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by kenkam 13y ago
This analogy breaks down because Twitter (when they started out) wanted everyone to use their API, they want people to associate their app with their platform (e.g. TweetDeck and TweetBot) ZenDesk on the other hand cannot be said to do the
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by kenkam 13y ago
You are correct, and a pattern has emerged: there are the airlines that differentiates themselves on service that is tied to their country of origin (Singapore Airlines vs Emirates, both fly A380, but definitely different feel to them), and
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by kenkam 13y ago
Here the article forgets to mention airlines as an intermediary. Boeing and Airbus do not manufacture planes for us, they do it for the airlines. Airlines know that to make the most profit they need bigger and more fuel efficient planes ove
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by kenkam 13y ago
Playing the devil's advocate here: Black on black is pretty funky, but it might make sense to have LED lights. When you plug stuff into its expansion ports, chances are you're gonna move the machine slightly, so it lights up autom
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by kenkam 13y ago
Apologies, I seem to be suffering from a VERY short attention span. False alarm.
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by kenkam 13y ago
I think async/await is semantically similar to the promises pattern [1] but different to the Go concurrent models using channels. What the compiler does with await/async is quite interesting [2]. Essentially it takes your await/async code a
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by kenkam 13y ago
I agree with not needing to hire new devs, but convincing management and the business to move to a new, untried system with current devs is no trivial feat. It would be nice if he could expand on how that came about.
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by kenkam 13y ago
I would like to hear more about the technical implementations from the author on how he managed to improve performance. He mentions: "Due to the complex nature of the system this script could take up to three minutes to scan nodes and proce
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by kenkam 13y ago
Beware, the first link seems to have been 'click jacked'. It opened a new tab with domain "fxxksheep".replace('xx', 'uc') which my company proxy classified as porn.
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by kenkam 13y ago
"Your goal is to talk them round to your point of view, not make them never want to talk to you again for fear of you blowing things way out of proportion." I'd like to think that one's goal is to improve any ecosystem/community and talkin
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by kenkam 13y ago
Ah, I was thinking I can't be the only one thinking that. Thanks for pointing it out to me. I can understand his side of the story. ghg definitely did not "Zyngify" GDS. In any case I'm gonna buy a copy of GDT to see what it's like!
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by kenkam 13y ago
Slightly unrelated to the original point of the article: has anyone heard of Kairosoft and Game Dev Story [0]? It's ironic the OP wrote an article about irony. Having said that, it looks like they have elements not seen in GDS, but the prem
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by kenkam 14y ago
James Cameron and ocean diving
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by kenkam 14y ago
Sigh. The internet can be a dark place. She overreacts, people get fired, internet bullying and threats, now she gets fired. I feel a net karma loss for everyone involved. Let's hope this never happens again...
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by kenkam 14y ago
I agree with the OP's general point. Career aspirations? What I give back to the world? To me, I just want to be happy in my life, I guess some can argue it's Utilitarianism. This is my big picture. So if I can pay my bills, live the lifest
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by kenkam 14y ago
I tend to agree. On one level, you could say it's a satire and even a mockery to VCs in general (which I found hilarious when I found out who Tagger was). However, in real life I think this would be a polite response. It might read like bul
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by kenkam 14y ago
I'm sure Jeremy can only do so much code reviews a day (unless he's a ninja robot), so why isn't there a crowd-sourced version of this? Sometimes I write code that I would like other coders to help/critique with. Github is great for collabo
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by kenkam 14y ago
He has 21 tabs opened, by reducing it to 1 tab, he has saved 20/21 lots of memory, ~~ 95% saved. Assumptions: each tab uses same memory; no shared memory (or shared memory equally divided between all tabs), every user has around 20 tabs ope
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by kenkam 14y ago
I could say the same thing for the culture in Hong Kong or China at large too.
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by kenkam 14y ago
If we assume that Tesla knew "Top Gear", by that, I mean 3 guys cracking jokes and having a laugh while driving expensive cars around; one of them known to be screaming things like "Powerrrr" while driving, then it would seem to be a foolis
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by kenkam 14y ago
I had to read the article twice to make sure the author was being sarky. That's taking sarcasm to the next level (or was he being serious? I still can't tell for sure).
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by kenkam 14y ago
This particularly resonates with me. I have been working in a bank as a graduate developer for the last year and a half, getting by without much care about how instruments are priced, traded, recorded, audited, etc. To me, I was moving a bu
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by kenkam 14y ago
Such a shame Sony pirated their artwork. Also, such a shame the article introduces Sony as "the company who created Audio CDs which installed a rootkit on Windows computer to try to stop people copying music", as if Sony needed introduction
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by kenkam 14y ago
Your forking argument won me over. Very good point.
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by kenkam 14y ago
tl;dr OP throws 3 libs together, wrote a few scripts, made a few measurements. Look, it can handle 1 million connections. I like what he has done but don't know why it made HN frontpage. I'm guessing it's because it has Ruby, 1 million, and
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by kenkam 14y ago
Same here. My course was a simple one and didn't include network programming, and at the same time I was learning about select() and co in C. This was a great primer especially for me as I had some Python knowledge; it really helped with un
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by kenkam 14y ago
It's a shame, the fact that he decided to rm -rf ~ has hijacked the point he was trying to make in the first place. Now everyone's discussing if there's a better way of making his point rather than downloading random scripts on the internet
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by kenkam 14y ago
I agree and can see where OP is coming from. As a Chinese, I notice the difference in how we approach problems. Let me make an analogy: Chinese and western dude learns guitar. The Chinese player will worry about the scales, the hammer on/of
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by kenkam 14y ago
Graduates from universities. They apply in droves. (guilty as charged). I suspect this applies to US and UK, although I'm based in the UK myself.
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by kenkam 14y ago
Traders don't care. Traders are the profit-generating people. They are the rockstars in banks. Programmers are tools to help them achieve their goals. When traders want something that helps them make money, they want it now. Try explainin

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