drwh0

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by drwh0 18y ago
"difficult" has nothing to do with the power of languages TeX macros are fundamentally as expressive as java.
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by drwh0 18y ago
And again, since Objective-J is a proper superset of JavaScript really? what can it do that js can't do?
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by drwh0 18y ago
to me jquery feels less heavy-handed about the abstraction. every abstraction has a price, i tend to avoid them unless they have a demonstrated value. to me, OO has no demonstrated value to be honest, i see the basis of objective-j born fro
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by drwh0 18y ago
Separately, Objective-C is a great language, and plenty of people love it so much so that its almost impossible to find it being put to use outside of places apple forces it. and before you say "gnustep"...no one uses that Can you give m
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by drwh0 18y ago
but anyone in useability will tell you that you ruin the experiment if the user knows that someone/software is looking "over their shoulder". any software installed or testing environment introduced will produce different results in users.
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by drwh0 18y ago
i've never seen a poll on the topic of immigration that shows anything under 85% of americans being against loosening borders further. even the libertarian party figured this out...look at their election 08 platforms and you will see that e
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by drwh0 18y ago
if the only reason to embraced objective-j is its support for an (apparently) more "natural" means of OO programming, then to me that isn't a reason at all. how many people are modelling client software these days strictly by virtue of OO t
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by drwh0 18y ago
A surfeit of scary information can be harmful; it can make us more scared than we need to be that works both ways. a surplus of naively optimistic information (you! can! flip! a! house! today!, no money down), encourages excess risk. if a
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by drwh0 18y ago
the fear is justified! the average american worker, right on up to six figure incomes, has been moving toward a paycheck-to-paycheck existence, hobbled by hopeless debts and mired in pointless consumerism. even living paycheck-to-paycheck,
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by drwh0 18y ago
php became popular because it is easy to install and requires almost no configuration post-install. for ISPs it was a no-brainer compared to the relatively complex mod_perl install
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by drwh0 18y ago
all of this kvetching is pointless. if you use and like perl, the statistic you really care about is the activity of CPAN, which continues to thrive. if you like perl and are productive with it, why stop? because some moron on hacker news s
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by drwh0 18y ago
no, the demand does not manifest itself spontaneously. people just don't decide to wake up and work twice as hard, there has to be legit economic growth. there is a monetary role. its no coincidence that "healthy" economic growth conforms t
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by drwh0 18y ago
how much money would it take to set up an alternate local currency with full plastic card support? you need someone with a brain to regulate the amount of currency in the system. how many FooDollars will exist at once? this has been trie
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by drwh0 18y ago
If there's any truth to pg's claim that the paradigm is shifting and that talented people are increasingly likely to start their own thing than go work for a boss (and personally, I believe there is) no there isn't. come back in five year
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by drwh0 18y ago
If everyone woke up tomorrow and started working twice as hard, what would limit their output? demand and supply, as always it is trivial for some hypothetical foobar corp to spit out twice as many widgets as they do now. but why would th
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by drwh0 18y ago
but greentech will require more funding per instance than any VC firm will be able or willing to put up. show me the VC firm that is going to put over $1 billion into any single investment...when it comes to nuclear or hydrogen, a billion m
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by drwh0 18y ago
you're a decade late
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by drwh0 18y ago
two points: 1. investors are entering a period of risk aversion that is just starting, and will likely last a decade or longer. 2. the next market, energy tech, will require funding on levels very few if any VCs can deliver (billions per in
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by drwh0 18y ago
mainly because people are using cash less and less every year to make purchases. They use credit/debit cards more than cash credit cards are cash...someone else's cash (namely a bank) that is being loaned to the card user. nonetheless, th
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by drwh0 18y ago
only problem with this is that it is illegal a business can reserve the right to refuse service to anyone, but in the US they can't tell you that you can't use US dollars