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that_jojo | 6 years ago

When would you be creating a branch to do work without knowing what work you're doing?

that_jojo | 6 years ago

Most ideas in CS are old as dirt. There was a flurry of theory advancements mid-century and a lot of work since then has been putting those ideas into practice.

that_jojo | 6 years ago

It's inertia. Among other things, the much higher inertia of the broomstick has a damping effect on changes in its motion.

that_jojo | 6 years ago

In what way? Regardless of whether they're using CI they still have to pull and mainline your change.

that_jojo | 6 years ago

Wow, so I just decided to do some digging because I hadn't heard about this and I wanted to educate myself.

Literally the only thing I can find that paints that transcript in remotely the light you're implying is an absolutely garbage Fox News article referencing a Slate article. That Fox article is 18 sentences long, and is mostly a bunch of op-ed ranting sprinkled with some absolutely mutilated quotes.

Ironically, the content of the Slate article paints a picture of the NYT dealing with its readership complaining that they're not tough enough on the administration, and their vigilance and ongoing struggle with remaining as neutral as possible.

that_jojo | 6 years ago

Am I old? Everyone's talking about whether this new 'cheese grater' name will take off. But that's what we called the old aluminum case since the G5.

that_jojo | 6 years ago

Who on earth is moving from the well-typed, statically compiled world of C# to some dynamic scripting language? I mean, not to besmirch the merits of scripting languages, but C# and, ex, JS excel in very different domains.

that_jojo | 6 years ago

I think it probably helps when you're not only good at what you're doing, but also are super into the project.

My performance is abysmal at my day job because I really can't bring myself to be interested in the subject at hand. And yet I'll regularly work until the wee hours in the morning on personal projects without even realizing what time it is.

that_jojo | 6 years ago

How did I leave this comment here without any memory of doing it?

that_jojo | 6 years ago

I can't remember if it's the same with chrome, but firefox actually uses its rendering engine to render the window chrome as well.

that_jojo | 6 years ago

There's a major gap between 'technically superior' and 'subjectively superior'. You sound pretty out of touch here in a time when LPs and casettes have made a comeback, chiptunes are pretty hip, some artists have literally released albums on floppy disk, and, as already mentioned, contrary to your own sarcasm low-poly graphics are already a an indie game trope.

Just because something has more impressive metrics doesn't make it fun.

that_jojo | 6 years ago

Maybe I'm really dense, but what on earth does loop unrolling have to do with concurrency or asynchronous code?

that_jojo | 6 years ago

Lets not forget that Bloomberg was also the publication that ran with and defended that whole 'Supermicro is totally getting spy hardware added to their motherboards by the Chinese government even though no one can seem to locate it' story. Something's... possibly askew with them of late.

that_jojo | 6 years ago

Totally different jojo, sadly.

that_jojo | 6 years ago

My god. Sun invented the Taptic Engine.

that_jojo | 6 years ago

Are you intimating that she learned a breakthrough technique in how to be old?

that_jojo | 6 years ago

I think his point was that it would be a bit silly to put this kind of solution into a product -- which is, in a word: jank -- when capacitive touchscreens are already a tried and true solution in production devices.

that_jojo | 6 years ago

Even then, isn't the 'capacitive sensor' just a conductive coating on the glass?

that_jojo | 6 years ago

Bizarrely, I was at +4 moments ago and now sit at -1
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