waterlion

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by waterlion 13y ago
It's a shame you think that I'm trolling. You're welcome to go back over my comment history and look at the conversations I've engaged in. Sure my comments provoke a range of responses. It would be a boring world if ever
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by waterlion 13y ago
I was not trolling by the definition I know. I just thought that it might lead to an interesting conversation. It's just too hard to communicate on the internet, especially with people who don't share your conversational goals. I
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by waterlion 13y ago
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that I would want others to extend to me and not accuse you of pedantry. But I don't think there's much steam left in this conversation.
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by waterlion 13y ago
Specifically the casual use of the word 'insane'. I don't think it's unreasonable to discuss the contents of the page and make references to things not contained on the page.
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by waterlion 13y ago
I'm looking for interesting discussion with intelligent people on a range of subjects guided by user-submitted stories. I'm looking for explorations of ideas, learning new things, synthesis as well as derivative ideas. Open-minded
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by waterlion 13y ago
It wasn't primarily a joke/10.
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by waterlion 13y ago
I think it adds to the broader discussion that goes on on HN, specifically over the last month or so. Could you remove that joke about the dog from your profile page please? I went there looking for serious information.
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by waterlion 13y ago
Don't be a joke pedant? The author (me) uses the quotation in an ironic manner.
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by waterlion 13y ago
I was going to say "the equivalent of heteronormative but for mental illness" but I thought that anyone that understood what I was saying might have just let me have that one slip and interpreted the meaning rather than focus on i
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by waterlion 13y ago
How do you square that with the article? It specifically says that that Django REST is "insane".
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by waterlion 13y ago
"Django REST framework is an insane framework" I'm fed up with this kind of oppressive language. This is heteronormative and is discriminatory to the mentally ill. It's stuff like this that leads to the imbalance and und
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by waterlion 13y ago
That typeface. Looks a bit like Bank Gothic. Can an American explain the cultural connotations? As a European it has very particular associations. A cross between Real American Hero Military Men With Guns and a certain child-like toy-soldie
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by waterlion 13y ago
For a very narrow range of software, I suppose. Not for software that has side-effects and actually does stuff in the real world. What about software that sends emails to people, or places orders, performs billable work, or gives people dir
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by waterlion 13y ago
What happens when your customers' data is lost or corrupted because of a bug you could have caught?
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by waterlion 13y ago
I read the headline and skimmed the article. I only realised at the end, when he's trying to sell you something, that the 'we' is inclusive-marketing-speak. Before that I thought that it was 'we (my organisation) don&#x2
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by waterlion 13y ago
Can you define the criteria by which you judge it to be a 'code smell'? Can you contextualise the criteria? Can you match those criteria to this context? (Not rhetorical, I'd like to know the answer.)
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by waterlion 13y ago
Accidental deliberate misunderstanding is still deliberate misunderstanding.
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by waterlion 13y ago
Sorry, I should have put a <rhetoricalIllustration> tag around that to clarify that I don't actually believe any of the above. (Do I really need to say that?). I won't spell it out again, I've made other comments in thi
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by waterlion 13y ago
Here's the thing. So am I. I would say I am very egalitarian and very empathetic. I would say I am a feminist, which is perhaps why I find certain behaviour on the Internet under the banner of feminism troubling. I recognise that mob-p
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by waterlion 13y ago
I've seen this happen, also in Uganda. Absolutely terrifying.
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by waterlion 13y ago
Yeah sorry it's not that important. I suppose I was more sensitive to it because the discussion was derailed into misogyny (which derailing I participate in).
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by waterlion 13y ago
Sorry, there's no handbook. You just have to go through life doing your best, occasionally there's a little misunderstanding and there's a witch-hunt and you're subjected to mass-Internet-bullying until you apologise for
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by waterlion 13y ago
Why do you assume the author is a man?
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by waterlion 13y ago
Hear hear. But you're not doing it properly. Please be consistent. "what about being human when it matters most? In person" - doesn't this exclude people with social anxiety disorders? "mix of knock-off stilettos&qu
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by waterlion 13y ago
No. Neither was the obfuscated swear word in the title. Nor the word 'screw'. Nor was the picture at the top of the article or the pink headings. Or the call to action below. Nor the chatty writing style. Very little of the articl
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by waterlion 13y ago
This was discussed and censored before. I was stupid enough to believe it. Previous conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6907401
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by waterlion 13y ago
Well, we'll see. It very well might be. EDIT: Oh. I just actually scrolled down.
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by waterlion 13y ago
"fight against the man" Are there no male feminists? What? There was widespread uncertainty about whether or not the 'feminist programming' article / research proposal was a joke. I'm fairly sure now that it wa
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by waterlion 13y ago
That's the thing though (I agree, it's not a nice list, but it's not nice to remove features either). Who says they have a mandate to do the balancing this way? It's their software to do with as they want. That's le
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by waterlion 13y ago
Yes. Read the example SOLR schema, it's very easy to understand.

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