jayvanguard

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by jayvanguard 11y ago
> What about Chinese spying? Absolutely a huge concern going forward but right now they don't have anywhere near the reach of the US. > Or the internet propaganda firms in Russia? On a completely different scale from the US. >
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
The majority of the problem is about the US and the NSA.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Of course it is gender related. There are hundreds of male startup CTOs in their early 20s with all kinds of partially done degrees in various subjects and they are far less likely to see a comment like this.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
> Far more likely the recording software is crappy and sometimes skips back a second or two. What?
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
> Has anyone seen anything like this 'just happen' in digital video before? No, this isn't anywhere in the realm of what could happen during uploading. The video has very clearly been edited intentionally by a human. Poorl
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
A few frames messed up? Did you read the article and watch the videos? That can't happen by accident.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Very true. It doesn't leave any room for exploration of requirements or the usual customer waffling.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
I've also done a ton of cost estimation and I thought this was a reasonably good approach for capturing the "core cost" of development of an app. What it doesn't capture is testing beyond just design-code-unit-test such
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
You sound silly nowadays if you use "man hours". Everyone calls them person hours, hours, billable hours, etc.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
> It doesn't acquire bugs just by sitting around on your hard drive. Wrong. There are entire classes of bugs that have to do with adapting to new environments, security standards, etc.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Your definition of "works" doesn't include "ability to easily absorb change as the world modernizes". The world of computing is changing each year and any software that works well needs to adapt (or else be triviall
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
I'm pretty sure most provinces in Canada have mandatory severance after a certain number of months of service. The mandatory part isn't tied to age, just the option parts covered by common law.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
The "native" part of native app doesn't mean machine code. It means that it is native to, i.e. feels like it naturally came from, the host operating system. It uses its APIs, conventions, UI components, event queues, etc.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
That isn't what people mean when they say native.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
The bottom line is that if you care about your users and their experience you'll make a native app for them. Everything else is a tradeoff. There are definitely many application areas where the web is effectively their "native&quo
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Sounds like it was written by someone with an interest in encouraging people to buy expensive managed funds.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
I'd put that more around 1997-8. Java 1.0 and 1.1 definitely felt a lot more like programming objective-c both in terms of the features available and the style the community developed in. Somewhere in the Java 1.2-1.5 things changed co
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
I think the stronger similarities came much later when generics were introduced. Both languages were then on a path of horrific type-nazism at that point. Strong static typing + a weak type system = rubbish. Sprinkle in design pattern-itis
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Yes, it was a well known fact back then. I'm sure I heard talks or articles from Gosling, Guy Steele, and others that explicitly said this as well.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Amen. Extremism in programming, as in religion, is evil.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Why is it legal for completely unrelated laws to be tacked on to bills? In most countries this would be called corruption.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
> they also abandoned the idea of a high-density sustainable city Paris is very dense. All of the places in the top 30 mentioned below are actually neighborhoods of Paris: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Standards groups tend to attract people who are Right Right Right. Typical make-up of a standards group: - Two to three professional IT standards people. Haven't written code in years, limited actual influence back in the companies the
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Re-read your sentence. If everyone has the same rules it is equal. There is no "no-win" if it is a level playing field. The company still must compete based on salary in the broader marketplace.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
This article seems to take what he said out of context.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
In 30 years, with the benefit of hindsight, this could turn out to be one of the defining issues of our era (along with surveillance and the growth of state and corporate cyber warfare). Glad the UN and EFF are doing something to shine a li
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
The answer is no. I still expect 25 more years of claims with no further proof though. People believe what they want to believe.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
I agree, this list is way overboard. It is far too broad and too deep in too many areas. You need to implement RSA? But then just a couple vague paragraphs on databases?
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
I don't know why this is downvoted. This is exactly right. See you in 2-3 years when everyone has forgotten about their latest desperate attempt.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
They've taken proven over and over again for the past 30 years that they never follow through on anything that involves cross platform compatibility so I'd take it with a healthy dose of skepticism. It just fundamentally isn'

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