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by batista 14y ago
>The right to free speech doesn't promise every citizen a printing press. Well, it should. Either that, or access to one. Because else, people have the right to free speech, but no way to be heard, whereas a tiny minority controls the
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by batista 14y ago
Plus: piracy will always be more convenient, because even with everything else being exactly the same, you have the paying step at the end in commercial site, whereas you just download away on the piracy site.
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by batista 14y ago
I'm not against that, of course. But if both are equally convenient, then the zero cost (piracy) will probably win. So the big media also have to make piracy inconvenient. Changing their methods to be more convenient also take huge amounts
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by batista 14y ago
I use Go and I don't see any particular expressivity or ability to code easier/faster, compared to, say Python. The benefits are: type checking (if you need it), more speed (but not as much as advertised), and easy concurrency (if you need
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by batista 14y ago
> That's flawed reasoning. You don't say. > Suppose their technology killed BitTorrent over night. Will it stop piracy? Of course not - we have a myriad of other technologies adept at transferring data from one host to another. Ye
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by batista 14y ago
So what are they doing following this particular sub-thread and giving other people condescending advice? Why aren't they busy reading other sub-threads where the presentation's content is discussed?
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by batista 14y ago
> I don't understand this viewpoint. What is an apology? An apology, at least to me, is a statement that you regret an action you performed, and hence are saying that if you were transported back in time and could relive that moment, yo
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by batista 14y ago
For one, they too benefit from Apple's work on Clang (and other projects). Seconds, there is no "stealing". They provide a license that explicitly allows such a use.
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by batista 14y ago
> The benefits from economies of scale and mass-ordering still apply to much lower priced hardware. If you break the uniformity of the order, to lower priced for some and higher priced for others (for which the lower priced won't do) t
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by batista 14y ago
Well, "Googling it" could also mean a programmers that copy/pastes codes from various sources found on the internet when faced with a problem, instead of trying to understand the problem domain.
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by batista 14y ago
> The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design What design? It was just thrown together.
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by batista 14y ago
> He's not "a guy". He's very famous and has his own TV show that he created, starred, wrote and post-produced on his macbook. So, "a famous guy self publishes on the internet". Does that make it MORE news-worthy? Famous guys have been
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by batista 14y ago
Probably some product to help cool your Linux servers, didn't bother to scroll.
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by batista 14y ago
A guy self-publishes stuff on the internet. News at 11.
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by batista 14y ago
> This is pure, unadulterated nonsense. There are plenty of ways to manage everything you mentioned with a tiered approach to the IT needs of the municipalities of the state without resorting to grossly over accommodating every location
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by batista 14y ago
I don't understand what people are doing in the list of HN comments on this thread. The comments I've read so far surely do not belong in an intelligent discussion. My favorite comment, however, does. /s Yes, I copied the form of 90% of the
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by batista 14y ago
> Of course there is. Have you actually read that discussion here? Yes, and as a Comp Sci, and developer of 15 years, I knew it all before. It's not like the discussion got into any advanced territory. > If you don't use exceptions
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by batista 14y ago
> When the problem is murder, and you adopt a policy that condemns murder, you don't call the policymaker a murderer. The first action (murder) constitutes taking someone's life, and the other (the policy) amounts to a prohibition on th
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by batista 14y ago
> For me, the lack of documentation was a blessing! When I first started investigating Piston I read almost every line of code that I was going to be using. I'm glad I did! Nice story, but you forgot the obligatory YMMV warning. Readin
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by batista 14y ago
Actually, Google Docs has not succeeded. You and I may used, but last time I checked it had something like a 1% share of the "office suite" (i.e if you include desktop Office et al).
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by batista 14y ago
And that's it, there's nothing more to it. It's great if your goal is to avoid straightforward failure (= crash), it's bad if your goal is to also avoid undefined behavior (= invalid program state). Have you discovered something else on the
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by batista 14y ago
> He states how he understood exceptions: "C++ exceptions just didn't fill the bill. They are great for guaranteeing that program doesn't fail — just wrap the main function in try/catch block and you can handle all the errors in a singl
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by batista 14y ago
So, if they throw you out of your city, you wont "whine" and go build your own?
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by batista 14y ago
Pixelmator + the rest 200 features pros use + an assorted family of products for DTP/Vectors/etc.
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by batista 14y ago
> So, is someone going to do a startup to obliterate Adobe's print and graphics production monopoly, or what? Sure, they would just have to build a compelling set of apps, for Windows and Mac at the least, that have 90% of those featur
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by batista 14y ago
Well, they should not start with Django then. First learn your tuples and lists et all. But if they have to start to learn Python with Django (or just want to), then virtualenv is the list of their worries. They will have to deal with lots
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by batista 14y ago
No, the industry seem to have missed them. None of those were any big success. (With the exception of ASP. But in ASP, Javascript was just one of the languages you could use, and not the most popular one).
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by batista 14y ago
Off the top of my comment above, I said: "To people that already know some Python and want to write a web app, yes, but I don't think I ever saw a "Starting out learning Python? Then use virtualenv" advice." People tackling Django and Herok
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by batista 14y ago
> Node.js is not a fad. It represents the first workable JavaScript-based server with mass appeal. The real story is that JavaScript is here to stay. Javascript yes. Node.js, not so much. >There have been other server-side JavaScr
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by batista 14y ago
Actually that's not a "selling proposition". At best it's "making a virtue out of necessity".

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