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by cmccabe 14y ago
Don't worry, I won't "screw up" the Windows Store by accidentally developing anything for it. By the way, Adam Smith called. He wants to have a chat with you. Maybe you should "step into his office."
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Saying that closed software ecosystems are bad because they hurt games is like saying the Nazis were bad because they made it harder to find good Jewish rye bread. It's like... um... way to focus on the important stuff, Mr. Muratori.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Nokia's sales have collapsed. It's not "doomsaying" at this point-- more like "doom observing." The only real assets they have left are their patents and their NAVTEQ division (whatever they're calling it now). Now would be a good time fo
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Microsoft can easily let Nokia fail. Microsoft is already considering making its own phone, just like they've made their own tablets and game consoles: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57458288-75/microsoft-weig... Every few years Micro
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by cmccabe 14y ago
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-01-13/
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Or, you could just use a credit card, where they already do all this stuff. Someone's pointy hair is showing here.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Yeah, there are a lot of really bogus answers on some of the questions. Usually there is something of value there if you know what you're doing, though. Also I don't have the ability to downvote crappy answers because I'm not special enoug
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by cmccabe 14y ago
At the end of the day, chatty, open-ended discussions are not what StackExchange is about. It's a really focused site designed around Q&A on specific, clearly answerable questions. They may have made some bad decisions but closing this
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by cmccabe 14y ago
That's really special. And appropriate here.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I hope Ballmer issued a memo about "cutting off their air supply," for old time's sake.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Did anyone ever expect tasks to be anything other than syntactic sugar (of questionable taste) over threads? Also, the title "not quite there yet" is misleading, given that async:: will never get "there" if "there" is defined as "implementi
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I like the structural subtyping. This is a feature I also like in Go.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
According to the Apache project, a project is "considered to have a diverse community when it is not highly dependent on any single contributor (there are at least 3 legally independent committers and there is no single company or entity th
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Let's check wikipedia. "Proprietary software or closed source software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder.[1] The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Sigh. Not all open source projects are community projects. That doesn't make them proprietary. I'm disappointed to see this kind of confusion on HN. Rust doesn't have much of a community around it, besides Mozilla. Does that make it "pr
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Organism without a brain creates external memories for navigation A manager downloaded a TODO list app?
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by cmccabe 14y ago
This is a pretty long-winded way of accusing people who don't like TypeScript of being big meanies. How about addressing the actual arguments and building a logical case for your position? Or is that not cool any more? I actually like wha
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by cmccabe 14y ago
yeah, but it's easier politically to rewrite it in a newer language. If you rewrite it in the same language, then you have to explain your rewrite as cleaning up someone's braindead mistakes-- someone who might still work there. If you rew
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Revel is the way to "go"...
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Any form of critique towards a biased source can always be countered with claims of it being an ad hominem argument... Well, any critique which consists solely of personal attacks can be countered that way. It's super effective!
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I used it a little bit back when I still wrote Python. It seemed a lot like HTML, but much terser, and whitespace-sensitive. ReST could do the same kind of stuff as HTML: build bullet lists, create tables, italic text, and so forth. Howe
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by cmccabe 14y ago
It's very hard to do Test Driven Development in Go because there is no mocking library that can help with stubbing constructor or static method. Well, you'll be happy to learn that Go doesn't have constructors or static methods, then. :)
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by cmccabe 14y ago
This is a great post for validating management concerns about pulling in sexy new technologies for the hell of it. At the end of the day, the Rails stuff got the job done. LinkedIn stayed up and was able to grow and add mobile features d
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by cmccabe 14y ago
A bug tracker is not a TODO list. I work on Hadoop, and there are bugs that have been open for 6 years now, and probably will be open for 6 more. Bug trackers can help you compose a TODO list (sometimes called a roadmap, in a corporate co
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by cmccabe 14y ago
The graphics are very nice and felt professional. However, I don't think you're doing enough of the game logic client-side. I saw very noticeable glitches constantly, to the point where the game is unplayable for me. Even if some packets
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by cmccabe 14y ago
The internet has a short attention span, I guess. Nokia bought NAVTEQ for 8 billion dollars back in 2007. They sure ought to have good maps, after that! NAVTEQ might be receiving map data from many commercial fleets of trucks, but Google
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by cmccabe 14y ago
The whole point of LaTeX and TeX is not to worry about the exact format, but to worry about the semantics of the content instead, and let the layout engine decide for you. Like all automation, this generally works very well, except when it
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I'm sorry, but you've been rejected from my soon-to-be-founded startup company, because I only accept people who comment in 29 minutes or less. Taking a lot of time to comment could slow down meetings to a crawl, you see. Also, unknown to
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by cmccabe 14y ago
If the tex2html tool is poor, why not improve that tool? Re-inventing TeX seems like quite a waste of time. Every time someone invents a new markup format for absolutely no reason, I die a little bit inside.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Even if the government manages your pension funds, they're still going to be invested in stocks and bonds, ultimately. Having a savings account is just about the dumbest thing you could do right now, since the rates are essentially 0%: htt

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