jmcdiesel

I don't see why he felt the need to halfway add in package management, but not go all the way. You still have to download the package and update it manually from what i can tell... where the others you simply add a github path (or other repository path) and updates come eaily, install comes easily.

Consider the case of people like me who work on remote servers, who spin up new vagrant boxes and work on them remote... with the package manager as he described it, i'd have to download all the plugins and manually place them, etc... as i currently stand, i install vundle really quickly , then it just reads my .vundlerc.bundles and installs all the plugins i want, presto. Half solutions are worse than no solutions... because now people will compare the two, and default (likely) to the default solution and make package management harder on themselves than it needs to be...

I love VIM... but I feel like VIM's life is coming to an end... as VIM. NeoVIM is just... better. The editor as it stands now is essentially the same, but an actual active development that isn's a single contributor is going to create a better project, and its going to respond to the community more and keep itself more up to date and performant.

I feel bad, in a way, because i have a strong loyalty to vim, but Bram's stubbornness at playing well with others is basically holding onto sand, and we know how that analogy goes...

As someone who had fiber internet then had to spend a year and a half on 1.5MBPS DSL ... (hell) ... I can say I agree that it sucks...

I can also say that at no point did I feel entitled for it to work better for me. I don't understand this level of entitlement (i dont like your ads, i dont like your layout, i dont like your visual effect ...) ... just leave the site.

The modern web isn't simple static pages... its not going to revert to that, either. We're developing actual applications in the browser now... those aren't easily translated to static, simple pages...

This is today's "grumpy old engineer" argument...

It's not a matter of whether the internet is global, its who your audience is... if you audience is primarily in developed nations, then the rest of the world isn't much of an issue.

When people say that females are equal in America or that systemic sexism isn't still a thing, they forget that what constitutes america is more than the actual laws in place... the practical experience is far more important to focus on...

Why not? You make the claim that nothing important should be done in JS, but why not? You established your opinion, then gave the evidence to support it, rather than the other way around. I'm curious to the actual reason you find that JS should be avoided, and what, specifically, the other languages give to the solution that JS is lacking in.

I enjoyed this even though it wasnt at all fun...

maybe thats the point?

A true popular vote would be just as horrible... minority interest gets buried...

But honestly, its the size of the nation thats the problem. People in the northeast have fundamentally different beliefs than those in, say, Alabama and california... and trying to rule over all of them as a single government is only going to cause pain...

“With its long neck, big eyes and strange oblong head, I thought it resembled E.T. I even made a Halloween mask that resembled the head of this insect. But when I wore the mask when trick-or-treaters came by, it scared the little kids so much I took it off.”

The bug itself bothers me in some deep way I cant quite identify.

Developers always want this - but responding to reviews hardly every works out in your favor... its either a shallow "thanks" kind of message or a shallow "sorry" kind of message... and it almost always comes off as disingenuous

You're assuming he's released everything he has... and he didnt. He censored stuff, he left it up to news outlets to pull out newsworthy stuff and not share things likely to compromize national security... those things are out there still... and he has them, so yes, he still has damage he can do... i believe he has no interest in doing said damage, but the potential is there

I think that has to do more with bias...

I've noticed on a few applications/sites I've made...

Star ratings tend to bias high, but ratings attached to reviews tend to bias low. If you're happy with the product, you just give it a 5... if you're unhappy, you give it a 1 and a review... but that takes more effort... so the happy outweighs the unhappy it seems... just my own theory, but its played out in a few places...

It doesn't matter.

He's either "protected" in Russia or dead. I seriously doubt he could return to the US without suffering some horrible traumatic body-and-evidence-destroying "accident" ...

Its not at all hard...

This is the time for doing these things... things like this that have the potential to upset a lot of people you rely on... but he wont be relying on them anytime soon... thats kinda where the "tradition" of pardons, etc at the last few days of term comes from.. there is next to no backlash for the president if hes only in office for a few more days

Aside from the Terminator being better than iTerm2, he's pretty spot on :)

Because unless you're being a pedant, any reasonable person with a decent reading level would understand the context of "drugs and alcohol" to mean impairing drugs, not caffeine and tylenol

I was "asked" to exit my vehicle by no less than 6 officers pointing their service pistol directly at me and yelling at me...

I was walked backwards, hands on head to a police car and cuffed, thrown down on the hood and very physically frisked (ever had someone literally pull your balls down ... yeah)

I stood with my hands behind my back for 10 minutes sitting on them, very painfully (i am a big dude, but i was larger then, over 420lbs (this plays into the story later)

I was talked to like i was trash while officers begin looking through my truck, throwing everything out of place...

...

Want to know why this happened? Because 10 minutes earlier someone robbed the store i was driving behind. His description was a SKINNY male (the word "skinny" was specifically used) with dark hair and a beard. Even through the window of my truck, if you could tell i had a beard, you could tell i wasnt skinny. I was of course let go... but basically my truck was ransacked, left completely a mess, and I was left feeling rather victimized (its not a good feeling knowing 6 guns are loaded and pointed at you with no safety on... its a lot more impactful than you think before it happens to you) ...

At the end of the day, any one with common sense isnt going to think the person who (on foot) robbed a store is going to drive right by the store, surrounded by police officers, 10 minutes later... and i didnt even match the description... yet somehow their warrantless search of my vehicle and self were totally legal and fine...

These were just assholes who wanted to get all hopped up on being the hero that day...

Oh, and at the end... the whole thing ended with the last words of the cop being "you're lucky we arent citing you for your license plate light being out" ... thats how cold cops are, thats what law enforcement is in America... its a bunch of losers who get handed power (because what kind of person seeks out power through a badge and a gun) and in turn, look for every opportunity to use said power in extreme ways to get their kicks...

Warrants are just peices of paper... intimidation is the way of the police now. That's their preferred method of getting what they want

The difference comes in the tone...

When the tone is more accusatory than informative, it invites plenty of criticism...

What point did we begin to feel entitled to do whatever we want in someone else's software?

If someone wants to kick you out of there house for no reason, you leave their house. You're not paying to be there, you're not paying to publish there... you have no intrinsic "right" to be there... you were there as a privilege - when it disappears, for whatever reason, there is no reason other than a false sense of entitlement to whine about it...

However, when you work a job (Especially a "customer-facing" government job - at least in the US) you're instructed to ask every person with a service animal or a cane / other indicator of blindness if they need help.

He lives in you, he lives in me He watches over everything we see Into the waters, into the truth In your reflection, he lives in you

I think there are 2 sides to this...

1) Its ridiculous... the gps is a guide, not a dictator, and you're still responsible for where you put your vehicle. If the guy was reading a map, he'd have had the same problem.

However, 2) With autonomous vehicles coming, potential places for a vehicle to get stuck should be on the maps...

You chose whether or not you are insulted by something. I have no control over whether or not you are insulted. I can try to insult you, i can try to say the worst things possible to insult you - thats "being insulting"...

If you were standing next to say, a very enlightened, mindful buddhist monk - you can be insulting to him, but he will likely never be insulted. Because he choses to not be insulted.

Being insulted, having hurt feelings, taking offense - these are all acts that the "victim" themselves control 100%. Nobody can make you feel insulted, nobody can make your feelings hurt, nobody can make you feel offended. These are all choices you make yourself. You're the only person in this entire world that can make yourself feel hurt, offended, or insulted.

I think you're confusing the verb "insult" (as it, doing something with the intent of insulting someone) with the state of being insulted. TO insult someone is to ATTEMPT to make them feel insulted, but its up to that person whether or not they are insulted.

> A society is better off overall if there are limits to free > speech (think of insults, false advertisement, incitement, > etc.)

Insults? You should be able to (and protected to) insult anyone you please, at any time. Insult has to be taken. Insult is never given. There is no right to not be offended, and there should never be one, because offense/insult happen internally. You cannot insult me if i chose to not be insulted, you can not offend me if i chose to be offended.

False advertisement isn't about free speech - it's about making a verbal contract and not following through. You're free to say whatever you want, and the offence isn't in the saying it, its in the failure to keep the contract.

Society is rarely served by more restriction.

Thats just it...

There are edge cases where a bug is intermittent... and is masked by something on the client side, especially possible with browser plugins. In fact, plugins were the cause of 2 of these for me... Where some issue on page load was causing a bug, but then JS was changing the source away from what cased the bug, but a refresh wasn't guaranteed to have the same information (this was a fast changing log-viewer, for one of them) ...

So you end up not being able to capture the init state of the page... but the bug wouldnt show up without JS enabled because the error is in the JS...

Not common case... but it seems like fetching from the server is MORE work for no reason when the data is already there...

Ok, is it wrong that my first thought had nothing to do with the actual content... (from you EDIT) ... but instead immediately was like "Shit, yeah... the person on the site could open "banned" sites in an iframe remotely... like a remote controlled dog collar" ...

So yeah, i just go right to the tech... engineer life... I don't know if i love or hate the "problem" of seeing everything as a problem with a solution to be found..

Because 23&me are not providing a medical diagnoses. They never were. They are giving you what they calculate as your chances to to carry or possibly have or develop health issues based on their database of other people's dna ... they are showing statistical similarities and never claim to make diagnosis.. What does the FDA have to do with statistical analysis?

The FDA's claim to jurisdiction (which I feel is BS) ... is that 23&me were providing "medical advice" or "diagnoses" by saying that you share genomes linked to x percent chance of Y ...

Flying actually falls in a gray area... Considering you are "taxed" in essence for the TSA, to move between states... freedom of movement between states and all...