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ASneakyFox··on Can Reddit Grow Up?
I don't think it's do much a company could the over reddits marketshare. Its that there's comment sections and forums every where. If/when reddit dies there will be increased traffic to other forms of blogging/commenting/posting. And eventually a new website will fizzle to the top just out of chance (in the same way reddit did).
ASneakyFox··on Show HN: Words for Chrome – Smarter, safer web comments
I like the idea though I'm on opera.

Edit: oh and it requires google login. No thanks.

ASneakyFox··on Can Reddit Grow Up?
I don't think reddit can be profitable. The moment it is the userbase will move on to the next thing. A new site can spring up over night. A new reddit could be coded in weeks. its all a matter of people choosing to congregate there. This is an ongoing process that is constantly happening. Message boards are popular, and they're cheap.
ASneakyFox··on Fizzbuzzed
The problem is like its asking you what your favorite type of glue is. Favorite hammer. Favorite color. Favorite grade of gasoline. Unless you have some weird emotional attachment to the subject it makes no sense.
ASneakyFox··on Google under fire from regulators on EU privacy ruling
Because it's not a privacy issue. Privacy is the red herring. There's already ways to protect your privacy online. Additionally no one wants online privacy. People spend long hours making their facebook page
ASneakyFox··on Google under fire from regulators on EU privacy ruling
The issue is not data location. Its that their localized domain for europe does but their international domain does not. Googles argument is their international domain doesn't fall under european jurisdiction.
ASneakyFox··on Google under fire from regulators on EU privacy ruling
News papers are going digital. Google search engines is how many people get their news (searching news web sites)
ASneakyFox··on Google under fire from regulators on EU privacy ruling
Censorship contradicts freedom. To me its that's simple.
ASneakyFox··on How to Get Ahead as a Woman in Tech: Interrupt Men
The article is clickbait spam.. youre not supposed to respond.
ASneakyFox··on All apps should be native. Who needs browsers and JavaScript?
I don't think hes argueing of the whole web.. hes talking about javascript. Eg websites that could and perhaps should be apps. This is different from a website that provides information.
ASneakyFox··on Starship
I think because you can't hear what they're saying so it feels like whispering. And whispering is often negative.
ASneakyFox··on What Happens When a Company Worth $5bn Clones Your Product?
I don't see the problem with "clones". No one ever cries clone outside of the industry. Pepsi isnt considered a coke clone. Reebok isn't a nike clone. And so on.

So as long the "clone" isn't impersonating "the real thing", so what? Being first to market doesn't mean no one can compete with you. Competition is the whole point.

ASneakyFox··on What every computer science major should know
I like how he discusses the importance of building credibility, but in his article he gives nothing to tell me why I should listen to his advice or why his advice might help any one do well in their career.
ASneakyFox··on The Reason Pot Is Still Illegal
Anything you consume in any way could be a drug depending on how you classify it. Typicaly the term drug implies some thing negative while terms like nutrition and medicine implies some thing positive. Its all politics though.
ASneakyFox··on Ask HN: Why would you disable JavaScript?
What about those that disable js because you didn't test your js on their mobile browser and it renders the site unusable?
ASneakyFox··on Ask HN: Why would you disable JavaScript?
It can be very useful and be used to add useful features.. but 90 percent of javascript is for delivering unwanted annoyances like ads... or when not malicious it can be used to annoy. making what looks like ordinary links to unexpected things and now the browser back button doesnt go back because I was actually clicking js links and operating a js app rather than clicking real links..

There's a small subset of great uses of javascript. The rest is just hovering toolboxes so I can easily "+1" the page despite not having a google+ account.

I prefer the web without the annoying stuff. Once js gets past the "look at what I can do" phase id welcome it more openly.

ASneakyFox··on So you want to be a PHP Developer?
Being that both are popular and it's common to see both, you really ought to know both.
ASneakyFox··on How to rip apart a programmers CV
That part made me laugh. Including "objects and classes" on a programmers resume is like a trucker including "steering and accelerating" on his.

Unfortunately the person who is going to hire you often has no programming experience. Or if they did it was an intro to vb course. So concepts like objects seem like very advanced stuff to them as its likely some thing they just barely were ever to scratch the surface on.

Truckers have the advantage that their employets probably atleast drive some thing on a daily basis.

ASneakyFox··on IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)
That's not so easy to do any more.
ASneakyFox··on Qualcomm issues DMCA takedowns for 116 GitHub repositories, including their own
I'm not saying its not legitimate copyrightable work. I'm saying the claims are hard to verify. There's no content id for closed source code. There's not even manual identification or just skimming to see if the claim might even have merit. All you have is a complaint.

This is different from when its say a song. Its not hard to look at the song and say "yep thats metallica".

ASneakyFox··on Qualcomm issues DMCA takedowns for 116 GitHub repositories, including their own
I had no idea dmca could be used for source code. I feel like the merits of the claim could require argument. It's not like media where you're very clearly using some ones so g or picture.
ASneakyFox··on Tinder Suspends Co-Founder In Wake Of Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
They were dating and they broke up. This is all a teenager break up story. Just they have the money and publicity to tell the whole world about it.

Hes still guilty of harassment. But I'm sure if more records were released We would see a lot that makes her look bad and probably guilty of similiar crimes if not the same ones.

This is why no established company allows dating in the work place. Break up arguments are now workplace harassment charges.

ASneakyFox··on The Best Code Documentation ‘Tool’ Ever Made
The method comments are where you explain the expected/accepted inputs and outputs. Its not for outlining design decisions. You also don't need to explain how the method works. It's a black box.

Your ide can be configured to show warnings if your comments don't match your parameter list. Though generally you don't change the external api of your code once you've written it. Or else you then have to update all the methods that call it.

ASneakyFox··on Tinder Suspends Co-Founder In Wake Of Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
The whole thing sounds like an episode of some reality tv show with teenagers. Both of them should be feeling embarassed about themselves.
ASneakyFox··on The Morality Of A/B Testing – Ethics in a Data Driven World
This is way over blown out of proportion beyond belief. It's not like they blocked off peoples access to food, they choose not to highlight some ones status update.

The true story is how did face book get to the point that crituqing its algorithms have "ethical" implications , and why are there no question of ethics when Google alters their search engine as they do constantly..

ASneakyFox··on Google's "Right to be Forgotten" Disclaimer
I'm pro privacy. But the law is just stupid. Its about taking information that is meant to be public knowledge (much of it being public for good reasons, eg lawsuits) and saying that the information should still exist just be hard to find. Bassicaly instead of implementing actual privacy they just outlawed effeciency. And they didn't even do that. I'm sure any one who is interested in those search results can easily just access the us google. Hell I'm sure its about to be a chrome browser extension.
ASneakyFox··on Yo-yo problem
None of my java classes are this that long. 3 words max.
ASneakyFox··on Ask HN: How to describe myself as an entrepreneur without sounding cocky?
I agree with this concept as names are meaningless. But id like to throw in that if you're looking for corporate work then your title is important as the people hiring you don't usually understand what you do, so just explaining your work might not pan out. You'll want a good title and some thing that explains your work in terms of money.

When working with others who are familiar with your industry then that caveat does not apply though.

ASneakyFox··on Poll: Are you moving to the Amazon Fire Phone?
I solved this issue by never unmuting my phone. Not even for phone calls (unless im expecting an important call). My phone doesn't tell me when to use it. I do it the other way around. I check my phone maybe 2-3 times a day. When I wake up. Once a little after lunch. And once at night.

The main thing you have to do is not feel like its your job to immediatly attend to any contact. Treat your phone like a laptop. Emails you should reapond to in 24 hours. Text or phone calls don't need to be answered. Your phone saves your call logs for your convenience. Just get back to that person when you have a free chance. Our ancestors survived not being able to talk to any one at any moment. We don't have to either.

ASneakyFox··on Why Every Language Needs Its Underscore
I feel like under score just makes your code compact. They're also ignoring that I might want to be doing input validation while iterating over those lists. Forcing me to add a loop right after that very compact code and nullifying it only purpose. Then on top of that ill need to add comments to explain the compact and cryptic code.

I really don't see the benefit.

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