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by DCKing 12y ago
> The existence of God is a given. Science does nothing to prove or disprove His existence and probably never will. That completely depends on what you define "God" to be. If you define "God" to be the being named as
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by DCKing 12y ago
I'm not a big fan of Evernote, but seeing Evernote consists of a whole suite of various collaborative note taking/memory helper products (not just Evernote, but Skitch, Penultimate and others really provide added value), with nati
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by DCKing 12y ago
> I can't reach the top of the screen from every hand position. Well, I think that is not a self-evident bad thing. As a result of Android and Windows Phone design guidelines, by far the most interactions happen on the bottom half o
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by DCKing 12y ago
> Form over function? They made something that looks elegant without considering how people use watches. But people use watches as a fashion item . Form is very important in a smartwatch - the previously released Wear devices were criti
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by DCKing 12y ago
Observing the sameish discussions over the years, that size limit preference you are talking about seems to be steadily rising. I'd hypothesize that if you analyzed tweets and comments about screen sizes, the ideal screen size per year
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by DCKing 12y ago
It's a really common misconception that "most bank software is still written in Cobol". Of course it varies from bank to bank, and of course there's still some legacy systems on Cobol. But many banks run primarily Java [
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by DCKing 12y ago
The statements saying that this may be a sample of Edicarian fauna are pretty speculative. From the original paper: > We are aware that the similarities to some of the Ediacaran forms may be independent responses to the same environmenta
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by DCKing 12y ago
> Scala.js is not a fork My comment is more of a response to the original Typelevel fork announcement, which specifically mentioned Scala.js as evidence that their fork wouldn't do much harm. It's a pretty bad argument they&#x2
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by DCKing 12y ago
Well, the argument is that quantum indeterminism implies quantum time travel is possible, because the grandfather paradox is solved/migitated by indeterminism in which the grandfather paradox is still a valid outcome. However, quantum
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by DCKing 12y ago
I'm on the fence about whether the fork in the ecosystem is such a good idea. Their argumentation is that there already exist Scala forks which haven't divided the ecosystem at all. That is true, but if you take a look at these f
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by DCKing 12y ago
Excuses for not using 802.11u it do exist: client support simply isn't there. iOS only supports it since 7, Android doesn't support it (and will not generally for many years even if Android L does include it), Windows doesn't
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by DCKing 12y ago
I don't know what he's using, but Servlet 3.0 and its implementations have support for WebSockets which would work fine for something like this.
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by DCKing 12y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Is it worth considering others besides Racket and Clojure as a first Lisp? Are there Lisp equivalents of Vim and Atom as well?
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by DCKing 12y ago
Why Lisp? That is understood. Why Racket? From an ignorant outsider's perspective, all Lisps seem to be more or less interchangeable when it comes to the language. They only differ in the details, and each seems to be about as difficul
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by DCKing 12y ago
It's a confusing discussion (for me). It is true that "chip design" is somewhat democratized in that you don't need 100s of millions to design a chip and have it made on a competitive process. The thing I pondered was
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by DCKing 12y ago
Well there's two predictions you can think about that could happen sometime in the future: 1. Nobody can put more than XXX transistors on a square millimeter (where XXX is some physical limit to chip material) 2. "Everybody"
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by DCKing 12y ago
If Scala makes developers more productive and code less buggy at all, it will only do so for some developers. Look at the investments required: APIs need rewriting, apps need rewriting for the new APIs, people need to be trained within Go
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by DCKing 12y ago
Google should do something about their APIs, sure. But they should do something about their APIs before doing something about their language. The problem with Scala is not symbols or legibility (although that used to be a major problem),
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by DCKing 12y ago
> You realize that Swift is not only resembles Scala syntax closely, but also adopts many of the same concepts? If you think that superficial syntax comparison is a fair comparison of the two languages, then you haven't written idio
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by DCKing 12y ago
Over the last few months I've been writing Scala full time, and have even written some (demo grade) Android apps in it. My opinion is: Android should not adopt Scala as one of its primary languages. I think a platform's primary
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by DCKing 12y ago
"National security" was never just about terrorists. It is also spying on foreign governments, companies and other organizations, most of whom would be running servers.
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by DCKing 12y ago
The timespan between the original Reichskonkordat and this letter was six years. It appeared the Nazi regime did not respect the Vatican, and it became apparent soon that their agreement wasn't going to be upheld as expected by the Naz
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by DCKing 12y ago
"Fascism" and "Catholic right-wing" were synonymous at the time. Hitler had signed a treaty with the Holy See to basically allow them to control schools in Germany in exchange for a thumbs up for the regime, and this mea
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by DCKing 12y ago
It is nonsense to say that. If you think "Nazism sent people to concentration camps" is not a valid thing to say, then replace "Nazism" with "Jainism [0]" or "postmodernism". Nazism entails the belief
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by DCKing 12y ago
You are twisting the argument. Their "extensions" to the web, each and everyone of them, is open source. Find me one of web projects that is not open source. They are giving their platforms away for free and are mostly open so
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by DCKing 12y ago
> YouTube and the content providers do get hurt with these actions but Google doesn't care because they're willing to hurt themselves in order to hurt Windows Phone. This is false. Having third party apps that do not adhere to
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by DCKing 12y ago
> I'm going to guess you weren't active in the industry when Microsoft was at it's "peak". Microsoft sold their platforms for money. Microsoft never open sourced anything. All of this "non-standard stuff&quo
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by DCKing 12y ago
Anonymous posting is one thing. Anonymous copy-pasting of generic mostly off-topic link lists to influence opinion is something else. The latter is, hopefully, not behavior HN wants.
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by DCKing 12y ago
> I think they do. Maybe it's not a huge deal, but it's an advantage to control more aspects of what users use (ISP, OS, browser, and finally the service itself). Fair enough. Make it "Google really does not care much if
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by DCKing 12y ago
> my issue is the religious cult like status so many tech related people give google, in spite of their numerous and repeated attempts to control so many facts of the digital landscape "People are defending Google" => "

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