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by glassx 15y ago
IMO, significant whitespace shines when used along with a proper editor. Also, even without an editor, the cleanliness pays off. And you would indent properly anyway...
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by glassx 15y ago
If I recall correctly, Google switched their crawler from Python to C++ for performance and for library compatibility etc. And eBay moved the whole website from C++ to Java in 2002. IMO, the problem is that Twitter was Ruby's poster while b
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by glassx 15y ago
Maybe he's just that, a great guy speaking his mind.
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by glassx 15y ago
I've said it before and got a lot of downvotes, but one company controlling everything doesn't really pose a problem to the open web or to users privacy, but instead to other companies, to smaller startups, small entrepreneurs, free market
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by glassx 15y ago
I think most developers don't see that as a problem. We modify the response all the time based on headers like User-Agent, Referer, If-Unmodified-Since, Accept-Language and others, so using Accept for versioning isn't really that strange.
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by glassx 15y ago
Oh, I agree with you. Google will pose no problems to other big players or end users. But the bigger they are, the worse it is for everyone. Mr. Timr, the poster above me, put it much better than I ever could, so I'll just quote him: "When
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by glassx 15y ago
Quoting myself: "an end user can perfectly avoid using ALL of its [Apple] products with absolutely zero strength" Maybe it is just me, but in a scale of 1 to 10, how hard it is to voluntarily stop buying/using products from Google, Apple, M
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by glassx 15y ago
I completely agree with you. Google already rules in search, phones, and now our social life. With Chromebooks they will get a bigger chunk of it. They have ten times more potential for evil than Microsoft ever dreamed of having in the nine
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by glassx 15y ago
You're not alone ;) "I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby." – Kent Beck
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by glassx 15y ago
Bonus points for recommending a Linux environment. Everyone should learn sysadmin basics. It's not hard, and in the long run it can be handy, especially in startups with small teams.
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by glassx 15y ago
I've seen news about child porn allegations in the UK that usually lead to nowhere in the latest years, mostly because of some credit card issues. I remember it happening with Pete Townshend (from The Who) and Robert Del Naja (from Massive
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by glassx 15y ago
Also, "Upon the launch of the iPhone 4, Jobs promised that Apple would work in due course with standards bodies to make the FaceTime protocol an open standard." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facetime ) I wonder when (or if) it will happen.
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by glassx 15y ago
Just a disclaimer: I have zero work experience with PHP, just personal experience. I put it inside quotation marks because it's not the true-reflection API per se, but I believe it was a mistake to even bring that up, and to generalize by s
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by glassx 15y ago
That's why I put the word reflection inside quotes, I wasn't talking about the proper reflection API, but about functions like get_class_methods, and stuff like $$. Here's an example similar to yours: $a = new A; foreach(get_objec
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by glassx 15y ago
I believe that this (ideas thrown around) is the truth, Rasmus Lerdorf comes across as a very pragmatic developer who's more interested in getting things done rather than being an architectural perfectionist. But I'm not saying that in a de
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by glassx 15y ago
Yes, but I think you missed the point... I was talking about how the Unreal Engine uses a third-party development environment, makes portable content but some of their games are huge success cases on iOS. Basically I was replying to this:
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by glassx 15y ago
Unity works fine, indeed. Also the Unreal Engine, which is used on Infinity Blade.
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by glassx 15y ago
Maybe we don't want a filter that sucks, plain and simple? Whether the filter sucks or not is completely subjective, but it sucks for me, so there. Changing the language not that intuitive in Google, it's a drag. I have to do it all the tim
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by glassx 15y ago
Nice write up. Apparently the consensus is that Erlang is amazing for 'lower-level' infrastructure code but not so great for high-level business code. I wonder if Reia and Elxir might play a role in changing that...
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by glassx 15y ago
Regulation would be okay... maybe something forbidding the storage of plain-text passwords, special instructions for hashing, a special protocol for (not) storing credit card numbers... Like a security 101...
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by glassx 15y ago
"If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse" - Henry Ford
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by glassx 15y ago
Honest question: the reason for such redundancy and overlap is because different Google teams want/have independence, because they can't communicate with each other and reach an agreement, or because they're afraid to piss off users with ra
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by glassx 15y ago
Exactly. LulzSec on the other hand would probably be the ones breaking into the dentists office and drawing a penis on the patients face with black marker, just to wait for them to wake up and laugh at them. :)
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by glassx 15y ago
That's the best explanation I've heard so far, makes a lot of sense!
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by glassx 15y ago
The comments on the linked article make me sad. The comparison with Betamax vs VHS makes me sad. Do all Android fans wish for a Google monopoly, or something? I have iOS and Android devices and for one I'd hate it. I really wish that Androi
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by glassx 15y ago
Call me crazy, but I'd rather have LulzSec stealing passwords on crappy secured services than a NSA agent scanning my whole life. That would be the single worst outcome.
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by glassx 15y ago
I'd personally change that to "human beings need to learn statistics or I will kill them all".
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by glassx 15y ago
Hey, but my field is computer science!!! ;D But to be honest, programming isn't black magic here. Not in an university. Music majors have to learn CSound, PureData and Max/MSP. Visual artists need Processing and Quartz Composer. Architects
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by glassx 15y ago
Why not both? Or just pick the one ypu're better with? I don't get why fanboys of each platform wants the other to die... The worst thing that could happen is a smartphone platform monopoly... Hello stagnation... Hello nineties...
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by glassx 15y ago
I believe that "learned" means "learned enough to work professionally with". Deep knowledge of a language is always very desired, but on the real world very few programmers have it, or even need it. (Not to mention that "deep knowledge" i

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