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Uchikomaon There's a coffeeshop called java.update() in GTA V

He was bashing a programming language - you call it Enterprise Java - for laughs and karma, not seeing languages as tools you can use based on your judgement. I hope we once will grow beyond bashing.

[Edit] And this is the highest voted comment on a thread about how cool GTA V is to include programming references and how deep their open world is.

Uchikomaon There's a coffeeshop called java.update() in GTA V

Language bashing is what characterizes our industry.

I have the dream that one day we will recognize languages as the tool they are and be mature enough to chose tools by utility and not by hype, hipness or pop culture and see there benefits and limitations.

Uchikomaon Twitter Tweet Button URL randomly resolves to a .torrent file

Happens to me on Spiegel.de

Uchikomaon Twitter Tweet Button URL randomly resolves to a .torrent file

Happens to me today on Spiegel.de - one of the largest German sites (news site)

Uchikomaon Deciphering the Business Card Raytracer

Nice!

We did a real time raytracer with 2 spheres where you could move around one with C and a cluster of DEC Alphas 20 years ago, funny to see this on my laptop in Javascript (!) now.

Uchikomaon Former Nokia boss Stephen Elop to receive $25m pay-off

Elop was placed to hit the ice berg, he did, mission accomplished.

Uchikomaon DivX Now Installs Malware

I have a very high opinion of PG

But he's not objective if topics touch Y-combinator startups¹, the same happened during the AirBnb PR disaster.

¹ and when he talks about programming languages ;)

Uchikomaon [dead]

In German there are two words - perhaps in English too.

It's "verliebt" and "liebe/lieben". The first is in the beginning, the second after some time (although people will tell you they love you "liebe dich" from the beginning, while in reality they are "only" "verliebt"). When dating you are usually "verliebt" I think. Some fall on love with being "verliebt" and then split up again and again.

Uchikomaon To my daughter's high school programming teacher

Thanks. The gender of a poster seems very important to you. It's not important to me.

Uchikomaon To my daughter's high school programming teacher

I'm feeling sorry for the daughter.

The poster is hard to take seriously, one mention of the harassment ("sandwiches"), at least three times he mentions "Visual Basic? Seriously??". He seems more concerned about language wars actually.

So many people confusing programming and programming languages - the act and the medium.

On top the "(violence and rape references)" that had nothing to do with the incident of the headline "To my daughter's high school programming teacher".

This is a disservice to all people who work on more gender equality in tech.

[Edit: As pointed out, it's a she. Thanks for pointing this out. Sorry for over reading this, I usually don't care about the gender of a person. Yes I've read the article very fast as it is 90% not about the headline]

Uchikomaon PayPal Freezes Mailpile Campaign Funds

  Paypal: If you presale we might freeze your account
  Merchant does presale
  Paypal freezes account
  Merchant: Why you did that?

Uchikomaon PayPal Freezes Mailpile Campaign Funds

Or you could read the terms of the business relationship with PayPal:

  Am I allowed to presell?
  Yes, you are allowed to presell items as long as you follow these guidelines.
  Off eBay presale requirements
  If you sell items in an online store (not eBay), you must guarantee delivery 
  within 20 days from the date of purchase and make sure that the customer     
  knows they are buying a presale item.
  [...]
  If you are selling goods or services in an online store (not eBay), you may 
  be allowed to presell items but we may hold your money in a reserve 
  account or limit what you can do with your account to reduce the higher risks 
  associated with presale items.

Or as the ruder ones of us said in the 90s on Usenet: RTFM.

https://www.paypal-businesscenter.com/content/presale-policy...

Uchikomaon PayPal Freezes Mailpile Campaign Funds

You're right, but then there was no PayPal when PayPal reached their size, so the situation now seems different to me.

Uchikomaon Geeking Out on the Logo

Love the boldness. Going against flat is bold - and ugly.

It reminds me of a book I had in the 90s which showed 5-click Photoshop tricks, there was a golden bevel trick in there (and marble, and shadows, and stamping).

Uchikomaon How not to check the validity of an email address

1.) Yes, the article was about choosing the right approach for validation

2.) I urge developers to step back and think about the requirements they get. Concerning those I would have thought what validity in this situation means, e.g. light validation in JS, send validation / validation list on the server etc.

Uchikomaon How not to check the validity of an email address

For me it depends on what "validity" means.

1.) Prevent typos etc. Regex or Mailgun or Kicksend is enough. 2.) Prevent bounces, prevent wrong signups one needs to do double opt in.

Uchikomaon Spain begins disciplinary proceedings against site for violating Cookie Law

How does one store that a user opted out of cookies?

Uchikomaon 29% of Bay Area's particulate air pollution comes from across the Pacific (2010)

"Riding a bike vs driving actually causes more pollution (because farms make lots of pollution) [unless you replace exercise you anyway do with bike riding]."

This is a very interesting point, do you have some numbers to back that claim? Food production costs, car production, oil production etc.?

Uchikomaon Tesla Gets Carried Away Hyping Crash Test Results, Has Hand Slapped By Feds

Because Elon Musk is god here and worshipped.

Uchikomaon 29% of Bay Area's particulate air pollution comes from across the Pacific (2010)

The low hanging fruit is always getting others doing something. I for myself see the low hanging fruits with the things I can do or influence.

Uchikomaon David Miranda Heathrow detention: No 10 'kept abreast of operation'

The government offered someone by their choosing and told Miranda that he was a lawyer - which the person may be or may not be.

Uchikomaon Bitcoin now 'unit of account' in Germany

That's the whole point, bitcoin not being treated as a good you trade.

Uchikomaon Tesla Model S achieves best safety rating of any car ever tested

Tesla S is an excellent car. Loved it when I sat in one.

What came to light in Germany some years ago, with a heated discussion, is that automotive companies seem to optimize their cars towards specific tests. The discussion raged around what tests are more realistic, with those that let the car makers look bad (foreign tests) being "not realistic".

Uchikomaon Wozniak Says `Lot of Things Wrong’ With Jobs Movie [video]

-2? Wozniak worshippers, you can do better in punishing an heretic!

Uchikomaon Wozniak Says `Lot of Things Wrong’ With Jobs Movie [video]

Can we stop this Wozniak worshiping every time there is a link to something this guy said?

Uchikomaon Sci-Fi Author Iain M. Banks Gets Asteroid Named after Him

Could have been a ship name :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Cultu...

"No One Knows What The Dead Think", Fast Picket, Culture

Uchikomaon Why Some Startups Say the Cloud Is a Waste of Money

Usually when you want to have a positive P&L and buying servers is CAPEX while cloud is OPEX (and you have no cashflow problem).

Uchikomaon Don't Comment Your Code - Write Better Code

I'm a proponent of self documenting code (method names, variable names, immutable variables etc) but this only helps document the WHAT and sometimes HOW but seldom the most useful WHY or WHY NOT or what I have tried before this and what didn't work so I changed it.

Uchikomaon Show HN: Kraken.io – image optimization service

How does wirecard verify your PCI DSS? It's usually a SAQ and pen scans.