_pmf_

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2731.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
Using the number of repositories for pricing is a ridiculous metric in many ways and for many reasons. What is the rationale behind it? Transparency?
2732.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
Welcome monoculture. It's really amazing how Opera could keep up with the rest for so long, though.
2733.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
Carpenters with bad tools often permanently lose fingers.
2734.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
> A test about pointers is not stupid. A test about printf formatters is. Obviously you did not have the joy of working with people who write their own byzantine 1k LoC formatting code for cases that would have been perfectly covered by
2735.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
I'm truly sorry that learning a real language takes some more effort than Ruby-loving ADHD rockstar developers can muster.
2736.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
> Well, the way I (and Roy Fielding) see it, the browser is a stateful agent that just renders HTML to a viewport, and executes JavaScript. I cringed.
2737.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
In my case, I have an Eclipse-based product (toolchain for embedded development) that must be reconfigured per client or even per project (on site); i.e. it is more about dynamically creating very specific variants of a product. Using clien
2738.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
I found that a sweet spot between wiring-by-code and wiring-by-container-and-configuration-dsl is using a dynamic language for wiring (say, Rhino, which is very lightweigth): you have the flexibility of wiring-by-code and can easily change
2739.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
Winning the hearts and minds, I see.
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by _pmf_ 14y ago
I don't want PayPal to be their standard provider; I merely want the option to use PayPal. In the EU, PayPal is now forced to behave like a real bank, so maybe the hate PayPal gets is mostly justified for the US market.
2741.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
> Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling Hold on a second, I'll set aside a huge slab of memory.
2742.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
I'm spending a constant dribble of money on the ridiculously small, crappy and unfriendly Amazon marketplace and not a single cent on Google Play because it does not accept my money. There's about 100 - 200 EUR worth of applications on Play
2743.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
I don't subtlety works on the target demographics.
2744.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
Wikipedia has shown us what ridiculous bureaucracy does to a community; it's sad that Stackoverflow has been turned into a utterly useless site despite the lessons that could have been learned from Wikipedia.
2745.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
> Web guys are web guys for one reason: They sincerely believe web is the future and better than native desktop software. That's probably only a very small, but very vocal group of developers; those that seem to spend more of their time
2746.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
In that order of magnitude, the concrete conditions are probably subject to negotiation.
2747.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
> We aren’t laughing with Leonard, Sheldon, Raj and Howard. We’re laughing at them. And what would be a sitcom where this is not the case? Let's take one of the tamest and more humane sitcoms, the Cosby Show. Even in this case, you are
2748.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
Successful democracies are not characterized by allowing every fancy extremist undercurrent arbitrary veto power. In the USA, most controversial decisions are not blocked by extremists, but by representatives who confuse the dominating medi
2749.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
> Also, the OP says "Instagram makes everyone ‘creative’." Just as alcohol makes everyone funny.
2750.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
Very sound reasoning. By the very same reasoning, the debate about whether to abolish slavery (in the US) should still be in full rage. After all, who could definitely predict whether those poor people would be able to survive without their
2751.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
> I can’t help but think of potential future employers that are no longer potential. Remember that this also applies to the potential employers of the people making these remarks. I don't think employers like these kind of toxic comment
2752.
by _pmf_ 14y ago
Having worked with both Matlab and VBA, it's hard to say for me what is worse. Nowadays, whenever I have to do something (UI, non-numeric data processing) in Matlab, I tend to write a Matlab-shim that calls a Java-component (the Java intera