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by detst 13y ago
> Whatever floats your pompous self-righteous boat. > I may be curt, strident, and critical, but you don't really have high ground when it comes to condescension. You went straight to childish insults. https://news.yco
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by detst 13y ago
> Some substantial portion of AngularJS devs are unhappy. Define "substantial". I've seen some complaints here that AngularDart has, and will, take away from AngularJS, which, again, is unsubstantiated. It's counter t
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by detst 13y ago
You claimed that Dart is a flawed language. Substantiate that claim. Basic stuff here. If you can't, I must assume you're a troll or have no clue yet somehow think you do. > Do you think Dart is that amazing? Do you think Dart
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by detst 13y ago
> reasoning behind it In all of your condescending[1] comments, you have forgotten to actually articulate what your reasoning is. These are as close as you got: Dart doesn't have the open, cheerful intentions Google's ov
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by detst 13y ago
What exactly are those instructions? You or your friend have a misunderstanding. This dual-implementation will benefit the project as a whole (whether you prefer JS or Dart). That's what this is about, not to make JS a second-class c
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by detst 13y ago
> it was fairly obvious that some of the guys didn't want Dart in there I don't think it was obvious. It may be true but they were uncontroversial comments on a controversial topic. The language and DartVM aren't ready for
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by detst 13y ago
Certainly possible but remember that "contractor" and "employee" have legal definitions. You can't "just" call an employee (by the legal definition) a contractor. (Edit: I see ljoshua beat me to the possib
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by detst 13y ago
They have deprecation policies in at least some cases. They may not be unconditional guarantees but they're still just risk factors to be evaluated individually. I have no problem with the risk averse avoiding any services for their ow
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by detst 13y ago
> Since this service is paid, I could be netting a lot of money through it, only for it to fizzle out. But that's true of any service from any company. If I'm a stay-at-home mom making some extra cash on Helpouts, I have a ve
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by detst 13y ago
> I wonder if enough people avoid new Google products due to shutdown fears [...] I doubt it. That attitude is mostly a HN/geek thing. I like that they're willing to try things and test for viability in the real world. I'd
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by detst 13y ago
The Stripe API[1] does this (i.e., "expanding objects"). [1] https://stripe.com/docs/api
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by detst 13y ago
> When the boss disrespects customers in front of his team, that sets the upper limit for how well customers will be treated by the company. A single incident sets the upper limit? We don't know what kind of example he sets on a day
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by detst 13y ago
> I've seen this happen to a few of my friends who hit it big [...] it's like the insatiable drive to achieve that made that possible just evaporates. This hits many people after just talking about their goals. They get the sam
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by detst 13y ago
It's not as if the president is an uninterested party. He very much supports the NSA, is in a position of power on the matter and if he's got nothing to hide then he has nothing to worry about, right?
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by detst 13y ago
No, I'm not. I'm sure you can do your own search for "law", "tax", "immigration", etc. If you had done that, I'd have no issue with a civil critique of the content but to dismiss ("fail&quot
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by detst 13y ago
Those things are covered and if you would have taken the time to do even a cursory review before writing your baseless dismissal you would have seen this. It's clear this is an evolving project. I don't believe Derek Sivers woul
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by detst 13y ago
> while pretending to apologize No it was genuine. I don't think you lied at all and I apologized for it. > but are tying to suggest that I'm a liar anyway with the ambiguous phrase "it still seems the behavior fits". Re-read my ori
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by detst 13y ago
> That's dishonest. You know quite well that, above, I was referring to the actress interviewed in the article under discussion, and, below, to Kardashian I'm sorry. I honestly missed that. That was meant as evidence to support that you
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by detst 13y ago
I'm not freeunter and it's not important to me but it is obnoxious; that being someone going out of their way to make themselves seem above something or someone else when no one asked nor cares. --- [Ignore below. I misread the comments but
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by detst 13y ago
> For the time being, yes, it is. It's a hypothetical not a question of the present state of things but either way, I disagree. Rachel's comment [1] (I understand it wasn't present when I made my first comment), while terse, is more int
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by detst 13y ago
I'll concede that this wasn't the best place to make the point (I'll make it again, along with others, including PG). Perhaps I did look at spiff's comment in a vacuum and took advantage of this post being near the top of HN, but this is so
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by detst 13y ago
[Meta-comment warning] This comment is in the same category as the one PG talks about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920 I don't want to pick on you because there might be a place for your comment but it's not at the top;
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by detst 13y ago
I suspect the person you're responding to understands this quite well; they are responding to someone that takes the next step to not caring: [...] over time you just get used to it and don't care anymore. That's fine for you but don
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by detst 13y ago
C'mon, you're beating up a strawman. All they said is that you may have to justify the decision. I wouldn't want to work there if the tools were forced on me without any say but that doesn't seem to be the case. It makes sense to standard
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by detst 13y ago
Your misunderstanding and dramatic response is astounding. It's ignorance, not arrogance. Say what you want about his reaction to the perceived poor grammar but it's nothing more than that.
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by detst 13y ago
"Baltimore's arcane system of ground rents, widely viewed as a harmless vestige of colonial law, is increasingly being used by some investors to seize homes or extract large fees from people who often are ignorant of the loosely regulated p
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by detst 14y ago
You registered an account to make this statement? Writing "I'm one of Stripe's cofounders", as he does in his profile, would not "make him a dick" but it is interesting that he didn't do so here.
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by detst 14y ago
It's not their money "to lose". Neither player has any right to the money until the game is over and the game isn't over until they've both made a decision. That's the difference between this game and a millionaire offering you money. You m
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by detst 14y ago
That was Saturday but appears to be related. PG posted this to Twitter[1]: Apologies for the HN outage. We think it may be related to the new server. This could take a while to fix. [1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/30335067146
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by detst 14y ago
I don't understand the language but I hear lots of "yeah boy" in these videos. They seem less concerned than I'd imagine myself to be. Edit: haha, thanks for the explanations; that changes my interpretation of their reactions.

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