jayvanguard

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by jayvanguard 11y ago
OS compatibility layers never work well. I expect this to fail within a couple of years max. It'll be used to convince people to do a quick one-time port of their iOS apps over. Microsoft won't be able to keep it with Apple's
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
I interpret it differently. Layering and libraries were solved ages ago (although we have many, many more layers now). This isn't what people were striving for when they talked about reuse in-the-large. It was more about domain models
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
What a stellar list. The reuse part in particular needs to be read by many people. As he points out, reuse in-the-large will never happen for very good people reasons, not technology reasons. > REU5. Pattern reuse is one solution to the
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
It really isn't a good read. I own the first three volumes. They are really just useful as a relatively comprehensive reference text explaining a lot of base CS algorithms and structures.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
https://xkcd.com/1227/ There they are... see 1894 and 1895 in particular.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
That is my take as well. Vague allusions to current research but no hard cites. Seems like recycled trope of "modern life is too busy and our brains are rotting". I read a great excerpt from something published in the 1800s compla
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
They said the same thing about television 50+ years ago. And then video games and MTV 30 years ago. As far as I can tell people are doing just fine and books and reading continue along uninterrupted. People are as intelligent as they were a
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Companies do this all the time in various forms. Recruiting and HR are entire departments at most companies. Don't get confused and start acting like a corporation is a person with feelings.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Any of the three of them can and have influenced the direction of Javascript incrementally throughs standards groups and implementing features that become de facto via popularity. None of them can replace it with another language.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
It was never going to be. Any language claiming to be the new web language needs to convince Google, Apple, and Microsoft to all cooperate and put it in their browsers. So any language created by just one of the three of them is dead in the
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Completely agreed about quality. Popularity is highly correlated to actual utility though. Lisp falls into the same category. High quality and very interesting but it will never, ever gain widespread use. Don't believe me? A half centu
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Anytime a technology needs to publish a list of "who's actually using this in the real world" the answer is not all that many (relative to other peer technologies). Most projects in those lists fall into the following categor
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Same. Innovation is not what I want out of Dropbox. I want stability, speed, and continued bug fixes. The one point I agree with him on though is that the web interface could use some work.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
I thought this article was a joke and the answer would be "because you're half passed out with your head on the table dumb-ass."
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
The mind boggles that Harper is trying to push this through in the wake of the NSA scandal.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
That was my thought as well. The dates don't quite line up. Computers weren't widespread until the mid to late 1970s when mini-computers started to show up in smaller businesses. Even then, very small numbers of people were actual
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Be lucky.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Surely this is sarcastic?
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
> Using “guys” to mean “people” I do this accidentally all the time and really need to stop it.
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by jayvanguard 12y ago
This person seems extremely picky. I have pretty much every generation of kindle and they just keep getting incrementally better. Resolution, backlight, multiple dictionaries, x-ray, etc.
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by jayvanguard 12y ago
None of these are programming languages in the sense people normally use the term (with the exception of PL/1). They are propriety frameworks and tools. Even PL/1 was an IBM developed language. Proprietary frameworks, products, an
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by jayvanguard 12y ago
You might like that to be true but it simply isn't. I'd suggest to "keep trying" but really that won't change the reality of how the term is used.
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by jayvanguard 12y ago
+1 Yegge's blog (heck, +10). I miss it. What is actually so interesting about this post though is how wrong he was about distributed architecture and the micro-services approach. Amazon, while their recruiting process may still have fl
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by jayvanguard 12y ago
Drones are still going: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/30/canada-proves-fertile-groun... Don't forget they started in books and now sell pretty much everything. Also, the kindle seemed to work out pretty
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by jayvanguard 12y ago
This is a good point. It would be useful to have a lower skilled, named role for a lot of the rote programming jobs that just involve gluing frameworks together.
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by jayvanguard 12y ago
> And Mr Buffet's investment company has beaten wall street for decades. The difference is that he has significant inside information into many of his investments. He deeply researches the companies involved, talks to their owners,
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by jayvanguard 12y ago
> On what planet is shutting down a service, with months and months of notice, evil? The current planet? Open source projects have a lifetime of years so five months is not that long in the scheme of things. People put there code on ther
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by jayvanguard 12y ago
Conservative axe-grinding.
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by jayvanguard 12y ago
Technology is in no way democratized and you're dreaming if you think the most advanced trading is in the hands of consumers.
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by jayvanguard 12y ago
Information leakage is absolutely a security issue.

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