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by Volpe 15y ago
Did I miss something? How are Adobe front and centre? They don't have a browser... I'd say Google/Apple/Mozilla are taking front and centre, with Adobe trying to come up with new tricks to fend off the inevitable death of flash.
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by Volpe 15y ago
No, it was combative, regardless how true and factual. True and factual != polite and neutral. (Do you let every overweight person you see, know that they are fat? It's true and factual, so if they take issue with it, it's because they ha
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by Volpe 15y ago
They threw out 3 months of work... That's not a rewrite, that's a prototype. People do this all the time.
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by Volpe 15y ago
While a fair point, I think expressing your dissatisfaction will let others know there is a market for a better solution. And potentially drive more innovation ... but that could be me post-hoc rationalising my whinging :D
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by Volpe 15y ago
BS Anti-China Agg-prop. If you read this, and agree with it whole heartedly. Please stop, get an education, and learn about how economies grow.
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by Volpe 15y ago
For those that don't quite understand what "everything you need to know" means, could you spell it out?
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by Volpe 15y ago
Yes, because that's how capitalism works! If you don't buy a specific product, the whole market fails and everyone dies of hunger.
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by Volpe 15y ago
I don't think that's true. - Python - Ruby - Ruby on Rails - Django - Coffeescript - Node.js Were all results of people challenging the status quo of language/platform capability. Developing new languages/frameworks/platforms is NOT unprod
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by Volpe 15y ago
When did it come "okay" for governments to send kill squads into another country?
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by Volpe 15y ago
If you lived in china, you'd have unfettered access to pirated movies/shows/etc... There is no meaningful crack down on online piracy in china. :) This is very different from the kind of censorship that IS in china though, the content isn't
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by Volpe 15y ago
That's an exceptional circumstance, the iterator is not responsible for knowing whether you have reached the end of the collection. You could achieve it by catering for these cases in your logic if user.authorize(email, pass): ... succes
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by Volpe 15y ago
That's the next genetic algorithms problem :P
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by Volpe 15y ago
Really? Throwing exceptions on known states of your model... hardly exceptional.
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by Volpe 15y ago
a service could be modelled as a 'model'. That controllers (and other models) use. This fits both generic 'MVC' practice, AND Rails MVC (if you think they are different...)
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by Volpe 15y ago
Oh because lobbyists have NOTHING to do with the media... sheesh, how could I think such a thing. I stand corrected.
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by Volpe 15y ago
Come on, that is BS statistics. How many were rich through corruption (a highly stressful undertaking resulting in health problems/suicide/execution) weak correlation at best...
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by Volpe 15y ago
The article is sexist from the title... it is gender specific from the beginning for no apparent economic or societal reason other than to be outright sexist.
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by Volpe 15y ago
Not really subtle, just in the US they are called lobbyists. tom-a-hto - to-mah-to
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by Volpe 15y ago
Primarily I do web development, with python and ruby, TDDing is VERY well supported, and thus has allowed me to do it exclusively. But I can imagine there are systems out there that are difficult to TDD, web apps are not among them though.
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by Volpe 15y ago
> Writing tests before code works pretty well in some situations. Test Driven Development, as handed down to us mortals by Agile Testing Experts and other assorted shills, is hocus. What? So it works in some situations, but not all. T
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by Volpe 15y ago
Yes, because "the news" reports equally about all events around the world... riiiiight... News is there to advertise, plain and simple. Whether it's paid "ads" or (anti)government policy or various lobby groups. It has very little to with
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by Volpe 15y ago
> The whole concept "test driven development" is hocus... I've worked on numerous projects where TDD has (and continues) to prove invaluable. So regardless how much experience you've got, I've had experience to the contrary, thus the "w
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by Volpe 15y ago
"I'm currently in the planning stages of building a hosted Java web application..." Seriously, people are starting NEW projects with Java as the language of choice? Despite the plethora of 'better' languages you can run on a JVM.
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by Volpe 15y ago
Great, so in summary: We don't really know if the chinese govt are involved, but we suspect they are. And we don't really know if the U.S govt are involved, but we suspect they are. ... hmmm
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by Volpe 15y ago
Yeah because Matz never really left japan, or spoke to "westerner" developers before. So this will be a HUGE change... seriously?
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by Volpe 15y ago
I think you raised one of the primary issues in your response. "Padrino is Sinatra", meaning the documentation is split between Sinatra and Padrino. There isn't primary source for Padrino (similar to Rails Guides). Also Sinatra's document
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by Volpe 15y ago
Is country/peasant worker vs city worker an ethnic divide? Sounds more like a class divide. (ironic in a post-maoist country) The urbanisation figures in china are highly suspect. Given one child policy is primarily policed in the city an
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by Volpe 15y ago
The article only referred to individuals leaving china. Most of the capital is sitting under businesses not individuals. I don't think there is any evidence of an exodus of successful businesses from China, and thus there isn't a risk of
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by Volpe 15y ago
From my other comment: > China's millionaires account for 0.015% of the population 0.015% is hardly skewing the other 99.985%... How about people start actually referring to fact rather than just rhetoric... Some stats: 36% of the popul
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by Volpe 15y ago
They've seen rapid betterment in the last 60 years going from an average (inflation adjusted) yearly wage of $364/year in 1950 to $7226/year today. How does that translate to 'little to no hope for betterment'? It's still not great, but it

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