thehardsphere

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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Okay, so, maybe he's a nut or a troll, but nothing really about gaming?
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I'm not so sure. The problem when the only "wall between genders" that's "erected" is consent, you often find out too late that it's not strong enough of a wall. It seems like at Atari in the 1970's i
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Right, but the women at Atari weren't disenfranchised. Even in the 1970s, their alternatives to working at Atari were numerous. The secretary there who was "stacked" wasn't facing an alternative of no employment or livin
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I've never heard of Notch having strong biases regarding social issues and the game industry. I quickly googled but all I could find were references to some tweets he deleted about some "heterosexual pride" or something that
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I'm guessing that Filipinos aren't obviously "white" or "black", and thus get to dodge all of the baggage that Americans have about the topic of race. Just another guess: "Filipino" is also associated
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
See, "we're not Google" should actually mean that you care about performance more. Google can throw millions of dollars worth of infrastructure into making an app go marginally faster. Whereas, all you have is brainpower befo
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Just a guess: You were alive when progress marched on before your eyes. Animations are "new" to you, and like many people you have some sort of implicit association somewhere in the back of your mind that "new == better"
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
> TBH most of the cons stated in this article are just because of bad programming, not because it's a SPA The worst programming is the result of choosing the wrong tools for the job. There is a class of jobs for which an SPA is enti
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
That's a good starting point. I'd drill down even further and ask "what does the user do with the application?" If the user needs to look at multiple screens at a time (e.g. like a mail client or something of similar com
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
The problem with SPAs in the sort of cases that the author is talking about is that people don't think clearly about what requirements they are satisfying when writing a new one. If your app actually needs to switch between various scr
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
People always say things like this about despotic regimes while they're in power. Yet, every time they fall, we almost invariably learn that things were actually much worse.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Well, sure. I get that sort of argument for something like tax policy. But is this actually an experiment that should be run at the state level? I mean, having 50 different net neutrality laws that all actually mean and require different th
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Serious question: Is having state-level net neutrality laws actually good policy?
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
The current administration says they want less immigration occurring, but also seems confusingly willing to cut deals that completely flying in the face of the President's public statements. There's presumably room for a deal if p
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
This plan would fail, because someone sophisticated enough to find the naming and shaming list of awfulness would probably already be sophisticated enough to realize that old, bad advice is bad and why it is, and where to find new, good inf
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I think you and other commentors are being generous in assuming there was a spec to review and that the work was done by a contractor. I've seen lots of organizations try to save a buck by extending a previously existing system with in
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I didn't say there was a lack of debate, and never mentioned Twitter. I said, if they didn't respond in court, they would lose in court.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Well, the law is that it's illegal to not hire someone based on their race. The lawsuit contains screenshots of people saying they don't want to hire people who are white. So, if there's no rebuttal (e.g. Google's lawyer
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Well, I have two thoughts about that. 1. Is Damore against "anti-discrimination provisions in law"? I haven't seen anything to suggest he is. He is against specific anti-discrimination policies at Google, certainly, but his o
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Because many companies try to weaken the boundaries between "work" and "not-work", so that their employees will spend more time at work.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I was giving GP the benefit of the doubt in assuming they were referring to some other incidents outside the lawsuit that showed Damore is a fraud or his lawyer is unethical. I mean, I've heard Damore be accused of all kinds of things,
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Most significantly, it is partially protected in California.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Could you please cite sources that prove that Mr. Damore is a fraud and that his lawyer has done unethical things? This is the first I've ever heard of either claim.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
The lawsuit contains screenshots and other evidence that serves as an effective prima facie case for workplace discrimination. It's not really correct to say it's "speculation", which kind of implies someone just made
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
> Please state the fact: programmers are not trained, nor have the time to go far enough asking the questions. Speak for yourself, bub. I ask questions all the time when I write software. Usually, when I write software for someone other
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
And, 17 hours later, we now know that there were three distinct vulnerabilities, of which one applies to AMD. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privi...
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
We know that "AMD processors are not subject to the types of attacks that the kernel page table isolation feature protects against." E.g. that AMD does not need the patch that Intel does. That is not the same as saying AMD is not
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Actual information about the bug itself is still embargoed. Most people are assuming it's the attack you suggest based on recent commits, but it's a guess.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
We won't know until we know what the actual bug is. All we know is that people are writing patches for Intel chips, and what those patches do. It's very possible that other processors are affected by the same issue in some differe
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
This is like saying that Netscape can re-write Navigator because they can copy Internet Explorer. It ignores that Netscape and Microsoft had totally different reasons for the choices they made, and that changing those choices in a re-write

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