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by jksmith 14y ago
I should have said "generate competitive revenue." Sorry about that. If you're still using C# or java in 10 years time for a commercial app, the only reason you will not be at a competitive disadvantage is because all the other competitors
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by jksmith 14y ago
If you have to raise your hands over your head like you're some kind of perp, at least throw two bird fingers while they're taking the xray. You want them to see that you don't have any explosive devices on your middle fingers.
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by jksmith 14y ago
I've always wanted to work with a language that supports contracts (originally Eiffel I guess). Would love to see this hacked into Go. Or maybe I shouldn't turn this into a Go thread and start using Cobra.
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by jksmith 14y ago
Simplicity is absolutely the most crucial aspect of a language used for successful commercial application in my space (15-30 mil annual). That's what I like about Go. Don't know much about Rust, but if it's being designed by a small group o
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by jksmith 14y ago
should be easy enough to do a "choose" stmt in golang, stolen from a business lang called Clarion, but expanded to include closures: n = choose(expr,14,choose(expr2,15,some code that returns something))
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by jksmith 14y ago
If I really cared about this stuff, I'd love to respond to yet another request to get on Facebook by saying that I only do Myspace. I think I just felt a trend-setter gasm there. Facebook is not even cool anymore, and in five years time wil
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by jksmith 14y ago
Interestingly, once html5 becomes fully ubiquitous, Facebook will probably already be sliding no matter how well it's native apps run. Will be a non-issue in the end.
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by jksmith 14y ago
Sure as hell isn't worth it for Ipad2, IMO. I have both, and actually like the Fire much better. Love my old Macbook Pro, but I didn't drink the coolaid on for the ipad. Now when I fly, the ipad stays home, and my Fire goes with me, neatly
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by jksmith 14y ago
Jimmy Stewart as Charles Lindbergh pitching to bankers in the movie "Spirit of St Louis:" "We have to know...We have to try."
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by jksmith 14y ago
Haha! Or insert Pascal in there and try out some FreePascal, the perennial number 5 to 8 on most the alioth shootouts for the past 20 years.
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by jksmith 15y ago
Try some of Reinhold's Diceware phrases. They hold up quite well with this.
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by jksmith 15y ago
I just got my shoulder redone by arguably one of the best sports orthos in the country. This guy handles a substantial percentage of high profile professional athlete cases per year. He charged me $3200 for a rotator repair and bicep reatta
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by jksmith 16y ago
That last sentence as summary has been 100% true so far in my experience working with self-taught or minimally educated programmers.
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by jksmith 16y ago
Imagine if an open source toolkit allowed you to connect yourself with other wordpress (or whatever) users with all the usual facebook type widgets. Would you use facebook at all? That investment that Goldman made in Facebook will ultimatel
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by jksmith 16y ago
Jack Black should be in the conversation somewhere. The dude doesn't even need a microphone.
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by jksmith 16y ago
This is an issue that's taken care of by the advancement of technology in the end. Carr describes well the economic sense for centralized power production in his book "The Big Switch," but centralized power production using legacy technolog
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by jksmith 16y ago
yes. Whether it's desktop apps, local os, iphone apps, android apps, any interest in this stuff in the future will be just some kind of steampunk sentimentality. The only desktop app that should be developed and upgraded is the browser. Web
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by jksmith 16y ago
If the "Future of the Desktop" still means having to do installs and updates, then I look forward to living in the past. I've even gotten sick of being harangued by Android updates. After having written code for 20 years, I want zero respon
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by jksmith 17y ago
Yeah, damn that really screwed the place up when they did that. There's two solutions: either the continent is managed by first world countries, or it should be completely left alone. The second option is of course no longer possible. The h
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by jksmith 17y ago
The technology is some geek bolt on anyway. SXSW is originally a music event, and in that regard it's fantastic. I'd love to be at Antone's right now sipping a Corona and taking a break from the constant gnawing of tech puzzles, possibiliti
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by jksmith 17y ago
“I am impossibly, wonderfully alive.” And a lot more alive than he was the day before. To quote Jimmy Stewart in "The Spirit of St. Louis," "We have to know and we have to try." What a great story and project.
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by jksmith 17y ago
Sounds to me like your just redefining what you think is hurtful as it applies to a particular context. If Silverman said something that we don't like, that's our problem, not hers, unless she depends on public appearance speaking fees. I n
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by jksmith 17y ago
Of course I know the reference. Sorry, but a downvote is no defense against a levity injection attack.
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by jksmith 17y ago
You can take risks with anything that you want to explore your limits with, be it with a business decision or a sport. I've absorbed a fairly substantial amount of risk financially with ventures, and that's actually a thrilling thing. I thi
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by jksmith 17y ago
Of course he forgot to mention what is currently the trendiest language to use, which is the one I'm writing. I haven't had this much fun with a computer since dos days.
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by jksmith 17y ago
And we'll still have to fill out new paperwork at every endpoint we visit along the way. This is some kind of steampunk conspiracy going on.
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by jksmith 17y ago
That's a great business point which doesn't generally occur to developers who believe the world is a simpler place where good and bad software is created, but intentions are always sincere. The internet is a killing blow for MSFT's business
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by jksmith 17y ago
A mandatory requirement for being alive includes at least knowing how to tie a bowline.
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by jksmith 17y ago
Good grief. This reminds me of the SNL sketch where Trump is giving his wife a diamond encrusted front door. Point being, this is what you come to when you run out of stuff to spend your money on. Why have this thing custom built when you c
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by jksmith 17y ago
I don't understand the quote. Would you call C# and .NET development environments in the same vain as VS or IntelliJ? What's the preferred dev environment for Mono? Further, there are several commercial dev environments for win32 that are r

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