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by _random_ 12y ago
Well, people with Androids and WPs know enough to either not call themselves "nerds" or actually be nerds. But of course he forgot that they would also play Candy Crush Saga installed by one of the Apple Geniuses.
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by _random_ 12y ago
"...the maker of Minecraft and one of the last independent gaming companies..." - LOL, what? "...right now I have three devices — my phone, my Kindle, my iPod..." - worlds most consumer-friendly devices. So nerdy. Remind
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by _random_ 12y ago
I hate some bands, but at least I understand why they are popular (e.g. Cyrus or Bieber). With U2 I don't even understand the latter. Is it the constant charity-pushing or some amplifying recursive effect of their networking?
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by _random_ 12y ago
They would say it's a bold new move.
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by _random_ 12y ago
Reading about singularity always cheers me up.
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by _random_ 12y ago
Seems to be about web front-end rather than general front end.
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by _random_ 12y ago
It looks like just a list of some JS scripts, what is so note-worthy?
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by _random_ 12y ago
Not bad, just like OpenGL in 90s.
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by _random_ 12y ago
Apple is the most extreme example. I was able to watch Microsoft's live streams in Chrome for example.
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by _random_ 12y ago
If Apple decides/realizes Swift was a bad idea, you will be out of luck with your codebase. Unlike open source where users can continue the work of the corporation.
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by _random_ 12y ago
Mostly games which are a kind of apps. And games are the most popular apps, e.g.: http://www.statista.com/statistics/270291/popular-categories... .
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by _random_ 12y ago
Lol - "language", it's not even a platform.
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by _random_ 12y ago
Wow, almost as smooth as Flash! I think HTML5 could be easily used for casual games in about 5 years.
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by _random_ 12y ago
I really hope they will not force WP devs to use crappy JS and HTML instead of F#/C# and XAML in future :(.
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by _random_ 12y ago
I agree, just install this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disrupt-to-bullshi...
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by _random_ 12y ago
"Essentially, the fusion of [functional and object-oriented programming] can have a power that neither of the two paradigms individually can have." Very aligned with my opinion. I would add that having strong static type system wi
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by _random_ 12y ago
That's a good money (providing it's not a 24h job), but what about treatment? Sales people make more than average devs at Google, but who gets more respect?
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by _random_ 12y ago
I am sorry, but I want my 1024 cores in a mobile device today :).
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by _random_ 12y ago
Reporting from London: no crunch here so far. Average IT salaries are still on decade-old £50-60k levels (despite the inflation and rising costs of living).
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by _random_ 12y ago
Do financial houses even refer to any of IT staff as "talent"? Usually when they say "talent" they mean traders and senior staff.
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by _random_ 12y ago
So, CLR and Mono would be better? PS: at least not the V8/Node.
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Why is Akka being marketed as reactive? Is Actor Model reactive?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
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by _random_ 12y ago
Node.js has a very specific purpose - implementing the Reactor Pattern. There is no need pretending that it's a general-purpose framework and emulate alien concepts with it.
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by _random_ 12y ago
A simple improvement: add a team bios section in the bottom with three images grabbed randomly from google image search results "startup hipster" and random text along the lines of "...coded on commodore at 6, graduated MIT,
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by _random_ 12y ago
So tempting though, I hate cyber-squatters/abandoned homepages...
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by _random_ 12y ago
Hopefully they will be able to extend and extinguish as well, so that the so called "open web" (that is actually pretty much closed to different languages and technologies, unless you are willing to use crap-trans-pilation crutch
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by _random_ 12y ago
They simply ask what is your previous salary and offer a 5-25% increase. You skills are simply a pre-requisite, but they don't define your starting salary. Depending on your risk appetite and potential background checks one can lie and
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by _random_ 12y ago
What is HNs opinion about new gTLDs?
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by _random_ 12y ago
What is the price?
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by _random_ 12y ago
"Traveling around the empire was excruciatingly slow" "The researchers estimate that it took 7 weeks to travel from Constantinople (at the eastern end of the empire) to London (in the far west)." What a funny little empi

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