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by V-2 11y ago
Certain degree of narcissist traits can be beneficial if it translates into taking pride in your work. "We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris" (Larry Wall) You d
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by V-2 11y ago
What do you mean? The only assumption about librarians is that they "enjoy quiet and order". While this may be an oversimplification (although if you didn't, wouldn't this affect your chances of becoming a librarian?), b
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by V-2 11y ago
https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when#the-g-key-is-press...
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by V-2 11y ago
Which makes the premise kind of a strawman argument. Apart from hacking, hackathon etc. these are real
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by V-2 11y ago
:) The idea is that everybody works on Android and iOS alike, no specialization on the team. And the UI itself (Xamarin.Forms) takes the bulk of our development time, we're running into so many quirks, and the cross-platform abstractio
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by V-2 11y ago
Is it difficult to set up?
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by V-2 11y ago
That's possible, true, but the company deemed it too expensive to supply everyone with two computers and then pay for VS licenses on the top of Xamarin licensing (already rather pricey)
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by V-2 11y ago
Incidentally, JetBrains is starting out with Project Rider (a C# IDE). I've been working professionally with Xamarin for the past month, honestly I'm shocked how half-baked Xamarin Studio is, both in terms of stability and feature
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by V-2 11y ago
They also have an open-source React Native plugin for Visual Studio Code (developed by MS)
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by V-2 11y ago
While I do believe this hasn't really happened, surely there's a strong observational bias involved ("AFAIK" - but why would you know? :) If they're isolated, chances of learning about them would be very slim by def
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by V-2 11y ago
Related article I read not long ago (focusing on Apple, although it mentions Google unfavorably, too): http://www.fastcodesign.com/3053406/how-apple-is-giving-desi... Some interesting points: * http://b.fast
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by V-2 11y ago
I used Hangouts intensively for video daily meetings throughout a software project that spanned for several months - on different machines (on my work laptop, mobile phone, sometimes my home PC). These meetings weren't big - typically
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by V-2 11y ago
Ditching rich pre-existing ecosystem by itself certainly isn't progress. The greatest language without that ecosystem is like the shiniest OS with no apps. This includes communities, developers who've acquired enormous amounts of
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by V-2 11y ago
Without providing close to 100% interoperability, replacing Java with another language would be insane. All the open-source third party libraries for Android (and there's plenty, and many of them have become the de facto industry stand
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by V-2 11y ago
Now it's too late, but unlike Brainfuck, Google did consider C# as an option, see my comment (sibling comment to yours)
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by V-2 11y ago
And Google briefly considered adopting C# instead of Java back in the day . As a .NET dev turned Android dev (and not liking Java 6 one bit) I regret they didn't go down that path... http://www.wired.com/2012/04&
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by V-2 11y ago
The missing link is extension methods/functions, which are sort of syntax sugar for the former (letting it pretend to be the latter)
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by V-2 11y ago
If "politically correct" means reasonable and respectful But it doesn't
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by V-2 11y ago
It's never been much of an "AI" to start with. This term is overused.
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by V-2 11y ago
> Or... some initial starting positions might never yield intelligence at all "Some"? I would bet on 99.99999999%. Popular assumption that all evolution everywhere would inevitably progress towards intelligence strikes me as ve
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by V-2 11y ago
Author really oversimplifies things when he chalks distinct Nordic mentality up to "all Nordics sharing a sense of kinship and having fond feelings for each other", and debunks it by pointing out they "dislike many of their f
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by V-2 11y ago
"the difference with chess is there's no simple known heuristic to evaluate a board position" While it is indeed hand-coded in most chess engines (I'm sure there are some experimental ones, but that's not the path t
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by V-2 11y ago
That's correct, but with chess engines (the strong ones) the heuristics of evaluating a position is hard-coded.
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by V-2 11y ago
That's not true - there's heurystic analysis techniques, generic signature detection etc. Of course they may not meet your definition of "reliably"
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by V-2 11y ago
Would being a non-native English speaker result in a lower salary at LinkedIn?
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by V-2 11y ago
I wouldn't suspect such fanboyism on StackOverflow's part (they conducted the survey). Apart from that I believe you're largely right. I had to switch from Windows to OS X for this reason exactly. I'm an Android dev join
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by V-2 11y ago
Then again, if there was a demand for that, I could imagine people using AI-driven "persona obfuscators" : ) Applications generating behavioral noise around you so as to confuse the tracking systems as much as possible, and protec
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by V-2 11y ago
This struck me as well, and yet this very article complains about lack of good "design and usability" : )
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by V-2 11y ago
Don't know about black magic, but "dark net" does invoke associations with dark web.
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by V-2 11y ago
I took a peek at Newsblur. This Reddit-ish UI puts me off too (plus no dark theme...), but I can't rule out it beats Feedly in terms of functionality. I wonder if their mobile app is any good - while Feedly the webapp is ok, Feedly on

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