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by CCs 15y ago
It depends. JSON is very fragile. You lose a tweet or two here or there, not a big issue. JSON will do it just fine. Your bank on the other hand will prefer XML that can be validated with XSD and you don't lose your car payment. Or your sal
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by CCs 15y ago
When I create a new architecture / design I would love to be able to chat even 10 min with a "vanity hire". Advice, 2nd opinion or just a different perspective - it saves you from months of dead ends...
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by CCs 15y ago
The age has nothing to do with it. It is all about accomplishments. Some people would have no problem getting hired. Think of Peter Norvig (56), Larry Wall (57), Guido van Rossum (55), Linus Torvalds (42). And you don't have to be this famo
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by CCs 15y ago
Sort of. Found (profitable) business model and signed up first customers just now. B2B only right now: http://healthexpense.com/
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by CCs 15y ago
I'm using the native mail app with Google account configured as Exchange - so it has push notification for both mail and calendar.
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by CCs 15y ago
Google research got to the same conclusion: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/03/google_paper_on_cplu...
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by CCs 15y ago
So C++ wins the performance test by large margin, Scala follows (3.6x), then Java 64bit (5.8x), Go (7x) and finally Java 32bit (12.6x). Scala without any optimization is still better than Java with all the ninja-skills black magic applied.
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by CCs 15y ago
Had the same issue, same two languages. Google Go still feels far from prime time, so I settled on Scala. Got David Pollak's "Beginning Scala" book, Googled a lot and after several days of coding it clicked. Well worth the effort! The Web f
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by CCs 16y ago
And a related cartoon from the comments: http://tomfishburne.com/2011/01/mission-statement.html
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Mission Statement killing the Mission(blogs.hbr.org)
2 points by CCs 16y ago|2 comments
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by CCs 16y ago
"We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can’t afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation."
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by CCs 16y ago
We are using 2.8.0 in production and so far it is OK. Porting old 2.7.x code to 2.8 is painful, but new code works as advertised. Still pain: the only working IDE is Emacs+ENSIME, documentation is scarce, learning curve is very steep. On th
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by CCs 16y ago
So here's a startup idea: Work out a solution to verify the name. Allow anybody to sign up for 99 cent. Now allow trusted sites (newspapers, Amazon.com etc.) where the feedback is important access to your authentication. Let people use alia
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by CCs 16y ago
The language and its implementation will limit the efficiency of the end-result (the running code). The current Google Go compiler implementation produces slow code, but there's a potential to make it as fast as C. The JavaScript implementa
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by CCs 16y ago
I guess this is the reason why Scala gets a lot of attention: same speed as Java (on JVM), fully compatible with Java, it has static typing, and it's productive like RoR or Python. BTW, both the Java (javac) and Scala compilers were wri
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Free eBooks from Microsoft Press
3 points by CCs 17y ago|1 comments
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by CCs 17y ago
Amazon Kindle does it nicely… kind of popup-button.
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by CCs 17y ago
Philips Medical in Foster City (C++ or C#)
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by CCs 17y ago
+1 Silicon Valley
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by CCs 17y ago
I would go for other than paying to be member. Maybe it's OK to have some paying members (like LinkedIn) for vanity or extra (non essential) functionality. Letting 195 million users to go away is suicide. Ads are OK, but it's really for Go