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by jksmith 10y ago
There's some innocence in your comment which I wish I still appreciated. I think the grittier reality is that a lot of these startups were based on generally mediocre ideas, but were funded anyway because of relationships and contacts.
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Right. Security threats are never eliminated, only mitigated, relative to the cost of mitigation.
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Well this actually is interesting. Is a third party expected to respect atty client privilege if that third party is used for storage? Surely not. Also, could a law be passed that states some storage (like phones) is from the factory not pr
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Thats the problem I had with the concept when I saw the movie. Is a "moment" a unit of measurement, a unit of change, what is it? How is that purely continuous?
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Thats what Atkins claims he did. He said a trip to Mcdonalds is fine-just leave out the bun
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by jksmith 10y ago
I've written tons and tons of code in Delphi and remember it fondly. A few issues I had with it toward the end included Hjelsberg turning it into a kitchen sink, me too language, much like IMO the direction C# has gone in, and walking
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by jksmith 10y ago
What it will do is encourage MSFT to drop the cost of MSSQL licenses in Azure.
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by jksmith 10y ago
No, the suck factor is greater when you're old as opposed to when you're younger, that is unless you live about the same way all your life. Imagine how a professional athlete feels. Additionally, why is a restricted diet healthy i
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by jksmith 10y ago
Because you have nothing to sell even if demand goes up. Does you no good.
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by jksmith 10y ago
This.... This is about business, getting to market, making money. It's not about programmers' pet interests - those days are long gone. That's why it's important to pick a toolchain that's 1) easy to code, 2) easy t
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by jksmith 10y ago
"Better ten dead men than one live slave." Don Juan, GB Shaw's Man and Superman
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"Part of my frustration with Scala (and Java) was the feeling that I was never able to get the full context on a given problem domain, due to its complexity." This. Same with any other kitchen sink language.
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by jksmith 10y ago
Yeah agree. While I've moved on, IMHO xcode was generally crap compared to dev envs I used back in the friggin 90's, like Delphi or Topspeed. Not many on HN know much about Delphi, but it set the gold standard for the desktop IDE.
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by jksmith 10y ago
Funny that I've been thinking about the same issues going on with AAPL right now. That was all.
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Funny you mention that. Apple will crash if they don't get a serious personality cult back in there. Even that probably won't save them. Plus Musk is not the same brilliant, simple communicator that Jobs was.
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Buyin and successful are not necessarily the same thing. Designers of Go have been disciplined enough to keep things simple - let's you keep more of the problem domain you're trying to solve, along with the code to solve it, in yo
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by jksmith 10y ago
I'd like to build up a shop of 50 devs using the golang toolchain and just see how much shit we can get done.
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by jksmith 10y ago
Scala/Haskell/OCaml equally? My distant impression is that OCaml has about 95% of the difficult commercial domains.
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by jksmith 10y ago
QWERTY was designed specifically not to be optimal so old typewriters with character arms wouldn't get tangled up.
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by jksmith 10y ago
Is this idiomatic Brainfuck?
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by jksmith 10y ago
Far more interesting is to post your favorite SNL political clips. We need a levity injection attack around here.
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by jksmith 10y ago
I'm not clear that there's any good analog example that does the subject justice...Which is exactly why we should do it :)
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by jksmith 10y ago
I will not be sharing my FB page on HN.
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by jksmith 10y ago
>>Quite a lot of people fear dying more than they do death. Hell yes. Kids are grown. Fat life insurance policy. I can accept having a fatal heart attack under the right circumstances :) The slow, painful fade is the thing that scares
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by jksmith 10y ago
What we like to keep missing is that golang innovates not as a language, but as a tool to contribute to software project success. Project success in the software industry is abysmal, and we still keep thinking we can spin up another languag
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by jksmith 10y ago
Take a guess at romantic relationships by type. Higher? Lower? About the same?
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by jksmith 10y ago
Have you done an overlap against LiteIDE?
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What's wrong with being a rock star? Article wreaks a bit from being haughty.
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by jksmith 10y ago
Agree. This article is reaching. Jeremiah Johnson, Hell in the Pacific, LeMans, etc were certainly short of dialog, but were artsy and tasteful in presentation. OTOH, "Hateful 8" includes usual Tarantino mainstay heavy dialogs tha
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by jksmith 10y ago
Yep, I just got Azure Gov FedRamped on my project and it was some serious gnashing and pulling of teeth. Writing all those CMS and IRS procedure docs was a great, but arduous experience. There's a larger story here though involving app

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