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by eta_carinae 14y ago
You were. I didn't find any mention of Jobs, Wozniak, Apple or Microsoft in the few that I clicked.
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> I thought the mainstream opinion is that choice has quite little to do with it. Outside the USA, yes. Sadly, a majority of Americans thinks that being gay is a choice while being obese is genetic.
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
You have to get used to the idea that Google is the kind of company that has a different sense of priorities than most public companies. For starters, they prioritize employees over shareholders, which is why the food over there is still fr
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> And the fact that it's missing exceptions seems like a win because I much prefer dealing with errors when they occur. This person doesn't seem to have much experience with error handling. You shouldn't deal with errors the way you pre
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> Scala really makes Play2 shine. Not really. Scala has a lot of good points but it's very ill-suited to web development because of compilation times. Play1 could compile templates in a few tenths of a second while it takes 7-10 seconds
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
Stop paying attention to trash patents that get filed every day (too many to count and of little consequence) and start getting outraged at companies that actually sue based on trash patents (Apple is the #1 offender here, but sadly not alo
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> I don't mind writing code. You should mind writing code that the compiler can write for you, which is exactly what you do when you don't have exceptions (you simulate bubbling up the error manually).
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> In Go the code does what it says. The error is handled or it is not. You may find Go's error handling verbose, but a lot of programmers find this a great relief. I'm sorry but you are on the wrong side of history on this question (and
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> Go is so small you could hold the spec in your hand and it's going to be faster and more efficient than python as well as safer to modify thanks to type safety. I think it's very naive to think that the value of a language in a corpor
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> What it says is that he finds writing containers like lists of ints and maps of strings an unbearable burden. I find that an odd claim. I spend very little of my programming time struggling with those issues, even in languages without
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> Disadvantage is more verbosity Type inference cuts down the verbosity tremendously.
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
While this is theoretically correct, it goes against the principle of the web. Write the content, provide some structural guidance (paragraphs, item lists, etc...) and let readers decide how to render it.
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> I'm keeping an eye on Haskell for iOS. Really? Is that even possible? Can't imagine Apple being okay with that.
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
The advantage of statically typed languages has a lot less to do with tests and everything to do with tools. IDE's can do very little when no type information is available, and most automatic refactorings require human supervision when perf
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
Never take GUI advice from a web site that hardcodes the width of its paragraphs to 600px. Seriously, who does this in 2012?
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> Although I don't necessarily think it will be because of war, I can see a potential future where people/persons decide democracy is a less effective system because it's holding back the decision making process That's something Darth V
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> The report goes on to convey the truly heartbreaking image of a hopeless RMS sitting at the university staircase, crying. Words fail me.
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> Despite his controversial views on a variety of topics, his evangelism work all over the world is a true inspiration for countless people I disagree, I think his evangelism is dangerous and offensive. He goes around telling programmer
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> If Hollywood made this exact same product but with pay buttons, why would I as a user choose it over movies.io. Same reason you buy stuff instead of stealing them?
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> Polymorphism in this instance is simply allowing you to call the same function with an integer and string respectively. Er... no, that's not polymorphism, that's overloading.
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
The name is unfortunate, especially when the documentation sometimes omits to capitalize "Loop", which introduces even more confusion than there already is.
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
There is no evidence in this article that 1) this approach is better than A/B testing. 2) it doesn't suffer from the the Heisenberg principle Also, the call out box at the top is obviously an ad but it's not marked "Sponsored link", which i
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
It is cheating. Interviewing is different from a real job. You need to show you can do more than look up solutions on the web. I can't blame you for trying to cheat your way into a job and I certainly blame the interviewer for not seeing th
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
Note: the interviews are for an intern position, which are very different from software engineer positions.
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
Brain teasers of this kind were banned at Google circa 2006.
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> Not sure if I'm more amazed that Oracle thought deleting the evidence from their website would stop non other than Google from finding it. That's not the first time they do this, they deleted Jonathan Schwartz' entire blog in the days
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
Correct. "To marry" is actually one of these rare verbs that can be both transitive and intransitive. And like somebody pointed out earlier, it can either mean that the subject is the one getting married or that they are performing the cere
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> it's unbelievable how many people are leaving. Where have you been? Yahoo! has been in limbo for half a decade, there has been a constant brain drain for all that time. The only engineers still working at Yahoo! are probably there bec
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> Hey, I'm the author of the article and I don't really have an agenda in the Android/iOS platform debate. Either you are being dishonest about this claim or you are simply a bad reporter who wasn't able to convey her intention in her w
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
This is nonsense. Yes, fragmentations make it a bit harder on developers, but that's why we get paid the big bucks. Choice is good for users, you won't hear a lot of Android users complain about fragmentation.

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