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by eta_carinae 14y ago
Here are a few more pull request tricks: http://beust.com/weblog/2010/09/15/a-quick-guide-to-pull-req...
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> I believe in civility and courtesy in many areas, and Linus doesn't phrase things exactly as I would. And a few messages down, he proceeds to say "You are a moron". Not exactly a role model of civility.
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
> JSON is better (and XML is crap) it's ridiculous Except that in JSON, strings need to be surrounded by double quotes. Why impose on human readers a syntactic requirement that only compilers/interpreters need? From this respect, JSON i
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
There is no such a person as "Scott Chase". Maybe you mean "Chet Haase". Chet joined the Android team in May 2010, way, way after Android became the success it is today. Having said that, you are quite right to credit Romain for a lot of th
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by eta_carinae 14y ago
"And so all these Android phones are going to be incompatible." He seems to be confusing Android with Java ME. Android has a few portability issues but it's light years ahead of anything that Java ME ever did. Gosling seems to have a very s
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
I'm a pretty big supporter of Microsoft overall but I came here to post just this. There are a bunch of projects on this page and I wanted to open all of them in background tabs. I can't. What's the justification for not using plain links f
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
I use emacs every day for various things but I would never hire a Java programmer who doesn't use an IDE.
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
Come on. You didn't have much choice going to camp because your parents forced you but the only thing forcing you to use Facebook is peer pressure. If you give in to it, it's because you see more pros than cons. Not feeling sorry for you. A
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
When the Android effort started at Google, neither Apple nor Microsoft were remotely near to being a force in the mobile market (more like Nokia and RIM). The target was much more obvious than that: the carriers. Larry Page was tired of car
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
> Scala the language is decent, but the JVM-induced clusterfuck of complex stdlib/IDE reliance/maven makes for a non-starter. I see things the other way around: the JVM is a very impressive piece of technology that has been aging impres
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
> Reading through these comments I would like to point out this is an Aprils fools day post. Its funny because if you didn't read to the end you might very well believe it. You know that Scala has gone off the deep end when somebody mak
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
Here's another aspect of what you might miss if you don't go to college. Everywhere I have worked (including Google), I've been surrounded with great developers, some of which who came from college, others who dropped out early and just lea
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
Please don't make any claims about high performance based on micro-benchmarks.
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
> The same argument could be used with assembly language vs. Ruby/Python, but that doesn't stop people from using higher-level abstractions to get things done easily. That's not the right analogy. The situation here is more: you join a
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
> That's silly. As developers we constantly try to make better interfaces for our users. When it comes to our own tools we supposed to put up with difficult interfaces because that's the way it is? We're not talking about a different in
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
Oh dear. Please, no. Just, no. git's user interface is terrible and very counter-intuitive, but if you want to work in a team or, more to the point, be productive and leverage what git has to offer, do take the time to learn its native user
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
I predict he will leave Google to create a new start up within twelve months.
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
It's just that most of the curves have remained flat. Look on job boards, language rankings, github stats, or even the Scala reddit, which is a ghost town. Taken in isolation, these numbers don't mean much but when you start putting all the
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
I'm confused, can't they just write a GUI in Visual Basic to track the perp's IP?
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
If you only decide to stop hiring Yahoo engineers now, you're a bit too late to the game. Anyone who's still at Yahoo1 today is probably someone who hasn't been able to find a job elsewhere. I have interviewed a lot of Yahoo! engineers thes
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
> Python 3 is the future of the Python language ... and it always will be.
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
> It's going to take a little while for a language like Scala (or any JVM based language) to fully penetrate the market. By a wide margin, the overall consensus in the JVM community seems to be that Scala will probably never be more pop
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
Guava is one of the best Java libraries available today, and the fact that the bar for submitting patches is so high is a simple consequence of that. You can't have it both ways.
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
> The problem with search is that not only is Google getting worse, but I've also mostly outgrown it, in that it isn't sophisticated to answer pretty much any scientific question I would want to ask. This simply means that Google doesn'
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
He didn't just leave Lift, he left Scala altogether. He's now working in Haskell. Check his latest blog posts for the details (and the scala-tools.org controversy).
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
Good analysis. I like Play overall but two things concern me, both related: 1) they are moving toward Scala and 2) they are adopting sbt. This looks to me more like a "picking a shiny toy" move than something that is being done to benefit u
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
All he did to prove his point was smuggle a small empty metallic case in his pocket and he expects all the airports to take down their scanners as a result... Makes total sense.
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
> He complies with the DMCA. He claims he complies with the DMCA. We won't know until the trial happens, but from what I've read, there appears to be plenty of emails showing the employees explicitly discussing how they actually don't t
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
There are much less distracting ways than thick rounded boxes to indicate indentations, starting with simple spaces. A lot of Lisp programs look a lot better if you apply Python's space indentation for sexprs, for example.
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by eta_carinae 15y ago
> The material contains privileged information about the US government's attacks against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and Stratfor's own attempts to subvert WikiLeaks. I'm getting tired of Wikileak's bullshit. Either you have proof abou

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