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by barnaby 16y ago
Interesting prediction about history repeating with Apple innovating then MS copying and simply setting up more manufacturers. Though, totally wrong, Android rocks! customers love it! But everyone already has mental associations of what Win
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by barnaby 16y ago
Good contrast with the other reviews that were posted, he talks about things they didn't. He has an interesting opinion about how Ubuntu releases can't be as groundbreaking now that "normal people" are using it. Not sure what to think of th
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by barnaby 16y ago
It felt that way for me too... then on further reflection I think system-wide multi-touch support is a BIG deal. There may not be any applications taking advantage of it now, but I predict that in a few months this will give iPads and and
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by barnaby 16y ago
I wish I had a tool like that. No I just had an intuition to check this time. I've probably been guilty of downvoting newbies myself without checking.
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by barnaby 16y ago
There was a huge chart of the history of programming languages at my university. It showed which ones influenced others, and I'd look at it often. Oddly enough I didn't pay much attention to Python at the time focusing on all the lines comi
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by barnaby 16y ago
:-) yay, he's up to ten! I should point out that when I wrote this, the poor guys post was at negative 4.
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by barnaby 16y ago
Guys don't downvote somebody on their FIRST POST on HN. This guy may legitimately want to know how to do this, that's one hell of a good reason to be on HN. Jastis, to answer your question, you do it one step at a time, because if you try t
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by barnaby 16y ago
Upvote! I had the same moment of panic, like: "aaaahhhhh shiii...wait a second. LOL"
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by barnaby 16y ago
Javascript is a great, powerful and awesome language. Python is a great, powerful and awesome language. Birds of a feather flock together. I hope EVERY rendering engine gets Python support.
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by barnaby 16y ago
That sounds like a good book. Anybody else read it? Would you recommend it?
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by barnaby 16y ago
I doubt that even the best quality fork can compete with Oracles sales machine, no matter how badly they ruin Java. Even if all the great and passionate Java developers leave to become Python programmers, Java will still be the most common
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by barnaby 16y ago
The map database also has some really well thought out licensing behind it to prevent vendors from taking the data, adding one or two gps points, and then keeping things proprietary. I believe OSM had the license custom-made because source
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by barnaby 16y ago
While I don't know much about retargeting, I've met Arjun, the founder of Retargeter, and he's one hard working dude. Really believes in what he offers so I'd be comfortable recommending doing business with him.
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by barnaby 16y ago
I too used to think like you do. But I've been using Ubuntu at work, and now when I go on a Mac I actually miss the usability features of Ubuntu. Just a tiny example: hitting alt and clicking anywhere on a window to move it instead of going
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by barnaby 16y ago
Wait, that makes no sense. Why compare a language like PHP with a framework like Rails or Django. Shouldn't you compare CakePHP, Symfony, or Zend, instead of PHP? Or compare PHP against Python and Ruby?
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by barnaby 16y ago
"Real world" is an odd concept in college. Python is used A LOT in the real world, including NASA and many fortune 500 companies. Just because there is still more COBOL code running in the "real world" than there is C# code doesn't mean C#
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by barnaby 16y ago
Wow that's a really well thought out answer, I totally agree. I am always amazed when I find that Python has a library for _X_ whenever I need it... and not just some project on github, a stable project that's in a mature release, and flexa
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by barnaby 16y ago
Read. a lot Also, I picked up a musical instrument, I find my playing to be very relaxing, my girlfriend does not. :-p
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by barnaby 16y ago
Sounds like they're addressing some of the growing pains in Django's ever increasing popularity. Good problems to have I suppose.
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AOL officially buys techCrunch(sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com)
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by barnaby 16y ago
I rarely get outraged by political news anymore because I'm so jaded, but THIS story makes my blood boil!!!! GGGRRR If we outlaw encryption then only criminals will be able to talk covertly, while good citizens will be abused. EPIC FAIL!
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by barnaby 16y ago
Totally Awesome!
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by barnaby 16y ago
Would the downvoters explain this one? Do you think anyone sincerely cares about your best interest the way this guy claims in his email? Because this sounds incredibly charitable.
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by barnaby 16y ago
Sounds too good to be true.
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by barnaby 16y ago
If you're moving to San Francisco or Silicon Valley for a tech job then this isn't even a question. There is so much talent out here that a company would be insane to pay the extra costs of looking outside the local talent pool.
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by barnaby 16y ago
"Consistency is the authors best friend" That's something my Dad (a writer himself) told me when I wanted to write a book when I was young. And it's true for business as well! When I wrote just a little bit regularly (a page or two a day) I
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by barnaby 16y ago
I work with groovy in my day job, and I have to say that it is the NBL on the JVM. It has: * ease of adoption from existing Java developers because it's a superset of the java langauge * the enterprise capability (which the author mistake
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by barnaby 16y ago
Every generation has been lazier than the last since the days of Plato, and we've not degenerated into sloths yet. Skyrocketing tuition rates in an oversaturated educational-services market are a new problem, one that will cause an economic
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by barnaby 16y ago
I'm a big fan of Rifkin. His book "The end of work" really made me think about what the future of employing people will look like.
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by barnaby 16y ago
Will the fork still be licensed under CDDL or is there a way to switch it to GPL?

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