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by cbs 15y ago
The interesting question is not whether emailing is dead – the answer being no - but if it has any hope of surviving, or better adapting, to new generations. There are two immediate hurdles: Email marketing has ruined email. And I don't
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by cbs 15y ago
>'Web apps' have had a fantastically valuable feature nearly never mentioned. If we make big changes in how a Web browser client interacts with a Web server, then we risk getting rid of this fantastically valuable feature and seriously
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by cbs 15y ago
No-one who has a 4 or a 4S is going to be annoyed that they guy with the cheap iPhone looks like he's got the same thing as they have. Why would someone else be annoyed by another persons choice in phone? I guess I could understand if yo
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by cbs 15y ago
He has authored this post, indicated this is public but failed to share it publicly using G+. Is this not the purpose of G+? I write blog posts for my employer, on the employer's blog frequently. I never share them on my private accoun
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by cbs 15y ago
No. They're just a bunch of script kiddies. Ignore them.
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by cbs 15y ago
>Wasn't it the point that Fibonacci wasn't the point? Not of this post. This guy saw the wrong-track rebuttal and it was his rabbit hole into node. Apparently he wasn't impressed.
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by cbs 15y ago
I wasn't really clear, to me a GIL is like the BKL in the reasons in need(ed) to go away, not that it was still kicking around.
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by cbs 15y ago
>But the real fun is in "synchronized" keyword of java. Can >we should design "Truby" which is a new languages for multi-threaded ruby But thats just syntactic sugar for managing a lock. I don't follow ruby exceptionally closely, i
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by cbs 15y ago
>remove the overhead of the interpreter, before you worry about overhead of a GIL. The overhead of the GIL killing parallelism is nontrivial, even next to the interpreter overhead >(since the above argument can be made that those wo
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by cbs 15y ago
This is very true. It reminds me of the BKL, yeah we could technically live with it, but it would be lazy and bad practice for a platform. Others in this thread are saying that GILs are OK because they're working on web applications. Not
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by cbs 15y ago
BTW, Angie's list runs the same kind of scam.
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by cbs 15y ago
You didn't need to be a chess grandmaster to see how this will play out. Yeah, it will all blow over in a week or two because Fee Fighters is relatively small. A few more people will find out how sleazy the BBB is, but not enough to act
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by cbs 15y ago
Dude, just toss cyanogenmod on it. Android is an open source platform that any manufacturer can easily port it to their devices. This makes things incompatible, slow, and downright unusable in most instances. So you trust apple as a manuf
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by cbs 15y ago
>Yeah, I'm going to assume the technology change was not what improved things, but the engineers who were working on the problem. I agree, this sounded like a technical solution to a social problem. The real issue sounded like the disc
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by cbs 15y ago
I've asked only 1-5 hours per week from this individual. You asked for minimal effort; you're getting minimal effort. He probably is putting in at least that much effort, its just a really, really slow pace. Dev has stated that once we
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by cbs 15y ago
Load balancing is often necessary, but the necessity can often mask other underlying technical debt. Parallelism through multiple native processes can have a high cost from process overhead, effectiveness of IPC style chosen and separation
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by cbs 15y ago
Turing-completeness means that the path of least resistance is to create a compatibility layer. Without radically changing the paradigms on such a fundamental level a start-over just wouldn't happen.
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by cbs 15y ago
>how do you know you have a bug if you can't test the code in a computer? Exactly. The idea with paper is that you need to get to the point where you go knowing what you're doing. If, like you said in the OP this is just for quizzes/t
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by cbs 15y ago
Yeah, and its a pain in the arse. While native widgets aren't perfect, I'm much happier to deal with them instead of a reimplementation of one. Even when the web guy tries, they never work exactly the same, and they hardly ever try. The
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by cbs 15y ago
>> "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" is bullshit. >No, it's fact. No, its bullshit. Or should I really refrain from scratching my ass right now becaus
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by cbs 15y ago
>If the original programmer fixed some edge case and didn't bother to flag this in the code by means of comments then they worse than an idiot, they are incompetent If every reason for every fix based on an unanticipated logic path was
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by cbs 15y ago
That doesn't mean it wasn't a contributing factor. Also, the US foreign policy has exported our nation's legislative opinion of drugs for decades.
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by cbs 15y ago
In other news: An actor on stage shouted fire in a crowded theater.
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by cbs 15y ago
I think you're on the right track, software tries to layer itself as much as possible. New architectures and capabilities will only make the concepts and tools exposed by the glue between the layers change. Unless the new thing isn't Turin
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by cbs 15y ago
C is not a very good first language and at this point I doubt it's a very common one. There are many people for whom C is a first language, especially those in electrical or mechanical disciplines whose introduction to programming involve
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by cbs 15y ago
>I really hope this isn't where html5 fonts are headed Set your browser to override any website with your own font choices. I did sometime back when that eye-rape sunken font styling started showing up too often for my tastes and will
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by cbs 15y ago
>why are such people coding in C now? Everyone who learns C starts somewhere, and its not like people don't have to learn C anymore.
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by cbs 15y ago
Can someone explain to me the fascination with working from coffee shops anyway? You put up without power/internet guarantees and an expectation to spend money for what? The comfort of working hunched over a laptop at a strange table and t
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by cbs 15y ago
Keep believing that and you'll be in trouble in the next 6 months to 3 years. I will? We don't market directly to consumers, so I have the added benefit of maintaining an attitude towards marketing not skewed by the cognitive dissonance
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by cbs 15y ago
Find a high-quailty carrot and give customers no other option than to participate via SMS? Thanks for the groundbreaking insight, but if the cost of getting a SMS is really that high, maybe the takeaway should be "quit trying to destroy yo

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