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by itp 9y ago
Were you there to hear it in person? Even just reading it online, I found it really, really well done. Both in terms of content, but also structurally as a presentation itself.
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by itp 9y ago
I'm not an expert at all, but your response made me curious as to why that (presumably humorous) aside would have been thrown in. Anyway, my research, such as it is, took me as far as the Wikipedia article on Ecclesiastes[0], which may
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by itp 9y ago
I exclusively use those applications inside the browser and I have had no complaints about notifications. They ask for permission, I grant it, and I get (native, at least on OS X) notifications that match the rest of my system. Genuinely cu
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by itp 9y ago
I have no experience in publishing, and I interpreted it in the non-misleading, entirely positive sense.
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by itp 9y ago
To your last point, I literally just counted after reading your comment without changing anything. I have 68 tabs open in Chrome (over four windows, two each in two different profiles), and this is fairly representative of my usage since my
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by itp 9y ago
I do consider this materially different. From the Wikipedia summary of United States v. Microsoft Corporation[0], "Underlying these disputes were questions over whether Microsoft altered or manipulated its application programming inter
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by itp 9y ago
I'm skeptical of your theory. Is there reason to believe that humans didn't push boundaries and explore prior to understanding the nature of stars and the vast and varied universe? I suspect that early humans found plenty of myste
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by itp 9y ago
There's additional information on this incident in the link being discussed.
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by itp 9y ago
One way it affects it is to reduce the overall market for Chrome apps, reducing the incentive to make an app in the first place.
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by itp 9y ago
While somewhat longer, you do have var map = hashMapOf("a" to 6, "b" to 12) var list = listOf(1, 2, 3) This is still not Java-level verbosity.
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by itp 9y ago
For advantages (and some disadvantages!) compared to Java, I'd start with https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/comparison-to-java.htm... .
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by itp 9y ago
The phrase "exception that proves the rule" is from the Latin "exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis," or "the exception confirms the rule in cases not excepted." The Wikipedia article[0] is actually
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by itp 9y ago
Sorry, that's the context I should have provided! (Knowing that also probably explains why they cut to a shot of the JetBrains CEO in the audience, since Kotlin originated there.)
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by itp 9y ago
Long story short, Kotlin is easy to support without substantive (any?) changes to Android runtime, golang would involve much more effort. It's also not clear to me there's any desire to write applications in golang.
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by itp 9y ago
Google Assistant should be useful to you in many ways as a developer. It's become an open platform from several directions.
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by itp 9y ago
Alphabet code of conduct: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/code-of-conduct.html "Employees of Alphabet and its subsidiaries and controlled affiliates (“Alphabet”) should do the right thing – follow the law, act
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by itp 9y ago
Emacs and Atom share the architectural aspect of implementing most of their functionality in a higher-level language inside of an execution environment. This has costs and benefits. vi had a much simpler structure and much more limited fe
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by itp 9y ago
New world, same old problems. Fascinating to see how this parallels the way Emacs tackled this problem long ago. - https://lwn.net/Articles/673724/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001796
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by itp 9y ago
This is research, not an attempt to make an extension for you. They're not looking for beta-testers, or users, or anything other than to have done research and share their work.
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by itp 10y ago
Yes, the article we are discussing here spends two paragraphs discussing exactly this.
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by itp 10y ago
I think both views are essentially correct. It is a relatively small fraction of the fuel load, but thanks to the impact of the rocket equation, that relatively small fraction translates (as you are pointing out) to a sizable difference in
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by itp 10y ago
That seems like an unnecessarily hostile response. Even if you already knew that, other people reading the conversation might not have known it. There's no call to interpret a declarative statement as a personal attack, or implication
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by itp 10y ago
I think your comment is the first use of "breakthrough," to be fair. The article title and body refer to it as "breaking" the record. You are correct about the (vastly more expensive) multi-junction concentrating cells h
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by itp 10y ago
Meta question, what did this article do to get driven off of the front page so mercilessly? It's in free fall at this point!
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by itp 10y ago
Unfortunately I'm the last person to ask. While I did start at FoundationDB pretty early (second employee), I ceased to be involved at the point of the acquisition, and beyond that I've only heard a few rumors from former coworker
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by itp 10y ago
This seems cool, and I sincerely wish them nothing but success. That said, I had a major sense of déjà vu while reading this post -- I worked at FoundationDB prior to the Apple acquisition, when we published a blog post with a very similar
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by itp 10y ago
I get that this is a caricature, an exaggeration of reality that's trying to convey some bad practices. It must be incredibly frustrating to be on the receiving end of an interview this bad! But I'm not sure all of this plays part
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by itp 10y ago
I think it'll be neat to continue to use the word "earth" as a quaint anachronism in some long distant future. A great opportunity to explain to kids that humanity was once limited to a single astronomical body... (The optimi
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by itp 10y ago
ESR seems to have a long track record of being involved in these types of events. There are obviously a number of possible conclusions to draw: - ESR is so productive and involved in so many things that this is actually a normal drama r
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by itp 10y ago
Except there is no single authority of the English language (as seen in other language academies). As I mentioned in another comment, you may fall into a prescriptivist or descriptivist camp, but there's no authority to which one can a

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