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by camus2 10y ago
> Why is a company that is losing money and having what's left of their lunch taken by a gorilla of a competitor (Uber) throwing away $1M like this? If I were an investor in Lyft I'd sue them. PR and upmanship against Uber.
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by camus2 10y ago
Airbnb IS NOT providing free housing. Airbnb isn't paying for housing refugees. Potential hosts can offer free housing, which just makes Airbnb like Couchsurfing. So Airbnb isn't paying for anything here or even giving anything fo
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by camus2 10y ago
> him saying "Canadians will welcome you" He didn't say that, I quoted what he said. There is no need to be proud of anything, like a nationality would make someone "more virtuous" and people from other nationali
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by camus2 10y ago
> Proud to be Canadian, I thought excessive chauvinism is what led to Trump at first place?
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by camus2 10y ago
> but we won't visit America under Trump I don't think putting all Americans in the same bag because you don't like an elected politician is fair. I'm European and have been to America. It's a country that is ex
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by camus2 10y ago
Adobe would definitely profit from languages such as Rust. But they are not a "tech" company in the traditional sense anymore, I don't see them investing in anything that doesn't yield high short term returns. It's
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by camus2 10y ago
> I wonder if Google employees will revolt what would be intended result? to go against orders from the upper management?
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by camus2 10y ago
> No, we're not expecting the consumer to pay for the upload bandwidth. We're working with ISPs to not charge consumer for Peer5's upload traffic. A bit hard to believe. Do you have any agreements with ISP already?
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by camus2 10y ago
> My cell phone's the same way now. Mine as well. I even get fake vocal messages on my voicemail, starting with a first name I might or might not know asking me to call back like it's an emergency and obviously the number is a
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Statement on the history of node-webkit project(groups.google.com)
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by camus2 10y ago
> Why didn't they just keep the news editors they started with? It seems completely rational to keep news editors on staff to run a news service. I don't think it is that easy to curate the timeline of millions of people. Furth
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by camus2 10y ago
> A newspaper at least might have some sort of moral obligation to tell the truth. Very few people read newspapers. And even then, newspapers aren't news anymore either, it's entertainment, using emotion to deliver "news&q
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by camus2 10y ago
> Jesus Christ. This comes up every time. Read up on Mossadegh. He would have been overthrown regardless of what the UK or US did. He was seriously unpopular at the time. Just like the leader of Congo was unpopular before the CIA decided
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by camus2 10y ago
> IE10/11 are at about ~4% global usage it doesn't mean anything for a business. for all you know 50% of users visiting a specific website could still be using IE10/11. global numbers were always irrelevant.
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by camus2 10y ago
> Type systems (e.g. TypeScript) expose complexity well. Maybe I don't understand your comment - are you writing only simple apps which don't use objects? Yes and no. With Typescript, js developers tend to write js code like th
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by camus2 10y ago
> C++ has a pretty steep learning curve, yet people use it. C++ has 30+ years of libraries, so does C. To even think you can compare Rust and C/C++ on that matter is not realistic.
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by camus2 10y ago
> I think people complaining that Rust (or Haskell, or whichever paradigm shift) "takes too long to learn" have forgotten what it was to learn their first language Because they are required to be productive fast. A professiona
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by camus2 10y ago
> or whatever was your first programming language. People who complain about how difficult rust is to learn certainly aren't learning rust as their first programming language.
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by camus2 10y ago
> Javascript or Go it takes months to start writing reasonable code It doesn't take months to teach oneself JavaScript or Go and actually write code with it. If it did these 2 languages would not be as successful as they are. Rust o
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by camus2 10y ago
Rust is nice and developers absolutely get why it works the way it does( to provide strong memory safety guarantees, eliminate usual bugs found in C/C++ programs). Here is the issue: A lot of developers actually like the C/C++ fre
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by camus2 10y ago
This comment is interesting : > If you were investing millions into something, would you not request a personal demo where you actually see the demo for yourself, in your own time, and see how it works? I know I would.
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by camus2 10y ago
Why would you expect negative comment? .NET Core is a solid platform for web development. It's easy to deploy and relatively fast compared to the usual Python/Ruby/PHP and co... only matched by Java(controlled by Oracle) and
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by camus2 10y ago
But you wrote a malloc, free, new or delete before. it's not like you were oblivious to these concepts, that's exactly my point.
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by camus2 10y ago
> I've tried getting into C and C++ a couple of times in the past You just proved my point. You did get into C and C++ before trying Rust.
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by camus2 10y ago
IMHO, what hurt western civilization the most is reality shows like Big Brothers,Survivor, Jackass, Celebrity show X or Z. Somehow these shows reward narcissism, individualism, greed, anti-social behavior, sexual, moral harassment and explo
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by camus2 10y ago
The problem with Rust is that Rust cannot be understood by someone who never had to do manual memory management. So people coming from Java, Ruby, Python, Javascript, PHP who have never used C or C++ will never understand why Rust handles v
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by camus2 10y ago
1/ What language did they choose? why? what made them think language X or framework Z would give them a competitive advantage at first place and what was the result of that choice?
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by camus2 10y ago
This report is obviously PR for the NYT. It's not some trade secret they need to keep under wraps.
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by camus2 10y ago
Aren't keys tied to computers these days? > The keys they sell are those bulk keys large companies get, their IT dep guy wants to make some extra coin on the side Which make these keys as illegal as pirating Windows. Obviously it is
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by camus2 10y ago
Jazz too, because of the older audience still buying physical goods.

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