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by habitue 11y ago
I have a feeling the parent commenter knows the rule, but didn't care to follow it. Your comment seems like someone who walks up to every smoker they see and says "Did you know smoking causes cancer?"
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by habitue 11y ago
I think it's interesting that he continually says "we" throughout. As if his kids are really contacting developers and talking with suppliers and mojang lawyers etc. I'm sure they're doing something meaningful like
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by habitue 11y ago
Actually, scientists have a huge incentive to overthrow an existing regime if it's bad but nobody knows it yet. It will make your career if you are able to prove it. The evidence required is high if what you're trying to disprove
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by habitue 11y ago
People's brains change as they age. There are definite differences between the way older people and younger people think. This isn't a generalization about old people having bad politics, but rather a comment on the tendency of pe
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by habitue 11y ago
I'm not the commenter you're replying to, but maybe they meant that we've only reduced early causes of death like disease etc, but not done anything to affect our internal biological processes that cause aging. As an example,
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by habitue 11y ago
One difference here which might give you an idea of where to place your bets is that the conservative opposition to global warming is based largely on studies financed by the energy industry. The willpower research is being called into ques
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by habitue 11y ago
This is basically how ruby solves it with Gemfile and Gemfile.lock
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by habitue 11y ago
It looks like this product is less aimed at being relied on when you're in a survival situation, and more about extending the benefits of your cell phone when you're out of range. For example, in Yosemite Valley, there is no cell
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by habitue 11y ago
This is explained in reply to your sibling comment, but the convention on linux for many years is that the source distribution has automake/autotools already run. That way, when you download the source tarball, you know the process is
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by habitue 11y ago
Not all of them, but yeah, it's close. The main issue with 3rd party libraries is keeping them up to date with the official drivers. The way this driver is written, updates can be automated
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by habitue 11y ago
Exactly, why does everybody forget about UI state like animations, etc that are never persisted to the server? This is a huge swath of what makes up an app and you need to be able to handle it
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by habitue 11y ago
Babel doesn't solve the problem of having a minimal standard library. Unlike say Python or Ruby, where batteries are included, JS is roll it yourself, add a dependency, or go without in almost every case. Even for seemingly trivial thi
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by habitue 11y ago
I think writing an abstraction that allows you to decouple your app in a way that you could use either Angular or React is going to take far longer than just rewriting your app if you ever get to the point of needing to switch.
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by habitue 11y ago
The reason the dogma of Free Software exists is because often in day to day decisions it's easy not to think about the long-term effects. Right now, you have a neat chat tool. Maybe in 10 years, you have a problem where Slack has a mon
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by habitue 11y ago
You can't. The "valuation" number that is reported for unicorns is made up. It's not related to the sale of shares of the company because the company isn't public yet. To short, there has to be a market for the sha
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by habitue 11y ago
Google and Apple are very different from a unicorn. They are profitable public companies, and they'll still be around even if all the unicorns suddenly disappear.
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by habitue 11y ago
Strongly typed languages beat dynamic languages hands down for refactoring. The ability to know immediately what broke without having to run all your code paths dominates any time savings gained by typing faster. I'm a fan of strongly
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by habitue 11y ago
I don't think it's clickbait, just kinda ranty and with no "wow, that's a good point!" moments.
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by habitue 11y ago
I think it's interesting that the culture on HN is such that we can have an article like this on the front page. Sure, the comments are dumping on it, and it's not the most compelling argument in the first place, but the fact that
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by habitue 11y ago
> Before its migration to the university, philosophy had never had a central home. Philosophers could be found anywhere — serving as diplomats, living off pensions, grinding lenses, as well as within a university. I think we've come
891.
by habitue 11y ago
Fair point. But it's now also possible to lobby to get access to it
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by habitue 11y ago
This is interesting since, really, cops' brains are already creating "threat scores", it's just that they aren't available to look at or tinker with how they're calculated. It's likely these computer model
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by habitue 11y ago
I came across JooQ when looking for LINQ in Java. I believe that's the original inspiration
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by habitue 11y ago
Imagine being a naturalist and observing this behavior in the wild: "Wow, these developers have a really fertile experimental ecosystem. Why are they doing this? It looks like they're reinventing things over and over again. It loo
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by habitue 11y ago
The grandparent was saying why Google should be less ambiguous: because more people will build on top of their apis if the legal situation is predictable. The comment was written from the point of view that Google is setting up bad incentiv
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by habitue 11y ago
Bootstrap was released a decade after this guy stopped doing webdev. This is the kind of stuff he needs to know about, and why the whining about "hipster" stuff isn't useful. He is looking for the basics of modern development
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by habitue 11y ago
This isn't a very controversial opinion on HN. It's the standard "js developers are just crazy ADHD kids and all they do is chase the latest shiny framework every week". It gets featured prominently in every thread that
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by habitue 11y ago
I think this article is overreaching trying to draw a general lesson from evernote, Google, apple, etc. Google and Apple are much different cases than evernote. Theres no reason to talk about them in the context of Evernote's problems
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by habitue 11y ago
Biggest difference is RethinkDB is a JSON document store, and Cassandra is column-oriented. Cassandra is eventually-consistent, and RethinkDB is immediately consistent with all writes going through a primary node for each table. RethinkDB a
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by habitue 11y ago
One really nice thing about purescript is that it dumps out readable JS. It's a really handy aid to figuring out "So how can I use this with library X?"

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