PantaloonFlames

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by PantaloonFlames 11y ago
> I generally believe, from the perspective of the US market, that every job that can cost-effectively be exported to Asia already has been. Do you mean "every TYPE of job" or every instance of job? Plenty of jobs have been e
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by PantaloonFlames 11y ago
what problem does this solve that is not already solved by the n scripting engines that are already out there? When would I use this in lieu of Rhino / JS on the JVM, for example? Pet peeve of mine: people publish projects and don&#x27
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by PantaloonFlames 11y ago
This was a Content-free blog post. Author asserts "Neutral features don't exist, here's why:" and then doesn't describe why at all. And the brief post is not even internally consistent. In the beginning he says that
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by PantaloonFlames 11y ago
The takeaway is that there is no magic solution. Consumption implies impact, whether you use paper or plastic. Unless you shop at a farm, there's still a bunch of packaging in your grocery haul outside of the carrying bag - the box con
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by PantaloonFlames 11y ago
correction: In Technology, Big Fish, if they get eaten, are almost always eaten by Small Fish. Also, Small Fish almost always don't survive.
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by PantaloonFlames 11y ago
> But are there good open source alternatives? Besides Vim and Emacs, I mean, Why dismiss the two most popular alternatives?
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by PantaloonFlames 12y ago
Share re-purchase actions take money held by the company and transfer it to stockholders. It's a statement by management that "we don't have good ways to invest this money in building the business further, so we're gon
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by PantaloonFlames 12y ago
> I'd take that 60% startup increase in IIS also, the first request is always slow... But startup cost is less relevant in a server scenario. In a server you startup once per ~1B requests or more. In a front-end app, it might run 10
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by PantaloonFlames 12y ago
FYI: This is from 1 year ago.
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by PantaloonFlames 12y ago
> it only deals with bytes and cannot process any complex data structure. Just FYI. Microsoft tried to address that problem in Windows a long time ago when it introduced Powershell.
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by PantaloonFlames 12y ago
Turns out the "definition language" (WSDL) and the presumption that it would be simpler to deal with than just showing people the messages that needed to be placed on the wire... was the broken assumption. We wanted automagic seri
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by PantaloonFlames 12y ago
I like it. Simple, clear. Well founded. And open source.
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by PantaloonFlames 12y ago
The key thing is, there are 3 bazillion developers and techies sprinkled all throughout the US Govt. This playbook provides all of them a common base form which to start. For that reason, it's really valuable.
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by PantaloonFlames 12y ago
I think you have that backwards. The text in the article was: > they want to set the speed limit so that 15% of drivers exceed it and 85% of drivers drive at or below the speed limit. The citation you provided is roughly consistent with