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by eliben 13y ago
Desktops are a huge, but declining business. In laptops they already have serious competition in Samsung's ARM-based Chromebooks. Besides, laptops also don't grow nearly as fast as smartphones and tablets. In markets, it's th
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by eliben 13y ago
It makes me sad as a developer, because it implies that marketing is more important than the development effort. It's where the money is, right?
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by eliben 13y ago
It's amazing what a killer the smartphone market turned out to be. Nokia. RIM. Microsoft are in bad trouble. Intel. who else?
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by eliben 13y ago
This makes me sad.
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by eliben 13y ago
European, as in "shaped by the most peaceful continent in the history of Earth"? [disclaimer: I'm originally from Europe, so this is self-criticism]
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by eliben 13y ago
What ticks me about such announcements is that too often they don't really mean anything besides the media blowing things out of proportion. This is unfortunately very common in anything nutrition or health based, but often applies to
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by eliben 13y ago
What are those consulting companies like Wipro and Infosys actually doing with all those H-1Bs? Comments here refer to them as offshoring companies, but how does offshoring play with bringing more programmers into the US with H-1Bs?
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by eliben 13y ago
All drama and no interesting data. They could at least quote some numbers (what's the 1% income, what's the median income, etc), graphs of historic trends, breakdowns by state or whatever. Otherwise it's just an extended head
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by eliben 13y ago
This comment looks strange to me. While I'm pretty new in the US, I find the exact procedure you're describing quite easy. All I need to do is leave an online message for my doctor asking to prescribe the test. They usually answer
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by eliben 13y ago
This is because you're comparing maximum torque. The actual graph is likely unlinear and this is where the Tesla is winning.
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by eliben 13y ago
The difference in price between fully charging / fueling is particularly striking. I wonder what this means wrt. electric cars and the environment? What would our emissions look like if all cars were magically electrical tomorrow?
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by eliben 13y ago
I used to feel uncomfortable after reading articles like this. But as the years went by, I gained more experience, and understood what programming is really about. I no longer worry. But if you spent a total of 2 months on your programmin
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by eliben 13y ago
The price and time-line estimate make me sad and pessimistic for some reason. 30 years and $90 billion just to pull a fast train line between two cities in Japan? How long and how expensive then will real futuristic projects be, like colo
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by eliben 13y ago
Upvoted for the humor.
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by eliben 13y ago
Sincere congrats. Losing your Windows install disc is one of the best things that can happen to a person.
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by eliben 13y ago
Oh wow, the N4 was already the best value on the market - very powerful device for a very low price. Now the price is ridiculous... I have my N4 since the beginning of the year and I love it.
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by eliben 13y ago
> it's a big ship to turn Indeed. And they're taking their time turning it too. Atom was first announced in 2007 (according to Wikipedia), just 3 months after the first iphone was released. Look at Apple now, while Intel are
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by eliben 13y ago
Naturally, when MS implements WebM, this project will not be needed any longer and can be discontinued. Seriously, why so much negativity?
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by eliben 13y ago
A completely wrong piece of HN-bait.
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by eliben 13y ago
If they live in the Silicon Valley, they almost definitely do.
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by eliben 13y ago
Programming languages are just one subset of tools used by programmers. Therefore, simply counting how many languages one knows is simplistic. It's not incidental that high-rated CS curricula don't spent most of the courses teachi
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by eliben 13y ago
I posit that a meta-discussion is different from a discussion in this case.
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by eliben 13y ago
> Why bring him into the conversation when we're talking about Python? Just as words of encouragement for more programming-related content. I'm venting off steam, really. In the past few weeks I've been spending more time
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by eliben 13y ago
Yay #1: a nice wrapper around NLTK. NLTK is great but its API is not very Pythonic or comfortable. Pleasant facades over it are a great help for Python NLP. Yay #2: an actually interesting programming-related article on HN. These get rarer
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by eliben 13y ago
More and more blogs moving to Medium for some reason. This makes me sad, because it means horrible formatting with anything code or math related. At least until they fix that...
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by eliben 13y ago
Unfortunately, I think you're right. I've originally moved from Reddit to HN because of higher quality, but now r/programming and language/technology-specific Subreddits have a much higher content/noise ration than
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by eliben 13y ago
I am puzzled by low-quality, hyperbolic, panicky articles like this. And I'm even more surprised by the reaction they cause on HN. http://blog.chromium.org/2013/06/retiring-chrome-frame.html seems like a pret
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by eliben 13y ago
I wonder when BitCoin will reach the stage at which mining is not economically viable because the expended electricity is more expensive than the amount of BC gained. It is my understanding that such a point should be eventually reached due
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by eliben 13y ago
There are important differences from flash. For example, built-in strong security from the ground up. Another example - open source. Another is performance - NaCl is near native speed, Flash (to the best of my knowledge) is not. NaCl can ac
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by eliben 13y ago
Once you compiled and published it, it's a NaCl app. Saying "compiling NaCl apps" is misleading because NaCl is a platform, not a language. The PNaCl toolchain can compile C and C++ (and theoretically other frontends can be a

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