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Re:Why I'm Not a React Native Developer on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @08:35AM (#12597151)
> Please what kind of programmer would ever do this?

Someone with an interesting development development history (maybe C?), with little grasp of the idioms of newer coding styles.

Re:Ask HN: What to do with 3K visitors a month? on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @03:51PM (#12592524)
In making the comment in question, my hope was that the movement to view users as commodities would be echoed in Alfred Hitchcock's words comparing actors to cattle.

As I hope is clear, the comment did have substance, though that substance may have been obscured by my pithiness, lack of wit, or inarticulateness, in which case I beg you to forgive me.

Comparative studies will always be relevant when no crisis is at hand.

Thank you for your comment, too. :)

Would we then be parts of the jewel attempting to understand its own nature, and if this is correct, finding our own substructure?

I am reminded of Arthur Koestler's theory of holarchy, put forth in "Ghost in the Machine".

Re:U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @09:33AM (#12589440)
Are you using n-grams or ?
I did not find the above comment patronizing.

Some types of signaling are best to be learned before it becomes a problem. Like killing.