bluetshirt

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by bluetshirt 12y ago
The trouble is that it all adds up to paint a picture of a corporate culture that's a little too comfortable being icky.
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by bluetshirt 12y ago
It's not about who has what data. It's about what's being done with it.
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by bluetshirt 12y ago
... 21 meals IS a week's supply.
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by bluetshirt 12y ago
No, but we have an opportunity to be a leader and not a follower. To be on the right side of history, so to speak.
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by bluetshirt 12y ago
It's a pretty icky thing to say, to be sure. This person set a new world record and she's receiving comments about her appearance? This woman performed an incredible feat of skill and she's being reduced to her looks. Doesn&#
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by bluetshirt 12y ago
References to "source code" apply only to video games.
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by bluetshirt 12y ago
So when they say "game", do they really mean "video game"? This is a semantic shift that leaves me uncomfortable.
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by bluetshirt 12y ago
I don't remember when Barack Obama donated money to suppress gay rights.
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by bluetshirt 13y ago
Because it needs to be bigger.
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by bluetshirt 13y ago
"Most blues are subtitled either no sense of wonder or no sense of scale." - Gastr Del Sol
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by bluetshirt 13y ago
> They are purposefully inserting themselves into a stream of information to implement a feature that's impossible to do any other way. They have a justification for doing this.
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by bluetshirt 13y ago
Web development in the 90s and early 00s was not a practical substitute for learning how to program. Now, it is. You make a claim that the low-level nature of the calculator programming was an enticement to you. That may be, but I would hes
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by bluetshirt 13y ago
Oh, it completely does. My niece this year is required to have a laptop for school. She has to have a PC with her. Now, she has no interest or aptitude for programming, but if any of her classmates do, they can easily fire up a web browse
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by bluetshirt 13y ago
Is a graphing calculator really the most obvious way that a young and impressionable mind will find an inroads to programming in this day and age? I find that idea laughable. Tinkering on the web is the obvious modern-day equivalent that is
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by bluetshirt 13y ago
Do any of these games offer DLC? Who profits from that?
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by bluetshirt 13y ago
If only it was as simple to make a business out of a cockamamie idea as it is to come up with the cockamamie idea in the first place.
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by bluetshirt 13y ago
They are decided by single votes. Usually, there are several millions of single votes working together to make it happen. But it's not like anyone's voting in aggregate.
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by bluetshirt 13y ago
People are going to die. If it's not cancer, it'll be heart failure. I'm not convinced that what this world needs is research into keeping sick people alive longer. We have lots of people as it is.
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by bluetshirt 14y ago
Everyone I know who's left facebook - EVERYONE I know who's left facebook - has come crawling back. In most cases it's because they're tired of being left in the dark about events. So as to whether or not it leaves "holes in your life", I g
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by bluetshirt 14y ago
"being more familiar with Scala than Java" is a few miles east from "cannot/will not write pseudocode comprehensible to people who don't grok functional languages".
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by bluetshirt 14y ago
Gypsy ninjas? Gypsy is a highly offensive ethnic slur practically everywhere in the world except America.
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by bluetshirt 14y ago
His mockup is hosted on a javascript-based sketchbook platform (which is nominally intended for sharing/developing javascript snippets), despite the fact that there's no javascript in his mockup.
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by bluetshirt 14y ago
These feel very strange. They don't behave like any knobs I've ever encountered in software.
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by bluetshirt 14y ago
I'd imagine it sounds like the english word exhort.
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by bluetshirt 14y ago
Jailbreaking your iPhone is NOT illegal.
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by bluetshirt 14y ago
Couldn't make it past the sexist bull above the fold.
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by bluetshirt 14y ago
Well, if you're estimating, you're not really counting, are you?
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by bluetshirt 15y ago
Sorry, this web font doesn't render well at low sizes and makes the article difficult to read.
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by bluetshirt 15y ago
Arguably, until traditional software developers are able to grok these distinctions, you're not going to see many of them "crossing over" to design work.