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by aikah 11y ago
> Frameworks are one of the hugest anti-patterns in software development. Says who ? this article isn't serious. If you're going to use an argument of authority you'd better quote that authority directly instead of making
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by aikah 11y ago
> So before shaming fellow free software coders about what we do and know better than you, RTFM. Calm down, nobody's shaming anybody.
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by aikah 11y ago
> I you can bet that those not using ad blockers will be squeezed and exploited and have a thousand popups and intrusive ads thrown at them in order for the sites to recoup the lost money. They are doing that already, they are maximizing
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by aikah 11y ago
Well as a user I might share a link to a site that will be seen by 100 or 1000's of others, on Facebook, Reddit or whatever social network. If that website blocks me from visiting them at first place, they will also loose all the poten
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by aikah 11y ago
Are you saying that someone working on Groovy is doing "link optimisation" in order to get higher on Google thus Tiobe?
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by aikah 11y ago
> I love how this was like the perfect storm of things that could go wrong How so ? I bet the cocoapods team knew they were hammering Github with that gigantic repo. They just didn't care and expected Github to just give them more b
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by aikah 11y ago
When a package manager monopolizes that much resources from Github at the expense of others there is no reason to "commit" all resources to this one project. Thus cocoapods getting rate limited because of the obvious bandwidth abu
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by aikah 11y ago
Ok, good. Now how much a SQL Server on Linux license is going to cost ? Does it mean businesses using Linux will now be subject to Microsoft license audits ?
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by aikah 11y ago
> A monopoly is historically identified with having a higher than market price, not a lower. Are you sure ? AFAIK it's about market shares, not about how much one sells their goods. > along with the 1999 conviction of Microsoft b
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by aikah 11y ago
> This is why people vote donald trump I'm sure people vote Donald Trump for many reasons, however I don't really understand the need to insert Trump in this conversation, and given Trump business record he is no stranger to sh
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by aikah 11y ago
They got most of the Livemocha audience as the former turned to total sh--t. Livemocha used to be a great platform for learning. Then it was bought by Rosetta Code which sells expensive and obsolete language learning material.
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by aikah 11y ago
> Talk to Google/Facebook about that. Maybe you think subscription is better way for...search? Google gets to crawl all the web for free for its search results. Maybe Google should start paying websites for crawling them hey ? Of co
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by aikah 11y ago
I'm fine with that. I don't visit them, and these websites will find out the hard way that antagonizing their audience isn't going to work. The Ad revenue mana isn't going to last, people are tired of all these ads on th
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by aikah 11y ago
> Blocking ads is actual petty theft Since when blocking content on the web is theft ? Providers don't own the web, don't own my browser. People don't want to see ads, it kill their phone's or laptop's battery, s
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by aikah 11y ago
> My mother lives next to a busy Airbnb. The Airbnb guests regularly wake her up at 2AM by drunkenly pounding on her door. She complained to Airbnb. They don't care. Were the airbnb rentals legal ? If your mom owns her condo , she&#
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by aikah 11y ago
We wouldn't have solved anything due to limitations of the web stack. There is no way to make it run fast on a $100 handset. The native stack on the other hand can run pretty fast on low hand devices.
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by aikah 11y ago
> The US deals with much larger migrations every year Are you suggesting that the "much larger migration" in US is provided free food, free housing, free counselling, free healthcare, free judiciary assistance, are taken care o
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by aikah 11y ago
> I wish now that Jobs had gotten his way in the beginning, and all of the apps would be web apps The IPhone ecosystem would be nowhere near what it is today if not for native apps. It would have been a serious mistake. People want nativ
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by aikah 11y ago
So does it mean that people from a Chinese background celebrating St Patrick and dressing in green would be culturally insensitive because that's not their culture ? Or are white people practicing judo and wearing a kimono racist towar
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by aikah 11y ago
Isn't Gradle based on and using Maven (under the hood) ?
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by aikah 11y ago
> In 2006, 12.9 million families in the US were headed by a single parent, 80% of which were headed by a female. > 45% of single mothers are currently divorced or separated Which means that potentially 45% of these 80% had the father
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by aikah 11y ago
Is LLVM that well supported on windows ? Go aims at running on as much platforms and it seems to me a lot of languages built with LLVM don't run on windows (Swift,Crystal,...).
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by aikah 11y ago
There is no type hierarchy, no generics, no extension methods, no inheritance which means that polymorphism is limited to implicit interfaces. The concurrency model is good though (communicating sequential process), but async/await in
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by aikah 11y ago
> The "best of the best" have frequently made enough money to stop working but they keep working, that's because they're not working for money. Who's going to work at Etsy for a pittance when other companies offe
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by aikah 11y ago
> I think a lot of engineers are motivated by other things. Sure, but it doesn't mean good engineers don't know what they are worth. If Etsy has hard time recruiting "engineers", Etsy should ask themselves what kind o
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by aikah 11y ago
And are you willing to pay your "software engineers" what they are worth? because that's often the issue at end. Plenty of good "engineers". Not that many startup willing to pay them fairly. You want the best people
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by aikah 11y ago
> Really? I had a feeling everything is javascript heavy these days. Especially with React, angular, backbone, meteor... Maybe I should give it another try. The point is to white list scripting on websites . It allows faster browsing, le
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by aikah 11y ago
> html5-sandbox or iframe will have you terminated from adsense, at least. don't know about the others. Really? what's the justification for that policy? You'd think ad networks would want ads to be safe for users.
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by aikah 11y ago
> Googlers and Xooglers receive no special treatment. No current Googler would risk getting fired to help a Xoogler. No conspiracy theory required. Unless the person knows he is a future Xooglers. Come on, corruption is everywhere and em
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by aikah 11y ago
I'm talking about the link, not the op.

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