batista

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by batista 14y ago
It's not the '60s - 90's anymore, when US had the stronghold on global cultural creation/consumption. There are many signs that this is starting to fade, and for huge masses of people it was never true in the first place. E.g Chinese people
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> If any English that you hear, see, or read is instantly and perfectly translated to your native language, and vice versa, then all languages get equal footing. (Except perhaps for some primitive languages.) Well, not only that. Engli
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by batista 14y ago
> Maybe I'm missing something big but Dart looks to me like Slightly Better Java, yet another boring incremental improvement on languages that are well past their sell-by date. It wasn't made to be exciting. For exiting go look elsewhe
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by batista 14y ago
No, I saw those comparison videos. Google's results were far worse. And it's not about "voice search", it's about "voice assistant".
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by batista 14y ago
> Now I don't know anything about you nor have I seen a resume of yours but I will say that when I see Java developer with 10 years experience writing java, it sort of already puts a negative connotation on the experience right away. T
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by batista 14y ago
> It's 3 three meme pictures. And "hater" or "motherfucker" are words that I expect from children, but not from a grown-up writing a blog post. If you are over 60 or new to this Information Superhighway, maybe...
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by batista 14y ago
I beg your pardon? This kind of language is prevalent in the writing of US/English teens and young people. Absolutely nothing "Russian" specific about it.
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by batista 14y ago
> If the argument is that "you're using too much Javascript" then we all might as well just give up on HTML5 applications right now. Sure. Let's. As of NOW they are inadequate for mobile devices, provide a sub-par experience to native
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by batista 14y ago
> It is interesting to note that Apple now designes their own programming language, the compilers, the operating system, the processors and the products all that tech goes into. That's a pretty rare configuration of a company that hasen
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by batista 14y ago
Hmm, sounds more like la-la-hands-in-the-ears denial. It's not just schools. The tide's have turned in general. Before the 17th century Britain wasn't much. Afterwards, it was the world's superpower (with France by the side). Before the 20t
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by batista 14y ago
Meme-based blogging style != in a well written, multi-page article he added 2 meme pictures for fun.
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by batista 14y ago
> My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is quite unreliable. Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is worse. In a non-PC environment, it just won't hold up. If you're using it on a single box, that's one thin
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by batista 14y ago
> For me, you can view that problem two ways, "I'm going to work harder and prove my value to the company" or the move the goalposts approach, "I really didn't want that promotion anyway, I'll spend more time with my kids! No one will j
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by batista 14y ago
How is this better than doing it in Excel with copy/paste as he does now? What benefit does LaTeX bring, so that he has to install some hundreds of mbs of a TeX distro and learn the basics to work in it? Does he need elaborate math symbols
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by batista 14y ago
You could create an iTunes playlist with your songs. 1) Create a playlist with all the songs. 2) Right click on it, and click "duplicate". 3) Drag the songs to the order you want. Remove any songs you don't want in this set. 4) From the men
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by batista 14y ago
> /me wanders back to a multi-million line Haskell codebase running systems in 25 countries, processing billions a year in financial transactions. Hope the codebase runs well, because that's the bank I use in Singapore ;-) Has you/anyo
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After you've learned both, maybe. But that is beside the point. Haskell is more difficult to learn.
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> That's nice. I don't like to scroll. Surely there's someone else in the world like me. Hmm. You might want to check the notions of: 1) opportunity cost 2) outlier
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by batista 14y ago
> - The built in Mac applications and frameworks are frightfully poor - it's unacceptable from a company that prides itself on quality. SyncServices is still a flaming travesty, Mail.app spontaneously corrupts messages and passwords, Sp
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Top? Maybe by volume. Counting developing countries. Surely not by quality of construction, original designs, or apps. Plus, all those different versions get you this: http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/15/3023119/android-device-div...
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> + transportation to the next Apple Store or reseller + time to deal with all of this + if you do not get an instant repair, getting a replacement device (and another round of transportation) Tons of stuff we do everyday, from groceri
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by batista 14y ago
Wrong, the timeline C -> C++ -> Java -> Go is more or less what the industry went through (well, assuming it's getting to Go now and it'll catch on). It correctly ignores the work on "countless other languages", because they did
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by batista 14y ago
> I think it's sad that the mind behind Apple technology is getting forgotten You mean the mind behind 40 year old Apple technology but noone really uses now. He wasn't even the mind behind the Macintosh.
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by batista 14y ago
Criteria? 1) Construction (machining, materials, fitting them inside the case, industrial design). Unparalleled. 2) Screen. Top notch (high dpi, improved saturation). 3) Camera. One of the best in the business. Tons of apps for it, even pho
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by batista 14y ago
> Because any device but has to be sold to hundrends of millions people And kill economies of scale, fragment their device ecosystem, present people with superfluous insignificant "choice" when one reasonably sized model can fit most n
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Maybe, but there is such a thing as the "perfect compromise", since you obviously cannot offer a different screen size for every hand size.
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> Your schtick [1][2][3][4] is predictable. Here's a novel idea: how about dealing with the argument I presented?
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> For the record: as someone who started in the early '90s in C, I hate hate hate the Go declaration syntax. Why hate something trivial that takes 2 minutes to adjust to and has benefits without any drawbacks whatsoever?
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by batista 14y ago
Yes. For one, you don't let the intertubes (clients) all talk to your database. Second, there are tons of other stuff that we do on the server side besides talking to databases. E.g image processing, task queues, etc. And lastly, Javascript
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> I guess the mixins and nesting are nice, but who the hell wants to compile their CSS before it goes live. Everybody. We no longer FTP the CSS into the production server like it's 1998. We also minify (a pre-processing step) and conca

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