javaJake

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by javaJake 7y ago
From my experience, this behavior is common when volunteers answer questions. Personally, I think this behavior that the author is seeing is because volunteer work is thankless and tiring (even with karma) and when you've seen a hundre
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by javaJake 8y ago
When I used this library, I was impressed with how their design not only kept their own code clean, but made it incredibly intuitive and fun to write clean code on top of their API. Coworkers also looked at that code years later and went ou
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by javaJake 8y ago
#4 has introduced an interesting problem in the MMO space. By allowing scripting in WoW, players were penalized either because they couldn't keep up, or the general community would demand they run parsers to tell that they couldn'
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by javaJake 8y ago
I only have anecdotal evidence in the form of friends making money on consistently-profitable online trades in a variety of marketplaces. It seems intuitive to believe that, wherever there is a market, there is a possibility of bartering as
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by javaJake 10y ago
Really interesting thoughts coming from the groff mailing list: "Because of poverty owing to neglect -- that is, necessity being the mother of invention -- the author of the article I linked to decided he'd like color in his man p
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by javaJake 10y ago
I also am a Christian and was surprised not to see more of these responses on HN. I think if you're looking for the meaning of life, religions are easily worth the research. I think the reality is that religion is looked down upon beca
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by javaJake 11y ago
Google Wave used operational transformation in their protocol[1]. I've always assumed that the lessons learned on Wave got reused in the Google Docs rewrite. [1] http://www.waveprotocol.org/whitepapers/operational-
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by javaJake 11y ago
Incredible read. Thank you for sharing that post.
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by javaJake 19y ago
I think you are definitely catching on to what is going on. Microsoft is only hanging around because of the monopoly it has in its grip. As soon as Windows drops in usage (which, by the way, is happening) Microsoft will drop in ranks.