Evbn

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by Evbn 14y ago
Kids are incredibly expensive, so this parody doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Java's syntactic overhead stops most humans. "final" everywhere, big method names for every primitive message passing operation, etc
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by Evbn 14y ago
for i:= range list { go func() { foo(i) } } (This is a bug in the spec, but will not be fixed before Go 2 because Go 1.0 is frozen.) Shared memory by default.
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by Evbn 14y ago
The technique of fetching remote content into JavaScript is dangerous. JSON is no more dangerous than any other JS. Executing foreign code with eval is bad. Parsing foreign text is not. It was a problem when people misused browsers to confl
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by Evbn 14y ago
How many Linux boxes do you spend >10hrs coding on in a year?
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by Evbn 14y ago
Please share how many billion users generating many billions of dollars you are serving with your elegant tiny project. Bonus points if you use Heroku/EC2 or AppEngine and ignore the "giant ball of mud" that is a critical reason your busine
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by Evbn 14y ago
ITYM Java can take advantage of an IDE because of the language design, so you don't have to hack together scripts to do things like re-signature a method across a 100-person billion-dollar product, whereas other languages make refactoring a
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by Evbn 14y ago
Infographics are a classic SEO black hat scam, where an infographic with random factoids and idiot-enticing charts/graphics is circulated to generate link juice for a site with an unrelated business purpose. The poster is just saying that H
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by Evbn 14y ago
It's quaint how you ascribe innocent motivations in the first place, as though this wasn't a commercial project from the start.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Besides misspelling "its", the lawyer-impersonators at WBD Legal spammed the WBD phrase several times without even saying that it is trademarked. Good for Bfy, to displace WBD trolls, unless they set up a fake controversially to make them s
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by Evbn 14y ago
It is a program in Textile language, a modern language designed for multithreaded programming.
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by Evbn 14y ago
In my experience, peer reviews backfire when they veer into style territory: they generate hours of non-productive work, paid by the reviewed, to generate output that has no value to the customer or management. I used to take style comments
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by Evbn 14y ago
After a few years, you realize that if nobody wants your right thing, it isn't the right thing for business, and you have to decide if you want to resign and pursue your art with intellectual integrity, or keep working in the sausage factor
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by Evbn 14y ago
It scales in the sense that all types are extensible: you can make A implement B by adding the appropriate definitions anywhere, not just in the file that defines B. Rubyists call this monkey patching and they love it (but Ruby monkey patch
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by Evbn 14y ago
In the US, sushi is a premium product, whereas in Japan it is a basic bar staple. Imported culture adds cachet.
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by Evbn 14y ago
It is amusing that Chinese have been trained to be so brand sensitive, by an industry (counterfeit products) whose primary focus is brand dilution.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Consider: if a movie star is a puppet of the government, and he posts statements that they demand, or if he is coerced into sharing his password, that is effectively the same as being hacked, via social engineering / state force.
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by Evbn 14y ago
The rape analogy fails because declining a date is completely non aggressive. OTOH, people claim "rape" each other all the time in trivial activities like video games.
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by Evbn 14y ago
I was raised to believe that asking someone "what do you do" is a politer variation of "where do you work", itself a pry into their income level, and the proper response is to describe your hobbies or goals.
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by Evbn 14y ago
The problem in a nutshell: Yahoo just indirectly but clearly told all their talented employees to quit and try to get acquired back. (The untalented employees know they have better expected returns if they just chairwarm for a few years.) B
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by Evbn 14y ago
He can't be too young to be a millionaire, as he was born a millionaire.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Most of your comment is reasonable, except for the part about a reasonable price for Yahoo. There is no evidence that Yahoo isn't suffering a costly mistake (or worse) from a small group of decision makers on this deal.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Parent is claiming that this is not true, that they got rewarded for being gifted a controlling interest in others' productivity.
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by Evbn 14y ago
One hopes selfishness and legacy, and in some cases, idealism, overcome genetics, and those billionaires give their money to others instead of their spawn.
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by Evbn 14y ago
It is only worth attention if that attention becomes productive action. So yeah, criticize, only if you think someone influential is listening.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Seeing these acquisitions, it always seemed like that what's very often happening is the folks who make the Buy decisions (NOT the owners of the buying company) are basically stealing from then owners to hand money to their friends) Or, whe
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by Evbn 14y ago
So that every time some reads the code they have to repeat the thinking from scratch? Even better: after writing then program, run it and save the output and throw away the source code, yeah?
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by Evbn 14y ago
And over here in the messy real world with weird dependencies and legacy junk and performance-critical regions, we have comments.
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by Evbn 14y ago
ComputeGeometricMeanPriceChange2YearWindow. There is something to be said for the spacing that comments allow.
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by Evbn 14y ago
And a line of code is bug waiting to happen, especially if no one knows why it is written in the weird way it is.

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