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by jfb 13y ago
I'd argue that it's not that great a representation for code, which should be diff'd syntactically.
782.
by jfb 13y ago
Exactly. It's a classic example of the clash of incommensurable goods.
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by jfb 13y ago
Me neither. It seems perfectly consonant with Google's entire MO, and not in any way out of line with the implicit or explicit usage agreement that people have with them. Perhaps the culture of G+ is such that this is unexpected, or pe
784.
by jfb 13y ago
It all falls apart once you get past a few people and start throwing some kind of structure and management in place. That's hardly confined to Federal IT projects, however.
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by jfb 13y ago
I think this is right. I detest Java-the-language, but it is inextricable from the JVM. Being able to drop down to a simple (less charitably, lowest-common-denominator) language when necessary seems to help with the implementation of more i
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by jfb 13y ago
It feels off to me because it feels like applying a technological fix (more complicated compilers!) to what is in essence a social problem. Of course tooling has an enormous weight in how people go about solving their programming problems;
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by jfb 13y ago
Scala reminds me of nothing so much as C++. Yeah, you may not want to use what is to you some obscure corner-case feature, but it's 100% certain that you will encounter some code written by someone with a different view of what is and
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by jfb 13y ago
For instance, Iran, one of the largest oil producing countries in the world, has to import refined gasoline, diesel, &c., because they lack refinery capacity. This in turn leads to enormous expenditures on subsidies to keep consumers an
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by jfb 13y ago
Don't worry, nobody's going to get to enjoy Half-Life 3.
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by jfb 13y ago
Traffic on 280 (and to a lesser degree 880) seems to track pretty closely how inflated the current SV bubble is.
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by jfb 13y ago
Enterprise software deals are never closed on technical merit.
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by jfb 13y ago
Google is releasing iOS apps because they make money from traffic. Android has served its purpose -- preventing Google from getting frozen out of mobile computing traffic. Chrome is the future brand for Google in the human software world.
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by jfb 13y ago
I try to stick to the pure technology sorts of stories, but the particular technologies that appeal to the HN crowd aren't that interesting to me, either. Eh, whaddya gonna do.
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by jfb 13y ago
It could have easily been a simple error in redaction. Knowing how information is disseminated in large companies, it's also easily possible that the actual source of the information to the Samsung execs had been obscured. Quinn Emmanu
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by jfb 13y ago
In exchange for not memorizing my passwords, I get different, random passwords for every site I use. Given likely attack vectors, I have seriously upgraded the security of my data. Add to this the syncing and the ease in my workflow, and I&
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by jfb 13y ago
This is a marvelous story, thanks.
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by jfb 13y ago
It's a lot easier to relocate to Palo Alto from e.g. Davis than to anywhere in California from, say, St. Louis.
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by jfb 13y ago
I used to work with a guy who would blame every bug that cursory inspection couldn't uncover on the compiler. This is of course laughable, but he'd once, ages before, actually found a compiler bug. I wonder if having this amazin
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by jfb 13y ago
If people buy on easily gameable microbenchmarks, we should expect companies to game said microbenchmarks.
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by jfb 13y ago
I has been a few decades since I read it for the first time, so I may be glossing it in my mind.
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by jfb 13y ago
For anyone looking for a brief, accessible explanation of the proof itself, I cannot recommend the Nagel and Newman [1] highly enough. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Gödels-Proof-Ernest-Nagel/dp/081475837...
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by jfb 13y ago
This is standard issue phone screen sort of stuff. You could have a technical recruiter do this, which is what I would assume happened here.
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by jfb 13y ago
I think there's an interesting sort of parallel between the differences between Stallman/FSF and those of the O'Reilly "open source" camp; and the differences between deontological and consequentialist ethics. In so
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by jfb 13y ago
It's rude ? By what logic?
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by jfb 13y ago
As a long time pinboard user, I devoutly hope not. It's a great service for antisocial people like me, and I'd be disappointed were it to develop that "social" layer of oily mucus.
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by jfb 13y ago
All other things are not equal, however.
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by jfb 13y ago
It's different this time!
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by jfb 13y ago
Pike comes out of a tradition, and his work is in some way the apotheosis of that tradition. The issue is that people confuse the dogma they were raised in with truth, and say stupid things like " ... To be fair he was probably saying
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by jfb 13y ago
People who quote Knuth as aphorism are rarely as smart as Knuth. The optimization quote is great, but it's usually deployed as an appeal to authority to justify a preconceived, ideological decision -- God knows, I've done this. Bu
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by jfb 13y ago
There are two parts to the Hyperloop "proposal": one is the technology, which is interesting; the other is the route, the cost, the politics. There are critiques of the technology and boosterism of the technology -- I'm not a

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