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by barryfandango 15y ago
Very true. I didn't try to imply in any previous post that being motivated by profit is a bad thing. The app store definitely provides the ultra-simple software ecosystem you mentioned, and I agree that's awesome for most users. It also
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by barryfandango 15y ago
Since you've asked, Steko, I'll continue as if you're actually interested in exploring this topic with me. I promise I was trying to contribute to my argument and not change the subject. Please calm your fury. First, what is this open mark
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by barryfandango 15y ago
If the app store can truly compete with an open marketplace, why won't apple let me install arbitrary software on my iDevice?
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by barryfandango 15y ago
When I think of all the articles that have passed through the HN front page about mobile developers' terrible experience with the app store, I can't imagine why a desktop software developer would voluntarily subject themselves to it. Sure,
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by barryfandango 15y ago
"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest fucking hour.’"
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by barryfandango 15y ago
I agree with the author that there's much to be gained by shrugging off the consumerist expectation that we spend all of our income on junk. The next step in that progression though, in my opinion, is to learn to obsess over money exactly
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by barryfandango 15y ago
The only way we're going to achieve AI in the short term is by loosening the definition of the phrase, for example to include a new generation of complex automatons. I look forward to AI meaning about as much as "cloud" does today.
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by barryfandango 16y ago
I'm a lilypond user and I can tell you we're totally spoiled by the quality of that project - it is just immaculate. The Vexflow samples look very primitive by comparison but it's a great idea and with open work like lilypond already havin
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by barryfandango 16y ago
As an upper class western white male, I am thrilled to consider the possibility of feeling oppressed.
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by barryfandango 16y ago
The Windows 7 Phone OS has been hyping up for a while now and won't be out for till the holidays, so who knows, but it looks fantastic.
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by barryfandango 16y ago
While we all argue, accuse and bemoan, my parents, grandparents, non-technical friends, and the rest of the world continue logging into facebook every day to post baby pictures and invite people to parties. They care not for any of this
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by barryfandango 16y ago
I thought sleep was the cousin of death.
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by barryfandango 17y ago
The DLR is also the foundation for late binding in C# 4, which is a cornerstone of the new COM functionality.
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by barryfandango 17y ago
Third world countries don't have universal healthcare! Now if you lot can just adopt the metric system we'll be getting somewhere. :)
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by barryfandango 17y ago
This shows an increase in household debt, not a bubble. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_bubble
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by barryfandango 17y ago
Better question: why are we so focused on weight loss instead of health and fitness?
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by barryfandango 17y ago
I languished in my computer science degree in much the same way. I graduated with good marks but it was like pulling teeth. I questioned whether I had chosen the correct path. Now that I'm a programmer in the real world though, I love my
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by barryfandango 17y ago
Cue the apologists!
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by barryfandango 17y ago
What about The Seventh Guest? Beat Myst by five months. Just sayin.
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by barryfandango 17y ago
Starting little businesses to write microblogging and photo sharing websites does not matter in the scope of human history. Comparing web startups to the industrial revolution?! You gotta be kidding me, I don't care how much ajax or standa
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by barryfandango 18y ago
Aquafina and Dasani, bottled water from the Coke and Pepsi companies, are made with municipal source water that is filtered to improve the taste. Dasani here in the Toronto area comes from Brampton, Ontario tap water, and there is nothing
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by barryfandango 18y ago
I think the implication was that the water didn't need treatment at the municipal level because it comes so clean from the source. Once any city water reaches your tap, it is potable and does not require extra filtration except to improve
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by barryfandango 18y ago
I think morphing into a dead person still counts as dying.
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by barryfandango 18y ago
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by barryfandango 18y ago
It's nice to have an algorithmic way to find the pitches in a chord, but honestly anybody with a good ear can pick that out. Try sitting down with a Bill Evans recording and figuring out the different chords you hear - something jazz stude
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by barryfandango 18y ago
Team Foundation Server.
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by barryfandango 18y ago
Damn, I read "Essential Maths Games for Programmers" and was disappointed to find old-fashioned book learnin'.
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by barryfandango 18y ago
Ok, I will address your argument directly. You state that it's possible to write maintainable C in the best case, but that the worst-case is more revealing. However if we're to be fair, we must also look at the worst case for scripting la
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by barryfandango 18y ago
No need to be so caustic. You wrote a redundant headline. Learn from it and move on.
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by barryfandango 18y ago
And unless my knowledge of the Python standard library is way off, the Python standard library is written in Python, not C. That's what all those .py files are in the /lib folder. So python scripts spend most of their time calling into Py

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