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by batista 14y ago
I'm not smoking anything, thank you very much for your polite inquiry. How you came to the conclusion that "If the implementation is too hard, the idea was worthless", I can't even begin to think. Difficulty of implementation and worthiness
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, very intelligent.
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by batista 14y ago
> Number 1-5 are mostly "I don't want to learn new things", so I'll ignore them. Ignore them at your own peril. "Not wanting to learn new things" is very different from "Not wanting to learn needlessly complicated mess of new concepts
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by batista 14y ago
> That is, would Apple have chosen not to create the iPhone without patents like this? I think not. If you take only one patent as an example, maybe not. But if Apple couldn't secure ANY patent on the iPhone, and any competitor was fre
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by batista 14y ago
Implementation has the chance of being the "hard part" only _after_ the idea has been thought.
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by batista 14y ago
> Of course, anybody who has actually built anything knows that what he actually did was "decide how something should work". You do this dozens of times when putting out a new product, and it's not in any way a big deal. Sounds like a
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by batista 14y ago
Well, speaking of the Unix philosophy, this could possibly blow your mind. It's tens of Unix command line tools (well, the gist of them, not every functionality), implemented in a few lines of Haskell: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Si
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, I can see how Rails evolving to match the evolving needs of its users can give that impression... /s
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by batista 14y ago
> There are so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot if you develop large realtime systems in Ruby (or any other language that includes a lot of blocking libraries). How is developing "large realtime systems" in Node any better? It's
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by batista 14y ago
> For the perplexed: Node isn't a web framework. For the perplexed: it doesn't matter. Take it to mean "Node+whatever" vs Rails. Or even "raw Node + totally custom js framework on top" vs Rails.
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by batista 14y ago
So you just momentarily forgot it when writing your previous comment?
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by batista 14y ago
> If you are already disagreeing with me, then anything I say here won't change your mind, because you've already heard the arguments before and built up a repertoire of responses. Really? Ever stopped to think it's you that is biased,
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by batista 14y ago
Because we want it to do much more, and it can only do the limited things it was designed to do 30+ years ago.
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by batista 14y ago
In the "Nedap story": "With activities branching into healthcare as well, it is important for their systems to be available at all times." I think you can afford to lose the "as well".
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by batista 14y ago
Only it's a different thing that attracted him (iOS non-suckiness as a mobile OS) than what is hurting him (it's non-openness). The two issues are completely orthogonal.
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by batista 14y ago
> There's some level of irony in 2 areas: 1) He disses Android harshly, yet ends up complaining about Apple not that much later. 2) He disses Android for "sucking", yet the area he complains about is one where iOS sucks compared to Andr
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by batista 14y ago
> When he said Android sucks he presumably evaluated a number of attributes of both iOS and Android and concluded that iOS outperforms Android in those he cares about. He's now finding out the hard way that "openness" may have been an a
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by batista 14y ago
> You could have said the same thing about unix-like operating systems in 1991 - yet, somebody wrote one from scratch without a full-time team Err, at 1991 he just wrote a rudimentary OS from scratch. To make it more unix-like, stable
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by batista 14y ago
> Just because it was the most common reason for a return doesn't tell us how significant it was. What was the overall return rate? Big. It was a huge fiasco at the time.
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by batista 14y ago
Slightly off topic: what's with the barrage of "Mr" and "Mr"? Is this proper american english? He even writes "Mr. Dylan" like he is some unknown guy.
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by batista 14y ago
> This is a typical anti-finance rant, with no substence. The only thing that would have made it worse would be a blantently political statement any of the parties. Because finance in itself is something like nature, and not at all pol
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by batista 14y ago
> - Go is compiled to machine code. This means that, barring a miracle in JIT/VM research, Go will probably always be faster than PyPy for most tasks. Actually it's slower or comparable that simple Python in most cases. And slower than
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by batista 14y ago
The above is not an example of duck typing. Even if it was, one example of a difficult bug in one system does not invalidate a whole concept. And duck typing is almost as old as programming itself...
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by batista 14y ago
Apple didn't say "Macs don't get OS X viruses". The very next sentence was "a Mac isn’t susceptible to the thousands of viruses plaguing Windows-based computers". Which it wasn't. As for custom viruses targeting OS X, none had been seen in
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by batista 14y ago
> Would having a sandboxed app store help with any of these? A sandboxed app can only write/damage it's sandbox. That's kind of the whole point.
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by batista 14y ago
> Besides, if something has passed app store verification then surely Apple are happy that it is not malware? Therefor they can be somewhat more lenient with sandboxing restrictions? It's about minimizing the attack vectors. Sure, Acro
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by batista 14y ago
> It's funny , for years Apple were all like "Macs can't get viruses!" now they're saying "we need app store lock in too prevent malware!". Yeah, it's funny because: 1) Apple never said that explicitly. 2) It was (and still is true), i
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by batista 14y ago
1) anecdotal self praise. That a startup (one!) that got acquired used Lisp doesn't prove anything. Many many more succesful startups did not. And its not like it was the most intriguing technologically or acquisition-value wise. 2) "A libr
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by batista 14y ago
> Even as someone who feels we should be rid of software patents, I cannot for the life of me understand this statement. I can believe, philosophically, that relatively high tax rates will benefit a society. That doesn't mean that, even
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by batista 14y ago
> It's almost ridiculous how some people get so indignant about CIA; I can almost feel their spittle as they shout at their computer screens. At the same time, people get equally outraged when terrorists kill people and then want to bla

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