guccimane

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by guccimane 14y ago
I don't see what all the fuss is. A good craftsman could build a house no matter what hammer he chooses. Don't be such a snob about insisting that hammers must have heads to drive nails, just because all the hammers you've used before hap
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by guccimane 14y ago
Yup, also animated status bar text.
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by guccimane 14y ago
Perhaps, but those allow us to do things we otherwise couldn't. The blink tag just made annoying blinky text.
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by guccimane 14y ago
Flouting law enforcement does not strike me as a good design goal. If the law wants you to stop doing something, they will make sure you stop.
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by guccimane 14y ago
Interesting angle, I've never seen someone come at it from the POV of the shareholder. If you're unhappy as a shareholder with HBO's strategy, I can understand that. Do whatever shareholders do in that scenario, I guess. (Vote? Sell?) From
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by guccimane 14y ago
I know. I don't make any bones about this HDCP stuff being bullshit. They are screwing their own, paying customers. That's terrible. It's just that I really have no time for this entitled attitude that content owners are obligated to sell t
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by guccimane 14y ago
"We've recently discussed the fact that HBO severely limits the availability of its shows to non-subscribers..." Really?! How dare they!
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by guccimane 14y ago
Andy Ihnatko about Oatmeal about difficulty of watching Game of Thrones: http://ihnatko.com/2012/02/20/heavy-hangs-the-bandwidth-that...
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by guccimane 14y ago
I don't find it to be good for much besides keeping track of podcasts. I never saw the appeal of "syndicated content" (blech), I'd rather read websites. Very few people use it when rolled into the browser, it's better off implemented in ext
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by guccimane 14y ago
What would outdated markup have to do with striping table rows? This is why you're getting downvotes, you really don't seem to have any idea what you're talking about.
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by guccimane 14y ago
Ah, I did not know that. But anyway, just to clarify, I mention that these apps exist because it could completely throw off the numbers as to how many "Kindles" (or "Nooks") there are in a given city. What if SF has tons of people reading K
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by guccimane 14y ago
OK, I guess we should just completely ignore them because you don't like reading on lit screens. Makes sense.
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by guccimane 14y ago
iOS and Android have a Kindle app, which means every iPhone, iPad, and Android device can also be a Kindle. This fact is conspicuously missing in the analysis.
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by guccimane 14y ago
> I couldn't disagree more. I know. Trust me, I know.
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by guccimane 14y ago
Oh, stop. I'm tired of hearing about "smug" being the worst thing ever. Too easy to toss this insult around. Instead, personally my issue with functional programming is the aversion to side effects. It seems to cause a lot of weird contorti
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by guccimane 14y ago
Your worldview differs from that of others. This happens a lot, no need to get all upset about it. "501 Developer" means absolutely nothing outside a very small group of people -- try not to sweat its significance.
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by guccimane 14y ago
Believe it. Everything without a touch screen is broken to the next generation of users, and the entire PC industry is changing is big ways already.
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by guccimane 14y ago
This one hits all the bullet points for clueless Apple punditry, including calling Apple a cult and asserting that people will buy anything Apple makes, however stupid and useless. Nothing has really changed in this regard, there are still
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by guccimane 14y ago
I feel bad for anyone who considers this sort of thing "fun"
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by guccimane 14y ago
Searle calls your objection the "systems reply", and his response can be found here (2a): http://www.iep.utm.edu/chineser/#H2
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by guccimane 14y ago
Unfortunately, just because you do hard work doesn't necessarily mean the world will need that work. Look on the bright side and consider it practice. You may not have actually contributed to those projects in the end, but surely you learne
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by guccimane 14y ago
Oh, you mean as opposed to the usefulness of calling people snobs because they understand that PHP is terribly designed? Fuck outta here.
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by guccimane 14y ago
> If this one thing that annoys me on HN it's the pervasive anti-PHP snobbery. If there's one thing that annoys me on programmer forums in general, it's that pointing out PHP's giant flaws is conflated with snobbery. Design matters, a