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by freyr 13y ago
>> Why CoffeeScript Isn't the Answer What is the question for which CoffeeScript is a compelling answer? "I needed to speak to Germans, so I learned French and spoke through a French-German interpreter. Things were occa
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by freyr 13y ago
>> then migrated to Angular to mitigate nested view chaos. For the record, and for those who are unfamiliar, "nested view chaos" isn't an inherent characteristic of Backbone, and it can also be mitigated by writing go
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by freyr 13y ago
Or, he's a smart man with a lot more experience than a typical kid fresh out of college.
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by freyr 13y ago
It's typically discouraged for startup founders to pay themselves very high salaries. Box isn't a startup any more, but compensation of $189k (not $155k, notice the cash bonus) doesn't seem bad for a young company losing over
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by freyr 13y ago
I understand the reasoning, but I believe it is flawed for two reasons: First, you're confusing the cost of distribution with the total cost of creating media. While digitization has driven down distribution costs, it doesn't af
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by freyr 13y ago
"pirating" costs cameramen nothing. If only one person thinks that way, and pirates a movie, your statement holds true. If 1,000 people think that way, it probably still holds true. Extending this, however, you reach an obvious
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by freyr 13y ago
Sure, and infinite other people screw the driver. Oh, I suppose some people will pay the posted fare for their ride. As long as it doesn't have to be us, right?
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by freyr 13y ago
Nine Inch Nails, etc.? Go on. You might be able to cite Radiohead's In Rainbows. Did these new distribution models flourish, or were they one-off experiments? NIN's new album is available online now for a fixed price.
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by freyr 13y ago
If you hopped in the taxi cab, rode to your destination, and jumped out without paying the posted fare, you'd have a point.
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by freyr 13y ago
A large percentage of non-tech-savvy people seem to hate upgrading. For them, an update just slows them down or leads to confusing changes. What they already have "works fine." The difference between "auto update" and &q
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by freyr 13y ago
It does sound like a perfectly reasonable response. But any competent censor would be able to justify his actions with a reasonable sounding response. We want to hear a response like this, since it sets our minds at ease. But we should resi
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by freyr 13y ago
Could someone fill me in about what's lacking with the node pg driver by brianc?
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by freyr 13y ago
Python and Flask are great, but the secret ingredient here seems to be Stripe. His goal was payment processing, and Stripe made everything else nearly trivial.
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by freyr 13y ago
>> I used Python 3 for the first time a few days ago > Like I said, I haven't used Python 3 before today Well, which is it? Neither makes you much of an authority on the subject.
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by freyr 13y ago
Many people here are picking on the senior developers salaries, hovering right around $100K. Maybe this isn't a particularly competitive startup salary, but note that salaries are tied to revenue. If the company's revenue grows si
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by freyr 13y ago
When I watch a TED talk, I feel good for a moment. If I watch a few more, I begin to feel a little uneasy, and eventually nauseous. It's like eating sugar. There's a repetition, a shallowness, a formulaic manipulation to evoke an
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by freyr 13y ago
> Snapchat is a frivolous, silly app Sure. > mainly used for sexting. Is this actually true? It hasn't really been my experience, but maybe my friends are prudes. > I agree that there is something in combing asynchrony and eph
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by freyr 13y ago
> And there's no indication that teens are using something else that will replace Facebook when they're in their 20's and 30's -- you can't organize parties on Instagram or Snapchat. Today's teens do not use
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by freyr 13y ago
Right on the heels of Saturday Night Live skewering 60 Minutes for softball interviews: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/rob-ford-cold-o...
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by freyr 13y ago
To summarize: * He doesn't care if the NSA spies on everybody, because he doesn't care if they spy on him. He have nothing to hide. * In his experience, the people accessing our data can be trusted. We can extrapolate this to the
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by freyr 13y ago
So, we all like what we're used to. To the OP, insisting that apps running in browsers will never match native apps in terms of UX, that's a very audacious claim. There are many powerful, competent, and well-funded entities with a
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by freyr 13y ago
And the neighbors may not. Licensing isn't just about the man screwing you over.
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by freyr 13y ago
You're right, and Go was being touted as a modern C, not a new C++. Writing "post-C++" was a mistake.
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by freyr 13y ago
Each language is like the others in that it has become associated primarily with a single organization. That's what I was attempting to convey, not any similarity between the languages themselves (the erroneous and unfortunate mention
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by freyr 13y ago
Apple has Objective-C, Mozilla has Rust, Google has Go, Microsoft has C#. I wonder if Facebook was feeling a little left out of the post-C++ language party?
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by freyr 13y ago
I don't promote compulsory military service, but what would prevent someone from being an entrepreneur after finishing their military service? Consider that many developed nations have compulsory military service (Finland, Norway, Sout
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by freyr 13y ago
I still don't think many "savvy entrepreneurs" would/should turn to reality television for VC Looked at another way, it's instant exposure of your company to 6+ million viewers. Seems like a great deal in some cir
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by freyr 13y ago
> After having seen the photo's, the undercover agent thought he would send the money non-anonymously "Oh hey, you're a violent thug who murders people for money? I'm a random guy running a billion dollar undergroun
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by freyr 13y ago
The number is 1bp49b. The base-10 values of b and p are 11 and 25, respectively. The decimal value of the number is then: 1*36^5 + b*36^4 + p*36^3 + 4*36^2 + 9*36^1 + b*36^0 = 36^5 + 11*36^4 + 25*36^3 + 4*36^2 + 9*36 + 11 = 80
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by freyr 13y ago
Apple is not a patent troll. A patent troll, by definition, does not provide any products or services that use its patents.

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