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by camus2 9y ago
> Free speech does not mean a company has to take part in spreading it :). Yes and no, that's why phone companies or internet providers are regulated in a certain fashion, so they can't deny you certain basic services. Imagine
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The goal is to make a subset of ASP.NET run on third party platforms. It's actually a very good solution for web application development.
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> but their mission statement is "To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." It's just marketing. If you really want to see what the actual "mission" is read the TOS. Goog
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> It is interesting how Go seems to be doomed to head down the same path as other languages it accused of being "bloated." No one intends to design a complicated language but the reality is that the problem space is complicated
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by camus2 9y ago
Listen to yourself and your "feel good" fallacies. Do you really think these kids can quit? that they are not beaten if they try to escape or worse killed?
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by camus2 9y ago
There is no mind to open to the view point of those who lie to themselves in order to feel good about the misery of others. Yes, your comment is neither sarcastic or ignorant, it's pure cynicism, in the "great" tradition of t
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by camus2 9y ago
> I'm glad they have a job. Their families probably need it very much. I hope that their hard work allows the next generation of Congolese to live in greater prosperity. It's hard to figure whether this comment is sarcastic or
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by camus2 9y ago
> The sad thing about these situations is that for the people working for pennies a day, it's better than nothing. You're assuming they are paid to begin with, there is plenty of child-slavery in Africa. Some of these kids are
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by camus2 9y ago
> Should kids that are not at the top of their class be left to work in the salt mines? This is the canonical definition of a strawman argument. How about looking the issue differently: what can education do to make students better at Ma
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by camus2 9y ago
> Am I confused or is it not the case that the whole argument for Electron is "write once in Javascript, have a native app for all platforms"? If this is what a flagship Electron app has to do to be performant, is there a real
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by camus2 9y ago
No context does 2 things : - send signals by exposing a channel - serves as a bag of values (the infamous .Values method ). Context was invented because Go developers kept writing leaky servers as they were referencing *http.Request outside
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by camus2 9y ago
previous discussion here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14955456 doesn't HN detect dupes?
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by camus2 9y ago
> I genuinely don't understand how that's supposed to work and would love to hear some suggestions. The solution is entrepreneurship, that's all. Be your own boss as soon as possible during your career so you can manage y
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by camus2 9y ago
Question, how do other concurrent languages like Java or C# handle the concept of 'thread context', and cancellation? To me it sounds like having to pass a context everywhere is something that should be handled on the language lev
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by camus2 9y ago
> what surprised me was how political it was > The workplace is no place for politics like this. You could argue that affirmative action, because that's what it is about, is essentially a political stance ,and business are totall
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by camus2 9y ago
If you're looking for a rails/devise like solution there is none. Passport is just an express middleware which is mostly useless, just like express in general.
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> Stack Overflow isn’t of too much help, as developer relations from a company called Stormpath loved plugging their IaaS startup on every imaginable post regarding this. Their documentation also popped up everywhere and they have a blog
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> "let's use Javascript!" I don't think it's the same use case. Tcl is really good as a CLI language, like Python. NodeJS is not very good when it comes to test stuff in the CLI quickly due to its async API. Eve
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by camus2 9y ago
> What was disruptive about AirBnB was the opening of it to spare bedrooms and the subletting of places people rent from others. Yet that's a minority of Airbnb's offers according to the article. The vast majority of rentals ar
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by camus2 9y ago
A lot of occasional hosts underestimate the risks of subletting through Airbnb. If a guest starts a fire or a flood unless you have a professional insurance you're fucked for instance, and lying to your insurance will make things worse
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by camus2 9y ago
> It's like people don't understand the meaning of free software licenses. It's like people don't understand there is many different "free software licenses" as well. > A business can build a billion doll
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by camus2 9y ago
> you're just required to make the code available And any modification of that code for free AFAIK.
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by camus2 9y ago
> Maybe contribute to gedit and try to sell an even newer version for Mac? Selling free software isn't a bad thing to do. AFAIK Gedit is GPL, at least, I'm not sure how this guy can sell this software while not violating the li
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by camus2 9y ago
> The point was that the syntactic sugar isn't needed. Yes it is. The success of CoffeeSCript is absolutely a validation that developers are more productive with syntactic sugar such as the class keyword, destructuring and many many
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by camus2 9y ago
> "secular" violations are always based on a shared moral code, no different than religions The difference is whether citizens acknowledge the fact that morals are man made or not. All morals are man made, just like religions.
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by camus2 9y ago
> Well npm requires you to login through their CLI in order to publish packages... The only difference is that you use a password instead of a key. No difference. Yes, there is a difference, released must be digitally signed on maven. Th
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by camus2 9y ago
It was an incredible opportunity for programmers to work with graphic artists and sound designers. It was the best years of my life as a programmer. Flash was first and foremost a community where the goal was to further creativity with the
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Shumway isn't maintained actively.
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This is Adobe's fault. They could have open-sourced the player anytime they wanted, they didn't. I don't blame Apple, or Flash-haters or anybody else but Adobe and all its stupid policies. Adobe killed Flash. Nobody else did.
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by camus2 9y ago
I liked Flash and still think it is vastly superior to HTML5 when it comes to games or interactive experiments BUT Flash was a closed source, proprietary tech that was controlled by a single actor and not future proof. I understand now the

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