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by jblow 10y ago
It seemed even-handed to me.
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by jblow 10y ago
Same experience here. I stopped going to Apple Stores because the experience was so stupid.
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by jblow 10y ago
"a derivative copy of well known software idea" As someone who has been around the web from the beginning, I will tell you this is horse shit. Andreessen was building Mosaic at NCSA when very few people knew what a web browser eve
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by jblow 10y ago
By people paying to read the article.
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by jblow 10y ago
Except not really because Vulkan is apparently not very good.
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by jblow 10y ago
Companies always start small. Your argument is basically "the small company is small". So what? Do you propose that business can work in some other way? How else would you propose that it works?
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by jblow 10y ago
First it was "electric cars are not viable technologically, they have no range, there is no charging infrastructure, etc." Then it was "electric cars are too expensive, they are rich peoples' toys, and mainstream consume
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by jblow 10y ago
They also cut the cost of launch heavily when compared to ULA ... and ULA also benefits from all the advantages you describe.
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by jblow 10y ago
You act as if it's somehow not easier to commission the remanufacture of parts for a well-understood plane than it is to manufacture a whole new, untested plane. Come on, seriously.
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by jblow 10y ago
You're missing the main thrust of the argument, I think (and this is maybe a little expected because the article kind of presupposes it). Imagine a hippie concept such as "you are effectively the same being as that guy over there,
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by jblow 11y ago
Good point!
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by jblow 11y ago
[q]In this case it means giving a voice to a racist advocate of slavery.[/q] This is possibly disingenuous, and at least overly rhetorical. They are not "giving him a voice" to talk about anything related to anything racist,
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by jblow 11y ago
$133 billion per year! That would buy us one F-35 fighter jet per year!
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by jblow 11y ago
The point is that if you can't do this, there is no way you can do stuff more complicated than this, which will actually be necessary during regular work. (And which you won't be able to type into Google). I run a software company
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by jblow 11y ago
Anyone who downvotes replies like this is displaying ignorance of Microsoft's pattern of behavior through their entire history. Sure, maybe it's different this time ... But usually it isn't.
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by jblow 11y ago
Except ... reversing a singularly-linked list recursively is trivial. If you can't do this, you are not qualified at basic manipulation of data structures and you should fail the interview if they want someone with basic competence i
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by jblow 11y ago
This analogy is correct, except ... you're not Robert De Niro, and neither is almost any programmer in the valley. Just like almost no actor is Robert De Niro, and most actors are lucky to even be able to audition for commercials.
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by jblow 11y ago
If your friend was not very senior (10+ years experience), I would not believe what he says, since he probably did not have enough experience to judge the situation. I think the idea that the game industry is "behind" other fields
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by jblow 11y ago
Yeah ... I don't know what PrlConf is (and the link does nothing to explain) but LambdaCon's policy and statement about it seem totally well-reasoned and fine. So cancelling whatever Prl is seems like yet more internet outrage cul
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by jblow 11y ago
Actually, it is easy, if you had the foresight to put in versioning. Which they didn't.
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by jblow 11y ago
Yes, the right thing is to port your language's standard library to whatever operating system you want to run on ... just like libc did. You could have a dummy version that just calls out to libc, for compatibility with systems that yo
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by jblow 11y ago
Oh, but I mean in Rust generally. Ideally any language that is not C would not depend on libc.
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by jblow 11y ago
What is the roadmap on getting rid of the need for libc? Given how terrible libc is, I personally would make that a high priority, though I guess in Linux you can't even start up a process without libc (maybe that is a misunderstanding
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by jblow 11y ago
You guys know you really mean "Web API" and not "API", right? This kind of phraseology is a clear sign that someone's programming experience is extremely narrow in scope.
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by jblow 11y ago
There is no contradiction. Yes, I am saying that most plans on how to do things better are not right. Doing things better is often pretty hard. But there always is some way to do better. The way you find that is you keep trying a lot of t
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by jblow 11y ago
It is important to read the rest of the sentence in order for this comment to really make sense. I am talking about any scheme of how to do things that is intended to provide benefit. These all start with "wouldn't it be better
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by jblow 11y ago
For many paragraphs, I thought this was a parody of TDD defense, but then it turns out it wasn't. His 'defense' of the point is basically: Look, when you do TDD you have to put a lot more work into the tests than you thought!
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by jblow 11y ago
This is legendary. Most people (including me) would have thought this would not be possible for decades. 9-dan is the highest rank in Go. It is not possible to play against anyone higher. So I am not sure why you think it isn't a big d
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by jblow 11y ago
This is one reason among many why people who write serious low-level code (e.g. game developers) think all the new aliasing rules are completely bonkers. We implement our own allocators all the time. If you can't even do such a basic t
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by jblow 11y ago
> by the standards of 1995 are pretty damn amazing, responsive, and beautiful Yeah no. If you had gone back to 1995 and told me that gmail was what you would get when I have a supercomputer in my pocket, a super-super computer on my desk

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