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by batista 14y ago
> Say again? Open-sourcing equals abandonment? More often than not, yes. Open-sourcing is where lots of commercial products go to die. > It's such a shame that it and Linux have no future -- after all, they're open source, "and pre
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, but the full on experience is the translation to full color images. That's how the Japanese use them in their mobiles, no?
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by batista 14y ago
> It's a shame on OSX/iOS. When I've used these characters and viewed on Safari it turns them into raster icons ... exactly what I don't want. Windows and Linux are fine. Your comment does not make sense. 1) When "you've used these cha
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by batista 14y ago
> What is the point of doing something you are good at if it makes your life worse? Most people on earth are not defined by their jobs. They work because they have to. So he could be doing it for the money. Or the girls. Or the publici
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by batista 14y ago
> If you're not sure on what big letters is, it's ABC instead of abc Actually those are called "capital letters" or "capitals". > and don't want them in a computer language This is a BS and capricious statement that has nothing to
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by batista 14y ago
Idiomatic is not necessarily better. "Idiomatic" C code of the eighties would be considered atrocious now. And idiomatic Java code (Factory of proxies of singletons) is laughed at. And not a lot of people are fond of idiomatic Ruby code, wh
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by batista 14y ago
> They weren't? Yes, they weren't. The first Android phone appeared one year after the iPhone (HTC Dream, released on October 22, 2008). That 2005 acquisition didn't automatically make the two companies competitors...
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by batista 14y ago
The Google Reader redesign fiasco? Google Wave to Google+ transition? It's not like Apple "usually reverts in quality" either. This was a business decision, probably forced. They had to create something of their own for maps from what they
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by batista 14y ago
The title for one. It's disrespectful and stupid. And it's plain wrong. Steve was alive when the G3 iBooks had thousand units recalled for logic board problems. Steve was alive when the Mac Pro oozed some green cooling liquid. Steve was ali
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by batista 14y ago
It would take more than: (1) them not believing that Go has design issues for my argument to not make sense. It would need both (1) and (2) them being right about said belief for my argument to be invalid. And while (1) might hold, (2) is h
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by batista 14y ago
> As a matter of fact, I am "a graphic designer or something". I never would have guessed. Oh, wait... > And yes, you're right, those sites all look great. In fact I might just print out screenshots of them and hang them on my wall
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by batista 14y ago
> I'll be moving to Android. Google's Android? As in Google, the inventor of the "perpetual beta"?
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by batista 14y ago
The good (brilliant) thing about Play for Java, was that it wasn't inline with the Java philosophy. So, Revel not being in line with the Go philosophy could also be a great thing.
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by batista 14y ago
> I actually can't find a single language site that looks good Are you a graphic designer or something? You must surely speak for some very superficial, cosmetic issues. Those websites you mention are mighty fine, especially Go's is ve
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by batista 14y ago
It's about what "some people think". This is Computer Science. Things have a name and a definition. By your logic "for some people, Earth is flat".
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by batista 14y ago
> The creators of the language (who are not mediocre) like simple languages. They are surely not mediocre programmers (or mediocre contributors to computing). They are however mediocre in their modern language design skills. What are t
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by batista 14y ago
> It is statically typed but has no Generics But, as Go advocates will tell you any Generics related discussion in the golang list: "just try programming in Go for a while and you'll find you don't need Generics". Why do they assume th
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by batista 14y ago
Well, I hoped to use Go to avoid both: a) writing in C for performance (and having to setup glib et al to make it comfortable) and: b) carrying the JVM with me to run something. (And, no, I won't consider AOT compilers for Java. I want to d
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by batista 14y ago
> That says it is the browser default size and that is not correct. It is correct, just slightly misleading. The size is made to look like the browser default size taking display density into account. It is adaptive. The 16px font, in
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by batista 14y ago
I am afraid the Maps for small countries like mine will be even worse. A quick solution for you might be to use a third party GPS app/maps. Usually they are better than Google Maps (you do miss the integration with the other iOS apps though
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by batista 14y ago
Like in a Bladerunner/Neuromancer cross-culture like future. Maybe, maybe.
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by batista 14y ago
Well, and I mean this kinda snarkily, who said people don't? I, for one, found that for some kinds of work I do, Go doesn't give that much of a performance advantage, so I'm exploring other languages. That said, even if Java gives you 2x, t
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by batista 14y ago
Because it's a non descriptive BS title / buzzword? Which is very common in modern business, but shouldn't happen when you have "science" in there. Lives a bad taste. Science is all about clarity and SPECIFIC fields of study. Nobody does "s
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by batista 14y ago
So, like regular Heroku, but more expensive and enterprisey?
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by batista 14y ago
> it sends a message -- particularly to women in tech -- that if they speak publicly, if they offer up their opinion, they will be attacked not about the content of their point but about their competence to speak at all. Oh, don't worr
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by batista 14y ago
Takes half the time to do the same task, how about it?
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by batista 14y ago
No, it's like comparing sprinters by having them run, and someone telling you: "hey, the problem is not that sprinter X is ten times slower. The problem is what you want to do in the real world. Do you want to go from A to B? Why not take t
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by batista 14y ago
> When given a load that does not stress the L1i, modern CPUs perform pretty much completely differently than they do on real loads with more than 32kB of code. Even if that's the case, one would assume that would hold for ALL language
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by batista 14y ago
>*The Go Language is faster than the Computer Language Benchmarks Game thinks That's what Go advocates always say, but, for a static language with tight memory structures, it's not that fast at all. Now, he does compile with gcc go, whi
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by batista 14y ago
> Yes, and it will radically change as the web stops being English / Latin alphabet dominated. It will never stop being English/Latin alphabet dominated for the English (Americas, Australians, etc) though. So, it's not like english web

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