irreverentbits

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by irreverentbits 13y ago
Modern pushrod designs aren't "sloppy" - when you don't need to rev as high to generate adequate power, you don't need the added valve stability that an overhead cam arrangement provides. Not to mention that a singl
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by irreverentbits 14y ago
This is exactly the sort of condescending attitude that pisses me off about the CS program I'm currently concluding. Why should software engineering be considered "petty" in relation to, say, the study of formal languages and automata? The
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by irreverentbits 14y ago
> I don't think individualism would be a major factor. There are many countries which satisfy your former criteria yet lack this; none of them have the same innovation economy that the United States possesses.
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by irreverentbits 14y ago
While condescending, this analogy isn't terrible for user-facing applications of the most trivial complexity. But equating developers to line cooks in domains where actual engineering talent is required seems a bit ridiculous.
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by irreverentbits 14y ago
I'd guess PayPal would still be a competitive advantage if it were quicker to respond to competitors like Stripe.
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by irreverentbits 14y ago
Honestly, this is ridiculous. 1. The vast majority of the games industry borrows heavily from titles which have come before, so Zynga isn't unique in this regard, nor should it be singled out. 2. The establishment of addiction-creating feed
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by irreverentbits 14y ago
... so you're telling me to find data before extending data-less guesses in an attempt to refute my assertion? Seems legit.
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by irreverentbits 14y ago
Yes, exactly. Disincentivizing innovation and the financial machine that backs it is an /excellent/ idea.
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by irreverentbits 14y ago
Yeah, see, here's the thing: for many projects of noteworthy complexity, it'll be easier to gain an understanding of how to make use of it through a clear set of docs than it will be by slogging through source code. Good documentation provi
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by irreverentbits 14y ago
OOP isn't intrinsically bad -- the problem is that developers have tried to graft an OOP model on software architectures that have never actually needed to be OOP. Also the disgusting abuse of inheritance. There's a conflation of "OOP" with
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by irreverentbits 14y ago
WebSocket protocol is pretty easily implemented in pure Python; my co-founder and I did this just recently to support some of our game client functionality.
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by irreverentbits 14y ago
I can't help but feel as if all of the claims made regarding "real innovation" in this post grossly undervalue the strides Apple has made in UI/UX and overall product design in favor of elevating more immediately self-evident technical adva
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by irreverentbits 14y ago
Maybe. On the other hand, it seems like a fair amount of these opinions are "fuck this noise, I'm going to Reddit/etc." Don't get me wrong - I would absolutely love to see the new Digg rocket into popularity again... but I'm just not certai
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by irreverentbits 14y ago
Oh, fair enough. I am curious, though... what sort of operating costs might go into that? Moderators, curating content?
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by irreverentbits 14y ago
The new Digg doesn't look terrible, by any stretch. But - the developers' insistence on an arbitrary six week push deadline when there clearly remain unsolved problems is fairly amateurish and reeks of self-indulgence. Users /with existing
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by irreverentbits 14y ago
I find it challenging to believe that individuals incapable of basic, entry-level algebra are really qualified to attend a university in the first place. Having many good friends in disciplines which will never require the use of any sort o
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by irreverentbits 14y ago
And so the Valley demonstrates its fixation on wealth through deliberate contrast to "those other places". Just demonstrates that pressure to conform to behavioral expectations associated with financial status affects everyone, even if in d
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by irreverentbits 14y ago
Octopress ( http://octopress.org ) is a good static blogging framework built around Jekyll. Instructions for deploying to GitHub: http://octopress.org/docs/deploying/github/
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by irreverentbits 14y ago
This argument is, and has always been, ridiculous. The GNU user land is no more an operating system than the Linux kernel or the K desktop environment. It's just one component of a larger software system which most refer to by the convenien