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by laureny 14y ago
> Incidentally, the millions of Buddhists in the world would be amused to know that none of them are "rational". Why stop at Budhists? Billions of religious people would probably be amused to know that none of them are rational. It's st
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by laureny 14y ago
> And for one person there: Karma. It takes a long time but it does come back to bite you. Er... no. That's superstition. It's simply not real.
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by laureny 14y ago
No, it's not like that at all.
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> Are any of you sharing designs on the wiki yet? That's what the Spaceport is for (and it will soon be incorporated in the game).
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> I guess you could say Stallman wasn't wrong exactly, just unnecessarily alarmist over this particular issue. He's unnecessarily alarmist on all the issues he cares about. And because of that, he's bound to be right once in a while,
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by laureny 14y ago
> Most of the major banks are recruiting for Scala developers. For example, Morgan Stanley were/are looking for Scala developers for their core technology team. Would you mind sharing links to Scala jobs? I see these claims a lot but wh
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by laureny 14y ago
> Scala will easily dominate the JVM largely due to web use cases. Not sure what you mean by that. The web situation on Scala is murky at best. First, it looked like Lift was becoming the de-facto standard web framework on Scala (which
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by laureny 14y ago
> When you have companies like Twitter, LinkedIn, FourSquare behind it How come none of these companies list a single Scala job on their web site?
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by laureny 14y ago
Scala is worth learning but from what I can see, the Scala job market is as nonexistent as the Haskell one.
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by laureny 14y ago
> The only sensible conclusion I can come to is that making a desirable mobile OS is far more difficult than it appears, I'd say making a desirable OS is much less difficult than trying to displace two operating systems which, combined,
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by laureny 14y ago
The title should be rephrased "Samsung wants its future to be Tizen, not Android". I doubt they will succeed, though.
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by laureny 14y ago
DHH would certainly agree: http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/arc/000433.html
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by laureny 14y ago
Regardless of the technical difference between Angular and Ember, I have to say that the Angular documentation is one of the best I have ever read for a software library. I'm not just talking about how it's written (it's English, it's techn
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by laureny 14y ago
> So you have to run 10 processes in parallel, and that's already beyond the capabilities of most single machines. Er... really? My laptop is three years old and I run 150 threads on it every time I launch the server I'm working on (doz
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by laureny 14y ago
> Since Sundar Pichai is the head of ChromeOS, perhaps this move is part of a larger move to unify Android and ChromeOS. I can't see both exist at the same time for much longer, and Android is encroaching on ChromeOS' domain much faster
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by laureny 14y ago
> Not to mention that Chrome has figured out how to push updates, while a majority of Androids are still running a version released over two years ago. The reason for the hold out is the carriers, not Google. Google is very good at push
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by laureny 14y ago
> ...I use it every day, but if I try to look at it from the outside it's an UX horror: weird terminology with worst possible choice of words, inconsistent terminology even in the docs, inconsistent argument naming, mostly incomprehensi
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by laureny 14y ago
> Rule 1: Make sure your linkedin password is not the same as your gmail password. Rule 0: Your email password should be unique and not used anywhere else.
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by laureny 14y ago
This was a very interesting read, especially the part about the internal workings of Typesafe (a bit concerning too).
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by laureny 14y ago
Regardless of the technical qualities of Lift, its future is pretty uncertain with 1) dpp leaving the project (in pretty bad terms) a few months ago and 2) Typesafe choosing Play over Lift for its stack. I would definitely not pick Lift tod
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by laureny 14y ago
So Bootstrap uses proprietary HTML elements, like Angular? I like both frameworks but is this a trend we should worry about?
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by laureny 14y ago
> Personally I believe that gender imbalance in this (and other) professions is only indirectly related to gender. At the risk of being downvoted into oblivion, I'll ask the question that nobody seems to want to ask: is it possible that
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by laureny 14y ago
First they charge for it. Then they make it free. Then they die.
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by laureny 14y ago
I think we need to give Marissa a little more credit here, surely she's aware of the adverse immediate effect of such an announcement. Here is my interpretation: this is a way to flush people who are not productive enough. Yahoo expects the
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by laureny 14y ago
Ah, that's actually a pretty good analogy! Very powerful once you get to know it, but with a baffling interface.
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by laureny 14y ago
I think the author of the article made a critical mistake by not installing a friendly set of tiles (e.g. Lazy Newb Pack). There is really no drawback, all it will do is get you to enjoy the game faster.
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by laureny 14y ago
These days, there are more advantages than drawbacks to running in a VM. The performance advantage of native over byte code has shrunk considerably to the point of being only relevant for a tiny portion of applications (e.g. games). On the
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by laureny 14y ago
> So... still waiting for that perfect language. Have you looked at the new, post-Scala, generation of languages, such as Kotlin? http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/
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by laureny 14y ago
> - compiles to a binary rather than running on a VM; To me, this is one the many reasons why Go will fail.
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> The lack of popularity for static typing can be laid mostly at the feet of Java and C++. If anything, I'd argue that Java is the main reason for the rebirth of the popularity of static typing. Java is a C++ without the compiler gettin

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