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by ivenkys 17y ago
Yup , that was my point on the "doc-comments where appropriate". Overall design of the system can/should be expressed with a good,well-written README.txt. I know UML is "supposed" to solve that problem but not for me.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
I read this a while back and i still remember the takeaway point from it : "It's denser: there's less whitespace and far less commenting. Most of the commenting is in the form of doc-comments for automated API-doc extraction" This is right
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by ivenkys 17y ago
You do say "Turn left down XYZ Road" but if you don't know or can't see which road you are on(happens quite often in the small bylanes in Central London), there is always the very reliable, do you see "name of pub" in front of you - walk to
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Isn't this well known ? Hasn't Dilbert been saying this for years more succinctly and wittily ?
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by ivenkys 17y ago
I am not sure why this is given as "How an Indian" would give directions , that's how we do it here in London as well. No one says "Go Southeast for 0.2 kms" , you are oriented and directed via a well-known landmark. But as a technology thi
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Yes - there are times when you absolutely must speak to a human being, make your systems as easy and automated as possible but when i am stuck i need to be able to pick the phone and talk to a person. FirstDirect - are very good at that.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Absolutely. I wonder if any of these guys have ever done any business before. This is business (startup, technology or otherwise) 101 , you have the crowd support/goodwill, you have the apology from the bigger party, they obviously like wha
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by ivenkys 17y ago
It would be really sad if VLC on Os X goes , that's one of the main apps i use. QT + Perian and MPlayer are nowhere near to VLC in terms of functionality. I can get any ol format and get VLC to play it , as an example .iso files.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Looks interesting - an aggregator + enabler of Mobile Phone Apps irrespective of Platforms.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Admittedly those languages excel at concurrency but i am more interested in trying out those languages on the GAE for the increase in Speed of Development., so the sequential bit is not very relevant to me.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
"For example, we've sped up many reflective operations by up to 10x resulting in improvements on the order of 10% for applications based on dynamic languages" More than the Blobstore API - i am more excited about this. Clojure/Scala on GAE.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
"When you first talk to a recruiter, describe what you liked and didn’t like about past jobs. Then ask them for career advice: what sort of job do you think I’d enjoy?" Very much an idealist's view of the standard average Recruiter - The la
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by ivenkys 17y ago
No, we don't and i never said we did - but articles summarising the points that are already present as summaries in the GWT 2.0 release notes definitely do not add anything to the discourse.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Define clean.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Yes GWT 2.0 is impressive but haven;t we had 3 submissions on that in the last week. Surely nothing new is being said here.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Ebert endorsing Avatar is a real surprise , he is quite anti-3d , this must be executed real well. With regards to the - bland storyline -, as Ebert himself says elsewhere - "its never about what it is , it is how it is about what it is" an
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Data Problems in Banks are especially acute because the same "thing" is called by different names in different systems, no one can agree on its definition or its characteristics. Added to that, the amount of time it takes for I.T to come up
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by ivenkys 17y ago
"a front-heavy pricing model (coulda signed up many casinos for a monthly fee), bizarre denial about the reality of a two year sales cycle, gross underestimation of competition, FOSS stack in an MS centric market, being a lone founder after
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by ivenkys 17y ago
If you meant server-side , then it really doesn't matter. Its just byte-codes and GWT encourages modular development for client and server-side. So write your server side in your favourite JVM language and keep your client-side to Java.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
oops - sorry , my procrastination settings on HN mean that i have to type really fast , meaning no time for proof-reading.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Great Toolkit if you want to/can utilise the Java Tools echo system and everything else that comes with it and with the newer version the UIBinder allows for declarative UI. I personally haven't used the Code Splitting feature but i can see
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Fascinating article on the change in demographics and composition of the family unit in China.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
This is quite a well-argued post with decent examples. A point well worth repeating. Mature language and tools, stable and "fast execution", clean interaction with popular services. Its not sexy but if you are competent enough - it can get
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by ivenkys 17y ago
I prefer working in the office - normal commute is 20 minutes by train - the only problem at least in my office is no doors and i sit close to people who are in tele-sales , constant noise. For thinking time, i have to get into a meeting ro
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Pithy and true. Easier said than done of course.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
This is very true - i am very surprised that people don;t find this creepy. This is the reason i came out of FB.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
"Perhaps one day not long from now, everything on the Web will be a mere extension of Facebook." - a very optimistic view of the growth of FB , to put it mildly.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
This "I wind up catagorizing periods of my life by how rich my learning experiences were at the time." is the true definition of a hacker.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Why is this at the top ? Its not IMDB thats been de-googled , its studiobriefing.net - which looks like a Spam site.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
The HTTP interface on VLC is not new - what would be interesting is to find the reasons for them doing it this way. As a product VLC is really good.

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