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by Cowen 14y ago
> None of this will be welcome news to the army of fanatical Ruby developers who believe the language's syntax, its high developer productivity, and its overall philosophy far outweigh any performance disadvantage it might have compared
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by Cowen 14y ago
Oh, I completely agree. I was just standing up for Chrome OS. :) I love the products Google provides (disclosure: I've been a heavy user of Google products since GMail was invite-only) but I have no delusions that they're providing all of t
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by Cowen 14y ago
Chrome OS doesn't ship with ads. Chrome OS only has ads because the internet has ads.
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by Cowen 14y ago
That's convenient. I was just looking up Light Table last night when seeking a decent IDE for my Chromebook. I see that it's moved to a native app now, which makes it Chromebook-incompatible. Is there still a way to access the browser proto
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by Cowen 14y ago
I preordered one with the precise intention of using it for all of my portable typing and development needs. I've really liked Chromebooks for a while now, but I could never get past their price point. Now, at $250 I wasn't really worried a
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by Cowen 14y ago
When I was coming out of high school, I was trying to decide whether or not I should go to Digipen or a "real" university. Being a video game designer had been the only career dream I'd ever known, so Digipen had a lot working in its favor.
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An Emirical Study of Scala and Java(neverworkintheory.org)
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by Cowen 14y ago
I won't speak for all runners, but for me, running with incorrect form is a fast way to make myself immobile. I've had bad knees since I was 16, with surgeries to boot. Even 20 minutes of running used to require an ice pack for half an hour
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by Cowen 14y ago
While I agree with Ben's thoughts on good companies in general, I don't think he's really grasped how to make companies good himself (or if he has, it certainly doesn't come through in this story). 1:1 meetings are good, but they're just th
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by Cowen 14y ago
I think there is a real disconnect between what hackers think of their community and what it actually is. We often claim to be one of the purest of meritocracies, since our primary interactions only allow us to interact with each other's wo