laureny

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by laureny 13y ago
> The main reason Angular JS will fail is because it’s difficult. I'm glad good scientists don't stop studying something because it's difficult, it would have sucked for quantum theory. Seriously, though, that's the a
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by laureny 13y ago
> This is such an unfair move Which unfair move? Google could have gone ahead and hire these people anyway. Nothing prevented them from doing so except their decision to not risk angering Jobs.
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by laureny 13y ago
Also, the page wants to use my microphone, did anyone try to speak to it?
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by laureny 13y ago
$30 for an e-book? Seriously?
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by laureny 13y ago
Can't say I'm excited about this. I can't see a single positive thing coming out from a non gaming company buying a game focused company (and an extremely promising one at that).
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by laureny 13y ago
> one can say what one will about Amazon (and there are certainly many reasons why I believe the future is not AWS's alone), but AWS services do not have a trust issue. ... so far. Trust is fragile, it only takes one incident to com
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by laureny 13y ago
> The Clojure community (I'm at Clojure/West as we speak) is full of people who (a) are really good, like top 1% Says someone part of the Clojure community. How does it feel to be one of these top 1% developers? This kind of at
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by laureny 13y ago
> You could argue that, but you'd have to be pretty deluded to think anyone would believe you. It doesn't matter, courts need to prove you're guilty. My point was that this sentence in an email doesn't get the prosecu
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by laureny 13y ago
> Aw... Eric Schmidt. I suspect Larry and Sergey would have done a couple times better A couple of times better than what? Being multi billionaires and leading one of the most powerful and most respected companies in the world? Most expe
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by laureny 13y ago
> > Then Eric Schmidt says: > I would prefer Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later > How does someone this stupid rise to such a high position of wealth and influence
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by laureny 13y ago
Flash will be dead when web game companies (e.g. Zynga) stop using it. It's still years away.
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by laureny 13y ago
Fair enough about the HR person (who probably acted in fear for their job), but how often does the co-founder of a very successful start up get put on leave within 24 hours of an article published on Techcrunch?
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by laureny 13y ago
> We know we have to take action and have begun a full investigation. While that’s ongoing, and effective immediately, the relevant founder has been put on leave, as has the referenced GitHub engineer. Pretty much a full admission that e
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by laureny 13y ago
I doubt it, Google went public in 2004.
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by laureny 13y ago
Being rejected at an interview at Google means you have a one year cool down period. You can try again then (or they might call you back themselves).
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by laureny 13y ago
> While there are many users, gamers in particular, who shy away from Apple's buttonless offerings Many? I have yet to come across a single person who likes any of the Mighty Mouse models that Apple produced. They are all reviled an
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by laureny 13y ago
> If there is a choice - it is better to place your bet with the company whose main business line depends on the service you are using. Google has a long history of dropping services, because it can. Depends. Google might decide to stop
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by laureny 13y ago
> I think at this point I'm a little more comfortable paying more for a company that I know won't abandon this market. Interestingly, after I read this sentence, I thought "Yeah, I'm not so sure DropBox will be around
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by laureny 13y ago
So basically he's just an opportunist who lives in a country as long as it suits him and then leaves it when he's being inconvenienced?
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by laureny 13y ago
> BUT, Snowden is the best example that I know of as a person that really values the plan for the US as laid out by the Constitution and who saw first hand an insidious threat to ignoring those principles without the public even being aw
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by laureny 13y ago
> Clean oxygen in the room What's the difference between clean oxygen and dirty oxygen?
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by laureny 13y ago
> Prof Odersky has been quite vocal about the feature bloat and lets hope the future releases are more conservative in that sense. Languages never get simpler as they age, and Scala is certainly proof of that rule. If anything, advanced
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by laureny 13y ago
> Out of genuine curiosity, what's the advantage from your point of view, other than being able to communicate to other people who use the same system, at the cost of not being understood by everyone else? The metric system is 10 ba
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by laureny 13y ago
You can always revert to the old try/catch/fail if you need to test something more complex (e.g. testing the message of the exception) but most of exception tests fall in the simple case shown above.
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by laureny 13y ago
That's quite an old fashioned way of testing exceptions, TestNG has allowed you to do the following since 2005: @Test(expectedExceptions = FooBarException.class) public void test() { thisShouldThrow(); } If the m
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by laureny 13y ago
Meanwhile, at a Microsoft board meeting: "Guys, I know we've been making around $20 billion a year selling Windows licenses but this guy jmnicolas on Hacker News is suggesting we should give it away". "That's... bri
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by laureny 13y ago
TDD might be useful for unit tests (even that I'm not convinced of) but not for integration tests. The bug happens very deep inside the handshake protocol and it's extremely hard to test it automatically.
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by laureny 13y ago
Yeah, the US totally fail at ORM. Wait... wat?
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by laureny 13y ago
4 inch screen, 3M pixel camera, no Android Play and 4Gb of ram? What year is this, 2010? It's going to take a better phone than that to turn that ship around.
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by laureny 13y ago
Gmail ads have nothing to do with spam. From a purely ad perspective, Google doesn't really care if the email is spam or not: they still display ads on the side.

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