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psetq | 6 years ago | on: Pizza Hut’s First Website

You may be correct in that the bulk of the market is in standard pizza & t-shirts, but the internet/computers didn't create that market.

The article was pointing out what ordering over the internet with computers can potentially add to the ordering experience. Using the "web" in the same way one might have used a fax machine isn't particularly interesting then or now.

psetq | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What made a programming language difficult for you?

I suspect those earlier attempts at learning to program were actually more instructive than that tweet suggests.

Also, "iOS development" is not a programming language and I'd be very skeptical of anyone who opines that Obj-c is easier to learn than PHP or js. (I also assume they're talking about Swift but I don't know much about it).

psetq | 6 years ago | on: Bicycle Helmet Ratings

Their primary presentation is the 0-5 star rating which is perfectly intuitive.

If I'm reading the methodology correctly, the actual STAR score represents the incidence of concussion, in which lower is certainly better.

The only real confusing thing I see is the "star" naming of the "STAR evaluation score" vs. using a "star rating" (0-5) and how they are actually separate things.

psetq | 6 years ago | on: Why Are So Many Developers Hating on Object-Oriented Programming?

I agree. The only way to have this language paradigm discussion productively is if we're all looking at two well written implementations of the same project in each.

Even then, I think the final conclusion (most likely "agree to disagree") will be that it's largely subjective, and heavily biased by familiarity.

Ultimately though, it's really just a distraction to avoid the much more controversial discussion we need to be having vis-à-vis tabs vs. spaces.

psetq | 7 years ago | on: Fridge 0.2

If i'm not mistaken you should refrigerate it once open.

psetq | 7 years ago | on: Stripe Press

Some are, apparently. A useful summary is buried at the bottom under the #why-are-we-doing-this anchor:

    Stripe Press highlights ideas that we think can be broadly useful. Some
    books contain entirely new material, some are collections of existing
    work reimagined, and others are republications of previous works that
    have remained relevant over time or have renewed relevance today.

psetq | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Hacker News job trends

If your goal was to be helpful, you should really be more specific than just "linux". It works fine on Firefox / Ubuntu Xenial for me.

In any event, I'd suspect it was more likely for the problem to be in the browser rather than than the kernel...

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