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by incepted 11y ago
... and your code more fragile. You can't have your lunch and eat it too: if you want robust code, you -- the developer -- need to spend some time thinking about how you manage your errors. Go makes it all too easy to sweep those under
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by incepted 11y ago
If you have 1% market share and you grow to 2%, you have doubled your market share. That's the angle that Cook used. If the market leader has 90% market share and they grow to 95%, they have grown a lot less than you relatively (so the
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by incepted 11y ago
They nailed the "release late" part, now they still need to do the "better" part.
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by incepted 11y ago
I hope they start doing that soon.
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by incepted 11y ago
The only reason why they are growing is because they have a much smaller market share. Which is why Tim Cook only revealed relative numbers: Apple is falling behind a bit more every year in absolute numbers.
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by incepted 11y ago
> he seemed like he had a very rational side too? Remember that he died because he thought a fruit diet could cure his cancer instead of real medicine.
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by incepted 11y ago
> Apple will continue to dominate the smartphone market, making obscene amounts of money; they will probably also continue to innovate Apple is certainly going to continue making a lot of money from the iPhone but they haven't innov
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by incepted 11y ago
Javascript will probably be around for a while but Python and Ruby have been constantly shrinking in mind share and buzz these past years (mostly because of Go but also because there are now faster, statically typed languages that subsume t
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by incepted 11y ago
Viaweb is not even an example of that. They're a startup that succeeded while using a niche language. That's correlation, not causation, despite everything pg says.
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by incepted 11y ago
It's not secret, it's just that everybody who knows about it chooses not to use it. Additionally, the fact that it's dynamically typed probably seals its fate (which is already pretty darned sealed).
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by incepted 11y ago
None of what you say invalidates what I said. You like typing on regular keyboards, fine. But you're killing your wrists and tendons one day at a time. There are plenty of varieties of ergonomic keyboards, pretty sure you will eventual
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by incepted 11y ago
If you're still using a straight keyboard (like the tiny Apple keyboard you see in this picture), you absolutely need to get an ergonomic keyboard now. Carpal tunnel syndrome will catch up with you eventually, in a minor or major way,
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by incepted 11y ago
> 4) Java's "market share" on the JVM will drop below 50% by 2010. Definitely hasn't hit 50%. However, Scala has really tremendous adoption Yeah, not really [1]. [1] http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=
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by incepted 11y ago
Trying to discourage the use of a language because of `public static void main` is as absurd as trying to sell a language because it lets you write `println("hello world")`. Don't believe anybody who uses either of these tact
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by incepted 11y ago
> I can test my application wherever I want. And if you are using Java, not only can you test your application wherever you want, you can also write it wherever you want. Languages that don't offer this multiple flexibility will hav
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by incepted 11y ago
> A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week. Er... what? In what world is this a universal truth?
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by incepted 11y ago
Jindal's page has a donation gadget on its 404 page... Classy.
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by incepted 11y ago
> There is still time people, come on over to Linux, the privacy here is still fine and will continue to be fine. And if you come over, then all the desktop software makers will port their software to Linux and all the collapse of privac
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by incepted 11y ago
So what? How do you connect that API key to some anonymous web site that saves deleted tweets? The only way I can think of is for Twitter to publish different deleted tweets to different API keys and then see which one the web site surfaces
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by incepted 11y ago
> But it's always depressed me that nearly forty years later, our high-tech and ultrafast dynamic languages still cannot hold a candle to Smalltalk for clarity, simplicity and usability. You're aware that these are extremely su
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by incepted 11y ago
I'm a bit mystified. The link goes to an empty article but if you google the exact title, you will be taken to the full article which... has the exact same URL. I don't know what kind of wizardry this is.
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by incepted 11y ago
> While it is great that we recognize good work like this, bringing up his age in the title is focusing on a pretty irrelevant It's relevant because it's remarkable and it puts the author in a much smaller circle than he would
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by incepted 11y ago
It doesn't mean anything without the Y axis. It's very easy to double numbers when these numbers are minuscule to start with.
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by incepted 11y ago
> How would you reinvent Usenet? Already done, it's called reddit. And the main problem with Usenet was its replication architecture and not its identity/authentication. reddit doesn't have any identity system in place and
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by incepted 11y ago
These tunings are for the runtime, what compiler settings are you referring to?
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by incepted 11y ago
> and much faster then my current gig's much smaller Gradle based Java 8 project Yeah I call BS on that. Scala's slow compilation doesn't really bother me that much but Java compiles at least ten times faster.
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by incepted 11y ago
Non paywall link: http://www.wsj.com/articles/payments-startup-square-files-co...
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by incepted 11y ago
It's very similar, yes.
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by incepted 11y ago
Seconding this. Also, the absence of generics and real exceptions makes Go problematic for the kind of complex and optimized software that's needed on Android.
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by incepted 11y ago
Nobody disputed that but that's off topic. We're discussing the fact that Scala can be pretty ugly too.

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