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by blktiger 12y ago
I thought that many of the "features" are simply Gradle plugins that they happen to ship with the core product. In that case I'm not sure I'd call that too many features. Seems more like a good core product with a great
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by blktiger 12y ago
Not necessarily since you can just concatenate everything and use almond.js. Much more lightweight on the tooling front.
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by blktiger 12y ago
I think that is debatable. CommonJS is certainly simpler, however it won't work for browser-based javascript unless you wrap it with appropriate tooling. In that respect it's not just inferior to AMD, but it isn't even a viab
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by blktiger 12y ago
You are welcome to hold that opinion. Just keep in mind that the majority of users don't even know what javascript is or how to disable it. Depending on the audience, the fact that you don't want to enable javascript may or may no
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by blktiger 12y ago
Well, they did straighten out their naming convention but instead of putting relating processor speed and model number they simply changed everything to be classified by device type. Their most consumer friendly options only allow you to cu
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by blktiger 12y ago
The connect is a lot more than just a cheap camcorder. It has a regular camera plus a camera for depth sensing and a microphone array (i.e. more than stereo audio).
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by blktiger 12y ago
Swift is built on LLVM which can compile to many targets such as Linux and Windows. I'm not sure I see any reason to add Swift to GCC.
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by blktiger 12y ago
First off, Swift isn't actually dynamic. It's strongly-typed (the type system itself is stronger than Java/C++) with the ability to use Protocols to do more generic things when needed. Additionally, since the compiler is buil
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by blktiger 12y ago
Maybe because they want you to buy a Fire TV? :P Amazon Prime is already on a lot of devices and I'm sure that they just haven't had enough pressure to implement chromecast support yet.
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by blktiger 12y ago
I must have missed that in the docs.
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by blktiger 12y ago
Seems like the dispatcher is a more manual version of the Ember/Sproutcore run-loop. The advantage I see to the run-loop is that it batches all UI updates so they happen only once, where the dispatcher simply batches up model changes t
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by blktiger 12y ago
Why would you use mockObject.getPath('/baz/zar/zog') over mockObject.baz.zar.zog? Unless getPath is null safe and you expect that sometimes part of the chain doesn't exist, but the docs for getPath don't i
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by blktiger 12y ago
I checked cask before I downloaded Cakebrew. :P
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by blktiger 13y ago
Apple doesn't focus on market share and it never has. Instead they focus on profit. Take (for example), the personal computer market. According to wikipedia, Mac OS X has around a 7% market share[1] yet Apple's larger competitors
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by blktiger 13y ago
People with PHDs are necessarily smarter than other people. Of course, getting a PHD takes some level of intelligence and many people with PHDs are extremely smart, but like many things in life getting a PHD is largely about dedication and
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by blktiger 13y ago
I'm not entirely certain that's the motive... I mean, as a CEO it is your responsibility to do what is best for the _company_. If you can save the company a lot of money in wages and prevent top talent from leaving then it's
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by blktiger 13y ago
To quote John Gruber, "Ideas are worthless". It's the implentation that matters. So the idea about an idea generating website isn't all that good. :P
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by blktiger 13y ago
The Mac client in particular is very buggy.
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by blktiger 13y ago
I don't know that I'd call Groovy a dialect of Ruby. Sure, it's features are _inspired_ by Ruby but there are many very significant differences. No magic undeclared variables as a simple example. Another example is the catego
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by blktiger 13y ago
Also, "Last Android Phone" :P
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by blktiger 13y ago
Site is non-responsive for me, I guess they are getting slammed right now.
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by blktiger 13y ago
I can just picture it now... I'm sitting in the living room reading a book when my wife leaves and locks the door... :)
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by blktiger 13y ago
Looks like they are using docker this year? If so maybe they will open source the code so we can run it ourselves? I'd love to make it available to my team to work on.
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by blktiger 13y ago
It's only open for 1 week? :(
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by blktiger 13y ago
When paired with less/sass, css frameworks can be used to build up your site without inserting non-semantic classes into your html (by using mixins/functions).
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by blktiger 13y ago
Every once in a while it's much faster to just reach for the mouse than to use keyboard shortcuts.
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by blktiger 13y ago
Nice work. :)
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by blktiger 13y ago
Not to mention many poisonous fruit that looks just like other, non-poisonous fruit.
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by blktiger 13y ago
I think the main reason git is hard is many of the most common commands do too many things. For example, the reset command "reset the current HEAD to a specified state" is too general. I don't think most people consider HEAD
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by blktiger 13y ago
I suspect it has more to do with problem-solving and analysis. In theory students should gain this kind of knowledge from mathematics, but I don't think that seems to work out in reality for most people.

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