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by AndrewO 17y ago
Agreed. I keep having to remind myself there's two sides to every story (and the only side we've heard so far has a widely read blog to use as a mouthpiece). Still, Fusion Garage has a lot of explaining to do.
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by AndrewO 17y ago
That's a pretty cavalier attitude to have when so much depends on the results (and I mean research programming in general, not just the CRU case). Maintainability may not be a concern, but verifiability certainly should be.
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Agh, sorry: out of gold stars. Does an upvote work? (BTW, that totally made my day. I love HN... :)
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by AndrewO 17y ago
A gold star to the first person who posts a link to Caecilius and Metella's house.
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by AndrewO 17y ago
There's something about Scaled Composites' style that's so cool. I'm sure functional characteristics come first, but their planes seem to have an unmistakable style of their own. I'd love to hear about their design process and how much th
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Glad I read this. I'd assumed Node.js had something to do with the Nodebox visualization environment on Javascript (I think a project like that has been featured here before). While that would be interesting and pretty, it wouldn't be my
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Anything instrumental and epic sounding. Right now my favorites are: * Explosions in the Sky * Red Sparowes * British Sea Power's Man of Aran Soundtrack I'd also recommend a band called Souvenir's Young America which sounds like the soundt
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by AndrewO 17y ago
The fact that templates are functions that use actual parameters (rather than backdoor means like instance variables) looks to be a huge win for me.
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Are there any touchpads currently on the market that would support this? I think I'd like to see the touch elements on each side of the keyboard rather than below—the positioning seems more natural and having to raise your arms to type seem
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I really hope this turns out better than DOM (both design and implementation). At least good libraries should arrive more quickly given that the number of good Javascript developers out there is so much greater than it was in 1998.
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by AndrewO 17y ago
On-demand virtual hardware and storage is Infrastructure as a Service. I'd be willing to bet that most developers think of that when they think of the cloud (since, as you point out, they're actual users of the cloud). But then some market
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by AndrewO 17y ago
> you can store the HTML, JS and the data all in CouchDB I think you're talking of CouchApp, which allows you to create apps like that on top of CouchDB. Of course, if that was the maximum of what one was trying to do, one could get si
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by AndrewO 17y ago
The <ins> and <del> tags have always seemed weird to me in that they talk about the document's history, rather than the document itself, or what the document is talking about. The problem I've always seen with using them fo
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Agreed. And I like Erlang, but I'm a bit tired of that graph. It's very impressive, but I've seen so many articles parading it around as Exhibit A for why Erlang is great. Now they usually make other points with other evidence, but I thin
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Oh no! Now how will I break my trainees' brains by having them unravel Camping?!
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by AndrewO 17y ago
The first rule of Code Club, is you do not tweet about Code Club!
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Me too! I seriously thought that this was going to be a howto about some new Google API called Book Deal that had Lawyer and Author objects until I saw it was on nytimes.
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Well, I hope that didn't come across as being diametrically opposed to you or anything. I actually quite agree that Apple is profit-driven. Its success has mainly stemmed from learning how to profit on its design. Apple's most successful
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I disagree with the parent, but don't think he should be downmodded (at least not below 1 as it is now). He's making a point which goes against what most people here probably have, but it's prompted more discussion and was made civilly.
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by AndrewO 17y ago
> If Apple has no competitor, they'll continue to innovate... I immediately thought of MS Word when this sub-topic came up. Since establishing its dominance in, let's say 1997 or so, few features have come along that have truly changed
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Dude, you totally harshed the mellow in here. Now he's gonna be all paranoid...
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by AndrewO 17y ago
My guess is it's going to be called the Newton ][.
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Yeah, let's not forget this is the guy we're talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAWDYaWAVQQ ("John Dvorak admits to baiting Mac users for hits") Keep those clicks coming in!
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by AndrewO 17y ago
<awed_whistle/> Makes me think of the beginning of Ghostbusters (although IIRC that was Columbia's library).
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Personally, I recommend a quiet corner of a 5 star hotel lobby/bar that has free wifi and accommodating doormen. Our first 2 or 3 weeks we camped out on the mezzanine overlooking the lobby of a not-to-be-named fancy hotel in DC (interspers
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Definitely agree. However, one thing to be aware of is that a lot of parents use libraries as excursions/free daycare and librarians are reluctant to yell at kids. Not that I blame either of them (good job, parents. Let's get those kids r
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by AndrewO 17y ago
His wife's in a coma.
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by AndrewO 17y ago
This just in: someone writing for a newspaper thinks the world is moving too fast. Why am I not surprised?
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by AndrewO 17y ago
In your opinion, why do you think they stay away from HN or Stack Overflow? Is it just that there's nothing there for them specifically or would you say that they're (on average) less interested in the wider programming ecosystem?
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I've never met a COBOL programmer. The only times I've seen actual COBOL code have been examples to show how inscrutable it can be (like the example in the article). I haven't seen any open source software written in COBOL, although I'm s

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