billmcneale

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by billmcneale 15y ago
I remember reading this anecdote to explain the anthropic principle: http://beust.com/weblog/2010/08/17/fun-with-the-anthropic-pr...
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by billmcneale 15y ago
> Go keeps all the old errors everybody should know are errors (nullable pointers, shared mutable state, raw types, ...) and then proceeds to add new ones, And because of the absence of exceptions, Go forces you to deal with errors at
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by billmcneale 15y ago
> I guess I knew it was possible, but was never convinced of it by any concrete code. The standard library, for example, is horrifyingly bad. Between your comment about Android and this one, it looks like your problem is much more with
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by billmcneale 15y ago
IMO, the absence of real exceptions (deferred et al. are not enough) and generics makes Go unsuitable for large scale projects
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by billmcneale 15y ago
> The best one has to be running your site from a git repo. What's wrong with that? `git pull` to update everything to the latest HEAD, `git co -- HEAD~1` to roll back the latest update, `git diff` to see the latest differences, etc...
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by billmcneale 15y ago
> It was the advantages of using Lisp which gave them the ability to create the right product at the right time Obviously, because they used Lisp, they were able to produce the product at time t, and any other language would have produc
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by billmcneale 15y ago
I love programming languages and I never miss an opportunity to learn a new one, but I think that anyone who thinks that a programming language can make or break a company doesn't have much clue on how the industry works. I have a lot of re
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by billmcneale 15y ago
For Java: JCommander http://jcommander.org/
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by billmcneale 15y ago
> Software patents are a joke, just listen to this now famous 'This American Life' piece: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/w... . This is a fantastic episode but you don't seem to have paid much attention: it'
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by billmcneale 15y ago
"So if Google had acquired the rights to these patents, that would have been OK." It's a war. You have to take arms to defend yourself, but it doesn't mean you're happy about it. Gruber is almost bipolar: his insight on the industry is usua
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by billmcneale 15y ago
Hold the presses everyone, Gruber just bashed Google.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
> I hate it when people give Bill Gates and Microsoft credit for whole computer and IT advancements. Or maybe the original poster was saying this because he was typing his response on a Windows computer.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
> People think the email is weird or unique because they are surprised that Bill Gates made 40 Billion dollars by running a company that builds products that bring intense pain to it users, and he appears to as frustrated as anyone else
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by billmcneale 15y ago
Mutually Assured Destruction.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
> When an individual can take down an organizations method of operation (mastercard/visa/paypal), it isn't the individuals fault (regardless of their actions) it is the organizations fault. Who cares whose fault it is? It's illegal, the
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by billmcneale 15y ago
> The idea is that you can write your blog posts in your favorite coding editor instead of some web form. What's so hard about using your own editor and when you're done, pasting your text in the web form?
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by billmcneale 15y ago
> From what I've read, Apple has never participated in those "top workplace" surveys Ask yourself why.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
tl;dr: He faces a backlash because his post violated a federal law protecting student privacy. The takedown had nothing to do with cheating.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
Not just "has": "increases". It was 500,000 a month ago, it's 550,000 today. The iPhone simply can't keep up, it's basic math. Not to take away any credit from Apple, but who seriously thought that the iPhone on Verizon would stop Android's
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by billmcneale 15y ago
Apple hasn't been in the top 100 companies to work for in the past five years (probably goes back further), so... no. Several friends of mine confirm this: they're not treated very well nor recognized, they work 70 hours a week, but they lo
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Has Mac OS peaked?(beust.com)
2 points by billmcneale 15y ago|0 comments
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by billmcneale 15y ago
I don't understand: DJ Patil joined Color five months ago (according to his LinkedIn profile), yet Color is more than one year old. Why is he called a co-founder? He doesn't even say so on his LinkedIn profile (a lot of people claim to be a
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by billmcneale 15y ago
> Erlang is also a great programming language to start programming with because it's so simple and based on existing mathematical knowledge that many beginners already have (functions). I strongly disagree with that. Erlang is simple ne
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by billmcneale 15y ago
I think Go is a pretty mediocre language overall, one that would have been a killer early 2000, but this article basically boils down to: "Go sucks because it doesn't support tail call optimization and continuations". Way to miss the boat.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
"Initially, we were emailing reset instructions but people complained that they didn't receive the email. In order to fix this problem, we are now emailing you your password". Makes perfect sense.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
Quick fact checking: Job offers on Dice.com: Java: 16837 Javascript: 10161 C#: 8011 Ruby: 1707 Ruby on Rails: 679 Scala: 82 Market share on Tiobe: Java (#1): 18.5% C (#2): 16.27% Ruby (#11): 1.48% Scala: not in the top 20 So, the article is
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The Fan Syndrome(beust.com)
14 points by billmcneale 15y ago|8 comments
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by billmcneale 15y ago
> 7) Of course you can check for exceptions, you just don't need to add a bunch of throws clauses all over your code base to get the error bubbling up to the place where you want to handle it. These clauses allow static verification. In
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by billmcneale 15y ago
> LNKD's p/e ratio is 1318 http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNKD&ql=0 GOOG's p/e ratio is 20 http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GOOG&ql=0 Are you seriously comparing the P/E of a company that's been public for four days with one that'
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by billmcneale 15y ago
> This behavior was common during the dot com bubble. IPOs doubled in price, everyone was happy. It's totally unrealistic. Google more than tripled in the first two months that followed its IPO and it's been trading steadily at ~$550 (I

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