mcantor

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by mcantor 12y ago
The problem isn't that it's too abundant. The problem is that people make excuses for it every time it happens, instead of just saying, "Yeah, that was really verbally abusive."
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by mcantor 12y ago
I agree with you. The problem I'm seeing in this thread relates to this point: > There could be a debate about what constitutes verbal abuse, on a case by case basis. And that would turn into a mess. Right now, a lot of people simpl
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by mcantor 12y ago
This post was about grown men, not fourteen-year-olds. Grown men... as in, people who should know better.
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by mcantor 12y ago
I can't imagine using shame as my primary motivator for improving my work.
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by mcantor 12y ago
"Offending" and "verbally abusing" are not the same thing.
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by mcantor 12y ago
This debate exists on a spectrum of gray areas, but I'm pretty sure "you should be retroactively aborted" crosses the line from "shaking someone's cage" to "flagrantly excessive verbal abuse", if for
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by mcantor 12y ago
Genuine question: Did you read the article? I feel like the author's main point is that there seems to be a higher abundance of toxic interactions in Open Source than other communities.
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by mcantor 12y ago
Hadn't heard of nvim until today. Can anyone sell me on this project? I looked at the homepage and README, but they're both pretty hand-wavey. What problems does nvim solve for experienced vim users?
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Vim Cheatsheet: Now Accepting 2.0 Pre-Orders(vimcheatsheet.com)
3 points by mcantor 13y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 14y ago
It's not a choice if you can't afford it or are turned down.
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by mcantor 14y ago
This is true, but who has the time and energy to fight every stupid Kafkaesque battle like this?
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by mcantor 14y ago
It's to incentivize buyers to Buy It Now. If you know that Buy It Now disappears as soon as someone bids, then you're more likely to Buy It Now because if you don't Buy It Now, you can't buy it later; you can only bid on it later, and then
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by mcantor 14y ago
Wow. It never occurred to me that when you provide a service like that, someone could use it to literally ruin Christmas. That is heavy.
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by mcantor 14y ago
The author filtered on questions with accepted answers only.
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by mcantor 14y ago
The author filtered by questions with accepted answers only.
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YouTube Bans FMT4u(freemagictricks4u.com)
1 points by mcantor 14y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 14y ago
http://xkcd.com/810/
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by mcantor 14y ago
How is anyone even surprised about this? If you're making money off of someone else's platform, it's only a matter of time before they're gonna ask for a cut.
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Ask HN: Are your Google Calendar events older than ~2 months gone, too?
2 points by mcantor 14y ago|1 comments
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by mcantor 14y ago
Who cares if they're not actually vulnerable? It's 2012. These password restrictions are arbitrary and anachronistic.
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by mcantor 14y ago
Perhaps "crap sort" is appropriate, in that the performance of the algorithm itself is crap, and the name also evokes similar intuitive parallels to "bubble sort", since (as we know) crap floats to the top just as bubbles do.
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Douglas Crockford, for JavaScript: The Good Parts(sayyouresorryforwhatyouvedone.blogspot.com)
10 points by mcantor 14y ago|1 comments
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Game Maker Wave Motion Tutorial(csanyk.com)
2 points by mcantor 14y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 14y ago
I lucked out with this project; it began as a Kickstarter which got incredibly overfunded: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maxcantor/beautiful-vim-... It hit the front page of "Featured Technology" projects and lived there for almost
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by mcantor 14y ago
I sell posters of a vim cheat sheet I designed (see my profile for link). I ship my inventory to a 3rd-party fulfillment provider who plugs in to Shopify with a custom app, so all I have to do is re-print when the inventory runs out and han
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The Men Who Made Dark Souls Whole(giantbomb.com)
9 points by mcantor 14y ago|2 comments
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by mcantor 14y ago
The same plight is shared by any creative person. If programming makes you miserable, you're doing it wrong. The feeling of sublime satisfaction when something finally runs and does what you expect far outclasses any transient misery inflic
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by mcantor 14y ago
Trying to read this on my Galaxy Nexus was a non-starter...
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Fix Your Timestep - Synchronizing game physics(gafferongames.com)
4 points by mcantor 14y ago|1 comments
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by mcantor 14y ago
I like the different adjectives for comments. Almost didn't notice that at all.

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