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by chton 12y ago
My intention was focused entirely on object oriented modelling and programming. Interface design is a tool to do that, but in and of itself does not provide the correspondence with the way humans think. The core of OO is to have independe
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by chton 12y ago
I agree it's not the best word for it, but what I meant is that the elements are made to look and behave similar to their real-life or conceptual analogues. Think of it mostly as the software UI skeuomorphism: we are able to recognize
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by chton 12y ago
What this article seems to miss is part of the raison d'être of Object Oriented Programming. It's not just about how you encapsulate state and how you act on that state. Forget the exact way the type system works, or what extens
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Full Disclosure: Remember Me(haywiremag.com)
1 points by chton 12y ago|0 comments
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by chton 12y ago
I never found those to be an adequate solution. It's fine for an ongoing conversation, but for a singular message it's useless. I might get it and see it, but not read it yet. Just because I'm at my computer or phone doesn
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by chton 12y ago
That's a good point. We'll have to see if this means it'll be picked up more on Android too, it could get very interesting.
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by chton 12y ago
I wasn't aware of this, despite having used enough Android in the past. Shows you how many implement it, I suppose :)
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by chton 12y ago
To pick on just one point of this massive article: The quick actions on notifications are going to be very useful. I hope other OSs implement them too (I'm a WP user myself). They're unobtrusive, and they can make the entire pho
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by chton 12y ago
With this being a rigid suit with normal air gas mixture, are divers still susceptible to decompression sickness? Is the pressure inside the suit the same as sea-level ambient, or is it higher to reduce the strain on the suit? On a differen
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Middle-School Dropout Codes Clever Chat Program That Foils NSA Spying(wired.com)
2 points by chton 12y ago|0 comments
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by chton 12y ago
Claiming it supports "a variety of languages" is stretching it a bit. Currently it builds the 2 biggest JVM languages and Python. I like where they're going, and if they truly manage to support a wide variety of projects in
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by chton 12y ago
this is more than just building. It's operating, maintaining, designing and launching, all private. It's essentially the way they worked with the Russians. That's a big step up from hiring contractors to build something for
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by chton 12y ago
It is for commercial spaceflight. Commitment-wise, private companies are on the level of early 60's NASA. This is the next phase for human space travel, and the first step in that should be celebrated as an achievement.
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by chton 12y ago
http://blogs.nasa.gov/bolden/2014/09/16/american-companies-s...
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by chton 12y ago
NASA made a great decision here. They encourage competition and cooperation, and can support 2 companies at a time rather than create an artificial monopoly. They chose a long-term option rather than putting all their eggs in one basket,
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by chton 12y ago
It's great to see Netflix taking disaster recovery and chaos mitigation seriously. Learning to work with constant failure is one the biggest challenges to anyone working with distributed systems and scale, and concepts like the Chaos
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What is new in RavenDB 3.0: Voron(ayende.com)
2 points by chton 12y ago|0 comments
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by chton 12y ago
"Number of ads to show" is something that can be optimized. Too much ads have a negative effect on your entire platform, so you need to strike the balance. 'As much as possible, but not too much'. If they can improve p
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by chton 12y ago
I'm not sure if it's even possible to build a twitter-like system with distributed servers in the vein of e-mail. It's possible for e-mail because it's a one-way system. Twitter has the concept of following a user, and
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by chton 12y ago
Then any corporate accounts you follow now are 'ads'. It's an added button, no more, no less. If that magically makes an otherwise neutral tweet an ad, you need a more rigorous definition of advertisement.
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by chton 12y ago
That's a possibility, but that still wouldn't be more intrusive than the current sponsored tweets. If anything, if this model is successful, they might even reduce the amount of sponsored stuff appearing in your timeline.
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by chton 12y ago
I don't know where you get that idea. They explicitly say "some Tweets from our test partners will feature a “Buy” button", there is no mention of ads. The implication is, if I don't follow their partners, I won't
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by chton 12y ago
Here's what the problem is: twitter isn't a product company. It's a service company. They didn't just invent a protocol, like the SMTP guys did, they provide a service for free. That means they need money to hire people
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by chton 12y ago
I'm actually impressed they found a way to monetize their platform that doesn't involve obtrusive ads. This seems like a good source of income for them and their clients, and as long as they don't force you to follow commerc
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by chton 12y ago
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s&showYea... you're right to ask for a citation, I didn't specifically look it up before making the statement. It seems they are at least top 10 in rece
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by chton 12y ago
Considering they took a Google executive, this could already be "someone with the right political connections". Google is one of the biggest lobbyists, I wouldn't be surprised if this had something to do with their efforts.
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Azure Virtual Machines Part 0: A VM Primer(justazure.com)
1 points by chton 12y ago|0 comments
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by chton 12y ago
That's ofcourse possible, but there are many many services that pull this trick, and I would be surprised if dropbox was the only one that did the honorable thing here. And even if that's what they're doing, they should real
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by chton 12y ago
those are valid points, but then why don't they calculate the price they should be asking and ask that? As it stands, they don't give the impression that they do that, they seem to try to screw us over. Hell, if they had gone for
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by chton 12y ago
The problem isn't just paying more. I'm aware of how tax-heavy europe is, and how much harder it is to support the wide variety of languages and laws. In most cases, I would be fine paying a bit more for a service. The problem is

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