Touche

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by Touche 13y ago
> But it's always wise to choose the best tool for the job. I'm so tired of this meme. Yes, in some situations there is a "right tool". If you are working on embedded devices you probably should just use C. But in the
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by Touche 13y ago
The one positive thing about "doing nothing" is that it gives you the opportunity to do whatever you want. Provided your employer is fine with you working on side projects (or you are just sneaky enough), it's incredible what
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by Touche 13y ago
It's actually kind of funny, because you have to make it look like you are working, but not working too hard. I once had a job that was seasonally busy. In the offseason there was almost nothing to do. I'd often use the opportun
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by Touche 13y ago
I certainly hope not, it severely restricts what you can do in terms of form factor.
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by Touche 13y ago
Happens in meat space as well. We're quick to accept good things that happen as the status quo and become enraged at minor inconveniences. Someone didn't wait their turn at a 4-way intersection, rage! Waiters who check on you ofte
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by Touche 13y ago
3k LOC in a single file... ouch. Someone introduce Dave to makefiles.
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by Touche 13y ago
The media has brainwashed (very smart) software engineers into believing that working as a programmer in San Francisco is like being a painter in Paris in the 1920s; that for $116,000[1] in one of the costliest cities in the U.S. you should
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by Touche 13y ago
No kidding, not a chance I would get anything done in such an environment. Also, although well intentioned, that a company serves 3 meals a day, has snacks and recreation, makes me a little fearful that I'm not accepting a job but rath
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by Touche 13y ago
Probably sales people. Twitter is an advertising/media company after all.
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by Touche 13y ago
AddressCompare seems good to me.
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by Touche 13y ago
Is there any advantage to using OO in a language that doesn't have classes or inheritance? Does declaring a method on a type give you something that declaring a function that takes the type as an argument doesn't?
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by Touche 13y ago
They are called "designers".
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by Touche 13y ago
Awesome, aliasing this as cowzen.
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by Touche 13y ago
Qt is switching (from WebKit) to Chromium.
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by Touche 13y ago
That they are releasing new ones.
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by Touche 13y ago
Intel getting to ARM's power envelope and cost won't help them though. They already did the Razr i which I think shows people won't buy something just because it's Intel. Once Intel scales down to match ARM it has lost a
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Intel-based Chromebooks(chrome.blogspot.com)
79 points by Touche 13y ago|52 comments
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Google introduces new Chromebooks running Intel's Haswell processors(theverge.com)
5 points by Touche 13y ago|2 comments
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by Touche 13y ago
> This is another case of Apple skating to where the puck is going to be in maybe 2 or 3 years time. That phrase doesn't mean what you think it means. It has nothing to do with planning for a long product life. "Where the puck
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by Touche 13y ago
Making things more affordable is a type of innovation. Lumia 521 and Nexus 4 are two examples of that.
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by Touche 13y ago
This is classic innovators dilemma. Apple cannot release a true low-end, mid-range, or even "low high-end" phone because it risks eating into the iPhone's legendary profit margins. Smartphones are becoming cheaper; Apple cann