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by edgyswingset 12y ago
I mean that they (still) aren't making any money. The reports of Q1 profits this year are with a criticized, adjusted scale. When measuring with GAAP, as companies have been traditionally measured, they still posted a loss. Indeed, m
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by edgyswingset 12y ago
That's a potential software developer's salary, whose contributions are certainly worth more than that - I'd call it substantial.
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Twitter is still deep in the red, so I'm gonna go with No on that one.
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Sounds like it'll only ever be a dream. Assuming they can keep sabotaging their way towards market dominance, eventually they'll reach a point where they have to deal with humans directly - and with humans you get problems you ca
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It's an incredibly complex issue. For starters, Oregon has less than half the population of Silicon Valley - there just isn't enough talent to draw from to get the in-house expertise the state needs. On top of that, nobody wants t
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by edgyswingset 12y ago
The ELI5 I could glean from it was that Oracle's development and management of the project was pervasively bad, and more importantly that they continually lied and covered up information over the course of the project, misleading the s
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by edgyswingset 12y ago
I wonder if Oregon has jurisdiction to open-source this stuff. I'd love to see the atrocities.
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I'm curious about more information regarding this, since I'm an Oregonian. Dealing with the state for software, I can understand lack of clarity on requirements and "flip-flopping" on a weekly basis. However, based on
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by edgyswingset 12y ago
Care to explain which of those "most laws" exist to extort money? It's common to hear this sentiment parroted around, but never does it come with anything backing it up. Until that point, people like me have to assume that
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Or a taxi company pretending to be a tech company taking advantage of known legal loopholes. How exactly is this not a bubble? Edit: Seems like folks still like Uber around here. Use the taxi service at its current costs while you can; it
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by edgyswingset 12y ago
To me, Scala just feels like a mess. Java 8 isn't as modern as I'd like, but just having lambda expressions and declarative syntax would boost the quality of life so much.
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I can speak towards migrating to Oregon. My cost of living has dropped by about 25% while my overall quality of life, sans anything money-related, has gone up.
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by edgyswingset 12y ago
Did you give F# Power Tools a go? It gives you a lot of what is missing out of the box. It's still not as great as C# IDE support, but for most things it gets the job done.
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Sometimes a procedural approach is better for certain (in my opinion, limited) problems. I'd rather use a procedural language for those cases. Also, the .NET libraries we end up using were, to my knowledge, written in C#. Sometimes i
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by edgyswingset 12y ago
I wouldn't be so hasty in thinking that. Java is catching up considerably with Java 8, and if you combine that with Guava extensions it can at times feel like a modern language.
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Absolutely. One of the best starting places would be the Why Use F# series: http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/why-use-fsharp.html It compares and contrasts C# and equivalent F# code for relatively simple, but co
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by edgyswingset 12y ago
F# is a phenomenal language. Not that C# is bad (it's fantastic!), but the more I use F# the more I feel it's a superior language for most tasks. First-class .NET support is the real kicker, since you can do anything from DB int
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Not to mention, you'd never write code like the second one in a .NET ecosystem, unless you were purposefully trying to write bad, unmaintainable code.
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Rigid adherence to certain technologies could be a culprit. "We're a Ruby shop!" is fine for problems where Ruby is great, but the limitations of the technology are bound to creep up somewhere. Not using a polyglot approach
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It's the better choice for a number of reasons when the scale of the application(s) increases a lot. It's a premium product that comes loaded with features you need when you're building something at a scale larger than indep
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by edgyswingset 12y ago
Actually the way you check for Google Play services doesn't involve nulls at all, it's a status code. And related to null-checking, I took the pervasive approach in one of my apps for fun. It's hilarious - almost 1/3 of
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by edgyswingset 12y ago
I suppose this can depend on the context of the users. Personally, I've gone through the beginnings of MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat (the last of which I've uninstalled and never use). Having more than a decade of var
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by edgyswingset 12y ago
I guess I'm just not convinced that an app like this, which is a late clone of an insanely popular app within the target audience, will give them enough valuable data to where they can sell ads at a higher price. Monetizing in-app with
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by edgyswingset 12y ago
I don't see how this can help then monetize more. Chances are the people who are using Slingshot already use Facebook. Where does the payoff on the investment kick in?
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Well, you never got their permission so I don't see what the problem is. Does it suck? Yeah, sure. That's irrelevant.
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Very doubtful. They don't seem to be pushing productivity apps away from the desktop interface.
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I think it's just because of the pushy nature of so many ads on the web or mobile apps. An example of it done well would probably be The Verge's mobile app for Android when their primary benefactor was Starbucks - when you'd
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I wrote a real-time transit app for my city and the second-most requested feature is a widget for a favorite stop that will display ETA automatically. As a frequent bus rider myself, I would make a lot of use out of something like that.
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by edgyswingset 12y ago
It could just be that the module of code under test doesn't do enough. If you need to mock a service, database, other service, error-handler, etc ... but the core logic is just verifying that <some condition> is met, then this i