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by batista 14y ago
Ever heard the notion of "opportunity cost"?
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by batista 14y ago
Actually Cobol is pretty much everywhere in the substrate, but not in visible places... banks, insurance companies, and the like have tons of cobol code in use.
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, so "only" in 99.9% of the cases, including all that matter most...
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by batista 14y ago
Because it's a bad way of living your life. And the non-judgmental, you're all special snowflakes, do whatever, is also.
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by batista 14y ago
>*"Why Meditation Doesn't Directly Increase Happiness" Because there are no magic pills?
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by batista 14y ago
> It doesn't work. Your words are going to fade into a black hole and eventually only you will remember them. And probably not, even. This is not going to help you achieve your goals. Detach and think about why. It is obvious. It's not
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by batista 14y ago
Which means nothing. What he meant with "You should live outside USA for a while" is not actually literally living outside the USA, but seeing from the viewpoint of other countries. As in, the viewpoint of the MAJORITY of population of said
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by batista 14y ago
> Um. Why on earth would the article mention that? What does US foreign policy have to do with the life and work of one academic/writer? Because 99% of "academics writers" on such issues push US foreign policy, with very few exceptions
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by batista 14y ago
A quick off topic question -- this is Java right? I have 2-3 years to catch up on the latest developments, but the font smoothing seems quite nice on OS X. Is this Swing based?
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by batista 14y ago
> So it's looking for Chrome, a closed source browser that I'd never use, instead of Chromium. Too bad. TMI. You are of course free to use or not use anything you like, but the above sounds entitled and self-centered. At this point, wh
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by batista 14y ago
There exist in Greece a few (2-3) groups of anarchist activists, mostly consisting of idiots from 17-30. Random targets like this are not uncommon. It's not like they know what the fuck they are doing anyway or have any coherent plan. It's
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by batista 14y ago
>* You don't see professional pianists perform on electric keyboards.* Classical pianists don't. Every other kind of professional pianist does it all the time. Except if you don't consider someone like Keith Jarrett, Herby Hancock or Ch
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by batista 14y ago
So they appear to be moving over to "not being IBM PC compatible". Which is perfectly valid. I never said that PCs are called PCs because they ARE IBM PC compatible, only said they are called PCs because in the past "IBM PC compatible" de
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by batista 14y ago
Sure, and in some next generation language yet to be invented you might not even need the error monad! But we're talking Go here.
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> The moment you're being effectively paid to pitch something, your opinion loses all merit. Your statement doesn't hold for everyone, YMMV. Especially since the "effectively" is quite obscure when talking about "affiliate" links where
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> EFI is not exclusive to Macs. Which is beside the pedantic point, that to be an "IBM PC compatible" you have to NOT run EFI.
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by batista 14y ago
Technically, since they don't use a PC BIOS. Plus, the "IBM PC compatible" as a specification hasn't been important since 199x. The PC moniker for Wintel machines, while heralding from the "IBM PC compatible" era, it's used as a designator
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by batista 14y ago
If that's the case, he's doing it wrong. It's like the pot calling the kettle black. He essentially argues that types are constraining on other languages based on types, where it is actually in Go that types CONSTRAIN your use of things. Be
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by batista 14y ago
> That's funny. I don't mind writing code. The code I like the best is the code I don't have to debug. The code you don't have to write, you also don't have to debug. So you SHOULD mind writing code.
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by batista 14y ago
> So we are following the lead of Etherpad and converting the application to be based on Etherpad Lite which is a running on Node.js which is another next big thing. There are no threads, so I know that can't cause any freezing. The V8
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by batista 14y ago
Startups have bet their business to any random language, from PHP to Dylan. It's AFTER the startup phase that you rewrite your messy infrastructure (see Twitter, Facebook, etc), and that's when you need mature and capable tools.
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by batista 14y ago
> IMHO, its not fair to compare Go libraries (at this stage) with the more mature implementation of libraries in C++ and Java. It's not about being 'fair', it's about being practical. If a project has a need for X, a programmer cannot
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by batista 14y ago
> There are plenty of "proper implementations" of these collection classes. Your only criticism of them seems to be that they are not type safe. But it is trivial to implement a type safe wrapper around such containers, if you desire it
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by batista 14y ago
That. It's nice for languages to have a "benevolent dictator", but Go insists in a lot of arbitrary but not that good choices like the above. I would add the bizarro build system (go build et al), that if you want to use you have to follow
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by batista 14y ago
No, in the context we are discussing, a PC is not a "personal computer", but what was called an "IBM PC compatible" (and subsequently by some a Wintel machine). Few people use "PC" to mean personal computers in general, especially since for
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by batista 14y ago
Well, the big epidemics on PCs have been viruses, not Trojans. Trojans don't spread fast because of their very nature.
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> I understand that the submission is going to naturally draw people who already have an interest in affiliate links, however I still have to ask -- are people really this profoundly naive? Is there a complete ignorance about the whole
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by batista 14y ago
> eg. This week I think everyone should have a UPS, here is a link to an amazon product - I don't care if you buy it so long as you now have the Amazon affiliate cookie lodged. Next week - why I think everyone should have a home NAS ...
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by batista 14y ago
Well, they must be doing something right at Cupertino, because they really don't get viruses. Not theoretically of future-wise: practically. 99.9% of things reported (and even those are not that many to begin with) are trojans. So, Mac viru
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by batista 14y ago
> Outright Amazon Affiliate links, on the other hand, are a direct and obvious conflict of interest. Suddenly the author's opinion is rendered self-serving and questionable. Not really, since you can point to the things you ACTUALLY li

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