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by ivenkys 16y ago
"I see little evidence that many people are actually using them yet." - My experience has been different , even in large Enterprise Java Shops you now have a smattering of different languages on the JVM , albeit all hidden away. This is pri
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Interesting , though i would be more interested in an in-depth article from the thought-leaders of the community about "Future of the JVM".
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by ivenkys 16y ago
I don't get it, admittedly this is a fast turnaround by Slicehost, but how is this news for discussion ?
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Italy is a complete one-off , the exception that proves the rule i think. Someone like Berlusconi would probably never get elected anywhere else in Western Europe.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Al Jazeera and BBC are by far the top two news organisations in the world. The one common thing they have - independent funding, AJ funded by an oil sheikh and the BBC by the British public. May be that's the way forward , instead of citize
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by ivenkys 16y ago
To me - its quite astonishing that the Ratings Agencies still hold so much sway , given that they have been thoroughly discredited in the last 2 years. I wonder, what it would take to have another ratings agency ? Is this simply a case of M
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Credit Ratings Agencies - Who made them so powerful ?(bbc.co.uk)
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Actually, i think the day is already here , i am seeing quite a few software companies, small-to-medium sized, competing successfully by simply saying "We will provide better customer service".
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by ivenkys 16y ago
May be i am not getting the whole story here but if you do allow anonymous comments or "some sort" of anonymous comments then how different is it to the other existing authentication schemes ? For e.g. on HN i can easily look-up certain nic
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by ivenkys 16y ago
I understand where you are coming from , i like the idea of what you guys are doing but i am not on Facebook and will not join FB to be able to comment on newstilt, hence my point about its not for me.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
From the IAMA thread : "Yes, Facebook is required to add comments." Reducing irrelevant comment noise by linking it to FB Connect is not a solution. This is not for me then. Edit: Just noticed this : "On reddit, anonymous accounts add a lot
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by ivenkys 16y ago
I would think not for the audience of HN.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Deploy early and continuously, ideally in a single step - but that's a given. Not sure what, if any new, point is being made here.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Fair enough, but i never said hire programmers based "only" on their code in github. The assumption here is that certain programmers do not do "technical" interviews well and they can therefore point to their code as proof of their technic
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by ivenkys 16y ago
If an employer overlooks good code and instead places more emphasis on an amorphous process like an interview which has plenty of false-negatives and positives , then i would argue against working for such an employer. They have a broken re
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by ivenkys 16y ago
True , but then let the code talk , in this day and age of github and other social coding sites - show them what you got and if the employer has any sense he will hire you.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
This is a commercial transaction with all that entails. If you as an employer are any good - you will have the best people wanting to join you and if you are not , then well , it is going to be a revolving door. The best people will always
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Yes, tech specs do not matter if all you are doing is looking at the device as a consumable. For techies i suspect it will continue to matter.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
From the book: "You might not really learn “programming” from this book, but you will learn the foundation skills you need to start learning the language. " This is good. There is a place for books like these. If nothing else, he is at lea
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Google sets and Greek mythological figures . For my personal list of 7 computers that's fine.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
As an experiment i followed up 5424xxxxxx number to check if its a test number. I could track down the card's owner and a little judicious googling gave away the owner's home address as well. Doesn't look like a test number.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
This is absolutely spot-on. I have seen debates on T.V where respected Muslim scholars agree on and defend this interpretation - its the duty of a Muslim (Mu'min) to kill or convert an unbeliever (Kaafir). I don't understand why this argume
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Excellent points - the only thing i would add is the additional noise generated by Exceptions and Exception Handling code. Java is verbose enough, we need less not more visual noise.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
This article is wrong or incorrect at so many levels , i wonder why did it even get submitted and get as high as it is.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Good point - its not the language translation per-se but the ecosystem surrounding it unless there's is one of those projects where they hand-coded everything and used no external libraries at all. I doubt it very much though.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Why is this article here ? This is a poor excuse for him driving traffic to his website. Crap.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
tl;dr: Who cares ?
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by ivenkys 17y ago
"I worked for decided to build their new task system in COBOL" - this cannot be true .
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Actually it is profound , the "profoundness" lies in the simplicity of the advice, why designers/software engineers require tonnes of apps "to get focussed" is beyond me. Scientists,Mathematicians and artists don't use strategies to get foc
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Very nice read but is it true ? It seems for want of a better word - just too pat.

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