batista

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by batista 14y ago
> I stopped using eBay 6 years ago, and for 5 years before that I used it every week, for buying and selling. eBay is fast becoming irrelevant. And I'm not in the US either. What part makes the above statements not anecdotal?
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by batista 14y ago
> Funny enough, I came here to argue more or less the opposite. In many countries, the standard payment problems have been largely solved locally, at least for the local markets. Well, the same is true for the US --there are worthy Pay
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by batista 14y ago
> It's a platitude, sometimes it's even the wrong mindset to have, tools do matter. They help, but they don't matter one iota in most cases. Whatever one is doing in Rails could be done in Django or PHP or whatever. A better tool can h
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by batista 14y ago
> That really cool stuff nestled deep in a propiratary binary, Odds are its not really that neat or cool. Really? By what logic exactly did you come to this conclusion?
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by batista 14y ago
The "shudder" is against the spirit of the quote you were replying to: "Just because looking down your nose at C++ or Perl is the popular opinion doesn't mean that those languages aren't being used by very smart folks to build amazing, fine
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by batista 14y ago
> It's all about age. Older people impose restrictions on younger people - because they can and enjoy it too. Yes, god forbid they do it because they know any better, because of experience and such... Check your theory again in 20 year
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by batista 14y ago
> The success of outreach programs prove your “Women just weren't interested enough to put CS in their application forms for college.” wrong. Actually it reinforces my point. If it took "outreach programs" to make them take interest do
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by batista 14y ago
> Big boobs are universal. Not only that, but the whole fucking reason of progress, for example, is not to be so fucking sensitive about commonplace things. WTF, people, have we merely exchanged the prudish, religious police with the p
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by batista 14y ago
You "hope he dies lonely" because in a comment thread about a joking reference to boobs in hex constants, he wrote that "men are not the only gender who appreciate breasts"? I hope you understand that your comment shows a disturbed personal
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by batista 14y ago
"Sexualized"? That is, with the newspeak concept of: "oh, it can hurt the feelings of some sex"? Well, I fail to see the difference between "generally offensive language", then. It too can hurt the feelings of a very large part of a populat
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by batista 14y ago
> how many women are in your office? Speaking for my previous company: 3, for a 12 strong team. > How many black people? 0 > -- and why do you think that is?* For black people it's because my country never sent slave merchants
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by batista 14y ago
> I'll bite too: state that theorem as its inverse and dare to argue for it: Demographic uniformity is a good thing. Well, if you have it, demographic uniformity is a good thing indeed. If anything it translates to less racial tension,
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by batista 14y ago
> Think about it, if Apple had a woman's input, do you think it'd be named iPad?!? For f ck sake, it's the most ridiculous name ever, reminding half the population of the embarrassing trip to the drug store.* Really? Because women in th
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by batista 14y ago
> In some sense, isn't this algorithm "inventing" detail? If you're lucky the detail corresponds closely to what should be there, but sometimes it doesn't and thus it can't be relied upon. Statistics is not "luck", it's possibilities.
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by batista 14y ago
> So where are the '?' coming from? I think I have to call shenanigans / database, there aren't any in the image, or even any shapes like it. How about it's what they output when they are not sure?
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, you surely are representative of a large user base that self-replaces their laptop screens, one that should be catered by all major computer companies in their designs...
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by batista 14y ago
> Fantastic. Just a 5 hour round-trip to my nearest apple store. Why would I want to service it when I have access to that level of convenience? 5-hour round-trip when (and _if_) your laptop fails! 1) Oh, the humanity. 2) Oh, how I wis
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by batista 14y ago
That has not been my experience. I also use a 1st gen iPad.
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by batista 14y ago
Apple outsources manufacture according to their _specs_. Do you believe it goes like this: Apple: We want 20,000,000 SSD drives. Samsung: How do you want them? Apple: Surprise us!
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by batista 14y ago
> And why should serviceability be sacrificed for qualities like weight, form factor, etc? Because serviceability is a one-off process you do when the product fails or when you want to update it, whereas weight, form factor are things
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by batista 14y ago
And I'm from a poor country, with a tired economy, so it's even more expensive for me (not to mention Apple stuff costs around 40% more here, when the price is translated back to dollars). But even I find the argument somewhat silly. If you
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by batista 14y ago
> "All eligible products" is a key, the new iPad with its glued in battery is not among them. True, but OTOH, then can't go back in time and change it's design now that they decided to go back with EPEAT, can they? > It's like brag
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by batista 14y ago
Then you'll love the MS AutoCar 2020. It has a top of the line electronic routing OS, designed by Visual Basic veterans.
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by batista 14y ago
> I am considering it entirely rationally. I believe that we should be investing more money into research that could save 30,000 lives every year. With like $10,000,000 dollars for drugs and some infrastructure we could save FAR MORE t
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by batista 14y ago
All OSs have problems. And if you add third party drivers, external services, peripherals, etc, exponentially more problems. The reasons I use Mac (and lots of people too perhaps) is not because they don't have problems, but because: 1) It
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And this argument has been repeated endlessly. I wont question if it's true or false. But the mere repetition makes what the grandparent says true: this is not a site full of smart people. Or at least: this is not a site full of smart peopl
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by batista 14y ago
Phrased that way, it could be. But if of Linux distros users 95% are men and 5% are women is it sexist to say that linux distros are _mostly of interest_ to men? Now, those numbers are mostly a guesstimation, but it seems to coincide with t
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by batista 14y ago
I think Dropbox did well enough financially and technically, so that the team doesnt need pedantic advice on professionalism...
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Because a half and second here and a half a second there, and soon we're talking weeks. Plus, the statement is not only meaningful, but also very expressive.
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No, actually the only reason is "its not a language programmers want to use". It is very much non shitty. Its just that lots of programmers, especially OO minded cannot get into its mindset, and use it for what it is, they have to put a lam

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