I'm not concerned. This was my response to the claim that it is "very much in the hacker spirit". I find it neither utile nor humorous. I think compiling it to Javascript is trivial and not worth our attention.
I recall when LOL Cats were actually pretty funny, way back around "I has a flavor". Then people who didn't understand the language [1] overran the Internet with cats that had incredible vocabularies and immaculate grammar (they just didn't know how to spell and were evil).
The only thing that bothers me about Dogescript is that the joke is too forced. The typical Shibe pictures are just "wow", "such X", "very Y", "wow"; when one adds in the "shh", "plz", and "rly", and (even worse) starts crafting a coherent sequential story, it removes the humor from the doge meme.
Depends on the user, of course. Can't an Android user swap those out? And install ad blockers on their browser as well? You'll never get me to agree that the walled garden isn't user-hostile, but it is true that some users are unprepared or unwilling to make their way in the wilderness outside of it.
Except VoIP apps, since we want all apps with that capability to start on boot even if we only use them once a month, and we don't want any others to start on boot even if we use them daily. iOS regulations are so stupid.
My EeePC is still doing quite well. Everything else I have ever bought has been a massive lie on the order of "* battery tested by doing nothing with the wireless and screen turned off."
I got an unsolicited email to check out a Github project once and I didn't mind it. I ended up looking at the new project and it was neat. What made this one so irritating?
Add a time limit to robots.txt and block anyone who violates it. Maybe also add a nonexistent honeypot (I disallow /wpadmin on my static website haha). I've been fail2banning a lot of shitbirds and my traffic logs before and after are quite different.
iOS is fantastic if you aren't smart enough to use a computer. Most HN users know better than to run arbitrary apps from email, so for them it is a restriction that only prevents them from using their own device as they wish to use it.
After I read that she donated the money from her YouTube to a charity to help Japan, she became my favorite pop artist of 2011. I do concede that you're right in general.
Just add points to arbitrary tasks and people will do them for free and with unexpected ability. Did you know there are amateur human protein folders and they pretty much outperform computational folders?
Cognitive bias is human nature. The example I read is you'd get many more lawyers working pro bono for charity than you would offering a low wage. This of course extends to our perception of other people doing it.
I for one think we should remove minimum wage entirely but give everyone adequate food and healthcare. If people didn't go bankrupt after a serious injury and had enough food to wait out crappy offers, an appropriate wage would appear naturally.
Certain Japanese cigarette vending machines had photographic age detection algorithms. Japanese children used photos of Bruce Willis to buy cigarettes. Getting a photo of your face would be much simpler than getting your prints.
Obviously you are incorrect, the GP is claiming that the tax burden costs more than the worth of any privileges he's getting. I bet it's more a problem of choosing where to go permanently that isn't equally awful in a different way. Your assertion is ridiculous, as if everyone thinking about it who doesn't immediately renounce is getting fat off "entitlements" and is loving it.