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by awj 10y ago
There's a better separation of concerns that makes it easier to customize specific pieces of the project. For example, OpenLayers divides fetching data (Source), parsing data (Format) and interacting with data (Layer) into individual p
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by awj 10y ago
And rightly so, I should think. Given the presence of languages like Elixir and Go, creating a situation where you are breaking people's code to introduce multicore programming systems is a pretty bad idea. I can easily see how people
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by awj 10y ago
Why do you think it would be any different from what they built into previous models?
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by awj 10y ago
> They're packaging Lightning headphones in the box and announced their own wireless earbuds that are not Bluetooth. Have a source for that? That they claim it works with existing Macs kind of implies that it uses Bluetooth.
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by awj 10y ago
...you're kind of helping the "don't use Functor" argument here. Most programmers are programmers first and mathematicians second, if at all. Reusing terms from math that have been overloaded in programming domains is de
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by awj 10y ago
Judging by how Amazon has handled other things, I wouldn't stick too hard to that conclusion. They tend to focus first on something generally useful and easy then come back to fill in more difficult/less popular options over time.
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by awj 11y ago
We've been happily doing Rails/Ember for about a year now. When we started Ember Data wasn't as stable or as customizable as it is now, so I don't have experience working with that. In general, we've been happy with
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by awj 11y ago
Try double tap zooming on a paragraph in a body of text. It should automatically zoom so that the paragraph occupies the full screen width. That's a pretty nice feature to just give up.
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by awj 11y ago
The problem here is that there isn't too much recycling being done. In the process of trying to become profitable companies seem to destroy their products so thoroughly that there isn't much left to salvage by the end. It's l
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by awj 11y ago
> Instead most users are reliant on the device manufacturing seeing the financial incentive to provide updates. Most users are reliant on this regardless. Few people possess the technical ability, much less time, to perform these tasks.
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by awj 11y ago
> It's annoying that the media continues to incorrectly spin Android's security updates problem as somehow caused by its open ecosystem That isn't "spin". Android's ecosystem is (largely) controlled by the p
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by awj 11y ago
If every browser vendor fully and correctly implemented a standard on their first try, you'd have an excellent point. As it is right now, even people that develop towards standards still have to choose between deviating from those stan
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by awj 12y ago
Well, if you need the performance increase, the yes. Otherwise your options are to (maybe) tweak your current implementation so it continues to work or rewrite the functionality to be compatible with the view layer. This is the same trade-o
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by awj 12y ago
> so that those in the continuing lane feel morally obligated to let those queued up in. I'm pretty well convinced that we'd never hit critical mass of drivers that feel morally obligated to even moderately inconvenience themse
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by awj 12y ago
If you do decide to try a lisp, don't start with Emacs Lisp. It's a mess. Go with Clojure, out of all lisps it's one of the least self-congratulatory about how awesome they all are for using lisp.
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by awj 12y ago
...the NSA would love that most of all. The vast majority of programmers lack the knowledge, skill, or both required to correctly implement anything related to cryptography.
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by awj 12y ago
Which news, specifically. US news tends to be sickeningly myopic.
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by awj 12y ago
To me, logic says you should call the airline and see specifically how they're rerouting the flight to avoid this kind of danger. If you can't get an answer, don't get a satisfactory answer, or don't know how to tell wha
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by awj 12y ago
It may seem counterintuitive, but that's a relatively common result in machine learning. Often the issue isn't so much the quantity of data as the representative nature of your training data used to create the model. All other t
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by awj 12y ago
> the good old boy networks you see in rural Texas Arlington, a city of 370k smack between Dallas and Fort Worth is rural? So the cops will get jumpy and start shooting once a hispanic kid shows up (which, one of them was) because they&#
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by awj 12y ago
...what else do you expect? HN is full of young idealists convinced they both understand and can change the world. In the realm of computer software where most have spent their lives, they could be right. In other areas ... not so much. It&
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by awj 12y ago
...and restricting what is taught to what can be measured is a bad idea. As is putting so much emphasis on your measurements (and little enough work into creating them) that teachers have an incentive to teach the content on the test rather
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by awj 12y ago
The 2mb size limit is pretty ridiculous, but how is "number of installed files" relevant is to the quality of a project?
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by awj 12y ago
> Search just searches near whatever you are looking at. ...except for those times where it doesn't, and instead decides to return only the closest result for something. This is especially problematic for regional stores that have
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by awj 12y ago
I think the idea is sound, but the reasoning isn't. Keeping master deployable at all times forces breaking changes off into feature branches so unrelated pieces of functionality can't interfere with each other's release sched
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by awj 12y ago
Meh, it doesn't have to be friction. If the goal is to ensure your other team member sees the changes you're making before they're merged in a pull request both accomplishes that and gives you both a place to put some notes
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by awj 12y ago
Does it not sound ridiculous to you that we have to go to these length to prevent Facebook from having information we don't want them to have? The techniques that have been suggested are beyond the understanding, if not the capacity, o
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by awj 12y ago
How hard would it be to get usable type signatures out of the compiler as well? It seems like diffing two sets of type signatures would capture everything but purely semantic api incompatibility. Also seems like "here's a machine-
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by awj 12y ago
Until the various OS package managers stop pretending they are a universe unto themselves, this problem will continue. Languages have to distribute libraries across all of their host systems, so focusing on support for any particular pack
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by awj 12y ago
MRI didn't follow semver up until recently, and even now it has some caveats about it. Ruby as an ecosystem doesn't really care for semver. Some projects follow it anyways, which I can respect, but they aren't the norm.

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