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by jussij 13y ago
The unfortunate reality is in a lot of (big) organisation people who can bullshit progress the furthest. I've worked with plenty of managers that would rather not know the truth if it meant having to deal with a problem. To them denial is b
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by jussij 13y ago
> For example, many people working in Java or C# especially tend to write lots of indecipherable OO spaghetti. I would contend that there is nothing OO about the spaghetti they right and you can write spaghetti in any language. But I te
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by jussij 13y ago
> Weeks earlier, Rob Pike gave a talk Go Concurrency Patterns in Google IO 2012 That is over a year old. Since then Go has moved up one (minor) version number and by all accounts it is now 20 to 40 % faster.
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by jussij 13y ago
I guess the HN reality is he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and never had any impact on the IT world.
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by jussij 13y ago
> I don't see where you get humble beginnings He is the son of a lawyer and a college drop out.
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by jussij 13y ago
> but I think the "victims" of the patent troll should seek their own remedy, by filing a cause of action In other words hire another lawyer to fix a problem created by other lawyers.
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by jussij 13y ago
> I guess it just bothers me a bit that the attorney general appears to be using language to gain points with voters by appearing to be fighting for the little guy. Alternatively he could have been made aware of the problem by reports f
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by jussij 13y ago
> Based on those projections of about 7% improvement/year in batteries, in a few years they will. Take this with a grain of salt, but it might not be in their best interest to move to the lower end market. If they can make a cheap EV ca
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by jussij 13y ago
> But at least nobody cares about MFC and ATL anyway About a decade ago I did a lot of MFC/C++. Form what I see here in Australia one of the reason nobody cares about MFC and ATL is for the last 5 years C++ has been pretty much dead o
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by jussij 13y ago
> I am angry that the law is so flawed, I can imagine this could be quite a difficult problem to fix. These big companies bending the law get away with it only because they a multi-nationals, which means they are governed by more than
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by jussij 13y ago
Morality has nothing to do with law.
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by jussij 13y ago
Got to love those bubbles.
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by jussij 13y ago
And the other two companys mentioned, Excite and AltaVista. They sound like great places to work.
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by jussij 13y ago
So there are all these customers that hate the Microsoft toolchain and also know they are getting shafted by Microsoft. In fact the customers hate Microsoft so much they decided to pay Microsoft an extra 11% bonus this year (and will probab
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by jussij 13y ago
I suspect all your alternate explanations as to why the server division is growing are true. The server divison is doing extremely well. My point is I doubt very much the server division would be doing as well as it is if the Op was corre
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by jussij 13y ago
> Quite a few people are locked into that toolchain and don't have a choice but to continue buying what Microsoft is selling. I don't buy that for a minute. The Windows Server division is one of the fastest growing divisions inside of M
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by jussij 13y ago
> No offense but that page is horrible. I'm pretty sure that page is auto generated by GoDoc, an automatic documentation tool that generates documentation on the fly. For auto generated documentation I'd say it looks pretty darn good!
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by jussij 13y ago
There're a few Go IDEs that integrate GDB into the IDE. http://geekmonkey.org/articles/20-comparison-of-ides-for-goo... I'm the author of one of them (Zeus) and while the results are not as slick as the Visual Studio debugger it's a bet
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by jussij 13y ago
More people did use Symbian but they found it wanting. Symbian was the reason Nokia lost its dominance of the smart phone market. http://static8.businessinsider.com/image/4b9973c67f8b9a24285...
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by jussij 13y ago
> I bet they won't be to happy when that happens. I suspect they don't give too much of a toss. Firstly, the people who run/own those markets make money on every trade (i.e. ever buy/sell) so they'll make money if the market is going up
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by jussij 13y ago
So by making the system trade faster, they have made the market less stable and opened it up to outside manipulation. Hardly what you call progress.
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by jussij 13y ago
> but claiming that we are using computers to do things better than we did 10 years ago is a bad thing But they are not using those computer to do something better, they are using those computers to do something that was impossible 10 y
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by jussij 13y ago
Which is why many places don't accept checks. In other words they don't consider it a valid currency.
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by jussij 13y ago
FYI they're not these doing quick release cycles because they want to. This is RC (Release Candidate) 2. The way release candidates work is they can't become an official release if issues are found with that candidate. They're putting out t
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by jussij 13y ago
Not only that but this: Silicon wafers account for more than half the cost of making a solar cell. "By using lower-quality silicon, you can drastically reduce that cost," he said.
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by jussij 14y ago
So now we no why the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is so far over budget. The Chinese tweaked the plans so when they tried building the thing nothing would fit.
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by jussij 14y ago
Or better still, let the court hear both sides of the story and let them decide.
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by jussij 14y ago
If I was somewhere high up in Microsoft I'd serious think about it. Nothing too serious, just dragging them into court would be enough. What goes around comes around.
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by jussij 14y ago
> That, they say, boosted both wages and employment for U.S. born scientists and engineers. There were undoubtedly winners and losers; while average salaries rose, some older Americans almost certainly gave up their jobs to younger immi
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by jussij 14y ago
The gocode autocomplete uses this approach and it works very well.

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