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New comment by purple_ducks in "What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code?"

purple_ducks — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 13:18:10 +0000

I'm all for the positivity but really??

> Access to an elite organization

In what way is Slack elite?

These writers need to tone done their hyperbole.

New comment by purple_ducks in "What Happened to Software Development?"

purple_ducks — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 11:55:24 +0000

Agreed 100%.

New comment by purple_ducks in "API Practices If You Hate Your Customers"

purple_ducks — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 22:29:10 +0000

> this happens when you add JSON version for old XML-based APIs (seen this multiple times)

...without using an XSD schema. With a schema,not an issue

New comment by purple_ducks in "Silicon Valley Finale Explained"

purple_ducks — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 20:17:11 +0000

> Richard Hendricks and the rest of the crew finally sell their new internet company — to HBO parent company AT&T, no less

This didn't happen!

They signed a deal with AT&T to build out their network.

Nowhere was this hinted at. The whole fricking idea was that they were yet to become rich and had to decide between riches and potential encryption devastation.

That was the main plot.

New comment by purple_ducks in "Elon Musk wins 'pedo guy' defamation case"

purple_ducks — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:22:27 +0000

> He had no actual knowledge that the guy wasn't a child rapist

What?! I can't even..

More importantly, he had no actual knowledge that the guy _was_ a child rapist

New comment by purple_ducks in "Elon Musk wins 'pedo guy' defamation case"

purple_ducks — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:10:59 +0000

MMmmm. Would have thought that was not a defense for him seeing as he then went on to call him a child rapist:

> “I suggest that you call people you know in Thailand, find out what’s actually going on and stop defending child rapists, you fucking asshole,” Musk wrote in the first message. “He’s an old, single white guy from England who’s been traveling to or living in Thailand for 30 to 40 years, mostly Pattaya Beach, until moving to Chiang Rai for a child bride who was about 12 years old at the time.”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-thai-...

New comment by purple_ducks in "Elon Musk wins 'pedo guy' defamation case"

purple_ducks — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 22:59:25 +0000

Wow, genuinely surprised by this.

New comment by purple_ducks in "No to Chrome"

purple_ducks — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 18:15:38 +0000

not op - 1 click clear storage/site data button.

Do any of the firefox devs use chrome dev tools to see what's missing in FF/nice to have?

New comment by purple_ducks in "No to Chrome"

purple_ducks — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 15:20:02 +0000

How many devs are on the firefox devtools team?

Our Redux Anti Pattern

purple_ducks — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 13:52:31 +0000

Article URL: https://rangle.slides.com/yazanalaboudi/deck#/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712236

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New comment by purple_ducks in "I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit"

purple_ducks — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 12:57:16 +0000

As feelgood a quote as that may seem, this line:

> Nobody would steal if he could get something of his own some easier way. Nobody will commit burglary when he has a house full.

is complete nonsense when contrasted against modern times. All the thieves in jail are not there because they stole to feed their family or some other noble deed.

New comment by purple_ducks in "Generating a Java program with 90% less code"

purple_ducks — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 21:30:22 +0000

> I have seen multiple tech teams at different companies evolve separately towards using similar patterns in both Java and C#

Could you give us some background on your professional experience? There is no "About" section on the site.

New comment by purple_ducks in "Thoughts on San Francisco"

purple_ducks — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 23:18:33 +0000

> I actually do want to "criminalize homelessness". It should not be an allowable choice

How about people who are an utter nuisance on their neighbours? Do we just say tough luck to the neighbours?

Have you ever experienced that?

People who have zero respect for their neighbours and just do whatever they want at whatever time they want?

How many noise complaints will the neighbours be forced to tolerate because I have zero doubt given SF's governance that putting these people in jail will not happen.

Should people just tolerate their lives being disrupted until all avenues of addiction/mental health/other treatment are exhausted?

New comment by purple_ducks in "A $500M Family Feud"

purple_ducks — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 17:34:05 +0000

How have we as a society not outlawed the phony hiring of family members in order to financially enrich them far beyond what they could earn/should earn for the work they do?

New comment by purple_ducks in "The world needs more search engines"

purple_ducks — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 17:11:13 +0000

I'll save you some future embarrassment and point out that Google complies with all applicable laws in the territories it provides search (including "hate speech laws, anti-piracy laws, right to be forgotten laws").

New comment by purple_ducks in "The world needs more search engines"

purple_ducks — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 17:08:38 +0000

Clearly the author does realise this as is evident by the rest of the sentence, which was included in the quote.

New comment by purple_ducks in "Shibboleths that get you past the initial script stage"

purple_ducks — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 15:29:15 +0000

> never mention it in the presence of an Irishman, a Northern-Irishman or anyone else from GB, and especially not botch my reference to any one side

It's really only an issue in written form.

In spoken form, the London part is silent so they're both just pronounced Derry..

Signed,

An Irish person.

New comment by purple_ducks in "Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer for life"

purple_ducks — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 16:44:08 +0000

> yet the DMV wouldn't recognize the impossibility of going from incredibly drunk to stone cold sober in the span of three minutes.

or maybe they recognised he could go and get someone else to blow in it?

New comment by purple_ducks in "Why I Voted to Sell .ORG"

purple_ducks — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 18:27:21 +0000

Looks like OP is based in Washington D.C.

Guess he was feeling left out when it came to all the lobbying money and croney corruption.

Strange he never addressed the fact that a new non-profit wasn't set up to control the domain.

New comment by purple_ducks in "Do we need a web API?"

purple_ducks — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 17:18:40 +0000

the OP message falls flat when it can't even be bothered to server render.

also, most offensive is the use of 3rd party js hosting. given the tiny size of the 3rd party libraries (relative to 1st party code), add them in to the code from your own site (which you're already bundling up. SMH)

[from jsdelivr.net]

polyfill.min.js (31.8kb/96.8kb) (wire/resource)

url-polyfill.min.js (1.9kb/6.1kb)

react.production.min.js (4.7kb/12.3kb)

react-dom.production.min.js (36kb/116kb)

[from liaison.dev]

bundle.a7c7d78d57.immutable.js (108kb/375kb)

actual website code: https://github.com/liaisonjs/liaison/tree/master/website