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by hvs 15y ago
I enjoy creating as much as the next guy, but I think the "point of programming" is to solve problems. And if banks use Java to solve problems, then that's what you use. If you get the "joy of creating" as you go along, great, but your empl
872.
by hvs 15y ago
Nice work, and good luck. The recruiting market for software is a tough one.
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by hvs 15y ago
If he's an advisor to Groupon, then I'm pretty sure he can't say anything without violating a slew of SEC rules.
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by hvs 15y ago
They need money. And the investors would like to cash out before the company runs out of money.
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by hvs 15y ago
As a side note, the original article is a very interesting read that actually leaves me with a very good impression of Elop.
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by hvs 15y ago
It's often surprising in a large organization how much goes on that upper management is unaware of, either through incompetence or malice. I don't know enough about the specifics of this situation, but sometimes "everyone" knows that a prod
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by hvs 15y ago
Just like Cocoa is Mac OS X only. It's for developing native apps. The point is that MS is using open specifications as the centerpiece of their new platform.
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by hvs 15y ago
So, if MS stayed focused on their traditional APIs, developers complain that they only care about proprietary technologies, but if they adopt HTML5+JS, they'll lose developers? Explain to me how that makes sense.
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by hvs 15y ago
$1.5MM sounds overly vindictive, but "He said he was first asked for the passwords by people who weren’t authorized to have them." ? For twelve days? Everything about this stinks.
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by hvs 15y ago
The development environment on the Lisp Machines is an example of something that we've "lost", but the examples in this article either still exist, weren't that useful, or have been replaced with something better. And Emacs or Vim can do an
881.
by hvs 15y ago
That's "local climate change" and he clearly said "global climate change".
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by hvs 15y ago
I was in SIGOps with Brian back at UIUC when Paul Swanson was running it. That was back around 1997-1998, so that's not surprising since Brian had published his source code for his "toy" OS and it was widely available. Brian also worked at
883.
by hvs 15y ago
My guess (and I could be completely wrong) is that Apple is working behind the scenes in some way to take care of this.
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by hvs 15y ago
I beg to differ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roux
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by hvs 15y ago
I agree. I guess I didn't make it clear that I was saying that those foods aren't necessarily bad just because they are carbs. My personal data is irrelevant (and largely due to the fact that my metabolism seems to be on par with a smelting
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by hvs 15y ago
You just used the words "potato", "noodles", "rice", and "flour" in a distinctly negative tone. Those are some of my favorite foods, preferable doused in butter. And I'm 6'1", 170 lbs.
887.
by hvs 15y ago
Looks like they have guides for multiple operating systems: http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance/security_configuration_guides...
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by hvs 15y ago
That's not surprising. Even among its adherents, C++ evokes a love-hate relationship. I really don't like the language, but reading Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language" and Josuttis's "The C++ Standard Library", I have to say that I
889.
by hvs 15y ago
What does this even mean? How did the Internet fail just because you didn't know about it? I'm pretty sure there is a lot of stuff that you aren't aware of, and that in no way reflects on the Internet as a whole.
890.
by hvs 15y ago
Execution is more than building a site. Groupon, especially, is an example of a site that is successful due to the deals that they can negotiate and their quality writing. That's not to say that I disagree with you that the builders deserve
891.
by hvs 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that the city doesn't want their employees to have email addresses like "jblow15433@hotmail.com". You pay providers (like Microsoft and Google) to host your email domain as well.
892.
by hvs 15y ago
Not as well as a PC. PC gaming and console gaming are two totally different worlds
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by hvs 15y ago
Tablets can't do serious gaming.
894.
by hvs 15y ago
Lawmakers have no need for practicality and common sense.
895.
by hvs 15y ago
It'd be nice if the person you sold it to at least had to use the patent before they could start suing people.
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by hvs 15y ago
Russ and Max were the two smartest guys I went to college with and were also great friends. Everyone knew that they were both going to be very successful.
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by hvs 15y ago
But computers really are better than 30 years ago. The fact that we haven't come up with a better text editor is actually surprising. I don't think that emacs is the best that we are capable of.
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by hvs 15y ago
Which, as an emacs user, I completely agree with. Certain things in emacs are much more difficult to get working than they should be. Emacs sucks, but other editors just suck more (I'm not talking about you vim). To be fair, though, emacs w
899.
by hvs 15y ago
Which is funny, because I remember a few years ago (circa 2007) when Rails was just starting to get big and Textmate was the hipster editor. All of which is idiotic, because anyone who chooses an editor based on image is most likely a terri
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by hvs 15y ago
There's an argument here struggling to get out. As an emacs user, I agree with some of the ideas he is attempting to express, but then it just sort of gets buried in "I don't like emacs or vim." and "too much customization bothers me." Mayb

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