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by ballard 13y ago
Go needs optional arguments for goroutines and have global defaults because recompiling is ludicrous. Erlang is an ok language with a great runtime. Elixir is much higher level language and hence more productive for teams that already know
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by ballard 13y ago
Yeap, opposite of makefiles. I opt for TOML. YAML is great for fixtures.
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by ballard 13y ago
Do like Capgem approach (pulling a bandaid).... Bad news upfront.
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by ballard 13y ago
Not letting decisions getting kicked up is a never ending struggle. Everyone can learn to make better decisions and do more without assistance, but that's not going to happen if it's "more expedient" to throw someone a
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by ballard 13y ago
Microsoft has had to deal with more security issues for obvious reasons. Apple has not had a serious security protocol on the basis of assuming the platform is flaw free. Even if that were the case, it's how seriously and professiona
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by ballard 13y ago
British million = American billion = 10^9 MM is used to denote an American million = 10^6
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by ballard 13y ago
Apple lacks an emergency fix process. Also the fix will be released in 10.9.2, but it's held up in testing amgonst all the new added functionality.
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by ballard 13y ago
Yeap. Industry has to ship something useful.
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by ballard 13y ago
I was a paid undergrad security researcher that made double that any of other on-campus student job, where labor was cheap and abundant.
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by ballard 13y ago
The Raspberry Pi has a beta version of WL http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/11/21/putting-the-wolfram-langu...
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OpenSSL 1.0.2 Beta 1(openssl.org)
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by ballard 13y ago
Speaking of Android, there's a neat hacker dude at GOOG that has an unreleased Android-based visual environment based on Squeak complete with animated 3D and 2D examples. It's pretty neat that basically anything in it can be chan
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by ballard 13y ago
Yeah, getting a working prototype and alpha users before even thinking about angel or VC. Later, the right amount of validation will speak for itself and reduce friction. That is if investment would win a race-to-market. Otherwise, plan t
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by ballard 13y ago
With actual rockstar startups not burning through cash like it's their own personal vacation from profitably and reality, the dilemma is often centered between reasonable frugality and trying too hard to seem frugal ending up penny wis
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by ballard 13y ago
Only B-players of second string shops investors and founders behave in such a manner. The valley is too small for such to be sustainable. The top people aren't stupid and are hemmed in by social and reputation considerations. The B
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by ballard 13y ago
It's push vs pull. If you build value, investors will beat down your door.
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by ballard 13y ago
Founders have to have enough credibility to find customers and a business model to seek out profit, or it seems like a risky proposition no amount of selling can overcome.
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by ballard 13y ago
Business people that don't add value tend to focus on appearances than substance because it's an easier business theather to bikeshed than to show progress and interest. The upside is that anyone that's built a business befo
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by ballard 13y ago
Given the same problem, I'd look at a reactor pattern MQTT mosquitto like pubsub protocol in Go, Erlang or something JVM/CLR. The beauty of publish subscribe of many low bandwidth clients is that they need tiny bits low latency w
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by ballard 13y ago
Unsatisfied with the Quora answers, the reality is that they are usually extremely productive in their domain, thought leaders or big brands. The meta is that thinking strategically from tactical on up about how solve business and customer
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Goat Simulator – a legit indie game(goat-simulator.com)
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Metadata+ (Drones+) drone strike iOS app is back(metadata.joshbegley.com)
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by ballard 13y ago
The jobs markets and cost of living between countries will gradually level out. The UN data from that TED talk shows there is much less horrible poverty but it still exists. I think the risk is virtually every country becoming a Balkinize
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by ballard 13y ago
The other point is we have to look at a way that somehow voluntarily redistributes some gigawealth for necessities of those that are struggling to survive. There is so much wealth now that survival is pretty much assured, but it's t
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by ballard 13y ago
And eventually converge to various degrees implanted tech, worn tech, other improvements and "improvements."
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by ballard 13y ago
Subsidize mobiles, laptops and tablets. Oh and maybe food and shelter.
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by ballard 13y ago
People that operate outside of coherent, explainable, rational principles tempered by compassion are bigger liabilities. It's common sense. Departing from this is what allows folks to believe violent terrorism to be a viable strategy
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by ballard 13y ago
Something like 95% of the entire human population believes in something supernatural. And also, what other nonsense do they believe?
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by ballard 13y ago
Yes and the guns, mass surveillance and racially unequal incarceration tantamount to genocide.
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[solved] Trouble installing Nokogiri on ML / Mavericks(stackoverflow.com)
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