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by beering 14y ago
It might require an intelligent programmer to create, but as a library, can be used by regular, unintelligent programmers. If he documents his monads well and shows how to use it, and it's effective, then it's not such a big deal. Or, you k
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by beering 14y ago
But you end up having to use monads if you want to do IO or interact with many popular packages, so being able to use monads well ends up being an essential skill for getting anything done at all.
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by beering 14y ago
You can already find real bikes for $20 in parts of the world like China. Since the article doesn't say so, I guess that this bike has to be quite a bit cheaper to make than $20 for it to be worthwhile, but then it'll be the labor costs tha
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by beering 14y ago
If you look at the words on the linked page, the "analysis" is from Charles Sizemore of Sizemore Capital, and Sizemore Capital "holds a long position in Microsoft".
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by beering 14y ago
Do you really think that all DRM users are idiots who believe in perfect DRM security? Gosh, people who buy locks must be stupid, because anybody with a crowbar can simply pry the door out of its frame. DRM deters people from copying conten
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by beering 14y ago
It was a bit disheartening to see that despite presenting its argument in a logical way, the article was blasted by a lot of highly visible people like Linus Torvalds which really stoked the fires. To the Internet masses, you're either pro-
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by beering 14y ago
No mention of local advertising? Google feels like it's behind on the whole "local" business compared to rivals like Yelp, and this would be one way to get people to use a location-aware Google app.
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by beering 14y ago
Easy: some blogger in an embargoed country gains some notoriety, and then somebody else notices that they have a premium WP.com subscription. That's probably enough suspicious evidence to cause some headaches for the service provider.
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by beering 14y ago
Aren't there regulations around trade with certain countries? Can anybody speak to the issues around a US company accepting payments from people in countries that aren't too friendly with the US?
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by beering 14y ago
It's very possible that they'll get bumped by a few weeks like these other people here. Still, two lottery tickets is better than one, right?
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by beering 14y ago
And I accidentally ordered multiple Nexus 4 because it wasn't clear if the system took my order or not. I wonder if their ordering system was hosted on App Engine.
552.
by beering 14y ago
This isn't about political correctness, and kneejerk dismissals like this aren't constructive.
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by beering 14y ago
The example code for cat is only half of cat, which reminds me of Rob Pike's criticism of "cat -v"---Unix programs are often more complicated than they arguably should be, are "reimplementing" Unix programs often means implementing a small
554.
by beering 14y ago
What about virthualenv (virtualenv for Haskell)? Does that help alleviate some of the cabal issues?
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by beering 14y ago
Well, it sounds like you signed up for fine arts when you actually wanted to be a carpenter. And you're forgetting companies like Google, Amazon, etc. who expect candidates to know CS theory pretty thoroughly. What kind of school would be p
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by beering 14y ago
Again, the point is that these things that people fight over have meaning , even if they can't really be used for anything. The crusades arguably were fought over things that had a lot of meaning, even if they didn't have a lot of utility.
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by beering 14y ago
How much money did Reddit make off of VA's subreddits?
558.
by beering 14y ago
I think you're conflating Reddit users/mods with Reddit staff. Raganwald's rant was clearly about Reddit staff, so talking about Reddit's users' behaviors distracts a bit.
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by beering 14y ago
Who are Twilio's competition? I know of textmarks, which serves a lot of sms traffic, but there doesn't seem to be much else competing in this space.
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by beering 14y ago
Article is by a journalist known for trolling and picking viewpoints that provoke people, so this is perhaps par for the course. We are the fools for reading the article and taking the time to respond to it. If anything, college itself is m
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by beering 14y ago
I thought Ruby was dead. Or was that, "Java is dead"? Or maybe it was "C++ is dead." I also vaguely remember reading: * "JavaScript will never be dead" * "Dart arrived dead" * "PHP should be dead" * "Lisp is back from the dead"
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by beering 14y ago
Just check two different accounts. You don't gain much by forwarding from one to the other, but the potential to screw up is higher.
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by beering 14y ago
The number of people who actually know what's going on with maps nowadays is probably not much greater than the headcount of Google Maps. Meanwhile, just assume that every article and opinion piece on Apple or Google Maps is grossly misinfo
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by beering 14y ago
Is it just me, or do the two examples look pretty similar? Apple Maps shows a few more businesses, but the street data look more or less equivalent. Find me some examples where Apple Maps is complete and detailed and Google Maps has nothing
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by beering 14y ago
One wonders if this blog post would have been written at all if the author was familiar with NaN in floating-point numbers and knew that isNaN was a thing. isNaN is the defined method of checking if something Not A Number or can't be conver
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by beering 14y ago
In Gmail, it's in the gear menu on the upper-right, labeled as "Report a bug".
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by beering 14y ago
You should make sure to set expectations. If your employer only wants the minimal amount of maintenance done, then don't do any more. You could go to heroic lengths to repair the codebase, but if that's not what they're asking for it will b
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by beering 14y ago
None of this should come as a surprise. Remember when Google was asking cities across America to apply for the privilege of being the first city to have Google Fiber? Cities were competing against each other for Google Fiber. Google didn't
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by beering 14y ago
Nothing said about multithreading and parallel processing? Seems like a big omission if you're comparing languages.
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by beering 14y ago
A lot of this is believable (i.e. can be taken for real, not satire) if you don't read into each point, because a lot of it is quite different from how Google does things: 1. At Google, code has to be designed, written, tested, and reviewed

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