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by foljs 16y ago
<b>No major powers have gone to war however. Stalemates of nuclear war and the lack of conventional warfare between capitalistic countries equates to this weird period in history that does not involve actual military expansion. Econ
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by foljs 16y ago
"This has been the most peaceful period in history." Not by a wide margin. The US for example is at war every single year of its existence. Now, it might be peaceful in Chicago or Pensacola, but the same was true for those living in Rome wh
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by foljs 16y ago
"""I can tell the difference, even with crummy earbuds.""" It's not enough to be able to "tell the difference". You also have to be able to tell the difference in random A/B tests. If you are like 99.9 percent of the population, you will no
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by foljs 16y ago
"""The artists get 15 cents of every dollar? Fuck. That. I will continue not buying music until I'm able to pay the artists directly.""" I'm sure that's the exact motivation.
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by foljs 16y ago
Utterly outlandish? Please. The only proof we have of something being easier to learn, beside anecdotal evidence ("oh, I tried it and it was easy") is statistical empirical evidence, i.e people actually learning it. Well, people are not act
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by foljs 16y ago
It would only be a "counterexample" if it was a valid example. This only keeps the "counter" part, but as an example it is flawed.
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by foljs 16y ago
So, essentially: a) given that people has made bad arguments before b) it "seems relevant" to make bad arguments in the opposite direction now Huh?
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by foljs 16y ago
"How do you define "succeed"? Does something only succeed if it has the largest market share?" -- no: mainly if it's better suited to the task at hand. "There are many other exceptions: Wikipedia is open source." Which doesn't matter at all
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by foljs 16y ago
"The learning curve of those languages is not bigger then the learning curve of other languages." If only it wasn't for the fact that reality and history has proven otherwise...
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by foljs 16y ago
Actually, despite all the fanfare about LISP, Haskell, Scheme et al, more useful programs have been written and deployed in, say, Python, than all those combined. What's the last useful LISP program you have used? What proportion does it co
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by foljs 16y ago
>According to the link you posted, that's over four times slower than C++ virtual method dispatch Hmm, check the results in the same page for the 64bit Cocoa runtime. This is where most optimizations are made, because Apple used the 32-
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by foljs 16y ago
Hmm, do we ever had any Open Source "answer" to anything succeed, not in the meaning of usefulness, but in the meaning of BEING ACTUALLY USED BY A HUGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE, something that is necessary for, say, Facebook? Compare: @ Linux, BSD
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by foljs 16y ago
The C safety / smalltalk speed quote probably was quite funny when it was relevant --some decades ago. And all the rest of your "language criticism" is all about the IDE. Coincidentally all solved by Xcode 4: better autocomplete, automatic
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by foljs 16y ago
>except that in the Mac you can option-click, which is even >more complicated than a right click. There is always a way >to make features obscure, if you want to. Emm, I think you missed his point. This is EXACTLY why the single
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by foljs 16y ago
It's a term of service (TOS) agrrement, not a professional SLA. Most of us don't pay Linode anything important enough to warrant an SLA. You don't get very strict 99.9% SLAs for $20 and $80 a month anyways...
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by foljs 16y ago
Why? Because there are other services with no downtime? Even Amazon and Rackspace go down... Even Google has had outages...
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by foljs 16y ago
Yes, I'm sure your one page, one form, application tells a lot of relevant stuff about GAE.
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by foljs 16y ago
Why is it mostly non-western developers that post those kind of ridiculous "please solve my problem for me" questions? (btw: non western myself)
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by foljs 16y ago
"""That said, it's a beta product.""" It always is with Google. When exactly do you expect the "rc"?
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by foljs 16y ago
"""I always think if your site can't be host by GAE, then it's probably not very scalable at the first place. I""" Well, your site is basically one static page. Do you really feel qualified discussing GAE?
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by foljs 16y ago
Procrastination inducing apps and hobbyist tinkering apps, that is, as opposed to actual apps and games.
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by foljs 16y ago
Being inside the content does not make it a "modern system". Actually, it's a rather dumb idea too, except for very simple systems. Besides editing the content (title, body, etc) there are numerous others things to configure and edit that d
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by foljs 16y ago
Yes, and missions organizations are very serious about QA on the apps their members use on their iPhones...
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by foljs 16y ago
Nowhere in the comments it is shown to be a false claim. "Faster than C" is doable, but needs qualifiers, e.g: CUDA in modern GPU hardware is faster than dektop C. JITed Java was shown to be faster than C in several cases, because the JIT c
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by foljs 16y ago
People should also understand generalization, though. That there's "tons and tons of parallel C code" doesn't matter. Parallelization is built-in into this language. It is not built-in, as a first class language feature, in C. A lot of C pr
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by foljs 16y ago
"""A a little more humility here would be appreciated; they would be high priced consultants if their ideas were so golden.""" You'd be surprised to see how many "high priced consultants" have sank companies. Or how many bloggers have had b
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by foljs 16y ago
Web/DTP is not the same thing at all. DTP is static. The web is dynamic. You can envision some paragraphs of text in a blog post being re-flown but the web is more than that. What about interactive text? Text in SVG? Multi-language text in
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by foljs 16y ago
Thank you captain obvious (and condescending).
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by foljs 16y ago
No, it was further developed by FOX News
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by foljs 16y ago
Yes, they solved it alright. In an entirely different context.

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