huggyface

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by huggyface 14y ago
How is that rich? I pointed it out because that is precisely how I felt some would feel.
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by huggyface 14y ago
even if the 25 "bad" comments are at the bottom of the page because people will still reply to them and they will still be a part of the discussion. Here's a good example- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4407733
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by huggyface 14y ago
Intellectually lazy? That's a mighty big term for someone like you. Further it's utterly astonishing that you would equate writing clear and non-ambiguous code rather than nebulous code of uncertain purpose -- like the example Chromium co
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by huggyface 14y ago
An enormously complex rendering and JavaScript engine. Some laughably irrelevant, trivial comments. Quite a solid proof you have there.
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by huggyface 14y ago
Why do you think Chrome is eating Firefox's lunch? Humorous given that both webkit and from that Chromium are largely comment free. What nonsense are you arguing again? I've worked on FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and an assortment of smaller widel
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by huggyface 14y ago
Two projects that are enormous successes, both with more contributors than any code that you've ever touched, I would wager. "Messes". Indeed. To your questions, while you're rhetorically asking, trying to wink to the crowd in the implicati
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by huggyface 14y ago
That code fails to tell the programmer why it's in the application logic and not defined in the database schema Why isn't it a GUID? Why is it 32 bits instead of 64? Why is it signed yet starts at 1? Why isn't it a string? How will the id
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by huggyface 14y ago
Do you have github/sourceforge? I'd love to read some of your non-trivial code. Read almost any non-trivial successful project for good examples. The Linux kernel. Firefox. etc. The frequency and verbosity of comments tends to have a di
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by huggyface 14y ago
Just to be clear, the person I responded said, in effect, that the code did X. They made code that did Y, and then realized it didn't do X. That is the story of a million ill conceived code rewrites. That the code did X is clear by the code
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by huggyface 14y ago
I'm not meaning to insult you Sure you are. And that's okay.
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by huggyface 14y ago
I hope that caricature gives you some comfort in your utter mediocrity.
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by huggyface 14y ago
What a useful contribution.
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by huggyface 14y ago
I'll happily be "so brave" and reiterate a simple truism of software development -- comments are the battle cry of terrible developers. They are the crutch of people who can't read code: "Add more comments because otherwise I can't make sen
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by huggyface 14y ago
This is overly cynical. When people say "Why don't they just...", it is a sincere question, not a rhetorical statement. "Oh radiation...that makes sense". "Oh they had to bake the tech for 8 years". Etc. Sidenote - "Why don't they just" shi
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by huggyface 14y ago
After the recent discussion about code-comments, that sort of code is exactly the sort that requires an explanatory comment. If the code isn't the clearest comment you have, you're doing it wrong. Comments are a crutch for people who writ
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by huggyface 14y ago
This post was about iPad being (almost) ready to be the primary computer in some professional tasks Writing, which is in many ways the lowest common denominator of all computing devices.
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by huggyface 14y ago
Isn't it ironic that anyone discusses it on Scott's blog and not on their own blog?
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by huggyface 14y ago
Blogging is dead. I ran a fairly successful blog (front paged here a number of times). I recently cut the cord and abandoned it. The blogging tail is getting shorter and shorter as more and more people move to the closed and walled gardens.
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by huggyface 14y ago
It's very strange how you think you're setting me straight. I wonder if you really think you're enlightening me here. I am very aware of social nuances and cues. I have no lack of people who want to repeatedly go to dinner with me. I also h
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by huggyface 14y ago
This is exactly it. This submission is about a restaurant removing the smartphone from one's person, and the post I replied to took significant issue with people putting their smartphone on the table (which they usually do if they have a no
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by huggyface 14y ago
you have no problem with cell phone conversations at the table It isn't the lowest common denominator. It is the evolution of society, empowered by new communication methods. I need to know if the nanny has an issue, just as I need to rea
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by huggyface 14y ago
Do you think those are contrasting points? There is a subtle wording difference that means the world. If I'm at dinner with a casual friend or workplace peer, my family and even critical professional activities are more important than the
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by huggyface 14y ago
"but I'm really hoping for a distraction."...."socially acceptable to fuck around with phones"..."I guess that rewards for not being a dick are more popular than explicit punishments for being a dick?" Their post was littered with resentmen
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by huggyface 14y ago
I'm far more distracted/upset by large groups of people laughing or yelling - teens/adults/whatever - than I am by someone talking on their phone. People really have a highly selective ability to be annoyed by things that they are judgmen
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by huggyface 14y ago
Your post is very charged. If I am at dinner and I decide that I want to keep on top of my device (I have four children and a very busy professional life), those with me have to deal with it . Most of the time my phone is more important
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by huggyface 14y ago
I'd guess that Jobs was simply conveying his findings at the time Apple had itself pretty tied up with two form factors, with no near term hopes of coming out with a form factor between the two. Jobs was simply trying to undermine Samsung
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by huggyface 14y ago
Jobs was specifically criticizing the size and not a specific implementation. Even Apple apologists hold them as realizing it was an important market some time later.
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by huggyface 14y ago
Given how short a timeframe (4 months) Google gave the development of the Nexus 7 The Nexus 7 is a rebranded Asus device that was talked about last year. Then consider the Galaxy Tab, and the basic fundamental that Android has never dicta
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by huggyface 14y ago
I wonder if some of his gentler tone has to do with Apple's success. It's easier to be gracious when you feel you are on a winning/popular side, and there are certainly fewer reasons for Apple users/fans to feel persecuted by misinformed p
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by huggyface 14y ago
"AJAX" the term is a meaningless bit of inaccurate noise (it is wrong in almost every way). No idea what your bit about XMLHttpRequest was, given that was nothing more than a formalizing and cross-platform implementation of Microsoft's COM

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