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811.
by dschobel 17y ago
Maybe I'm just an optimist but I'm really glad to see that MS is even looking at the Acid3 and SunSpider tests as important metrics.
812.
by dschobel 17y ago
C# got them in version 2.0 and most people think that's a pretty spiffy implementation. Even more-so with the sugar added in 3.0
813.
by dschobel 17y ago
Is it better (for some arbitrary definition of good) to get VC money than angel? I always figured that between angel and VC money, these incubators would bat right near 100%...
814.
by dschobel 17y ago
Including the architecture and design jobs he listed. I guess if he really hates computers he could be a manager and spend his days in meetings.
815.
by dschobel 17y ago
Good point. How can you argue that Outlook + Exchange is a better alternative to the competition when you don't know what the competition is.
816.
by dschobel 17y ago
Yeah, it's a happy ending for sure. It seems like everyone who has ever met the guy likes him.
817.
by dschobel 17y ago
I find it weird that he's so transparent about "company X pays me now, company X's products are SO much better than anything I've used in the past". Is this stuff compelling to engineers who care about technical merit rather than who is pay
818.
by dschobel 17y ago
To represent a contrary viewpoint: I haven't seen more than a handful of the patently useless accounts whereas I've noticed more and more "big names" showing up on HN. Just the other day in the Python language moratorium story I was asking
819.
by dschobel 17y ago
For example, shared offices often use one IP address. If someone locks safe search there, it is locked for everyone. But as a small company that strives to offer a real alternative to Google, we can deal with an IP based implementation. S
820.
by dschobel 17y ago
The reasonably rational person would infer from my comparison of Apple's two high-end product offerings vs Nokia's balanced offering and my saying that the former leads to a more tenuous market position that the intent was clearly to advoca
821.
by dschobel 17y ago
The $999 macbook is an example of exactly the sort of downward market movement which I'm speaking about.
822.
by dschobel 17y ago
The subsidized price is not what I was referring to.
823.
by dschobel 17y ago
Now, I am very aware that the Linux Desktop is SO much better than it was even 5 years ago. We have eye candy up the wahzoo. That was most definitely not the major issue 5 years ago. The issue 5 years ago was configuring hardware and god
824.
by dschobel 17y ago
Well that's just my point. The only notoriety this language has is because of a naming clash, not for any legitimate technical merit.
825.
by dschobel 17y ago
This is all the more amazing since they have one super-high end product vs the balanced product portfolio of Nokia. You'd have to imagine this makes Apple's position a bit tenuous.
826.
by dschobel 17y ago
Their use is more widespread than that. They apparently have 3000 users and 100Gb of data on one primary server [1] Although they have a source license so lord knows what they've done to the system to scale to their levels. [1] http://www.
827.
by dschobel 17y ago
Is this language significant for any reason other than sharing a name with Google's new language?
828.
by dschobel 17y ago
Despite the large amount of enthusiasm for language design, modern mainstream programming languages don't fall far from the C tree. The best that Microsoft, Sun, and Apple have to offer are just variations on that theme, with the addition
829.
by dschobel 17y ago
Excellent, thanks for organizing Mr. CCG.
830.
by dschobel 17y ago
How exactly does willingness to pay $100 correlate to developer ability? Edit: and it's funny that Spolsky would complain about recruiters when that's exactly when he's trying to become on a larger scale. A middleman by another name would s
831.
by dschobel 17y ago
Sure, it's great for companies filtering out resume spam but how about individuals trying to avoid recruiter spam? And beside, really good engineers are never short of good offers. It's standard operating procedure in our industry that when
832.
by dschobel 17y ago
How is that not covered by the following provision to the law? An exception exists where the cookie is "strictly necessary" for the provision of a service "explicitly requested" by the user
833.
by dschobel 17y ago
Can you name one language feature any of the three have which hasn't been around for decades?
834.
by dschobel 17y ago
Drat. I do agree with the analysis you posted on your site [1] that it only will affect early-adopters/language geeks and is probably for the best for the python community at large. But two years is a darn long time in the technology world.
835.
by dschobel 17y ago
I think you'd be hard pressed to find a bug or security flaw in the language syntax or semantics. Remember, this doesn't mean that the implementations won't be improved underneath the covers, just the high-level language spec.
836.
by dschobel 17y ago
Any word whether PEP 380 ("yield from") made it in before the cut-off?
837.
by dschobel 17y ago
Here's an interesting treatment of the scaling issue which cropped up on HN a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859468
838.
by dschobel 17y ago
Last year at a presentation at the Founder’s Forum in Hampshire, England, CEO Kristian Segerstrale put up a slide with a dinosaur and expressed his desire to “kill EA.” Now he’s joining them instead. I love the idea of terrifying your pot
839.
by dschobel 17y ago
I'll always remember as a first-year CS undergrad our professor came into class one day and told us about how he just came out of an interview with this recently minted Phd for an associate professor position. The candidate's demo just tota
840.
by dschobel 17y ago
That has been true in theory since the Industrial Revolution with the advent of mass-production and I believe it's still only a problem in theory. As evidence I point to the fact that the majority of countries still fail to meet the basic h

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