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by cmccabe 14y ago
Because a lot of the points given also apply to Python & Ruby. Like what, exactly? He even has a slide which says this about Node.js: "there is no problem." If there is no problem, then what is he trying to solve by creating a new l
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by cmccabe 14y ago
If "Perl is a dead end" (his words, not mine), then why not switch to another similar language like Python or Ruby? I guess I don't understand why this guy wants to create yet another programming language. He spends his entire slide deck c
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by cmccabe 14y ago
That's because Brainfuck is omakase
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I think you read a different article than I did. The Ars Technica article doesn't mention the Shield at all, just the Tegra 4. Anyway, it sounds like NVidia is putting out a device to show people what the Tegra 4 can do. They have to buil
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by cmccabe 14y ago
linux
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Yes, how dare Google not spend engineering resources to support a niche platform which lacks many features run by a patent troll. Truly they are worse than Hitler. For the record, the number of Microsoft products that support my platform i
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Everyone loves architecture, just as long as they're the architect.
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Show HN: Locksmith, a tool for debugging mutexes and locking in C, C++, or ObjC(github.com)
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by cmccabe 14y ago
SLAs are worthless, because just getting your money back does nothing to repair the damage to your business. It's like if someone in your family died from food poisioning and the restaurant gave you back your $10 for lunch.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Truthfully, the US government does a pretty poor job at tracking corporations. The Economist wrote a bunch of articles about how easy it is to set up untraceable shell companies in the United States. http://www.economist.com/node/215632
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Universities combine together some socially useful functions (performing blue-sky research, creating an informed populace) with some profitable functions (teaching vocational skills to young people, giving potential employers a way to fil
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by cmccabe 14y ago
It looks like Guido van Rossum has posted a proposal for adding asynchronous I/O support to the core Python libraries. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/136422 This will certainly improve the situation with interfacing diffe
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Destroying locality makes the program very difficult to read for anyone other than the person who wrote it. I've been there before and done that. I've written Z80 assembly code where functions had more than one entry point as well as exit
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I only really read papers that relate to my field (storage systems, databases, distributed systems, etc). The other stuff might be interesting but I just don't have the time to really focus on it. I also tend to take a more "pull" approac
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Callbacks are bad for the same reason non-local gotos are bad. They destroy locality and make the code hard to read.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Let's be clear about this. If there are negative things that Monsanto, or any other company, is doing, then by all means let's discuss them. But I don't see why GMOs themselves are bad. If that is your position as well, then you aren't "
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by cmccabe 14y ago
GREAT SOLUTIONS IN ENGINEERING Problem: bicycle seats are hard. They hurt. Analysis: there must be something wrong with your pants. "Solution": dorky pants. from http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-07-18/ Problem: Python has poor supp
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by cmccabe 14y ago
It's kind of crazy that acetaminophen gets added to so many drug cocktails prescribed by doctors. When your liver is already handling a bunch of other stuff, do you really want to throw one of those most liver-toxic medications out there o
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Acetaminophen is not an anti-inflammatory. Just a painkiller.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Your "original idea" was probably thought of by one of the pioneers of computing in the 1970s, if not earlier. The real question is whether you should develop something that is a feature, not a product. And as per Betteridge's Law, the ans
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I was going to read through your comment, but it was too long. Is this an example of the pretentiousness and snark that people complain about on HN?
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I wonder if his copyright assignment agreement also covered the assignment of trademarks. The name of the project, which seems to be the thing under dispute, would certainly fall under that umbrella rather than copyright law. On the other
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Nobody uses "open source" that way except for certain companies that are deliberately trying to create confusion. They would do so no matter what terminology was used.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Have you tried Scala? It might let you write in a functional style and then not have to translate it to something else. Please don't interpret this as a troll; I'm genuinely curious what the pros/cons of these approaches are.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
You can't use git by itself to manage a large set of projects. Android uses Gerrit for this. Git doesn't do well if you have lots of large binary assets, but unless you're a game company you shouldn't have that problem. Perforce is not a
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by cmccabe 14y ago
If you take the devops position it will be very hard for you to become a developer again later in your career. Instead, leave, and go to a company that values you more.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Just because you discovered a few cool hacks that happened to work well in very specific problem domains doesn't mean you've "solved" symbolic thought. The way a chess program works is not the way humans play chess. It does a brute-force
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Come up with an AI that can play the game of Go well. Then we'll talk.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Do you "think" you could "use" more "quotes" in your "post"?
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by cmccabe 14y ago
How about the armless, who can't turn the crank? Sounds like a job discrimination case waiting to happen.

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