thejaredhooper

Can someone explain to me the use of a transpiler like this? I'm a novice and I can't think of any personal use cases

The actual quote is "premature emphasis on efficiency is a big mistake which may well be the source of most programming complexity and grief."

The 'summarized' catch-phrase always bothers me; the choice between optimized code and inefficient code is always clear to me.

you still can't split working windows vertically... which will drive me nuts with my vertical monitor!

some popular top investor could write a blog post shaming me and ruining my reputation for other startups. Not professional if you ask me

I think it would have been more professional to state, in neutrality, the status of the legal proceedings - rather than implicitly accuse the man of being greedy by refusing a "generous" settlement.

Is this sensationalized? A single bullet-point makes me nervous. All of those together makes me feel smothered...

Reading news coverage of all this five and a half years later is kind of like reading old infatuation-era emails with a much older ex-boyfriend you never think about—but who in hindsight was kind of a pedophile.

Well that's one way to remind me that this is a VICE article.

the idea that I need socks that can talk to my TV

when you put it that way I really don't see the appeal anymore

{zIndex: 999999}

Something so simple as this CSS property shows you the intent behind the code. They're basically saying "screw every bit of content on this page."

Is there any reason to be worried about the ice caps harboring viruses that could potentially wipe us out?

I've been thinking about implementing a sort of slideshow like this.

I could definitely see this being extended, contained within a frame and used (by intercepting and mimicking scroll actions) in order to present a slideshow in a smooth, consistent manner.

By itself, it's novel. But extended, I could see a few uses for it.

Interesting idea, degrades pretty well (for text only), and I enjoyed scrolling through smoothly with middle-click.

I think you're closer to the truth than the author. Though it may be moral, in a sense, to keep ads away from tragic stories - I think that it's clearly in the interest of the advertisers to keep their brands separated from "negative" stories so they don't inadvertently sabotage themselves.

I'll read more into it like you suggest.

I think that she just might've just been a bad egg, given the facts presented in the article.

Reprehensible.

Do you have any links/resources for the subject matter you're covering in this comment? I'd like to learn more about what you're saying, and I can't seem to wrap my head around what it is you're trying to express with penny bids.

This article is another symptom of journalism becoming sensationalism. The fact that this snippet was included, and that the public shaming was made into an article at all, is extremely deplorable.

Because of the way this article was presented, I've reserved forming an opinion of Ellis or her alleged harasser. It's skewed to make both parties look bad, and based off hearsay. The article did not reveal Ellis' overreaction to her harassment until after the allegations were repeated multiple times. It's ridiculous they didn't present everything at once, instead of attempting to lead our opinions.

The whole article was crap.

I agree. It would be nice to drill down into the data in order to further analyze everything. I also feel there was a particular sort of censorship in the dataset, an indicator of which was the explicit racist and misogynistic words that were absent. There was a large lack of swears and bad terms in this analysis (bitch being a particularly obvious cut) and I, for one, see examples of these slurs prevalently used by young men far too often on the site.

Perhaps the data was tailored when it was provided to the analyst, or it was censored after reception, but this felt too "PG-13" for an analysis of reddit's "interests".

What's worse is the fact that this would be more terrifying if this weren't an action to the NSA's credit. Chinese, British, and Russian governments also have the capability of developing intrusive malware at such a scale.

I see that this is confirmed as the NSA, but the world has been awfully silent on the intrusiveness of Chinese malware practices. You can not travel safely in China without your domestic devices being breached, yet we don't hear about large-scale projects from their government, which also possesses "near limitless resources" at their disposal.

I just think it's interesting there's so much attention on the NSA.

"The author suggests that introverts fake extroversion" is still convincing someone to be an extrovert.

A more appropriate name would be "An introvert's guide to being extroverted".

I like the idea of using your actual name for usernames, but that could lead to some unnecessary risk if you don't practice proper password security.

The meetups aren't a bad idea, but telling people to "talk to someone" is a bad idea. How about "Listen to someone"? That's much better, especially for introverts.

You're preaching as an extrovert to introverts. Associating yourself with your work, thinking through it, positively engaging those who criticize it while remaining calm - those are ways to get noticed as an introvert. Incorporating what you hear from others - that's how you get noticed. Talking to people and talking, talking, talking... that's how you get noticed for the wrong reasons.

I'd argue that the Radioshack's lack of attention to their role as a niche vendor (tinkerer's resource) was the true cause of their demise. As a former employee, I noticed that we continually downsized our parts section (especially in malls) until it was almost nonexistent. There were plenty of customers inquiring about capacitors and other small electric parts. We were then forced to refer those customers to a local niche store.

They were trying to hard to compete with Best Buy in their attempt to sell cell phones and contracts. Poor business decision that led to them being taken advantage of by the mobile carriers who increased market share with RadioShack's assistance, but offered little in return.

By the way that they treated me, my manager and my fellow employees - I'm not sad to see them go.

This could have been more precise. The example at the start was great, but there's no example of the lecturer's technique outside of the link to the actual lecture

That, and the included garbage at the bottom about child support, was pretty pathetic.

why quote brutal? This is the literal definition of brutal.

anddddddddddd NSFW

The focus is the policy, not the policy's enforcers.