I have similar observations as Mr. Gabriel, but different conclusions. The idea of experiencing immersive virtual worlds is highly attractive to those for whom the real world is lacking in some way. People in the midst…
All right, wishing you happy birthday got downmodded too. I'd just like to point out I'm for legalizing marijuana, I've signed a petition in support of net neutrality and I'm against killing babies. Let's see how this…
It tells me I should spend less time on HN. Happy Pinboard birthday, by the way.
Oh I see, Pinboard is so innocent, so pure, that a honest tip about how to reach more people who can find their service useful should be modded into the ground. I've tainted the Jesus of bookmarks by even implicitly…
You have totally missed the point of my post, and I guess most of those that modded it. EDIT: Ok this is starting to get a little weird. What's with the comical negative overreaction to my posts. What exactly did I say…
A bit of a lost opportunity, because I've barely heard about Pinboard, and the fact of them celebrating the passage of time since they were found, is extremely trivial. BTW, MySpace recently turned eleven. When writing…
When it comes to basic formatting, symbol naming and high-level code organization, sure. But computer languages, unlike human languages, are precise. Their intent is clear. And you'll never encounter a case where the…
I don't believe it, because I use SQL every day, and I need to tell it which rows to lock when reading, whether to read them in share mode or fully, sometimes I need to help it figure out which indexes to use (of course…
So, we're all very very angry and we'll... do what about it? Nothing. This is hardly the first time this happens. There are about half a dozen cases of this kind in mainstream media every year. Plenty more go…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman Don't ask what's "more Pythonic" or "less Pythonic", Python is not a cult, it's a very practical scripting language. Ask for benefits and weaknesses of a given approach in…
You seem so passionate about this, it hurts to break your heart. When you set your text to be bold, that's a separate font, made by a human hand. Browsers have a fake bold look when the font is missing, but it's not a…
Come on now, you don't need to be "female, teenager and from Japan". "Emoji" are simply "emoticons" aka "smilies". People all over the world have been familiar with those from instant messengers going back to the 90s.…
It's not "the future of color fonts", it's just the present of emoji in Windows. And I really don't like the way they did this. The technical approach is smart, but lazy, and the resulting emoji look bland and lack…
If you think about it, this falls firmly into the "symbolic gestures" category. They had nothing to gain or lose from making this into a political statement, so they invited them. You learn about responsibility and…
Thank you for showing us. I have two pieces of feedback. 1) The score isn't most important. The headline is. This is why the headline is in black, and the score is in gray. We don't come here to compare news importance,…
I'm an idiot, but I'm willing to believe there are still people out there who love what they do, and would stand by it, even if Corporation X comes knocking on the door with a pot of gold. I'd rather cheer for them and…
Neither. I'm not sure how I can help you, maybe try reading it slower.
No, why would this be something to try to avoid? Sexism and racism is a kind of cultural trait, I hope you realize that. A culture may be selective on very different criteria. It can easily be blind to gender, race,…
I'm sorry, but I'm starting to get a bit sick of Hacker Schools constant whining about rules. If you want to encourage a specific culture you do this by starting with a small set of people who have this culture in their…
Well, as usual most arguments revolve around misunderstanding terms, and not substance, heh. I was too harsh in few places, as well. Sorry. I really don't feel there's a need for us to separate "native" database…
The reasons the graph is centered around 30s with a halo in 20s, 40s and 50s is the same reason the graph lacks "under 10" and "over 80". It's just how humans work. We get born, have a period of growing up, gaining…
It's an option, and it sure is neater to those creating the library, but it's much less neater to those using it. Not everyone compiles a PHPDoc for themselves when downloading a library, so then all classes form a nice…
> "In practice, it makes much more sense to allow the system to enter certain inconsistent states and then remediate them. Out of an ingredient? Refund the money. Can't pay? Pull the drink out of the queue, or just…
At some point in life we become so busy with something else that we stop keeping up to date with the latest trends. Suddenly we realize everything has changed and has become foreign and complicated. We feel stupid;…
Thanks. And yet, nothing you said really rejects my made up explanation, even more, it supports it (the visual center stops sending information as it lacks input, and synchronization attempts begin).
I have similar observations as Mr. Gabriel, but different conclusions. The idea of experiencing immersive virtual worlds is highly attractive to those for whom the real world is lacking in some way. People in the midst…
All right, wishing you happy birthday got downmodded too. I'd just like to point out I'm for legalizing marijuana, I've signed a petition in support of net neutrality and I'm against killing babies. Let's see how this…
It tells me I should spend less time on HN. Happy Pinboard birthday, by the way.
Oh I see, Pinboard is so innocent, so pure, that a honest tip about how to reach more people who can find their service useful should be modded into the ground. I've tainted the Jesus of bookmarks by even implicitly…
You have totally missed the point of my post, and I guess most of those that modded it. EDIT: Ok this is starting to get a little weird. What's with the comical negative overreaction to my posts. What exactly did I say…
A bit of a lost opportunity, because I've barely heard about Pinboard, and the fact of them celebrating the passage of time since they were found, is extremely trivial. BTW, MySpace recently turned eleven. When writing…
When it comes to basic formatting, symbol naming and high-level code organization, sure. But computer languages, unlike human languages, are precise. Their intent is clear. And you'll never encounter a case where the…
I don't believe it, because I use SQL every day, and I need to tell it which rows to lock when reading, whether to read them in share mode or fully, sometimes I need to help it figure out which indexes to use (of course…
So, we're all very very angry and we'll... do what about it? Nothing. This is hardly the first time this happens. There are about half a dozen cases of this kind in mainstream media every year. Plenty more go…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman Don't ask what's "more Pythonic" or "less Pythonic", Python is not a cult, it's a very practical scripting language. Ask for benefits and weaknesses of a given approach in…
You seem so passionate about this, it hurts to break your heart. When you set your text to be bold, that's a separate font, made by a human hand. Browsers have a fake bold look when the font is missing, but it's not a…
Come on now, you don't need to be "female, teenager and from Japan". "Emoji" are simply "emoticons" aka "smilies". People all over the world have been familiar with those from instant messengers going back to the 90s.…
It's not "the future of color fonts", it's just the present of emoji in Windows. And I really don't like the way they did this. The technical approach is smart, but lazy, and the resulting emoji look bland and lack…
If you think about it, this falls firmly into the "symbolic gestures" category. They had nothing to gain or lose from making this into a political statement, so they invited them. You learn about responsibility and…
Thank you for showing us. I have two pieces of feedback. 1) The score isn't most important. The headline is. This is why the headline is in black, and the score is in gray. We don't come here to compare news importance,…
I'm an idiot, but I'm willing to believe there are still people out there who love what they do, and would stand by it, even if Corporation X comes knocking on the door with a pot of gold. I'd rather cheer for them and…
Neither. I'm not sure how I can help you, maybe try reading it slower.
No, why would this be something to try to avoid? Sexism and racism is a kind of cultural trait, I hope you realize that. A culture may be selective on very different criteria. It can easily be blind to gender, race,…
I'm sorry, but I'm starting to get a bit sick of Hacker Schools constant whining about rules. If you want to encourage a specific culture you do this by starting with a small set of people who have this culture in their…
Well, as usual most arguments revolve around misunderstanding terms, and not substance, heh. I was too harsh in few places, as well. Sorry. I really don't feel there's a need for us to separate "native" database…
The reasons the graph is centered around 30s with a halo in 20s, 40s and 50s is the same reason the graph lacks "under 10" and "over 80". It's just how humans work. We get born, have a period of growing up, gaining…
It's an option, and it sure is neater to those creating the library, but it's much less neater to those using it. Not everyone compiles a PHPDoc for themselves when downloading a library, so then all classes form a nice…
> "In practice, it makes much more sense to allow the system to enter certain inconsistent states and then remediate them. Out of an ingredient? Refund the money. Can't pay? Pull the drink out of the queue, or just…
At some point in life we become so busy with something else that we stop keeping up to date with the latest trends. Suddenly we realize everything has changed and has become foreign and complicated. We feel stupid;…
Thanks. And yet, nothing you said really rejects my made up explanation, even more, it supports it (the visual center stops sending information as it lacks input, and synchronization attempts begin).