MetaCosm

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by MetaCosm 13y ago
TL;DR: TIOBE is a horrible way to decide if something is important. TIOBE is a fun conversation generator, but hardly anything to be taken seriously. In 2004, when Google swapped an algorithm, a bunch of TIOBE "rankings" swung ma
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Really? Last time I saw a "pro" carry a mac pro to an event was 2006, right after they were released, and it was mainly to show it off. Shortly there after even he realized how stupid it was an got a Macbook Pro (released the sa
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
(On John Carmack) "It was written that his code is so ugly according to the best practices standards, that only he completely understands what he has written. And we all know that he is a genius." No, his code isn't ugly. No
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I love carrying around my computer with no monitor, no mouse, no keyboard, no power cables and no accessories. I like even more if it is in a delicate housing with an exposed and breakable fan. I think I will throw that in my bag! Screw T
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Thanks! I am currently shopping a low-volume on-demand print service... as soon as I went to AmazingMails site and saw "no minimum" I became delighted, will be testing them out this week!
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I feel like Xamarin is in the uncanny valley of language / tooling features. Close enough to working to make the brokenness feel so much worse. If it was more raw, less IDE friendly (ala Go) that would be fine... or was more polished
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Wow... in a few comments, you have gone down a spiral of embarrassment. First you post an arrogant self-serving "members only jacket" style post that literally does nothing for anyone. You didn't mention how to get into such
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Could you list some of the competitors? The space doesn't seem competitive, it seems like crap.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I really wish more articles about frameworks were about the ugly bits. If you do exactly what the framework expects and never go off the reservation, they all are fairly decent. What I want to always know about is what happens in the frame
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
... how do you know what major web applications are written in? A lot of companies go to some length to obscure this. Also, aren't a lot of rather big names into Python publicly? Disqus, Pinterest, Dropbox, Everbrite, SurveyMonkey..
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Did you try "stop reading fucking monad tutorials and write some code"?
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Sure, might be a bit hypocritical but i get your point. Most of the noise that comes from Waze is when it detects you aren't moving. That said there is the light social encouragement if you see a something (something in road) to put
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I believe with the onset of better programmed accounting packages, now most money that flows from {{3letteragencies}} to companies goes via cursory legit looking shell companies.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Effectively what these companies are trying to do via stronger and stronger denials is prove a negative... which of course is borderline useless. Regardless of the truth, to PROVE they were not involved is impossible. For those companies c
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Everytime I think a feature doesn't exist in tig, I search the docs for it... facepalm that I didn't realize it could do that and love it ever so much more.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
> There's an insurmountable amount of technical debt that nobody wants to acknowledge. That is the impossible issue. By refusing to acknowledge the fundamental technical debt, ALL other conversations are entirely pointless. You end up
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I suspect it isn't as a fellow WF customer and Linode customer.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
That link clears a lot up. I can stop wasting my time. yawn
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Of course, charity only goes so far, if the ROOT of their argument is a logical fallacy, no amount of charitable thinking will repair the hole.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I guess we would really have to drill down to what you consider "winning an argument". I am not sure you and I would agree on what that means. Is winning an argument convincing the person you are arguing with that you are right? Is winning
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Time for firefox and chrome plugins that show the dollar value on a specific issue right on github, or whatever sites you support. Make it so I can add 10 dollars to an issue I care about, and add a "Sort by money" thing.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
That assumes three things. #1. Product category that fits Parse (obviously if you are dependent on machine learning built on postgresql, might not be a great fit). #2. A start-up that is comfortable with that level of dependency and lack
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
There is an outcry against Parse? Seriously? As a back-end engineer, I always thought it was a clever niche product and I was happy (but a bit fearful) when they got acquired by facebook. Nice to see they are still trying to innovate.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
> I am readonly on YouTube, they have in my opinion the most healthy social community right now ... I assume the author was referencing maybe video responses... the meaning can't be that YouTube comments are the best social community,
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
First of all... June 2007 article. Secondly, school is a system, government is a system, large corporations are systems, learning to survive and advance within systems is valuable. Outright revolt as an individual is generally purposeless,
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
> In short, original developer has the clone of the OpenGL library in their 'src' directory. While working on Haunts his making changes to it and not pulling updates from upstream. All is well, things will always build on his machine be
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I pick on Cabal because when I started Haskell a few years ago, it cost me days and days... and almost made me hate Haskell. I learned to get past it and still <3 Haskell. But it isn't just Haskell, it is lots of less popular language
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
The horror of python dependencies, build and deploy (I currently am working on a 250k+ LOC python project) is part of what made me really love what is around the edges of Go. There is a lot of "worse" in Go. It seems the "worse" choices we
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
You kinda made his point for him didn't you? He said all these are benefits of Go, and you pointed out he would need to use lots of different languages to get them elsewhere. Notice the lack of overlap in your own points(1-4), that right t
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
As a pragmatist and someone who enjoys Haskell and F#, I find your comments very academic. There will always be less popular, feature packed fun languages like Rust, Haskell and OCaml, and there will always be teams that use them to great

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