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by unalone 13y ago
Huh, that's an interesting way to feel! I wish I remember what AIM felt like better; I was so young when I used it that any chance I had to IM people was exciting. I was probably an absolute pain in the ass. D'you think this could
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Facebook's Brilliant, Boring Master Plan(rorgy.com)
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by unalone 13y ago
Somebody got aggressive after being detained for hours on end and having their flight cancelled, at expense? Holy shit! Pack your bags, men: we found ourselves a terrorist.
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by unalone 13y ago
We need better design in the world in general. I'd hate to think only one company gets to be the designer-of-good-and-popular-things at a time.
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by unalone 13y ago
And putting politics "in front of his art" will probably convince some of the, you know, thousands of people who read his blog posts on Hacker News and elsewhere, that maybe his books are worth picking up and buying. Regardless, w
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by unalone 13y ago
The government is not a monolithic entity. The evils of intrusive surveillance doesn't make, say, social programs, or economic regulation, evil just because they're other large government programs. Libertarianism is great if you&#
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by unalone 13y ago
Marco's not attempting to communicate clearly in the sense of "push data down foobarbazqux's infohole." He's trying to communicate clearly in the sense of "grab foobar's attention, state his perspective pr
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by unalone 13y ago
If you think that treating genders equally has nothing to do with accepting variations in social norms, then you're missing pretty much the whole purpose of the "treat women equally to men" thing. Gender inequality is almost wholly a social
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by unalone 13y ago
> It's not a huge sacrifice to voluntarily use the best product in a category. The number of Apple employees who want to use a non-iphone device is probably less than two percent. You know, I am a huge Apple fan, but I don't like this a
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by unalone 13y ago
This is silly logic. If you were really treating women equally to men, you wouldn't follow a "what's good for one is good for the other" policy. You'd accept that the norms and behaviors of each gender should be held in equal regard, and ad
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by unalone 13y ago
Some people are just huggers. As a fan of hugs I approve of people who get down to hugging quickly, though I understand why non-huggers would be squicked out by that. If that wigs you out, I have a particular friend group for whom kissing b
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by unalone 13y ago
What Twitter is awful at – awful – is ensuring you see content from people who don't update frequently. RSS is valuable not for following content gluttons like Hacker News, but for following blogs by people who update only once every thre
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by unalone 13y ago
Of course you can. Don't be daft. There are plenty of advantages to relative sizing, and in general it's a good policy, but there are many excellently-designed web sites whose sizes are absolute – just as there are many shit designs that're
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by unalone 13y ago
That was my bad. I accidentally doubleposted a comment, and deleted one of the clones.
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by unalone 13y ago
You're reading too much into his retirement. He gives a perfectly good explanation why he quit within the speech: Drawing comic strips for five years without pay drove home the point that the fun of cartooning wasn't in the money; it was i
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by unalone 13y ago
Ultimately, Steve Jobs had an insight into what computers could be, how technology could work, that was not only powerful but that Apple worked to execute throughout the entire stack of its product. From industrial design to operating syste
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by unalone 13y ago
You assert that text books are no different from novels? That's absurd. (If your assertion is that text books are, in fact, art, then I agree with you. But they're a very different sort of art from the sort that _why was creating – starting
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by unalone 13y ago
Where was the IF game within _why's spool?
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by unalone 13y ago
Sure. You're not wrong. I'm not a programmer. I'm barely even a member of this community. You're far more involved in this world than I am; you know names and see projects that never cross my path. My understanding of your world is shallow.
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by unalone 13y ago
It would. I wasn't expecting this thread to turn as heated as it abruptly became, or I'd have thought my words out more carefully. Forgive my sloppiness?
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by unalone 13y ago
Let me add to my other comment: I apologize if what I said came out dismissive of the many, many great programmers that do good work and help form the community. I was trying to provide context for why _why strikes such a chord within some
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by unalone 13y ago
Got that out of your system, buddy? "Our modern software community", referring to the current generation of the software community, obviously doesn't refer to the whole generation of people who existed and did good work before _why entere
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by unalone 13y ago
What would be the point of creating something and then faking its age? Is it a test, for us to ignore empirical evidence and determine that God made it anyway? Or are you suggesting that, perhaps, the world began with us humans, and that th
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by unalone 13y ago
Curious! I can't say I agree with that – at least, not the way you just phrased it; could just be linguistic ambiguity – but it's interesting nonetheless. I have to say, that's a mindset I don't usually expect on Hacker News; now I'm wonder
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by unalone 13y ago
Let me modify the OP's comment, Jacques: _why was one of the first people to create art around and about our modern software community. There are a variety of cultures surrounding coding which, while somewhat diverse, still feel like somewh
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by unalone 13y ago
I'm curious. What does "something of a creationist" entail? Is this a Deist sort of creationism, or are you closer to biblical literalism?
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by unalone 13y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the difference between this and forums which have many ultraspecific subsections for people to discuss their personal interests? Is it that this searches for people who have as many overlapping interests with you as
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by unalone 13y ago
That is the stupidest goddamn description of religion I've ever heard. "[B]elieving without asking any questions" is literally the exact opposite of the concept of faith, which in every religion I know of requires believers to confront th
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by unalone 13y ago
There's a difference between the whimsical, the surreal, the colorful as a method of misleading or distracting or revealing things which cannot be said more directly, and pretension. Feel free to think that your own criticisms of this work
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by unalone 13y ago
Not gonna downvote you, but that's a very glib reading of what, for me, was at times a melancholy and dark piece of writing. The silliness is there, in part, to make more palatable a story about loneliness, alienation, and fear of separatio

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