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b3tta | 4 years ago | on: Word usage guidance and alternative terms

Item_Boring already clarified what I meant better than I could ever express it.

But yeah basically "Kleidermacher" was historically a genderless term for quite a long time (potentially always) and was then gendered again, by people who seemingly misunderstood the generic masculinum. The people who made this worse misunderstood that sexus and genus are two different things.

As I explained before, this is quite ironic given that the -in suffix is now being said to be not inclusive.

b3tta | 4 years ago | on: Word usage guidance and alternative terms

Actually "Kleidermacher" is a genderless word in German. Source: I'm German. :D

But historically this has been a complicated topic. Basically about a hundred years ago the genus and sexus of words started to get separated. Thanks to that you can say "Katze" to both male and female cats. Historically you had to say "Kater" to a male cat.

But of course there were people in the 90s (it started earlier than that) who considered the generic masculinum uninclusive for women, since why is the male genus allowed to be the generic form of the language? Everything had to be gendered explicitly again! Awesome! /s Instead of rolling back the split of genus and sexus of the past decades, they instead opted for just sticking the already existing, but less popular -in suffix to everything and anything. A generic word like "Student" now had it's proper sexus again as "Student und Studentin".

But as you might already know that's uninclusive for nonbinary people and thus we're now at a point where we say "Studierende" or "Studentx" or "Student:in" instead, which linguistically really doesn’t make much sense at all anymore. Awesome! /s

One step forward, two steps backwards. But again, as explained above, the "Kleidermacher" can be of any genus, because...

Genus and sexus are two different things in German.

b3tta | 11 years ago | on: An Open Letter to Jessica Livingston About YC's Female Founders Conference

Hmm... Sometimes even I say "maybe women just prefer [...]", but actually mean exactly that, what you said: There are social trends and in this case there is a social trend specific to women wrongly being taught that they are not as good as men in STEM fields. So much in fact (here in Germany) that it's kind of unsettling, when they tell you "haha I'm just not good in math haha" and you can't even, because it's so effing wrong.

I believe many (young) people will tell you that women are "just" like that, but actually mean "they are just taught to think so", because in their male position there is no need to choose are careful wording. I'm also pretty sure that, while the society at large is fault for this herd thinking about this, the parents play the biggest role in where the daughter places herself in the world.

b3tta | 11 years ago | on: Swift Resistance

I'm not really sure how to interpret your comment, since it is possible to contribute to all of those and they are de facto loved by the community…

b3tta | 11 years ago | on: Swift Resistance

Somehow it seems that currently everything happening in the USA is "Dead on Arrival" - including Swift.

This time due to shipping an utterly broken compiler to an unfinished language, without being able to contribute to it. Because if we could contribute to it, Swift might still be soon something that people love to use. But I somehow really don't believe that this will ever truly happen.

b3tta | 11 years ago | on: Front End Developer – Interview Questions

Using a closure:

  function foo(s) {
    function generator(i) {
      return function () {
        return i;
      };
    }

    var r = new Array(s);
    
    for (var i = 0; i < s; i++) {
      r[i] = generator(i);
    }
    
    return r;
  }

  console.log(foo(1000)[42]());

Using Function.prototype.bind():

  function foo(s) {
    function generator(i) {
      return i;
    }

    var r = new Array(s);
    
    for (var i = 0; i < s; i++) {
      r[i] = generator.bind(window, i);
    }
    
    return r;
  }

  console.log(foo(1000)[42]());

b3tta | 11 years ago | on: Google Nears $1 Billion Investment in SpaceX

Let's say we poll the roughly 1b people living in first world, and ask them each to pay $10 to see SpaceX do whatever SpaceX does. How many people even think it's worth $10?

I just wan't to add that the problem is not that SpaceX provides less to humanity than WhatsApp.

The problem is that most people are not really far-sighted, but only see things which benefit themselves in a predictable amount of time.

Why companies like SpaceX (or NASA) are important has already been answered with Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa

https://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4372563

b3tta | 11 years ago | on: Apple Software Quality Questions

IMHO currently the worst bugs are in discoveryd, which replaces mDNSResponder for Bonjour.

If you remove a service on OSX 10.10 it's removal will be broadcast. But it doesn't stop there. No... Most of the time the service will be published again after that and after a second or so it will be finally removed. How the hell did this pass even the most basic QA checks?!

b3tta | 11 years ago | on: Whitehouse response to Aaron Swartz petition

I'm not a believer, like many others (especially in europe).

So... It would be nice to see her face harsh consequences on this side too. I'm pretty sure that we both can agree on that one.

b3tta | 11 years ago | on: Improving Redis CRC performance

"crc-mark-adler-hw" uses SSE4.2 just like your "crc-sse42". The latter one is just very poorly written, since it only uses _mm_crc32_u8() once per iteration (instead of 3 times).

b3tta | 11 years ago | on: An Offer to Sony from 2600

Well… The difference is the implied meaning of burning a book.

Making a movie about the assassination of the NK leader doesn't imply hate. I'm pretty sure making the movie wasn't about the hate against NK per se, but rather a comedy about the situation in an oppressed country.

If you burn a koran/bible I'm pretty sure we all know what that means: You hate the religion and wan't it to die.

As you can see the difference is that the first one falls under free- and the other under hate-speech.

Now if you ask me, it's still wrong to hate against those who burn "holy books" or whatever. In my opinion hate speech is integral to having free spech, even if it should be watched carefully (I really don't wan't a third reich here in germany) - something that has been lost in the past couple years. But it's important to differenciate between both.

b3tta | 11 years ago | on: Firefox for iOS on GitHub

It's not redundant. You wrote an awesome browser and many people, including me, a very eager to get their hands on the new version. Keep up with you awesome work! It's not just that competition like this is important, but this project is also something that you can show around and impress people with it (at e.g. job interviews).

b3tta | 11 years ago | on: DefineJS – A lightweight implementation of AMD module format

require.js: 1249 LOC

define.js: 259 LOC

You should rather ask what the difference to almond is (which is also from jburke and useful for bundled loading - I think this is more similiar to define.js).

almond: 275 LOC

As to a reason why someone would write his own AMD loader: I once wrote one, because I want'ed to be able to pass objects as array elements to the require parameter, to forward them to the callback function. Something similiar to this:

    function callback(module1, object, module2) { ... }
    require(['some-module-ID', object, 'another-module-ID'], callback);
Thus I got something similiar to Function.bind() for free.

Also I could implement a global requirement list. A synchronous script in the head could add entries to this list and thus prevent the execution of any asynchronous script, which was not in the list. Thus those in the list could be loaded asynchronously. After all of them where resolved, all the others could be loaded.

For instance this is incredibly useful, if you wan't to load IE shims, for things like this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element.cla... etc.

I guess I could open source it, if I feel like it. :D

Edit: Fixed LOC numbers. I also just checked my implementation: Only 168 LOC, while nearly implementing AMD (without relativ paths!), tuned for Closure/uglify.js/etc. and compatible to IE6, but with those 2 features above. I guess that's pretty good too…

b3tta | 11 years ago | on: David Deutsch’s New Theory of Reality

Furthermore he says "Thus the conservation law, though not an a priori mathematical truth, provides [...]".

Imho "not [...] a priori" is not the same as a simple "not".

b3tta | 11 years ago | on: Proxygen, Facebook's C++ HTTP Framework

I'm sorry… English is not my native tongue. But I'm learning fast. :)

In no way I intended to say that my framework is better overall, but I do think it's better suited for simple things, like apps.

In fact, I think I will integrate something like their "four-part abstraction", because I really think this is a great idea.

b3tta | 11 years ago | on: Proxygen, Facebook's C++ HTTP Framework

I really like your idea of the 4-part abstraction. Still… Your library really is not "that" easy to use.

I'm currently working on my own library using libuv, http-parser, nghttp2 and wslay, which is very similiar in it's use to node.js. As you might guess a echo server is therefore only about 15 lines of code, but about as performant as your framework. The downsite is that it's not as flexible due to the missing "4-part abtraction" (really… an excellent idea).

That's why your release somehow saddens me: When I'm going to release my framework to the public, it might be pretty good for cross platform apps etc. compared to others, but it will never ever be as popular as yours. Heck… I don't even have 10 twitter followers.

b3tta | 11 years ago | on: Marquee

It seems only -webkit- prefixes are being used for this, which is why this doesn't work in FF.

  @-webkit-keyframes scroll {
    from {
      -webkit-transform: translate(0, 0);
    }
    to {
      -webkit-transform: translate(-300px, 0);
    }
  }

  .resultMarquee{
    -webkit-animation: scroll 7s linear 0 infinite;
    position: absolute;
  }
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