y ago
I'm not soliciting an argument. But... I would argue that this is consistent because 'two nights' isn't a countable quantity, it's an 'un-countable' period of time. Although you could argue the opposite is
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by waterlion 13y ago
You'd be amazed what people make Excel do with VBA (hint: it doesn't always have much to do with spreadsheets).
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by waterlion 13y ago
I really really don't want to grammar-nitpick (this looks like an amazing product) but 'less bugs' kind of hints at low quality. If I were you (and I'm not) I would replace that with 'fewer bugs' or whatever.
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by waterlion 13y ago
Chrome 31.0.1650.63 on a not-slow connection, no extensions. See my edit, the JS file took a long time to load. After a few cache-resets and refreshes, it reduces to 5 seconds. It might have been a cold CloudFront cache but still. I'm
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by waterlion 13y ago
This just shows a blank, light grey page. I assume it should do more than that. EDIT: It loaded, after more than 10 seconds. The HTML loaded in less than a second, as did the images, but your 500 kilobytes of JavaScript (what? why?) took 10
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by waterlion 13y ago
Don't worry, I have (hence my disbelief at the first comment). Funny we've come full circle (via e.g. Java) back to the point where that is valid code.
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by waterlion 13y ago
That is clever.
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by waterlion 13y ago
Not intuitive? What do you think a post-decrement does do if not that?
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by waterlion 13y ago
What about "if you're so [self-]important that you can't be bothered to disregard comments that don't conform to your idea of how the discussion should go". (I don't believe that BTW, surely there's space
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by waterlion 13y ago
I went back and read the article. Weasel words. Yes it's hypothetical situation but he is explicitly linking Ben and this hypothetical situation. He didn't have to use Ben's name and the word 'asshole' in adjacent s
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by waterlion 13y ago
What? I just see a black screen with INVEST IN YOURSELF. I cannot understand the confusion of ideas that leads people to prevent visitors from reaching their content. I'm not going to click that ad, I'm not going to view your page
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by waterlion 13y ago
Can you explain why you are ignoring the fact that he was following the procedure (i.e. had no choice, the committer wasn't in the Committers file) and clearly didn't realise that the commit had been accepted by someone else? So m
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by waterlion 13y ago
I've read this elsewhere. Joyent appears to be threatened economically by StrongLoop. And there's a suggestion that Bryan Cantrill was annoyed up by Ben Noordhuis in the past. I think that clears up the question of Bryan's in
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by waterlion 13y ago
This gives a strange combination of nostalgia for 80s tech with excitement about the future.
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by waterlion 13y ago
Original discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6824685 and here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6825924
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by waterlion 13y ago
Not quite as annoying as having hundreds of raging angry people name-calling and character-assassinating you over a mistake.
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by waterlion 13y ago
Please provide evidence for 'threatening message'.
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by waterlion 13y ago
I would dearly love to agree (see my other comments if you don't believe me). But Bryan Cantrill's, and Joyent's behaviour seems very cynical, manipulative, and childish. He used deliberately inflammatory language, and would
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by waterlion 13y ago
Is what passes for a blog post? Copy-pasting 4 paragraphs out of a book?
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by waterlion 13y ago
What a mess this whole thing is. I'm looking forward to a level-headed explanation of all of this in a few days. It's a pity the witch-hunt happened before there's been meaningful dialogue to find out exactly what the situati

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