Lewisham

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by Lewisham 15y ago
Can someone please explain to me why Scala has been getting such vitriol on HN comments lately? I've never found Scala "difficult"; you can use Java and take in new bits as you go. Why do people keep saying its too complex? It's no more or
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by Lewisham 15y ago
All Java is also a valid subset of Scala, IIRC.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Here's a crack: * The state of affairs of journals today, and the open journal movement. Why in the age of the internet, we're stuck in a relatively ancient publishing system.* If you're talking about "why do we have publishers?", then that
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by Lewisham 15y ago
...and now you are reading into what you think people's spending habits are, based on an Oatmeal comic? What's your problem?
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by Lewisham 15y ago
You're reading a lot into one assumption you've made. I'm a grad student. I try out lots of little things. I want to keep them, but I don't want them just on my hard drive (I like them to be available on the Internets). GitHub forces me to
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Depends on what is suboptimal to you. If "suboptimal" is "not optimal for the perfect programming language", then sure. If "suboptimal" is "not optimal for real world use", then no. Scala's interop with Java libraries has been a huge, huge
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by Lewisham 15y ago
You should make sure you get an internship. I hated school by the time I had my undergraduate CS degree. I took two years in industry, realized I hated it far more than I could have ever imagined, now I am very happy in a PhD program. You n
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I remember when I was at university in the UK (a Top 10 one, and Top 5 for Computer Science). One of my graduating friends got hired by Accenture. When he told on of the (well-respected) professors, the professor literally laughed in his fa
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Perhaps I shouldn't have omitted the sarcasm tag?
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Always better to ask forgiveness than permission, no?
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Would have loved for this to have a more expensive option so we can finally get Napster/Zune/Spotify-style jukebox subscription.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Yeah, I use the Spreadsheet app the most. It's quicker to download all the Javascript required to run it than it is to boot Excel off my hard drive, and I just use it for groceries and things.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Yeah, you'll be breaking the law, whether you receive money or not. You cannot do any work for the company. Think of it this way: even if you went out and painted fences for people, you'd be breaking the law. You can't do anything for anyon
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Many of your comments are accurate, but it doesn't mean they are not being worked on. I would be surprised if we don't see new/better bundled applications (particularly for photo/music management, as their other platforms do this better), a
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I agree, it's the long game that Apple has been playing... when all campus graduates have pretty much used Macs, and they use Macs at home, they start clamoring for them in the office too. I'm fairly sure I saw numbers indicating Macs makin
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I would be surprised if this functionality is not included at some point. Don't get too hung up on it.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
My feeling is that this is very much like the "Classic" support that Mac OS X had for a few iterations. Yes, you can run Classic apps, but you don't really want to. Apple themselves only just recently got iTunes from out of their Carbon com
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Google does connect you to social graphs it can see: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer... I wouldn't say that +1 is saying "search is broken" at all. It's just another signal.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Yes, it would be fair to assume that index optimization is also part of the Secret Sauce, unless you store the raw data. Storing the raw data also requires Secret Sauce like Google FIle System, and you'll end up with the sarcastic comment a
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Bummer. My Get-Marginally-Richer-Very-Quickly scheme is ruined!
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by Lewisham 15y ago
The HTCs are fairly bland and generic containers, and the screens are certainly not competitive with the one on iPhone 4. There is a lot of room to do better.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Seeing how well LinkedIn did, I am very tempted to try and daytrade these stocks, buying at release then selling about lunchtime. I'm only interested in trying it with about $200. This would be my first time trading. Does anyone know which
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I really like WP7, but they're being held-back by their hardware. They're beholden to their hardware "partners", who seem more interested in selling Android devices for, presumably, higher margins and crappy USP software customizations that
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by Lewisham 15y ago
XBOX might be a counterpoint, since it reportedly was a loss-leader in the beginning FWIW, all consoles are loss-leaders in the beginning, and you make the money back in game license fees and relying on components becoming cheaper over ti
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Multiple reasons: 1. Goodwill with developers might be worth more than $40m in the long run. I think the argument about users is fallacious: users will find something else (because there aren't any rivals to Twitter itself) and quickly forg
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by Lewisham 15y ago
What "threat" was TweetDeck? All Twitter has to do is pull their API key, come up with some story about third-party clients, and that is that. Twitter has always been in the power position.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
To my untrained eyes, it looks like they're trying to consolidate the Twitter eco-system, going by their recent statements about third-party clients. I would expect TweetDeck to either live on as something like "Twitter Pro", or be EOL'd an
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Yes, it is incorrect to assert that overseas students pay the "real cost". They pay as high as the market will take. The real cost will be somewhere in the middle.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
This has only been true very recently. It used to be about $3k a year, and before that it cost nothing at all, and before that, you got paid to go to university with a grant. Only this year has the UK launched these awful fees (did you see
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by Lewisham 15y ago
They should put big red X's over each member that left, Battle Royale style.

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