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by batista 14y ago
> You are essentially arguing for a central planning approach, and we have ample evidence from the 20th century that this does not produce better outcomes than a market-based approach. What "ample evidence"? The USSR? For one, they had
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by batista 14y ago
> The question is no longer if Node is enterprise ready. The question now is the following: what major digital enterprises will end up being the last hold-outs? This is not the question. The question is: 1) is Node.js type tech good fo
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by batista 14y ago
"Apple: “If your app is cross-platform, then 11.2 does not apply and this problem goes away" Me: "Really, so if I build an Android version and launch it, I’m good?" Apple: "Yes” Is the above right? Doesn't seem to hold. If it is so, why doe
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> Without patents, how is a pharma company expected to pay the enormous cost of research, development, and FDA approval of new drugs? How about taxes? Drugs that are useful for millions of people can be subsidized --internationally eve
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by batista 14y ago
> I don't see anything about starting thermonuclear wars against competitors. Can you help me out? Do you see anything about pots calling the kettle black?
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by batista 14y ago
> batista, I often find myself nodding in agreement when reading your posts on HN -- especially when you take a contrarian position. A, thanks. I mostly take a contrarian position when I comment, because at things I already agree with
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by batista 14y ago
> Please define 'real business'. What does a company need to have to be a 'real' business? Users? Revenue? Profits? A product that at least some people are willing to pay money for? Revenue and eventually profits. Even if "url shorteni
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by batista 14y ago
Really? Because nothing in that bio points to that. Actually the whole thing is unbelievably vague and opaque. And these kind of cutesy oneliner descriptions of one's skills make me cringe: "Simply: I make beautiful things with data". OK, s
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by batista 14y ago
No, downvoting won't change the future. Arguing against my position might work better...
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by batista 14y ago
The magic of AJAX and history API?
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by batista 14y ago
How about: watch your language, or get off HN? No, he doesn't have to measure. He wrote a post in his own blog. You are neither forced to read it, nor to take action on what it says. If you are interested in the actual profiling to see the
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by batista 14y ago
> The key point is who defines what "opportunity" is and, most importantly, why. There are opportunities to build new features, or opportunities to fix what's broken. Who defines it? The business. Opportunity cost is a business notion
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by batista 14y ago
Well, we're in the same boat then.
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So you'd never hire someone like Paul Graham after he has worked for 10 years in Lisp projects, or some guy doing 10 years of embedded C work, etc... Using "lots of" technologies is a meaningless metric, except if you want a code monkey to
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by batista 14y ago
> Bingo! This is one perfect example of the problem he's referring to about people not being passionate enough to fix the problems: "Those bugs are not that important." That's a lame excuse. Who cares that we are better than 15 years ag
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by batista 14y ago
In what possible way is CoffeeScript more similar to JRuby than FastRuby??? JRuby is an actual compiler to JVM bytecode. FastRuby is translating to Java. If anything, FastRuby is the SAME THING as CoffeeScript.
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by batista 14y ago
> This is especially strange considering that virtually every other country does have an official language (or languages). Yes, but then again virtually every other country also has a national history that spans more than 400 years, an
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> Science, Tech, and Business is where it rules and it will never be displaced by any language currently on earth. Never? The language of science, tech and business has already been displaced several times. It's far easier than you thi
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Less and less as their regional and peripheral economies take the lead. The english are a byproduct of the American cultural dominance in the pop field that is slowly corroded.
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> Stop. Re-read the post. Try to understand the point of the post. Understand what it is he's saying about process, craftsmanship and trying to fix things that are broken instead of making excuses. Understand it as a call to action to d
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by batista 14y ago
I don't think so. Read his postscript: "Is this a speed problem? Are we feeling we have to develop too fast and loose? Is it a quality issue? Have we forgotten the art and science of Software QA? Is it a people problem? Are folks just not p
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by batista 14y ago
> That might have been unimaginable 20 years ago, but somehow, things are about as unreliable as they were 10 years ago. 10-12 years ago: 1) Windows was Windows ME (not even in the same league as Windows 7) 2) OS X was 10.1 (or before
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by batista 14y ago
> What do you do when that happens on your laptop? You close the page and move on. No, I proactively install apps such as "Click to flash" and the like to make sure this DOES NOT happen on my laptop. > Why does it need to be any di
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by batista 14y ago
> Margin Auto w/ a fixed width Absolute 50% w/ negative margins Text-align center parent w/ inline-block display on children Yes, totally intuitive and logical solutions all of them. If you have w3c Stockholm syndrome, that is. E.g "Ju
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> They've gone out of their way to ensure that you can't ever play an Audio/Video clip automatically on page load in iOS Safari Which sounds very wise from a user perspective. Imagine every crappy web advertiser auto playing videos on
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> Yes, the technology is incredibly complex and represents a huge transformation in the way we do things, but a customer doesn't and shouldn't need to understand that, and certainly shouldn't be offered the complexity as an excuse for i
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by batista 14y ago
> This is one of the things that really upsets me. I hate how nothing ever works. And somehow you left a comment, using an OS and a browser, on a international network, that put it up so everybody in the world can read it, and I read i
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by batista 14y ago
> Every computer environment is layer upon layer of kludges. There is shit all the way down. You missed the AMAZING INGENUITY and BRILLIANCE that is also all the way down.
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by batista 14y ago
So, your amazing feat of engineering phone, with a color retina display, audio-video capabillity, 700.000 apps, gyroscope, HD cameras, etc has some extra stuff taking 3GB drive space (of the 16GB device). Your amazing, multi million lines o
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by batista 14y ago
> Except they are "only" trying to replace perhaps the single most ingrained language of all time, that is, Javascript in browsers. And I'll warrant that the more ingrained a language is, the more it's contender needs to be exciting, an

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