Animus7

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by Animus7 15y ago
First, I'm about as technical as they come (8 years old sounds about right), so take my advice with that in mind. But I think becoming "technical" is critical to learning how to code. I don't mean you should start solving equations in your
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by Animus7 15y ago
Web programming is certainly fragmented by divergent implementations, but the conclusion doesn't follow from the premises. Adding another language doesn't automatically add browser compatibility problems. Who knows what "structured web prog
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by Animus7 15y ago
Can you give insight into this strategy? It seems... limiting. For startups, at least.
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by Animus7 15y ago
auto falls under "implicit typing". Clarified this. And we've been able to use a lot of C++0x for a while now: http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html
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by Animus7 15y ago
Awesome! I've been looking forward to the day I'm no longer relying on "experimental" C++0x support! Here's a smaller tl;dr for those who want it: -foreach loop -first-class rvalue ("temporary") types -lambda functions + closures -implicit
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by Animus7 15y ago
No, I don't see how JITting JS to NaCl would address any of those issues.
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by Animus7 15y ago
Without PNaCl, this feels nothing but regressive, for at least three reasons: 1) JS is awesome precisely because of the common denominator. But because Chrome said so, devs should go back to triple-testing everything and dusting off their a
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by Animus7 15y ago
Because if $42 million in credible VC's money consistently gets toileted on things like this, it bodes poorly for all of us who are looking for funding.
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by Animus7 15y ago
I really see only two ways here: 1) one of hundreds of equivalent syntaxes for the AST that assigns to location, and 2) location.reload() So if we're going to play this game and these count as different, why not encode the identifiers in he
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by Animus7 15y ago
>Please be nice to them. For you their launch may be "yet another YC startup," but for each individual startup this is their big moment. I'm usually quite pleased with what comes out of YC. That said, in this competitive market, I don't
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by Animus7 15y ago
Parallel programming in itself is not hard. It's just that most of today's computing has origins in single-pipeline architectures, and parallelism came to be a massive layer of hacks on top of it. That's why I chuckle a bit when parallel pr
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by Animus7 15y ago
It feels ambitious in a different sense than for which I'd normally reserve the word. Ambitious in the sense that it will be a long journey. But it feels like the success or failure of this will be tied much more to whether the market is re
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by Animus7 15y ago
I find it quite puzzling that "cloud computing" is still so manual and (virtual) "server"-centric. Bumping up numbers in config is less work than gutting a rack to be sure, but surely there is room to apply Apple's hands-free design philoso
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by Animus7 15y ago
No, I don't know what you mean. Woz, Gates, and Zuck made names for themselves with good execution on the right idea at the right time. While admirable, that's not exactly the definition of "creativity" in my books, especially not in the pr
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by Animus7 15y ago
Wasn't distributed SCM always really just a database for files? Besides hack value, what's the benefit of using git as a (non-file) database when I can just use a proper database?
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by Animus7 15y ago
Out of college I applied to two of the big companies, got two interviews. I won't name names, but one seemed slow and disorganized in their hiring process. The other got me through in a couple of weeks and I took the offer.
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by Animus7 15y ago
I see. Chrome has bugs, but thank heavens because Firefox 5 for Windows (no less) doesn't. I think I speak on behalf of all of us when I say thank you for enlightening us!
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by Animus7 15y ago
What will happen next, I presume, is that absurd patent and copyright laws will start catching up to reality. Hopefully.
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by Animus7 15y ago
> like how officers are instructed to place iPhone in nickel or copper plated containers in order to prevent remote wipes Idea: a self-destruct mode where if your phone can't call home to check for remote wipe and kick an internal watch
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by Animus7 15y ago
This would accurately summarize almost all of enterprise computing.
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by Animus7 15y ago
I'm in whatever the topic is. Completely by accident I'm quitting my (cushy, working for the Man) job today and moving across the country to be back near dear old UW. So it puts a smile on my face to hear that there's still a Hacker scene f
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by Animus7 15y ago
>Who puts so low of a value on their time? Sadly, lot of people, it would seem. AOL's still in business.
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by Animus7 15y ago
People don't downvote dissenting views. They downvote comments that lack value to the discussion.
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by Animus7 15y ago
I don't know. Burning $40 million for a new venture takes a special kind of ignorance and incompetence when you're surrounded by shaking heads from all corners. Sequoia believed in them. Maybe they haven't opened the bag of tricks yet. It's
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by Animus7 15y ago
"..leapfrogged between the accounts ... by inserting various account numbers into a string of text located in the browser’s address bar ... wondered how the hackers could have known to breach security by focusing on the vulnerability in the
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by Animus7 15y ago
By iPhone, I mean the concept, not the brand. And iPhone clearly paved the way for Android.
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by Animus7 15y ago
Microsoft's biggest problem is how fractured this new consumer-centric approach is inevitably going to feel for everyone, though devs are probably going to be hit the most, and that spells trouble. The problem is that Windows has a slew of
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by Animus7 15y ago
What this needs is a clearer social/collaboration angle. This is blind speculation, but I feel like the *book and the internet have killed much of the reason for a traditional "desk" (paper, phone, and paraphernalia). I don't need another t
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by Animus7 15y ago
If the goal is to open up Skype, this isn't the way. Even if some insane insomniac de-twiddles the pages upon pages of optimized indirection in this code (which I seriously doubt), all Skype has to do is tweak the protocol or encryption and
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by Animus7 15y ago
The issue here isn't ZodTTD, it's Google. Whatever licensing issues there are surrounding this, are we to believe the entire Android team wasn't closely watching sales of the questionably legal emulators that were selling like hotcakes on M

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