jedsmith

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by jedsmith 15y ago
They have their own compiler for a custom VBScript derivative. If there's no C anywhere in it, I'd be surprised, but I am operating without knowledge of its implementation or output. Edit: So what did I do wrong here? I admitted that I'm sh
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by jedsmith 15y ago
This isn't a C-specific problem; of course people are going to be more relaxed in their comfort zone. If you asked me to write a Web server in Python, I'd be a lot more relaxed about it than if you asked me to do the same in Forth. There's
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by jedsmith 15y ago
Thank you. I looked for it and couldn't find it, and actually did mean yours.
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by jedsmith 15y ago
You're not the only one that feels that way. Sadly, the elitism implied by "wow, our community sucks now " is overlooked by everyone practicing it.
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by jedsmith 15y ago
Ah, but neither does yours! Why does the mediocrity apply to the comment you're replying to, but not your own? Your comment is dripping with snark and someone called you on it (thankfully). I actually think your comment is shittier than the
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by jedsmith 15y ago
That's your definition of quality, and I'm glad you shared it, but disheartened that you consider it the one true quality . Reading your second sentence strictly, we can infer that to you, quality means (a) expert-level familiarity with a
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by jedsmith 15y ago
This really bugs me. What defines mediocre to you? We're defining the problem in relatives. I mean, look at the exchange that just happened: > Comments are getting worse. >> What is worse? > Comments are overwhelmingly medio
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by jedsmith 15y ago
Your comment is ironic given the comment that you started with. I am speaking from the perspective of improving HN, so I'm startled (should I be?) to find that the first reply is an admitting that the community will eventually split apart.
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by jedsmith 15y ago
That your last parenthetical is necessary to have an opinion about the direction here is telling, to say the least.
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by jedsmith 15y ago
Standing my ground. Common sentiment is now comments are declining in quality . Wherever that came from, that's now parroted fairly often and is undoubtedly planted in the back of everybody's head as they go about their business. That cann
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by jedsmith 15y ago
What I haven't seen anybody acknowledge yet is that "critics" includes everyone who tiredly mourns comment quality. Everyone. Depressingly, HN would rather front page an article about personal growth than admit that maybe, just maybe, all
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by jedsmith 15y ago
It's amusing how you went from "you're misunderstanding me," admitting that there might have been a mistake, to "you failed to fact check". I'm willing to admit that I'm wrong, be educated by others, and learn from my mistakes because it do
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by jedsmith 15y ago
If you have a day job, look for the problems that your day job has to solve. Undoubtedly, these problems will be echoed at other companies like yours (and maybe even not like yours), and you have an opportunity there. You might have even be
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by jedsmith 15y ago
I'd love to see your evidence that it is beyond drawing a conclusion from circumstances. That's a zero-sum game, right there, because there's no way either of us could have evidence as to the ultimate motive. At any rate, I've said my piece
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by jedsmith 15y ago
It sounds suspiciously like you're accusing me of something. The statement after the word "because" in your quote kind of matters to the original sentiment, and you happily ignored it in your calculations. It doesn't take a rocket economist
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by jedsmith 15y ago
ASCII key, from the source: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=RFeUcdXd
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by jedsmith 15y ago
It's dead, Jim!
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by jedsmith 15y ago
Botulinum, I'd guess (among natural toxins). A casual Google seems to indicate I'm right.
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by jedsmith 15y ago
Please do not infer that I was accusing anybody of dishonesty. I wasn't aware that disingenuous carried that overtone -- to me, it means "aware of a couple explanations and intentionally picking one that makes a little less sense," and I
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by jedsmith 15y ago
The mockups look great. Gut reaction is that you are clearly inspired by Facebook, but there's only so many ways to peel this particular orange. I'd consider a primary color change as a quick and painless way to distance the two; I think it
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by jedsmith 15y ago
Dark liquidity still affects a market, it just affects it less. BitCoin is fascinating to me because there are people who are absolutely absorbed in it, but it's unlikely to get traction outside of its current domain. The fact that it's mov
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by jedsmith 15y ago
> Anybody can send 300,000 BTC back and forth between their computers. You assume that's what it was. Calling the bounty in the headline ~$6,000 is disingenuous, too, because dumping the BTC into the market would drop the price signific
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by jedsmith 15y ago
Wasn't there a transaction of > 300,000 BTC? Or does the headline specifically mean a bounty ?
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by jedsmith 15y ago
Granted. I can see your point, but I'd argue that Jacob is a means to the end, not the end. I don't think ruining his life is the goal here. They just want to beat him up until he gives them who or what they really want.
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by jedsmith 15y ago
> In what sense does he have nothing to lose? Based upon my quick reading, it sounds like he has nobody that depends on him. All of us have to consider that if we were to suddenly disappear from the face of the planet, who would suffer
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by jedsmith 15y ago
I can see where you're coming from because you've already determined that you don't have anything to lose by standing up for yourself. However, the folks that distance themselves from you undoubtedly have things to lose, and can't afford to
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by jedsmith 15y ago
I sense a lot of idealism in you. MySpace was a Microsoft platform in the end and dropped Coldfusion, and there were far more variables related to its failure than its technology stack (contrary to what Scoble would like you to believe). I
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by jedsmith 15y ago
"simple"
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by jedsmith 15y ago
I elect to stick with the standard library in all cases, so I know how my software will perform everywhere without a redundant external dependency. Sticking with the standard library means you'll eventually get those improvements, too.
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by jedsmith 15y ago
import os.path as p Renaming imports to single letters bugs me. I went to see where it's used, and it isn't. Binding pyflakes to Cmd+S in TextMate was the best thing I ever did, and it would have caught this. pyflakes is seriously

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