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by dmorgan 14y ago
> News organizations have invested significantly in native apps for iOS, Android, WP7 and even, for a time, webOS -- yet nearly three times as many tablet owners and twice as many smartphone users access news primarily through browsers
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by dmorgan 14y ago
Thanks, but I did it ironically.
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Thousands of words about optimizing the reinvention of a wheel. Without the "re-invention of wheel" we would still use stone wheels a la Flintstones or wooden carriage wheels. And without optimizing our wheels we would still have the
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> he never said he hadn't optimize before. And he never said he _did_ optimize before. Which kinda defeats the complain in the parent comment that he advocates optimize as you program.
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> But why did it end up being in Northern California? Because at the time it started happening, and for other reasons, the US was the top dog in the world economy? The 2050 Silicon Valley will be somewhere else. Maybe China.
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> People invest in services like Twitter knowing that there is a chance that they might not be monetizable, but believing that if they turn out to be, then the payoff will be enormous. So the expectation value of the return is still hig
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> What about F/T/I is different, and could only have come from the US? While we might use them (nearly) as much as Americans, we don't really believe in the utility of such businesses. And we don't like to invest in hazy-ass ideas like
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> From my reading, this guy is advocating the exact opposte: optimize as you code. Huh? He had ALREADY written his library before he started optimizing. He even says that the profiler didn't show much, because he had all parsing code i
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> The excessive use of "fuck" and "shit" throughout the entire article really takes away from its message. Really? I haven't even noticed it. Only remember reading a great js performance article. Maybe "shit" is in the eye of the behol
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> I've never understood why people code on dark backgrounds with such thick, fuzzy fonts. I find it extremely hard to read and have instead grown used to coding on an off-white background. Because we (I) find them extremely easy to rea
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> An outdated computer/browsers sucks at resizing jpegs. Most of us don't care about those anymore. Anything older than IE8 is out in modern web design. > A two year old high end Android smartphone too. Those matter even less. Two
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> That is simply impossible for two reasons: 1) Retina display is a trademarked Apple phrase and no other company will ever have retina displays. 2) Retina is not a technology. Useless pedantic "correction" of the day award. If you wan
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by dmorgan 14y ago
1) Install the Homebrew package manager for your simple OSS needs (wget, haskell, ..., whatever). 2) For more involved OSS needs, instead of messing the system with tons of Pythons, Rubies, RDBMSs, etc, or using MacPorts, I would suggest ru
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Ask HN: is Javascript on the CLI/webserver D.O.A?
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> hen it augments the maps with proprietary data gathered by users running Waze software on their phones and from people manually contributing corrections to the Waze data set. All 100 of them?
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by dmorgan 14y ago
It's just you. It was always as boring (or always as exciting) with respect to the quality of the discussion and the posts.
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> We live in sci-fi. So were are our servant robots and flying cars? > The only things withholding this sci-fi from happening: lack of competent workforce (programmers and roboengineers) and lack of vision. That's too generic an a
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Imagine people throwing away furniture, crushing cars, and burning books because they can't be sold. This is value being destroyed. It's "use value" being destroyed, not "economic value". This is the reason why economies get a huge b
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril Or you can see it in a positive light, as: 1) You are free from forever owning lots of stuff (which ends up owning you in the end, see Hoarders). You just rent stuff. 2) The economy get
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> There would be computerized food transport, real world garbage collectors, pizza machines, miner droids and 3D plotters handling bricks for building. This is sci-fi as for now, and for the foreseeable future. It's like someone in 180
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Three years ago, a hobbyist could make an app in their free time, put it out there for cheap or free, and see what happened. If the app was any good, what would happen could easily be that they made a livable income off of their creat
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Programmer is like the modern villager. Villagers grew food and made stuff and that's what you ever needed. The programmer writes code and everything in our civilization is already code or it will be. That's an extremely short-sighte
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Good to know we shouldn't have pleasure so long as there is any man who can't share in it. Sounds as a very good, if difficult to attain, guideline for the improvement of society. And very close to the original message of Christianit
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> What are your sources for this? Lots. E.g """Today, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook’s mobile strategy relied too much on HTML5, rather than native applications. (...) According to Zuckerberg, people are consuming twice as many
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> To imply being 19 or age in general has anything to do with being vocal or a fan is agism. It's also true. > What makes zalew believe those posts where made by 19 year olds? Last time I checked, HN did not require age verificatio
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> I really hope that the threat of Apple switching to ARM causes Intel to push Linux as an alternative to OSX. And what exactly would that achieve? It's not as if consumers listen to Intel about what OS to buy. There is a way for Linux
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Do these postings of slides ever help anyone? I never seem to get anything out of just clicking through slides with no explanations. Huh? I picked at least 5 different points and techniques I can use from this specific slides, some o
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> When I said creative, I meant creative use of language. Yes, memes are extraordinarily popular in forums like Slashdot, Reddit and HN. But I only attribute creativity to the person who created the meme, not the ones who use it incessa
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Before outsourcing and offshoring everyone was afraid robots would take their jobs (they did). Personally, I care about a Chinese or Indian family's quality of life equally as much as I care about a local family. If we really cared a
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Seriously??? You can't swing a cat without hitting someone singing the praises of "Big Data". Which I also consider BS. I've seen tons of those "can't swing a cat without hitting X" fads in my time come and go, at best staying small

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