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   by fineline 12y ago

   I saw this effect off the beach near me a few weeks ago, it was quite captivating as the breakers were lit up as if by an underwater neon (I actually thought it was an artificial light show of some kind at first). But although deeply impres
2. 152.▲
   by fineline 12y ago

   This is an architecture preference disguised as a tool review. It should be called "Reasons why I don't like client-side web programming and prefer to work with server-side logic".
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   by fineline 12y ago

   And if you want to program like Holmes as well... http://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Learning-Program-Computer-S... This was the first programming book I read, back in the eighties. Lately I got a copy for nostalgia's sa
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   by fineline 12y ago

   Developers will view REST APIs with the same dismissive disdain reserved today for SOAP/COM/CORBA. In 5 years time there'll be something much cooler, probably based on GIT. (GIT will live forever.) The hot in-demand skill wil
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   by fineline 12y ago

   Is there some problem with macros in the new SDK? Or is it that your macros are specific about word size?
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   by fineline 12y ago

   Here's something that infuriates me more. I go to canistream.it to find that a movie is available for rental on iTunes for $2.99. I then open iTunes to find that here in Australia they will charge me $4.99 Australian, which is $4.42 US
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   by fineline 12y ago

   > Sigh... this "where's my feature!" argument almost always comes up. I'll make it simple. Nimrod has one feature - only ONE - which differentiates it from Go. It's not generics, it's not inheritance, it&#x2
8. 158.▲
   by fineline 12y ago

   But you can't deploy your Go to iOS. Or your Swift to Linux. I'm getting interested in Nimrod (or Nim as I think it's planning to become). Compiles to native binaries via C, C++ or ObjectiveC. Even compiles to JavaScript. So
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   by fineline 12y ago

   I have never had a Twitter account, nor have I ever posted to Facebook (although I do have a page, so the press have a nice picture of me in case I'm kidnapped or something, as well as 50 or so "friends", although I have no i
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    by fineline 12y ago

    No I didn't know about that, thanks. I guess I was more thinking about run-on-your-own-hardware/cloud - which I know is not equivalent to the MS offering. I see orands post about FoundationDB, which also looks interesting. Seems l
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    by fineline 12y ago

    "All JavaScript logic is executed within an ambient ACID transaction with snapshot isolation. During the course of its execution, if the JavaScript throws an exception, then the entire transaction is aborted." Have I missed someth
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    by fineline 12y ago

    To decline an opportunity (choosing to bequeath to nobody) is not the same as to be denied that same opportunity. The latter could be discrimination, the former case could not, as who would be the discriminator?
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    by fineline 12y ago

    Thanks, I actually didn't know about sarcasm and wit being frowned upon (is it documented somewhere) - this helps explain why an earlier comment of mine[0] which I considered a valid counterpoint to the parent was downvoted. [0] https
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    by fineline 12y ago

    Agree. iDraw's new plugin API looks really interesting too. http://www.indeeo.com/idraw/plugins/
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    by fineline 12y ago

    I use NodeJS quite a bit, which has massive ecosystem, but recently (and especially After TJ Hollowaychuk's announcement about moving to Go) I've been taking a fresh look at these new-fangled systems languages, including Go, Rust
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    by fineline 12y ago

    I see the Babel doco has now been changed (10 hrs ago - any relation to this HN post?) to say I can run Babel against Nimrod 0.9.4 stable instead of needing to build Nimrod from source. This is great news, I was put off by the language&#x27
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    by fineline 12y ago

    Me too, first thought Apple BASIC.
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    by fineline 12y ago

    Well, I'm missing it - what exactly is "the point"? When building client side applications that have hundreds of components and must be able to function in a stand-alone mode robustly, potentially over multiple user sessions,
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    by fineline 13y ago

    Aesthetics is another (arguably more marketable) aspect of car sound. Have you seen The Dilemma? About two guys (tech founder and business founder) working on a system for giving traditional muscle car sound to electric cars. (And some roma
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    by fineline 13y ago

    I am an Australian parent, and whilst I agree there's some liability-averse nonsense[1], the parks we go to do still have swing and see-saws. Maybe a different state or council? [1] E.g. a local spot where kids would jump from a rock l
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    by fineline 13y ago

    Yeah, look I agree with the general sentiment of letting kids take risk and learn responsibility, but my two small kids (who do skateboarding, BMX racing, surfing, rugby and a lot of general "rumbling") are NOT allowed to ride wit
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    by fineline 13y ago

    I think you mean your brother's Apple //e - they switched from the original ][ to // for later models. That's what I started programming on too - except in my case it was my Dad's.
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    by fineline 13y ago

    Can you direct me to the button in Photoshop which opens the source code viewer / debugger for the program? Thanks.
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    by fineline 13y ago

    Relaxing with a few beers at home, this was fun. "12 minutes, 19 seconds for all 5 levels. Well done!" Don't care that I'll be blasted for being a slow old man. Come on, you know you want to! Stallman, babbage, lovelace
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    by fineline 13y ago

    It does beg the question - why? Would this be a good base image for deployment of Node apps onto a Docker host, for example?
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    by fineline 13y ago

    If an application has hung, command Q won't work. Happens to me with Mail sometimes. Also, all the helpful suggestions to use Command Q to close the Force Quit window will work - thanks - unless you first command tab to another app. At
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    by fineline 13y ago

    OK here's one. I press command-option esc to Force Quit an app. But how do I then close the Force Quit window (which stays on top of all other windows) without the mouse? Thanks to anyone who's figured this out.
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    by fineline 13y ago

    +1, the principals of optionality and bimodal strategies apply very well to development, and help to explain things such as the dramatic rise to prominence of Github (similar to Taleb's Hydra analogy). Also Zen and the Art of Motorcycl