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   by bad_user 13y ago

   > That said, the remaining 10% really do want something more. Yes, but those 10% are better served by going native. What's the problem in going native using the platform's native SDK? OH, if you're going to say that nati
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   by bad_user 13y ago

   I'm not sure about Google's CE, I don't really know what it can do, but Amazon's AWS has had for some time auto-scaling capabilities by means of auto-scaling groups coupled with their ELB load-balancer. We used it and it
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   by bad_user 13y ago

   AWS has a really interesting feature in their auto-scaling groups, coupled with their ELB (elastic load balancer). You can configure an auto-scaling group with a variable number of instances that ads or removes instances automatically, base
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   by bad_user 13y ago

   That was sarcasm dude, put some batteries in your detector :-) The "corroding childhood" expression was used recently by Mr. Cameron to justify the nation wide ban on porn and I found his speech to be at the same time hilarious an
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   by bad_user 13y ago

   > Consuming all your resources without planning, survival of the fittest, don't care and see what happens is what animals do. Animals don't consume more than they need. We as humans, no matter how much we have, always crave f
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   by bad_user 13y ago

   If you think wells in Australia or North Dakota still have water, just wait until they start foraging shale gas by hydraulic fracturing.
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   by bad_user 13y ago

   Exactly. Being so easy to get, it has lost its charm.
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   by bad_user 13y ago

   Makes sense. Extremism, along with porn, is corroding childhood.
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   by bad_user 13y ago

   Precisely, C++ code is usually not riddled with all kinds of bugs and buffer overflows. </sarcasm> This argument is so backwards. Having a garbage collector or a VM that ensures memory access safety, now that's what contribu
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    You're better off reading a book to your kid, for free from the public domain, a public domain on which most of Disney's work is based. And you can thank Disney, amongst others, for the perpetually increasing copyright extensions
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    Hurray for kitchen cockroaches :-) You're betting on deadly wars and induced famine to kill humans and I agree, however most wars are over land or natural resources. So if WW III happens at some point and we exterminate each other, you
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    Given that this is the only known planet on which life is sustainable, I think your view is kind of shortsighted. Humanity happened because of our planet, not in spite of it. Good luck moving to Mars.
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    > It protects original works of creation Disney.
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    > the TSA has never caught an actual terrorist. The FDA has stopped potentially harmful and/or ineffective drugs from coming to market Bingo. Mistakes happen, but different government agencies, different companies, different indiv
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    > You're saying you think of classes as inheritance and polymorphism without encapsulation I don't know whatever gave you that idea, but it's quite the opposite, unless we have completely different definitions for what e
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    Namespaces in Java, C++, C#, or whatever else is in this family, are simply too dumb. Their sole purpose is to avoid name clashes. But what if namespaces were values that you could pass around? What if a namespace could be abstract, much li
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    The end of an era. I still have it installed, as on Windows there's still nothing better. I remember switching to Linux and being frustrated by XMMS because it wasn't Winamp, although it tried to be.
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    > My conspiracy theory is that editors that allow you to enter code real fast encourage a personal not-invented-here syndrome. If your "million lines of code" project isn't well documented or designed, then relying on an
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    Here are some ideas: (1) you can import your email from any account (that supports POP3) in a new GMail account. Just go to Settings -> Accounts in your new GMail account and configure it (note that the old GMail account also has to have
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    I can second this opinion. Not only that, but personally I like the new interface, even the classification that they are doing because you can customize it - I just got rid of the "Updates" tab, given that emails classified as suc
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    I am a Google Apps paying customer, I've always liked their products (heck, I even have a Google+ account) and I've always defended them, but their moves are breaking the camel's back. Just today I received a message from Goo
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    I was also using AltaVista back in early 2000. Their advanced search method you mention is the perfect example of complicated UI that fails to function properly, putting the blame on the user. I switched to Google after being frustrated tha
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    True, I never read the parent comment, sorry. The CLR is definitely not full of design mistakes, it's actually quite awesome. But in terms of technical arguments, the JVM is better for dynamic languages, as it can do all sorts of optim
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    Counter examples .. 1) On top of the JVM we've got Scala, Clojure, JRuby, Jython, Groovy, Fantom, very successful, very active, with big communities. 2) On top of the CLR, we've got IronRuby dead, IronPython dead, Clojure.NET almo
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    For what is worth, I like the new GMail.
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    Searching for the main point, when the arguments brought forth to support the conclusion are wrong, does not make sense. From elementary mathematics, A => B only makes sense when A is true, because falsity implies anything. And I know th
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    My favorite in Java are String instances, which are objects, but adding them with + is not a method call, because Strings are also primitives, sort of, hence + is in fact either eliminated (if adding two constant values) or the code gets tr
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    Given that Git is such an integral part of the workflow, I find unnacceptable the ability to push to the central repo for people that can't handle Git well. Git is distributed, if you're using it like it's SVN you're doi
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    Your problem is that you shouldn't be doing pull with rebase so often. A clean merge doesn't have to rewrite anything.
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    by bad_user 13y ago

    Err, what? So languages are plagued with implementation-specific schematics and in truth, all languages grow up at the same time with their reference implementation and it's the reference implementation that defines that language. Basi