Shamanmuni

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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
You are just taking one data point and assuming it proves something other than Yammer had problems with Scala. Check this list of companies using Scala: http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/1658.html Some examples:
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
As someone suggested earlier, Scala is probably the best option for a Java developer looking for an alternative. Runs in the JVM, is compatible with Java programs, mixes OOP and functional programming. It can be summarized as "Java mee
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
It depends on the kind of designer we are talking about, it's not all about graphics design. Web designers (you know, the ones probably targeted by this software) don't need to depend heavily on Adobe applications and can comforta
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
I am, mostly because it's wrong and helps in perpetuating misconceptions. I use a PC with Linux, you can use a Mac with Windows or Linux (and others), and nowadays Macs are PCs with a prettier design, so saying "PC and Mac" i
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
But it's called "Google Web Designer", so many of us web developers probably thought we were the target audience. I first thought it was a Dreamweaver competitor with better support for JS libraries and HTML5, which would be
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
Douglas Crockford just said that even though Javascript's syntax resembles an imperative language like C or Java, it's much more similar to a functional language like Lisp or Scheme. From that comment a whole myth began which stat
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
Of course, I'm sure it could never be an automatic winning strategy, but I think it could have given them a fair chance at market dominance. Instead of the popular and proven OS with many apps they chose the unpopular and unknown one w
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
I didn't say that, I said it could hardly be argued that they couldn't have easily entered the Android ecosystem. We are talking about smartphones, they were (and are) competing with Samsung anyway, Windows or Android. So, what yo
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
It's not about unusual sequences of events, he's saying that Elop had an important incentive to accelerate the landslide of Nokia into irrelevance in order for it to be bought cheaply by his former employer. Things like publicly b
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
I agree with you, and some actual facts can be provided. Just look at the benchmark game between Go and C++ in quad-core x64: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t... In average, C++ is three tim
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
OK, technically correct, but access to source code and a restriction on commercial distribution is not what people usually associate with propietary software. When you say propietary what most of us think is Linus releasing binary-only vers
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
But they were together already. This past time Nokia only developed Windows phones and Microsoft paid for the marketing of the Lumia. Nokia had Stephen Elop as CEO, for crying out loud. We already knew Nokia was a part of Microsoft. This is
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
It's true what you say, but we have a different world nowadays. In 1999 Microsoft was the undisputable world champion in IT, they were the only ones who had deep pockets, lots of users and a tremendous software ecosystem. Now we have b
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
The paradox is that as Bitcoin gets more mainstream, in practical terms it will be more and more similar to "real" money. Bitcoin has been off the radar for the SEC, but as it gains notoriety there will certainly be an interest in
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
It's called analogy. I think the same reasoning and conclusions apply in both situations, which doesn't mean they are equivalent. It's a useful example when all this "which kind of license offers more freedom" arise
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
Yep, GPL preserves freedom in exactly the same way modern societies preserve freedom for their citizens. You are free, everyone who lives in the country is also free and you're not allowed to enslave other people. Of course, someone co
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by Shamanmuni 14y ago
I can think of two: documentation and simplicity. Comparing Parallella with GPUs only in performance is missing the point. The board is open and quite understandable for non-experts like me. It's a platform for learning and experimenting, l
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by Shamanmuni 14y ago
But if what you say is true, the ad shows that working for Facebook sucks too. I don't think that was played very well.
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by Shamanmuni 14y ago
It continues to amaze me how Facebook is so popular when they don't seem to have a clue about human communication. First comparing the service to a chair (really?!), now showing their CEO and public face as a boring guy who nobody pays atte
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by Shamanmuni 14y ago
It's strange, because your first description is exactly what it does. In each activity you can add a set of widgets and use certain applications, you can even configure the way the desktop is shown (Search and Run, Folderview) differently f
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by Shamanmuni 14y ago
But the price of the Tegra 4 isn't known. One of the most exciting aspects of Ouya is its price. You can get one for half of what a Nintendo Wii costs. That's a sweet spot, people don't know the console but can consider giving it a try beca
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by Shamanmuni 14y ago
Personally, while I generally agree with rms, in this particular situation I think he went overboard. Not in expressing his opinion, but in the way he did it. I say this as a free software advocate; this situation arises from a sad reality,
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by Shamanmuni 14y ago
Google is proposing and very actively working in the WHATWG and both WebKit and V8 are open source. So you can easily access the specifications for these APIs and see how they implemented them. It's the absolute opposite of "the Microsoft w
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by Shamanmuni 14y ago
It's quite usable for casual users who don't know the names of the applications and want to explore what's in the computer. KDE offers a gret solution for this; in the start menu applications are organized by category and there's a short de
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by Shamanmuni 14y ago
What? Nobody else was using it? Have you seen the Classics app for the iPhone? It appeared before iBooks and it had page turning. Apple even copied the bookshelf from them. It's no bullshit, the system is being abused. Silly and obvious thi
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by Shamanmuni 14y ago
Sorry, but the skeptical in me says this comment reeks of advertising. I don't know if it was your intention or not, but it feels like you try really hard to establish "geek cred" and then make some grandiose claims about Windows 8. It seem
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by Shamanmuni 14y ago
On the other hand, if you use the same category of native apps in different devices, you'll notice inconsistencies that disrupt the user experience. Whereas with an HTML5 app you don't care if you're using a phone, a tablet or desktop, it's
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by Shamanmuni 14y ago
How does the BSD license avoid something like the Oracle lawsuit against Android? From my understanding it wouldn't have made a difference.
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1-Click purchases, which is close in ridiculousness. Buying stuff online clicking once was such an outstanding innovation that it surely deserved protection from all those thieves who never could have figured that out by themselves...
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by Shamanmuni 14y ago
Well, that's related to the particular implementations, not theory. If PostgreSQL works faster and is less resource-intensive than MongoDB, it says nothing about their theoretical underpinnings. The whole point of the NoSQL movement is tha

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