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by efuquen 13y ago
>We didn't have to experience a crisis of social, governmental, or financial instability. September 11th and the London train bombings? No argument against how disturbing this all is, but don't feel it's accurate to say t
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by efuquen 13y ago
I was attacking the flipant attitude towards $400,000 by the OP. When I refer to being ignorant of socio-economic issues I wasn't talking about Koum, I've never seen him make any statement like that for me to judge his attitude by
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by efuquen 13y ago
yup, my thoughts exactly. super shady.
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by efuquen 13y ago
What kind of sad the world we live in when someone would seriously believe this. There are plenty of Lotteries whose pot sizes are not in the millions that people play. For the vast majority of Americans having that sum would be life chan
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I think the point is that a card game has nothing to do with a currency exchange and the same sort of skills you would need for one don't translate into another. We're talking about software we want to deal with a lot of people&#
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Well, considering the price has been pretty stably above the current point (not stable in general but definitely above this point for months), I think it's safe to say if you had that Bitcoin you lost a potential opportunity to have
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by efuquen 13y ago
We have tools that have virtually been unchanged for over 20 years. While the consistency and stability has been nice, there has been a lot of good things that have happened in software development and technology that those tools could rea
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by efuquen 13y ago
Someone mentioned about trying to find out if their have ever been any other chat services that have really made a lot of money on it's own, and it sparked memory of an acquisition that didn't happen quite that long ago, Microsoft
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by efuquen 13y ago
I don't thinks words are being put into anyone's mouth, what was said was quite clear: > while Git is made by anti-GNU people who do not believe in free software As stated in above comments I would find it hard to believe Linus
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Silk Road 2.0 'Hack' Blamed On Bitcoin Bug(forbes.com)
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by efuquen 13y ago
>That said, this event is extremely encouraging. Not only is the security and the viability of the currency being tested. But more importantly, the communication and cooperation between the major players in the Bitcoin ecosystem is being
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by efuquen 13y ago
"People are going to call the app by Facebook "Facebook Paper" because "Paper" is simply too generic." I don't know where you're getting this idea from, every article I've seen has had a fine tim
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by efuquen 13y ago
yah, seriously. Half a million dollars, that's the standard to destroy large supplies of water? That's not a lot of money to tap that source if it was ever really needed, but let's just completely destroy it instead.
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by efuquen 13y ago
No, please no. If size is an issue for some reason or you want to have no dependencies you can use something like http://zeptojs.com/ and just embed everything in one minified file. If you do things right only the function
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by efuquen 13y ago
I think plenty Israelis want the Palestinians gone from Palestine and I think plenty Palestinians want Isreal erased from the map. When that is the goal of both parties, no I don't see them wanting peace. Of course, we're making a
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by efuquen 13y ago
There are definitely factors that make comparing these salaries difficult, but some of the things you listed just simply don't apply to most Software Engineers. Most jobs will offer you good health care for free, not deducted from you
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by efuquen 13y ago
Why should everyone else pay the 20K to subsidize ancient hardware support? If there really is a subset of people who really really depend on this, then they should be forking up the cash to pay for something that could be had for free els
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by efuquen 13y ago
I'm always astonished by the backlash these topics gets in this community. Are we all really so scared by the idea of trying to make coding more accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds? Is there some irreparable harm being d
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by efuquen 13y ago
Being a doctor and practicing laws have much higher barriers to entry for purely practical reasons, not because of some goal of these professionals form "denigrating" themselves. They are not as nearly as accessible as programming
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by efuquen 13y ago
> Yes; and I do think smartphones are a terrible piece of engineering. I can't read that and not scoff. I don't know how you can seriously argue that smartphones aren't a great piece of engineering. The power, accessibil
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by efuquen 13y ago
+1 I've had to work with them a few times, Akamai has built up crazy infrastructure and I'm sure they have awesome tech behind it but getting them to actually help you as a customer if you're not a Fortune 500 company is usel
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by efuquen 13y ago
Unfortunately relevant: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2525584/Copywriter-d... Obviously not a common thing, but it is a scary thought to think it's quite possible to work yourself to death in an off
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by efuquen 13y ago
No more civil rights? Just because there are major issues with transparency and some aspects on the civil rights front is a far cray from "no more civil rights". http://www.freedomhouse.org/report-types/freedo
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by efuquen 13y ago
I feel like that's like saying not everyone has the skill set to learn Math, Science, English, or History. And to a sense it is true, there are many Engineers that have terrible grammar, vocabulary, and can't write worth a damn.
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by efuquen 13y ago
>>And I will be very frank with you, programming is not the same as building web pages. Totally disagree. Let's assume you're just talking about HTML/CSS, as Javascript is clearly a programming language. Many fundamen
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It's unfortunate how behind the curve Mozilla is on this. No denying this was a huge undertaking but the length of time it's taken has obviously been detrimental to Firefox usage, the only real reason I still use Chrome as my pri
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by efuquen 13y ago
Pointless in what sense? In that the Washington Post needs to make money or that you want quality journalism, no ads, to pay nothing for it, and golden unicorns to ride on? Also, the original page has a single page, no pagination: http:&#
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by efuquen 13y ago
What exactly is inherit about duck typing or OO that say they can only be used in a simple language? Duck typing works great in Scala, more so then in Javascript because it's type safe and it's impossible to make the same mista
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by efuquen 13y ago
"Small note on the mmap thing; a lot of people consider the mmap based storage engine a big issue (I tend to agree)." This. Aside from general reliability issues I've had in the past, which are definitely fixable and might b
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by efuquen 13y ago
Am I missing something here, when was this about Java and phasing it out of Android? I don't think that's a likely plan but if you have any evidence to the contrary I would love to see it. Java is pretty pretty central to Androi

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