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by cwp 15y ago
Except consumers aren't choosing between Apple and not-Apple. The second-strongest brand in the survey is Dell, preferred by 12% of respondents. You really think that focussing on Apple, with a brand 4x stronger than its nearest competitor,
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by cwp 15y ago
Yup, spot on analysis. I do think he missed one thing, however. The few times I've seen ORM layers work well is when they're custom-built for a specific application. It's still not ideal, but it lets you put all the ugliness in one place, a
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by cwp 15y ago
I used the word "gobbledygook" because the article is poorly written, not because I think he's wrong to criticize Node. Reread the paragraph on Node and tell me it doesn't meet the Wikipedia definition: "text containing jargon or especially
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by cwp 15y ago
Well, that's debatable. I suppose if you squint a bit, you mentally perform a reverse CPS transform on a Node program and end up with a set of tasks that are executing concurrently. In that case, I'll rephrase: Erlang as parallelism (on ade
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by cwp 15y ago
What a bunch of gobbledygook. People tend to lump Node and Erlang together because they both avoid shared-state concurrency. But they're completely opposite approaches: Erlang has concurrency but no shared state. Node has shared state but n
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by cwp 15y ago
Misleading headline. It implies that >50% of developers are coding for Android exclusively, but that's not the case. It would be just as (in)accurate to say that "Most developers are coding for IOS."
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by cwp 15y ago
No. I have exactly 146 passwords.
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by cwp 15y ago
Speaking of inflammatory hogwash...
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by cwp 15y ago
Actually, I think those managers are right. The problem is that the right ingredients to produce a satisfactory cake are not the same as the right ingredients to succeed in a large corporation.
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by cwp 15y ago
Two weeks ago I went to see a chiropractor. I was in so much pain I could barely walk, and my lower back wouldn't flex enough for me to stand up straight. She thought I probably had a pulled muscle. She stretched my legs and hips, twisted m
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by cwp 15y ago
I would like to see examples of software patents doing any good at all.
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by cwp 15y ago
More, if you do it right. Take a look at instantdomainsearch.com. It provides a tiny amount of information, all of which is readily available from other sources. It's still quite profitable.
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by cwp 15y ago
Nah. In the future people won't think that lending books is "nasty and wrong." They'll think it's silly. They'll ask "why would I do that, when I can just give him a copy?"
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by cwp 15y ago
Oops, I guess my original question was a bit misleading. The blog post I was trying to dig up organized the company with a US parent in order to be friendly to US investors, but that's not the issue that concerns me . The problem is that I
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Ask HN: US/Canadian companies?
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by cwp 15y ago
No, the tech part boils down to "If the crypto is hacked, the whole system goes down in flames." Offline currencies can tolerate a bit of forgery or fraud, but the moment a bitcoin is successfully forged, all bitcoins instantly become usele
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by cwp 15y ago
Well, I love big audacious goals. It's just that "impossible to write bad tests" could lead to a system where it's also impossible to write good tests. If you start shooting down good ideas because they could be abused to write bad tests,
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by cwp 15y ago
I think the goal of "impossible to write bad tests" is unreachable. It's like "idiot-proof": impossible because the idiots are too resourceful. I'll be really happy, though, if Test::Right accomplishes "easy to write good tests." Right now,
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by cwp 15y ago
AFAICT, the whole point of Test::Right is precisely to fix the problems. As for opinion, well, if anybody is qualified to have an opinion about browser testing, it's the folks at Sauce.
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by cwp 15y ago
Um, "whatever Microsoft did" was so shady it's illegal. Apple may be heavy-handed in how they manage their platform, but they don't do anything to prevent consumers from using competing platforms.
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by cwp 15y ago
Actually, I think programmers do get paid in proportion to their productivity. Roughly, anyway.
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by cwp 16y ago
Of course. I do it every chance I get.
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by cwp 16y ago
You forgot the fourth kind: people who didn't go to university and are glad. If they're writing articles, it's not sour grapes. They're saying, "told you so."
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by cwp 16y ago
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by cwp 16y ago
Yes, that's the nature of wealth. The point is that Bitcoin really is different from other currencies in terms of how bitcoins are created. Dollars are largely created by banks. They get special permission from the government to create doll
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by cwp 16y ago
I'm hardly an expert in bitcoins, but: simply having more computational power isn't enough, you have to use it. That computational power is valuable; if you're mining bitcoins you're not using it for whatever it is that you bought all t
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by cwp 16y ago
Assignment and mutability aren't quite the same thing, but they're pretty close. If a.f() has the effect of mutating the internal state of a, how does that occur? By assignment! In Smalltalk, there's a fairly common pattern of immutable obj
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by cwp 16y ago
Quoting from the above link: To: "Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs" From: "Anton van Straaten" Anton wrote this, not Guy.
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by cwp 16y ago
Ok, take math. The Waldorf argument went something like this: "Little children can't absorb abstractions so we don't teach math until they're ready." The Montessori argument goes like this: "Little children can't absorb abstractions so we t
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by cwp 16y ago
My Mom was a Montessori teacher. For a couple of years when I was a kid, we rented a house from a Waldorf teacher who lived in the basement. The clash of pedagogical philosophies was epic.

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