hackernewbie

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by hackernewbie 13y ago
The most interesting part of this article is how entirely openly it's indicating that a default setting that can easily be changed in a web browser will be left by virtually all users permanently. Of course it's true, it's just so odd to se
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by hackernewbie 13y ago
Thanks for this post, I sometimes feel as if this is the world's least well made distinction. So many people seem to have constructed the idea that dictionaries instruct the use of language not vice versa.
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by hackernewbie 13y ago
Google pumping and dumping. Seems kind of shitty to me. E: I do realise it's a very long term pump. But it has that feel.
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by hackernewbie 13y ago
Seriously, thank you. Plus there was literally nothing about college. Which I am at.
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by hackernewbie 13y ago
But they didn't. Noone ever just called it ogg. It was always Ogg Vorbis, sometimes Ogg/Vorbis. Some file types just get an easy ride, like jpeg/jpg. Imagine if it was actually routinely referred to as a Joint Expert file. Maybe pngs would
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by hackernewbie 13y ago
Yahoo Answers. Amazing. Have you recently visited their Programming & Design section? How does that community survive?
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by hackernewbie 13y ago
I'll say it. It might sound incredibly trivial, but the name. It's an insanely intimidating name.
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by hackernewbie 13y ago
I feel like there was a time when gender politics wasn't so abrasive in computing. It wasn't healthy, but it didn't make you constantly feel mired in some swamp of unsolvable problems. I preferred the swamp of (un)solvable problems that is
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by hackernewbie 13y ago
DHH is so mouthy it actually is really beginning to give the impression of massive insincerity.
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by hackernewbie 13y ago
This should shove the internet into a more sophisticated mode of advertising (if more clandestine in many ways, shills ahoy). It's unprecendentedly pathetic to see companies worrying about their outmoded methods and hegemony on content choi
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by hackernewbie 13y ago
Extreme levels of correct, I myself am incredibly bitter/jealous/you-name-it. However, I get a tugging sensation that it's almost all PR-minded.
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by hackernewbie 13y ago
A counter.
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by hackernewbie 13y ago
I really fanatically hope this doesn't happen and the opposite happens i.e. a fuller version of iOS is used on iPhone/iPad. The revolutionary step would be to open up iOS more while still maintaining the same level of security. That would b
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by hackernewbie 13y ago
Because of my own myopic, self-interestedness I actually do think some programmers are smarter than most lawyers. But this article is not evidence or argument of that. Knowledge wise they are on a par, though having said that you can't be a
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by hackernewbie 13y ago
The XKCD comic is about herpetology and ornithology. The revised one is about the difference between wordpress users and developers. Where on earth does either mention the intelligence or status of women?
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by hackernewbie 13y ago
Works great for a company that risks generating a lot of noise to consumers (i.e. producing and marketing physical products). But for Google it's pervasiveness and breadth of services were part of the appeal, it's not like it's minor produc
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by hackernewbie 13y ago
For god's sake. I literally just started using it for W3Schools about two months ago. It costs google practically nothing to do that, and now they suggest adding another extension to chew out yet more of my memory. Plus it looks like they a
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by hackernewbie 14y ago
They should not be talking about it publicly (internally it would be obvious who these people are). They should not be describing them in equally offensive terms, an idiot from a small German village. They should not consider getting people
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by hackernewbie 14y ago
Dungeon's and Dragons. Who wants that for their child? Plus this has all the gloss of pushy pushy parents.
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by hackernewbie 14y ago
A company that makes a product that users care substantially about? Yeah, what a shit use of effort that would be.
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by hackernewbie 14y ago
My impression of google from age ~15 was of a company who had balanced profitability with genuine altruistic intent. They had so many products, tools, services, libraries... everything and pretty much all of it was free and freely available
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by hackernewbie 14y ago
Thank you so much for this system. I sincerely hope that this gets more traction than OpenID. This is the most essential feature the entire web has never had.
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by hackernewbie 14y ago
Boy, I can't wait to have two years worth of notes 'No longer supported'! Sign me up!
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by hackernewbie 14y ago
Very good call. This is becoming a serious problem on hn/reddit.
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by hackernewbie 14y ago
I think this every time.