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by ytinas 17y ago
Accept headers are going to tell me what CSS bugs are present?
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by ytinas 17y ago
>Multitasking doesn't need to add complexity and stability issues, if ubuntu can do it then so can apple. That it can be done doesn't mean it isn't complex. It is. And by "stability" I didn't mean the phone/tablet constantly crashing,
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by ytinas 17y ago
The [non-existance of the] Camera is a let down to be sure, but multitasking? What do you need multitasking for? Doing some action at a specific time and doing async operations right? If the OS provides this then I don't think multitaski
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by ytinas 17y ago
user-agent is most definitely needed. My server gives different content depending on which kind of client accesses the page and I certainly don't want to do that in javascript.
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by ytinas 17y ago
>Will governments ban photo-sharing sites? No, but that's a horrible way of communicating. I can't image a future where people have complex programs to decode pictures and re-encode them to post to innocent looking sites. Plus, how ar
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by ytinas 17y ago
I don't know how extreme your view is. I think it's been clear for some time now that the recording industry is damaging to both the artists and the customers. It's hard to imagine anyone wanting them to survive unless they work for them.
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by ytinas 17y ago
>Even a perfectively free market is not perfectly competitive. Perfectly competitive is a theoretical position used by economics, but it is theoretical. Exactly. I wish more free market advocates understood this.
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by ytinas 17y ago
I want what you say to be true, but what happens when governments simply say that encryption is illegal (e.g. "It's the only way to fight the terrorists!", "To support encryption is to support child porn!")? If any ISP would drop your conn
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by ytinas 17y ago
I've always been dubious of the value of outsourcing software development. Things like production are easy because after someone has 15 years of experience, he can't come to some developed country and make 20 times the money doing the same
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by ytinas 17y ago
The Lotus vs. Excel thing is more likely showing the fact that smaller teams can outproduce larger teams, since with smaller teams there is less coordination needed.
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by ytinas 17y ago
>If I earn $2 MM a year in salary, then in a short period of time, I could quit, retire, and work on whatever (open source, nonprofit) technical projects interest me. Is that really so bad? Probably one of the first things you would do
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by ytinas 17y ago
This isn't so cut and dry. How many rights do you expect to hold over people in your private store? I had a boss tell me that if he was paying me I had to do anything he said. If I didn't like that I had the "right" to quit. Fantastic.
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by ytinas 17y ago
And another thing that's incredibly irritating are these stupid sites that force you to type out your password (they don't let FF write it in the text field). How is that more secure! It just forces me to either use a simple password or
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by ytinas 17y ago
>Wow, really? I though that new land was discovered and pilgrims from the English and dutch settled it The pilgrims "discovered" land people were already living in. Does it occur to you that the country you live in might wish to paint
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by ytinas 17y ago
When you say "The OS feature that polls for activity" do you mean epoll/kevent? Because otherwise (and even then I think) it isn't O(1). http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
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by ytinas 17y ago
I think what he means is: you can't measure a specific metric but you can see from the end result that some other technique ended up with a better overall result.
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by ytinas 17y ago
And when we run out of poor countries? You could say that that can't happen because when the Chinas/Indias of the world get to our current standards we will be at a higher standard and they will still be poor relative to us, but this doesn
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by ytinas 17y ago
>(well, except you ;-) Don't get me wrong; I love my mac book pro, my smart phone, playing silly RPG games, watching movies and so on. I'm simply not prepared to claim that having these things makes me superior to other ways of life. I
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by ytinas 17y ago
>The white apologist thing is just neo-trendy but true history does not support your conclusion. History doesn't support my conclusion? We invaded some else's land and nearly wiped them out. Now what remains are spread out on reservat
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by ytinas 17y ago
I don't follow. You don't think the US has interest in China labor being so cheap? What do you think would happen if standard of living for the average Chinese reached that of the average American and they had to be paid the same amount i
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by ytinas 17y ago
>It's such a shame. Humans were so peaceful, so quaint. We could have learned so much from them, because all humans lived in great harmony with each-other and with their environment... >...Your reaction would be, "Well, that's about
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by ytinas 17y ago
Any of them. They were all steam rolled by us. >Some were cruel to their captives and in times of war; others were not. What bearing does this have on anything? Most of the bad things we hear about were learned from someone else (e.g.
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by ytinas 17y ago
What does your (and the GP's) definition of "competent" mean, "imperialistic"? Were the native Americans less competent because they weren't always trying to expand and conquer? Looking at today's rat race, I don't think it's conclusive
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by ytinas 17y ago
There is definitely truth to this. For example; programming languages that have huge PR campaigns, sites dedicated to success stories and so on.
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by ytinas 17y ago
Where does this come from? The web page seemed to indicate that (a) IQ is malleable and (b) knowing this helps people get smarter. And this makes sense. I've had so many people in my life say "oh, don't bother explaining that to me, I ca
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by ytinas 17y ago
The law isn't some kind of book from "on high" with static text that just is. It is a living body of rules that under the right circumstanced even lowly working class citizens can affect. If people are becoming exploited again and current
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by ytinas 17y ago
Seems like a lot more developers (including the author) need to read "The art of the metaobject protocol".
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by ytinas 17y ago
I don't agree, or at least if it does go this route then people will end up getting unions involved. From where I sit people are already sick of 45 hour work weeks so making this even more intrusive is not going to last long.
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by ytinas 17y ago
Exactly. And as a consequence of this both Lisp and Smalltalk allow you to restart from exceptions. Lisp has an extremely sophisticated method (most powerful of any language imo) called "restarts". These make it a lot easier to build muc
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by ytinas 17y ago
I must be missing something here. Using e.g. Mercurial, I would start my refactoring and commit often. If a test fails at the end and I can't see why then just update to the version before the refactoring (assuming I hadn't ever ran tests

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