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b3tta··on Word usage guidance and alternative terms
Item_Boring already clarified what I meant better than I could ever express it.

But yeah basically "Kleidermacher" was historically a genderless term for quite a long time (potentially always) and was then gendered again, by people who seemingly misunderstood the generic masculinum. The people who made this worse misunderstood that sexus and genus are two different things.

As I explained before, this is quite ironic given that the -in suffix is now being said to be not inclusive.

b3tta··on Word usage guidance and alternative terms
Actually "Kleidermacher" is a genderless word in German. Source: I'm German. :D

But historically this has been a complicated topic. Basically about a hundred years ago the genus and sexus of words started to get separated. Thanks to that you can say "Katze" to both male and female cats. Historically you had to say "Kater" to a male cat.

But of course there were people in the 90s (it started earlier than that) who considered the generic masculinum uninclusive for women, since why is the male genus allowed to be the generic form of the language? Everything had to be gendered explicitly again! Awesome! /s Instead of rolling back the split of genus and sexus of the past decades, they instead opted for just sticking the already existing, but less popular -in suffix to everything and anything. A generic word like "Student" now had it's proper sexus again as "Student und Studentin".

But as you might already know that's uninclusive for nonbinary people and thus we're now at a point where we say "Studierende" or "Studentx" or "Student:in" instead, which linguistically really doesn’t make much sense at all anymore. Awesome! /s

One step forward, two steps backwards. But again, as explained above, the "Kleidermacher" can be of any genus, because...

Genus and sexus are two different things in German.

b3tta··on An Open Letter to Jessica Livingston About YC's Female Founders Conference
Hmm... Sometimes even I say "maybe women just prefer [...]", but actually mean exactly that, what you said: There are social trends and in this case there is a social trend specific to women wrongly being taught that they are not as good as men in STEM fields. So much in fact (here in Germany) that it's kind of unsettling, when they tell you "haha I'm just not good in math haha" and you can't even, because it's so effing wrong.

I believe many (young) people will tell you that women are "just" like that, but actually mean "they are just taught to think so", because in their male position there is no need to choose are careful wording. I'm also pretty sure that, while the society at large is fault for this herd thinking about this, the parents play the biggest role in where the daughter places herself in the world.

b3tta··on AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899
The thing where you "hang" your "coat" on: https://www.google.com/search?q=coat+hanger&tbm=isch
b3tta··on Swift Resistance
I'm not really sure how to interpret your comment, since it is possible to contribute to all of those and they are de facto loved by the community…
b3tta··on Swift Resistance
Somehow it seems that currently everything happening in the USA is "Dead on Arrival" - including Swift.

This time due to shipping an utterly broken compiler to an unfinished language, without being able to contribute to it. Because if we could contribute to it, Swift might still be soon something that people love to use. But I somehow really don't believe that this will ever truly happen.

b3tta··on Front End Developer – Interview Questions
Using a closure:

  function foo(s) {
    function generator(i) {
      return function () {
        return i;
      };
    }

    var r = new Array(s);
    
    for (var i = 0; i < s; i++) {
      r[i] = generator(i);
    }
    
    return r;
  }

  console.log(foo(1000)[42]());

Using Function.prototype.bind():

  function foo(s) {
    function generator(i) {
      return i;
    }

    var r = new Array(s);
    
    for (var i = 0; i < s; i++) {
      r[i] = generator.bind(window, i);
    }
    
    return r;
  }

  console.log(foo(1000)[42]());
b3tta··on Google Nears $1 Billion Investment in SpaceX
Let's say we poll the roughly 1b people living in first world, and ask them each to pay $10 to see SpaceX do whatever SpaceX does. How many people even think it's worth $10?

I just wan't to add that the problem is not that SpaceX provides less to humanity than WhatsApp.

The problem is that most people are not really far-sighted, but only see things which benefit themselves in a predictable amount of time.

Why companies like SpaceX (or NASA) are important has already been answered with Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa

https://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4372563

b3tta··on Apple Software Quality Questions
IMHO currently the worst bugs are in discoveryd, which replaces mDNSResponder for Bonjour.

If you remove a service on OSX 10.10 it's removal will be broadcast. But it doesn't stop there. No... Most of the time the service will be published again after that and after a second or so it will be finally removed. How the hell did this pass even the most basic QA checks?!

b3tta··on Whitehouse response to Aaron Swartz petition
I'm not a believer, like many others (especially in europe).

So... It would be nice to see her face harsh consequences on this side too. I'm pretty sure that we both can agree on that one.

b3tta··on Notch Buys Beverly Hills Mansion
Sssh! Don't disturb their precious dreams. The patriarchy will win if you do!
b3tta··on Improving Redis CRC performance
"crc-mark-adler-hw" uses SSE4.2 just like your "crc-sse42". The latter one is just very poorly written, since it only uses _mm_crc32_u8() once per iteration (instead of 3 times).
b3tta··on An Offer to Sony from 2600
Well… The difference is the implied meaning of burning a book.

Making a movie about the assassination of the NK leader doesn't imply hate. I'm pretty sure making the movie wasn't about the hate against NK per se, but rather a comedy about the situation in an oppressed country.

If you burn a koran/bible I'm pretty sure we all know what that means: You hate the religion and wan't it to die.

As you can see the difference is that the first one falls under free- and the other under hate-speech.

Now if you ask me, it's still wrong to hate against those who burn "holy books" or whatever. In my opinion hate speech is integral to having free spech, even if it should be watched carefully (I really don't wan't a third reich here in germany) - something that has been lost in the past couple years. But it's important to differenciate between both.

b3tta··on Firefox for iOS on GitHub
It's not redundant. You wrote an awesome browser and many people, including me, a very eager to get their hands on the new version. Keep up with you awesome work! It's not just that competition like this is important, but this project is also something that you can show around and impress people with it (at e.g. job interviews).
b3tta··on Wire – Modern Communications Network
I guess stuff like that: http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-bac...
b3tta··on DefineJS – A lightweight implementation of AMD module format
require.js: 1249 LOC

define.js: 259 LOC

You should rather ask what the difference to almond is (which is also from jburke and useful for bundled loading - I think this is more similiar to define.js).

almond: 275 LOC

As to a reason why someone would write his own AMD loader: I once wrote one, because I want'ed to be able to pass objects as array elements to the require parameter, to forward them to the callback function. Something similiar to this:

    function callback(module1, object, module2) { ... }
    require(['some-module-ID', object, 'another-module-ID'], callback);
Thus I got something similiar to Function.bind() for free.

Also I could implement a global requirement list. A synchronous script in the head could add entries to this list and thus prevent the execution of any asynchronous script, which was not in the list. Thus those in the list could be loaded asynchronously. After all of them where resolved, all the others could be loaded.

For instance this is incredibly useful, if you wan't to load IE shims, for things like this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element.cla... etc.

I guess I could open source it, if I feel like it. :D

Edit: Fixed LOC numbers. I also just checked my implementation: Only 168 LOC, while nearly implementing AMD (without relativ paths!), tuned for Closure/uglify.js/etc. and compatible to IE6, but with those 2 features above. I guess that's pretty good too…

b3tta··on David Deutsch’s New Theory of Reality
Furthermore he says "Thus the conservation law, though not an a priori mathematical truth, provides [...]".

Imho "not [...] a priori" is not the same as a simple "not".

b3tta··on Proxygen, Facebook's C++ HTTP Framework
I'm sorry… English is not my native tongue. But I'm learning fast. :)

In no way I intended to say that my framework is better overall, but I do think it's better suited for simple things, like apps.

In fact, I think I will integrate something like their "four-part abstraction", because I really think this is a great idea.

b3tta··on Proxygen, Facebook's C++ HTTP Framework
I really like your idea of the 4-part abstraction. Still… Your library really is not "that" easy to use.

I'm currently working on my own library using libuv, http-parser, nghttp2 and wslay, which is very similiar in it's use to node.js. As you might guess a echo server is therefore only about 15 lines of code, but about as performant as your framework. The downsite is that it's not as flexible due to the missing "4-part abtraction" (really… an excellent idea).

That's why your release somehow saddens me: When I'm going to release my framework to the public, it might be pretty good for cross platform apps etc. compared to others, but it will never ever be as popular as yours. Heck… I don't even have 10 twitter followers.

b3tta··on Marquee
It seems only -webkit- prefixes are being used for this, which is why this doesn't work in FF.

  @-webkit-keyframes scroll {
    from {
      -webkit-transform: translate(0, 0);
    }
    to {
      -webkit-transform: translate(-300px, 0);
    }
  }

  .resultMarquee{
    -webkit-animation: scroll 7s linear 0 infinite;
    position: absolute;
  }
b3tta··on New forms of 'racism' arise in science research
I think ignoring the differences between races (e.g. hypertension medicine targeted at african americans) is as wrong as ignoring the fact, that genetic differences between 2 people, which might be considered as being from the same "race", might be much greater.

Furthermore "white knighting" for races (i.e. probably non-caucasian ones) is very likely not much better than racism itself (same as the people fighting "for" women and against the jerks at conferences etc.).

b3tta··on Myth: The astronauts didn’t float away because they had heavy boots
And that's my basic problem with talking with other people: It's hard for me to understand how one can not know or comprehend what I know and classify as "basic knowledge"...

Of course I understand that and can for instance explain it to them, but it often still remains surprising for me.

b3tta··on Particle effects in JavaScript
That one is actually pretty "old" already. The original demo can be found here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/demos/detail/fluid

b3tta··on Reason #73 why C++ is a terrible intro language
Folks... Let me ask you a related question: Why are signed integers used so (extremely) often, if the number is by definition always greater or equal to zero? Why are so few using explicit unsigned integers? Is it just a lack of understanding what the difference between signed and unsigned integers are and what happens if either one is increased/decreased over it's maximum/minimum value?
b3tta··on The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer
Since the "original" mentioned at the top is not available anymore: http://web.archive.org/web/20071020011113/http://www.cse.ogi...
b3tta··on JQuery 2.0 Released
10.29% worldwide according to: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201203...

Well one of the websites I'm working on is a fairly big one in germany and only about 4% of all visitors are using IE8 or below. Guess what! We now only support IE9+.

b3tta··on RethinkDB 1.4 is out: better protocol, drivers, data explorer history
Please don't get me wrong, but are there any details as to when RethinkDB will get its old speed back (before the addition of the cluster layer)?

Because currently it seems that even for instance MySQL mostly performs a lot faster than RethinkDB and that makes me kinda sad, because I would really like to try this in a production environment.

b3tta··on The Matrix in JavaScript in less than 600 bytes
I didn't mean the "rgba()-fillRect-command", but why the font blur is still slightly visible as dark green, while the character itself has already faded to black.
b3tta··on The Matrix in JavaScript in less than 600 bytes
http://jsfiddle.net/muV99/16/ done

Sadly I never really used canvas before, so I don't know how to hide the dark-green afterglow.

b3tta··on JavaScript: Clarifying The Keyword ‘this’
When using addEventListener, "this" is not necessarily bound to the DOM node. You can also pass an Object whith a "handleEvent" function as attribute, instead of directly passing a function.

You can read more about it for instance here: http://www.thecssninja.com/javascript/handleevent

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