batista

106 ms·

931.
by batista 14y ago
If we are to actually _read_ his comment, because of precedents like AOL.
932.
by batista 14y ago
The one-before-last comment on that post's thread sums it up for me Yes -- lighten up (non ironically).
933.
by batista 14y ago
> While most of the article talks about code, the author mentions underscores being ambiguous in the context of underlined fonts. (I don't even think my text editor [for code] supports underlined fonts.) Lot's of editors do. In Eclipse
934.
by batista 14y ago
> I think it's apt. Cooking shares many qualities with coding, you're under time deadlines to produce something for a end consumer (for the most part). A, you mean like hundreds of other professions...
935.
by batista 14y ago
>This was theoretically a professional partner event. You wouldn't get a comedian on stage cracking racist jokes at those, so why should sexist jokes be acceptable?* The question is why wouldn't it be? Racist and reverse racist jokes, j
936.
by batista 14y ago
> Dell never should have hired the guy in the first place, Yes. Couldn't they hire some non-funny, sensitive guy, all-too-touchy about politically correct issues? HN is full of them!
937.
by batista 14y ago
> Wtf? Since when did bloat make code "secure and perfomant" ? WTF? Since when one reads the phrase " Some problems are just hard, and you'll want as much code as is necessary to make it secure and performant. " and deduces (who knows
938.
by batista 14y ago
> On the other hand, even if half of that 1 MLOC is still relevant to new ways of building systems (and given that SQL databases are a 70s tech, I doubt it's that much) SQL is not a technology in the sense of a specific artifact (say,
939.
by batista 14y ago
So, instead of syncing them to your phone, and having them encrypted on DropBox, or a USB stick or something, you force yourself to remember redundant staff that would only prove useful 1 in 100 times?
940.
by batista 14y ago
> Even if the original comment were advocating that, which it's not, it remains to be demonstrated that the number and seriousness of the bugs would actually get worse if the software were developed using a different kind of language.
941.
by batista 14y ago
Even with those "cuts" the German wages are still 2 times over the "southern countries". Except if you mean to say that those in the South are less humans and do not deserve even half the wages and social welfare that Germans do --which Ger
942.
by batista 14y ago
>"The ECB is the central bank for Europe's single currency, the euro. The ECB’s main task is to maintain the euro's purchasing power and thus price stability in the euro area." Hmm, they forgot to add that they are a front for the int
943.
by batista 14y ago
>Going to sleep does not cause the brain to actually power off. It's still running, your consciousness is just different. You still wake up from loud noises and light, and external stimuli can still influence your dreams. Anesthesia,
944.
by batista 14y ago
> Whats the problem with that? How is it any different than what happens to your body on a day-to-day basis, now, anyway? Or how is it different that going into sleep and waking up?
945.
by batista 14y ago
If it's not Wikipedia, don't bother. Wiki's suck both for "project documentation" and for internal company use. For one, it assumes multiple people want to edit it. People don't bother.
946.
by batista 14y ago
> Even if somebody writes a bad chapter in your life, it doesn't mean you should be out to write bad chapters in theirs. You'd be surprised. Live by the sword, die by the sword, I say. And eye for an eyelid. I will strike down upon the
947.
by batista 14y ago
> Just because you don't like what irb has to offer doesn't mean you get to define what REPL is. If you did it 50 or 30 years ago, as Lisp has, you do get to define what it is.
948.
by batista 14y ago
> What is a "JVM-based language"? The JVM is simply a virtual machine. No, it's more specifically a virtual machine designed, with the Java language primarily (if not exclusively) in mind. Where do you think the J in the JVM comes from
949.
by batista 14y ago
>I never said borrowing was wrong. I said borrowing without having means to pay back is wrong. You almost make it look as though Greece did nothing wrong in borrowing, but now Germany and alike are committing a huge sin in not bailing
950.
by batista 14y ago
Well BBC ran a show last night. And it did show the some reasons why Greece is such trouble today. It turns out people spent like crazy, far beyond their means. Things like electricians driving Porsche's and High End Mercedes cars. All of
951.
by batista 14y ago
Check this article if you are interested in the topic, it's quite illuminating (although a little journalistic): http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/06/writestuff.html
952.
by batista 14y ago
> Nobody succeeds alone. Everybody around you deserves respect because they are the co-authors of your life. While "nobody succeeds alone" is true, the conclusion you draw is not. Some of those "co-authors of your life" write the _bad_
953.
by batista 14y ago
Buy a new one.
954.
by batista 14y ago
> So, either America has no: 1: Highly developed society and culture 2: Evidence of moral and intellectual development or 3: Refinement in taste and manners Well, America is not the pinnacle of western (or any other) civilization, is i
955.
by batista 14y ago
>Really? You use an article from an alcohol industry PR group to try to found your assertion that alcohol consumption doesn't impair judgement and raise the likelihood of destructive behavior? No, mr knee-jerk-reaction, he used to it
956.
by batista 14y ago
Apple proved what exactly? That's far from equal. I din't dispute that music purchases can be made EASY. Or that current piracy methods are or can be hard. What I said is --and it's mere logic, it cannot be disproven--, that piracy will alw
957.
by batista 14y ago
Yes, such needless bureaucracy. Let's fly a crazy fast jet plane that has it's software written by some throw-caution-in-the-wind Node.js hackers instead. If it's agile enough, and has some test coverage, we should be fine.
958.
by batista 14y ago
> At the risk of invoking common sense: Things that you did nearly a hundred years ago are not especially relevant to the discussion of what you're doing today. For a person, yes, for a country, not so much. A country has "continuity o
959.
by batista 14y ago
> German Police Used Only 85 Bullets Against People in 2011 Only? That's far too many for Europe. 20-30 would be a much better number.
960.
by batista 14y ago
> You say that as if there's a godgiven right for distributors to make money from art that others create, and for said distributors to decide when a given market is allowed to have access to it. No, it's not a god given right. It's a r

More ›