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Exactly. Being offended in and of itself is worthless (I'm sure we can find that Stephen Fry quote somewhere in this thread), it is not a motivator for a behavioral change, at leas…

You're placing entirely too much importance on particular categorizations, "comfort" has much more to do with "what you're used to", than the idea that people are constantly fretti…

Why do you believe the github style guide to be the authoritative source for JavaScript style? There is no benefit for avoiding use of semicolons other than not writing semicolons,…

My guess is that rather than give an exhaustive list, the author wanted to give an example of a familiar language _without_ static typing. As Haxe is more similar to ECMAScript tha…

While I disproportionally use Ruby and JavaScript on a daily basis, this statement is referring to a specific type of (common) error, which is largely alleviated by the use of stat…

That's been one of my concerns, the best way to circumvent that issue is to do something like the following: window.jQuery || document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='/path/to/jquer…

And what if you both sit in a life drawing class drawing the same model? What if for some odd reason you decide to sit behind one of the participants and draw a portrait based off …

As individuals, we don't act the same way around our peers, our friends or our family. While we certainly present ourselves differently in different contexts, I wouldn't call these…

Unless you have a specific example, merely omitting mention of both genders hardly qualifies as "sexism" to me? There are plenty of gender-specific magazines for females that do th…

I'd recommend Mirah ( https://github.com/mirah/mirah ) and Pindah ( https://github.com/mirah/pindah ) as an almost Ruby over Ruboto for Android due to slow startup times from the p…

I understand your position, and perhaps I should have better clarified my own. I did not mean to imply that photography was not a technical or creative field, rather by "mechanical…

> Merely reproducing something is not art, it's direct reproduction. Introducing unique style would be art. One could then argue that photographs are merely reproduction of reality…

The burden of proof would be on the photographer to prove that it was a "copy" of their work rather than an independent creation. At a certain point it comes down to this intangibl…

"Uniqueness" isn't a qualification for determining whether something is "art". Most art is not unique, and certainly not most photographs. Calling the pixelated version a "flippant…

I don't follow your argument. If a painter and a photographer both depict the same scene, your argument seems to be suggesting that the "degree of 'artistic' creation" from the pho…

I would blame poor/lazy devs inappropriately using JS rather than the evolution of the browser for this. For the average web page , it's unnecessary 90% of the time to require Java…

You are a much less cynical person than myself if you think that society is a reflection of its members' values. There is a mismatch between what people say/think that they value, …

Mirah is what finally got me started with Android development. Coming from a Ruby background there's practically zero learning curve, plus you can install it from RubyGems (which w…

No one is questioning the existence of the patent - it's the validity of the patent that's being doubted. Given the current processes followed by the USPTO, existence says _nothing…

Why should one identify with a country they may have never been to, or a culture they may never have experienced? What's the point of romanticizing an intangible connection that on…

What exactly goes on in a BitCoin party?

I don't think he seriously views Second Life as a real competitor - he was just using it to draw an analogy. As for the community, I believe the "fakeness" he's getting at is the a…