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by glassx 15y ago
It sounds a lot like how the Mafia operates...
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by glassx 15y ago
> And this is why I never understand why so many Apple users want Android & Windows to fail. Huh? I thought it was the other way around, no? (i.e.: it's not fee, must die, etc) And really, webapps aren't going anywhere. The App Stor
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by glassx 15y ago
> The complaints from Apple developers have been around forever. I have a theory. Apple developers and users are as angry and outraged when things break or their freedom is restricted, and they do complain (just look at the support boar
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by glassx 15y ago
Exactly! And you don't even have to bother making something - there's already a couple Basic interpreters... and Scheme... and Lua.
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by glassx 15y ago
Not really. Diaspora already had most of its design in place, including the drag-and-drop 'Circles' feature (called Aspects in Diaspora), before Google+ was even announced.
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by glassx 15y ago
I'm not your parent poster but I personally dislike that you have to instantiate a separated Response object, and that you have to fetch a stream, even for tiny responses. In those Python/Ruby frameworks it's just one line. I always end up
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by glassx 15y ago
Oh, agreed. And the newer ultrabooks make the portability vs usability tradeoff much much smaller. And maybe open/closed OSs will eventually converge. Look at Lion and Windows 8... I just hope they remain open!!!
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by glassx 15y ago
Well, I believe it would work seamlessly if it's just a code-translator like coffescript.
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by glassx 15y ago
I think it might be elegant in small doses - just look at C#'s LINQ. Also, it's a nice strategy to lure newbies away from string concatenation and give security for free...
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by glassx 15y ago
It would be really cool. In fact, I was thinking about that right now. Just convert and bingo, instantly deployable on 100% of php hosts. For local development, a script with --watch a la sass, or maybe a single index.php for converting thi
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by glassx 15y ago
"Then I think we're a long way from seeing this era" Agreed, but we're just starting, maybe in a few years, who knows... IMO, the term post-PC is a nice way to differentiate Android/iOS/WebOS/etc tablets from previous generation tablets tha
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by glassx 15y ago
That's what I thought. Also, memory chips, LCD display and power controllers, Thunderbolt... those can make a lot of difference in an Apple product.
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by glassx 15y ago
Indeed! The typography in this issue, and the design of cover, specifically, are very fitting!
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by glassx 15y ago
"programming did become fun again when I started using functional programming as my main paradigm" That's exactly what happened to me. Even though I mostly program in C# (at work) and Ruby (for personal projects) these days, my code and my
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by glassx 15y ago
Well, I never really used the iPad as a consumption device. Of course I loaded it with movies, e-books and pdf papers, but it gets old fast. I still buy 4 books a month and watch Netflix on the living room exclusively... =\ However it insta
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by glassx 15y ago
IMO, another nice side-effect of having library code in C is portability and easy code reuse, since lots of scripting languages can interface with it.
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by glassx 15y ago
Ryan Tomayko wrote a post on Ruby/C/Perl Markdown parsers and did some benchmarks a while ago: http://tomayko.com/writings/ruby-markdown-libraries-real-che...
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by glassx 15y ago
Diaspora was/is a hint of the future for distributed social networks, but too bad it was/is a bit poorly executed. To be honest, I had hopes that Google+ would be part of an open platform with federation, considering Google Talk already use
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by glassx 15y ago
I think it was just an example of companies changing the web for the worse little by little, that was the point of the article. And to be honest, I share his feelings. The web is getting more and more closed with "The Big Four" reigning. Bu
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by glassx 15y ago
Yeah, but most of us who grew up and started using MacBooks still run Linux on our servers, we still that bit of /. inside us :)
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by glassx 15y ago
I know this might be an unpopular opinion, but nobody really _learns_ good practices just by having somebody tell them. They might _use_ them, but _learning_ requires something more. It is important for programmers to think by themselves! G
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by glassx 15y ago
It does: Human -> Living -> Biology -> Natural Science -> Branch -> Knowledge -> Facts -> Truth -> Reality -> Philosophy
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by glassx 15y ago
According to Spolsky, that was the original intention: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html (EDIT: Oops, I answered you before seeing it's on the accepted answer on the article)
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by glassx 15y ago
Yes, but, paraphrasing you, major Windows versions "don't show up for free in Windows Update".
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by glassx 15y ago
Avoiding a product just because it is popular is another kind of sheep behavior. People are free to buy whatever they want without being judged for it. Please stop being a troll.
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by glassx 15y ago
What about Windows versions? Windows XP still works perfectly, but that didn't prevent people from buying Windows Vista or Windows 7 because of the innovations...
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by glassx 15y ago
Yeah, I can perfectly see things in this light. Look at programming languages. There are lot of passionate users, advocating the languages, and things don't turn sour like that. I would even call myself a Lisp and Ruby fanboy, I find it a f
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by glassx 15y ago
I think that Apple's relationship with geeks/tech-enthusiasts has been sour since the beginning. The "I'm a Mac" advertisements make it pretty clear that they definitely don't want to be a "corporate brand" or a "geeky brand", even though t
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by glassx 15y ago
Depends on your "at a glance" definition, but yeah, photos don't do it much justice. Both the Xoom and the 2.0 Galaxy look nothing like an iPad 'in real life'. It's like comparing a Vaio to a MacBook, only the form factor is the same. (I ha
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by glassx 15y ago
Ironically, with those small details I'll be able to spend even less time doing mundane tasks on my OS. :)

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