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by kyllo 14y ago
I agree, you can have openness without a lot of talking, and you can have a lot of talking without openness. The two might be correlated, but not as strongly as one might thing. Information sharing and openness are what you want to promote,
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by kyllo 14y ago
I'm guessing that one for Microsoft would include footage of Ballmer screaming "Developers! Developers! Developers!" just for the lulz.
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by kyllo 14y ago
"Over the last 2 years, more Windows licenses have been sold than Android, iOS, and Macs combined." So they're using total sales of all their desktop and mobile OS licenses combined for the past two years as a basis of comparison? And they'
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by kyllo 14y ago
So the Dear Leader always gets his own hardcoded span element. Hilarious.
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by kyllo 14y ago
Agreed, Apple's authentication system is obnoxious. Compounding this is the fact that they force you to reset your password if you enter it wrong more than once, ensuring that you're never going to remember it. I basically have to answer my
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by kyllo 14y ago
I've tried Coffeescript a little and didn't really care for it, but I haven't experienced any of the others. From reading the list, Opal is by far the most interesting of these because rather than forcing me to learn yet another new languag
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by kyllo 14y ago
Everything has downtime, folks. Everything.
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by kyllo 14y ago
Yeah PG wrote an essay about this, he compared the RIAA and MPAA to a restaurant owner trying to charge for smells. Recommended read: http://www.paulgraham.com/property.html
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by kyllo 14y ago
I'm sorry if I annoyed you, but there's really no need to be rude. It's a subject I never claimed to know a lot about, but it's also false to say that I don't know "anything" about it. I'm here to learn more, not to show off what I already
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by kyllo 14y ago
OK, that makes more sense. I don't use Dropbox and didn't realize they had a desktop GUI client.
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by kyllo 14y ago
I use Ruby for light scripting on a Windows machine. RubyInstaller worked just fine and so do the irb shell and my scripts. Dropbox is a web app, so who cares about GUI toolkits? Perhaps you're right that the Python community tried harder,
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by kyllo 14y ago
Because the stuff he built is open source? I'm sure he gets paid a high salary for his work, but he's still an engineer, not a founder. And maybe he likes working in an office?
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by kyllo 14y ago
Yeah but the problem is, reasons for a career change are highly personal, and by the time the employee wants to leave, it's usually already too late to keep them by sweetening the deal. The only way to know is to ask Guido himself.
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by kyllo 14y ago
Yeah, I don't think that trait distinguishes Python from Ruby or Perl, or even Java, for that matter. Cross-platform compatibility is an advantage of interpreted languages in general.
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by kyllo 14y ago
I guess that's why it's called "Silicon Valley" rather than "Sense of Humor Valley."
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by kyllo 14y ago
Are the kids required to present proof of Google+ activity first?
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by kyllo 14y ago
Nothing wrong with learning Javascript and Ruby or Python off the bat instead of starting with something like Java or C/C++. But you might want to start the course with stuff like programming language basics, database basics, and SQL if the
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by kyllo 14y ago
The post is an advertisement to be sure. But they are being somewhat charitable themselves by giving their service away for free to ex-Citi employees.
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by kyllo 14y ago
I read the message as "Your industry sucks to work in now, doesn't it? Why not come to our website to study web programming online so you can come join the tech startup industry instead?"
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by kyllo 14y ago
The info about North Korea is likely comprised of speculation and/or anecdotes of NK escapees and UN observers. Corruption is not just bribery though, it's also fraud, embezzlement, smuggling, etc. North Korea is printing millions of counte