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by acg 17y ago
I would like to think that the people who really made Google into the company it is now aren't really in need of free snacks.
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by acg 17y ago
There is a link in the article to a presentation. The author has not used threads because (apparently) threads in Ruby are green-threads. These are not that useful for a type of application that needs to block on I/O. This also breaks the
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by acg 17y ago
Good for them, good decision. There are other international operators that run skype and it is really useful.
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by acg 17y ago
I think he's talking the about linux adoption not being down to X but there being no long term vision for linux as a whole. Perhaps there are not enough designers and artists on board to make the linux desktop woo business. It's not always
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by acg 17y ago
... said the project manager
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by acg 17y ago
From the reports I've read it certainly isn't clear all the cases are phishing, I know a couple of people who had their accounts compromised and I cannot see them entering their passwords stupidly. Perhaps there are dictionary attacks. Pa
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by acg 17y ago
A poor workman blames his tools. Not a great defense. Perl is a great language for bioinformatics, and is also a great language used the right way. It's not persuasive to assume anyone who is critical of something cannot use it. Many good
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by acg 17y ago
No doubt this is part of a play to keep Notes customers after google provided a migration path away from notes. It will be interesting the next few years, when corporations upgrade their old desktops from XP to something else, whether they
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by acg 17y ago
I was referring to Microsoft being rich and smart not Google.
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by acg 17y ago
I don't agree that "tech people" never cared about content either. They believed it should be free. You only need to look at the USENET to see that many "tech people" wanted the internet to be an open repository of knowledge and was pretty
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by acg 17y ago
Rather single minded response, I'm not sure what you are asking. To spell it out, asking who is paying his salary is to ask a number of questions (I think you've immediately assumed conspiracy): - If it is the people/government are they ge
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by acg 17y ago
It's possible to leave your child with your iPhone. Perhaps a child could even be sucking on the corner while you're away. Most people don't consider an iPhone a hazardous device to put it out-of-reach.
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by acg 17y ago
Much as I like them, you have to question whether Google are going to be smart/rich enough to flank Microsoft. Or whether they can co-exist in some of these markets in the future.
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by acg 17y ago
Hideous page layout in all browsers I tried, made it very difficult to read. The content isn't bad but the site is slapped together open-source CMS. At least at the time I tried it, it gave more space to google ads than content. That is be
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by acg 17y ago
Brushing it off as an isolated incident shouldn't be acceptable in any market, especially when there might be small children in the vicinity. Come on Apple, don't tarnish your image. Whether intended or not this looks like complacency.
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by acg 17y ago
Let me summarize as I'm beginning to think that Perl is a member of your family: - You don't write code for novices - You don't think language design has an impact on overall maintainability of the code, maintainability is all about the abs
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by acg 17y ago
In design there is a trade-off of complexity vs. usability. Perl does a good job at giving programmers access to a lot of complex features by using clever/borrowed metaphors and idioms. The complexity still remains. This means when writin
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by acg 17y ago
Trolls don't normally make good points. In a way you illustrate the point being made: but according to his own statements he doesn't write enough Perl to really know it. He just sprouts lots of opinions on things he don't know From the po
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by acg 17y ago
Communications of the ACM is outstanding, every month it has great articles. Long may it continue.
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by acg 17y ago
I care a lot more about being able to understand the problem domain and maintain the code than merely being able to read it by way of familiarity with an Algol-derived language with class-based OO support and dynamic typing. Surely being
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by acg 17y ago
You've got to wonder who's paying the judge's salary
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by acg 17y ago
Have you tried vim like browsing? http://vimperator.org/trac/wiki/Vimperator For keyboard lovers.
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by acg 17y ago
Isn't this case law though? If so this case will be cited in future cases: it paves the way for future rulings on this. Future rulings are likely to come earlier making the new business model less viable.
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by acg 17y ago
There are APIs for browser extension that Microsoft will want to continue to support as they are no doubt used by partners/corporations. It's not just about how well the web renders. The same way that firefox would be unwilling to start fro
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by acg 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=840876 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=841458
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by acg 17y ago
For me this is nonsense, there were always people who had broad interest in all music and I think the identity with a particular style of music is partly marketing and partly inhibition. Many people I know have all styles of music, especial
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by acg 17y ago
It isn't clear to me that is it just comparing the javascript engines like for like. For all we know Google throws more operating system resources at processing the a single page than IE does natively. It may also be a battle of architectu
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by acg 17y ago
I have no doubt that this deal exists because this market is highly competitive with many solutions available for nothing. I wish Microsoft luck and hope that the competition continues. There will be some customers that this deal will be ri
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by acg 17y ago
To be fair it also may be the architecture that they've chosen for IE and windows. My understanding is that bits of IE form part of the windows O/S by it's use of COM: I'm guessing that Microsoft would like to honor a lot of the interfaces
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by acg 17y ago
Perl is very influenced by the Unix command line. I can remember years ago (when other mini computer operating systems around and everyone was mad on pascal) my college lecturers disdain for the design C and Unix. If the same thing happens

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