Detrus

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by Detrus 16y ago
Maybe they do deserve protection, but that's not how the real world works. Right and wrong are decided by groups of people, not moral absolutes. Here more people seem to care about freeing knowledge than profiting from it. They see large en
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by Detrus 16y ago
Lots of people here sell software through subscription, or get revenue from ads. Others are satisfied with profits from various mobile app stores. Although there is piracy there, there are enough buyers because prices are cheap. So the defi
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by Detrus 16y ago
It was passed because corporations easily bought off state legislatures and therefore the senate.
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by Detrus 16y ago
Customizing resumes or websites for the audience is the logical next step after A/B testing.
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by Detrus 16y ago
Widespread cheating means people don't take education seriously for whatever reason. Cheating frequency is an indicator that the education system is doing something wrong. "The customer is always right" is applicable here. A similar attitud
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by Detrus 16y ago
This is good news for the education system. Now they have competition that magnifies the flaws in their practice.
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by Detrus 16y ago
WebGL will probably be ready sooner than molehill, does the same thing. Ecodazoo is 2-3 years old. Browsers will also add video conferencing. There is a lot of overlap. Advantage of sticking to browsers is better integration with everything
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by Detrus 16y ago
Flash is what drove innovation on the web years ago. It hasn't added anything significant to the web since video. The player itself has not been significantly improved in two years. The past does not predict the future. And this is a very t
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by Detrus 16y ago
Do you get a sense of accomplishment when you're not happy? I remember in my productive periods I had focus and a sense of accomplishment and was happy. In an unproductive slump I had neither, but was still accomplishing tasks at a slowed p
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by Detrus 16y ago
Ok, but what's the trick to focusing? It's hard to stop the daydreams. The science says people who can't focus are less happy, but it's a chicken and egg problem. Are you not happy because you can't focus or can't focus because you're not h
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by Detrus 16y ago
Maybe browser makers could expose a few lower level constructs in JS to make efforts like CoffeeScript, Objective-J and GWT easier? That could be a short term solution. Long term we have to hope that LLVM and NaCl pick up steam. But many la
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by Detrus 16y ago
My objection is aesthetics. It's subjective, a matter of taste. I prefer languages that you don't have to get used to. They're obvious, like a good user interface is obvious. Anyone can read their code, even if they don't work in the langua
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by Detrus 16y ago
It fades away, but lags there chipping at productivity. The Ruby crowd makes a big fuss about their syntax, talk about how it revitalized their love of programming, makes programming enjoyable and so on. They might be onto something.
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by Detrus 16y ago
Yea I don't use Go, tried it many moons ago, those were my impressions of the syntax, was going to edit with real code. Rob Pike made an interesting argument about dynamic vs compiled languages. Said that the division between easy of use an
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by Detrus 16y ago
Aesthetics for starters. CoffeeScript http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/ is what modern syntax should look like. White space instead of the bracket mess. Go's public/private difference is capitalization of method names. That's har
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by Detrus 16y ago
Hopefully with people from the dynamic languages camp trying the language they'll clean up the syntax. It's ugly and makes a lot of the example code hard to read.
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by Detrus 16y ago
The syntax is definitely awkward. But efforts like coffee-script http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/ are here to alleviate some of these pain points.
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by Detrus 16y ago
also you'll get more interest from investors because they call it "fast followers" or something.
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by Detrus 16y ago
In the facebook movie mark zuckenberg used pen and paper, I think. Pretty crazy.
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by Detrus 16y ago
balsamiq mockups maybe? then there is always pen and paper.
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by Detrus 16y ago
We already have huge negative repercussions. Climate change, mass extinction, overpopulation thanks to industrial agriculture. Now it might be more dangerous if tech slowed down, because we need new tech to fix disasters caused by the old.
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by Detrus 16y ago
As industries grow too large sweeping changes become more difficult. There are too many dependencies in the current tech stack for computers. Processor architectures, people used to certain UIs, lots of jobs dependent on the status quo. Soc
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by Detrus 16y ago
I expect some public outcry or competing shows to point out the amazing assumptions and provide more realistic explanations.
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by Detrus 16y ago
Yea, guess enough people did not see it. This might be interesting http://github.com/antimatter15/weppy using JS and canvas to display the file format.
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by Detrus 16y ago
Well very few people see them, they almost never get on the front page. Generally this feedback is for stages when people are not marketing yet.
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by Detrus 16y ago
Loans that you have to pay back even if you don't make money? Startups get a better deal.
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by Detrus 16y ago
The charts are for general language use, not specifically concurrency. Go and Clojure are better than locks and mutexes of C, but there were similar ideas in Scala and other languages along the way and the newcomer improvements don't land f
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by Detrus 16y ago
I don't use any, but from looking at the syntax and code examples the newcomers make pretty small incremental improvements. I think a DSL that separated out the control flow from the rest of the code would get things going in the right dire
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by Detrus 16y ago
To me generic real time news is not interesting. Quality news, curated, analyzed, summarized or rewritten for my tastes is interesting. Maybe seeing local tweets, population activity on a map would be interesting, but it depends on how much
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by Detrus 16y ago
Safari not supported when signing up, funny alpha is funny. The UI for adding elements to the page is not intuitive. Some little "add here" thingie shows up and when I click then it gets added. Took me a while to figure out, I expect drag a

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