hnbroseph

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by hnbroseph 11y ago
ever since yahoo's activities concerning china and political dissenters [1] (though this isn't the only reason to dislike them), i've never engaged with their services. i admit to a bit of schadenfreude when coming across ne
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
i think the notion is that calling someone "a nazi" is seen as some kind of trump card or knock-down move, yet rarely is it really appropriate. or it's a purely emotional appeal. it's a cultural thing, i guess.
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
the question seems non sequitur.
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
http://disneyinfinitycodes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/6a...
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
companies like google and apple can largely behave as they please during hiring, because the resulting candidate loss is offset by the relatively massive size of the candidate pool. there's always plenty willing to put up with whateve
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
"C++ is a standard, JS is a standard." seems to miss the point. a better (but still imperfect) comparison would be suggesting to rewrite c libs in c++, given the latter's somewhat better type safety.
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
not sure what you're trying to say.
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
and the principle means effective imprisonment doesn't require a trial.
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
this just seems like ad hom.
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
there's a game company called undead labs that uses Elixir in production (per https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSTspCGn8C8 )
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
appropriate username :-)
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> People in the U.S. really think there's a terrorism problem here out of curiosity, what evidence is there that there isn't? perhaps i should ask what you mean by "a terrorism problem" as well.
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
> If Apple are successfully compelled to produce a version of iOS that bypasses PIN security this would seem a rather scary precedent of forced, unwilling labor. i wonder if it could be construed as "involuntary servitude".
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
so... don't resolve dns if it resolves somewhere they don't like?
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony apparently 7 or more distinguishable definitions.
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
they mention Schwartz... was there an edit?
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
perhaps people should've stopped messing about with ZFS a long time ago. it's always been known that licensing problems exist, yet people toil away as if they'll magically disappear - all they do is make Oracle product offer
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
> Until a few years ago you were perfectly content with keeping an agenda in your pocket and pictures in your living room's drawer. only because they weren't (thought to be) subject to casual perusal by unknown entities. this
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
would it hurt to qualify anything, or is this just your current emotional state?
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ellipsis...
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
snowden doesn't seem like he's very employable at the moment. if he doesn't take speaking fees, what's he going to live on? alms?
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
On that note, MS doesn't use C# that much outside of websites. Maybe people should take the hint there as well.
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
it's worth also asking: How much does licensing a set of Windows keys run? How does the .NET GC impact me versus Swift's ARC? How much RAM does Visual Studio eat up after you've been coding for a while? How slow, unresponsive
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
i guess it depends on what one means by headaches. mono on linux has never been a significant interest for xamarin, and core-clr is nowhere near production ready. maybe if jetbrains' project rider gains traction and core-clr and/
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
they are in a position of luxury, for sure. if a serious contender starts cutting into Docker Corp's pie, they'll have to ramp up the other departments.
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
> that which is best suited to the problem at hand also best suited...according to our understanding of the problem space, our capability/competency to tackle it, our resources presently available to allocate, our worldview and pref
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
> UIs aren't stateless i would agree that this is the traditional perspective. i'm not convinced this is necessarily the case; there may be other ways to look at it. it could be that the ui "value" is the output of a
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
what do you mean?
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by hnbroseph 11y ago
i guess it's cool to describe things reductively so that there's no real direct response.