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by laureny 13y ago
It comes with downsides as well in the sense that it's a very rare privilege. If your company decides one day to let you go , cancel work-at-home privileges or simply goes under, your life is going to suddenly become much, much harder,
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by laureny 13y ago
Great to see the weather in the title bar of my xterm, I often don't have the strength to look out the window.
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by laureny 13y ago
Right, there is some tension between the number of moves and speed. Having only 20 moves to solve the cube sounds like a great idea except that the calculations to find out these 20 moves take too long. Speed cubists win despite having to m
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by laureny 13y ago
> I'd rather have tests than types. False dichotomy. You want both and you need both.
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by laureny 13y ago
> is it really that much to ask that users install a certain browser which literally runs on any OS, is free and open-source, and can be installed in seconds/minutes? Yes, it can be. Can you think of certain situations where doing t
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by laureny 13y ago
> Tell your users to use a real browser Suddenly I have the impression I'm on Slashdot in the early 2000's.
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by laureny 13y ago
> Citation? http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/ruby%2C+java.html > Why would Ruby developers be getting more scare? Are they retiring earlier than Java developers? Ruby developers have always been a tiny fraction of
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by laureny 13y ago
> Do you have any specific reason to believe that? They have more money so they can send more developers to these conferences than startups. Also, they have more employees, so the odds of a number of them being Rails developers is higher
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by laureny 13y ago
> That COBOL is predominantly used in Big Biz? I think you proved his point. No, you don't understand what selection bias means.
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by laureny 13y ago
> On the first RailsConf i've been to (RailsConf Europe 2007), most attendees were actually working for Big Biz. Selection bias. Go to a COBOL conference and you'll likely find that most attendees work in Big Biz as well. What
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by laureny 13y ago
> They reject it because they're inherently conservative Not just that. They reject Ruby because 1. It's very slow and continues to be very slow despite all the performance work being done on it (nod to JRuby). 2. It's jus
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by laureny 13y ago
It's called a "Chrome Experiment" for a reason.
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by laureny 13y ago
> Frameworks sound great until you inherit a franken-app built using one. And when you do, the ones to blame are the programmers who wrote the app, not the framework. > Frameworks in the most case feel like straightjackets You mean &q
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by laureny 13y ago
How do you decide who's noble and who's not?
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by laureny 13y ago
> Scala is the best language out there today for general purpose programming, FULLSTOP. You have a very narrow view of what makes a good general purpose programming, it's not just about its syntax and its type system. Scala suffers
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by laureny 13y ago
> Scala transcends the static vs dynamic typing debate via it's duck typing. Hardly anyone uses duck typing in Scala (you probably mean structural typing, by the way). There are plenty of articles explaining why structural typing is
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by laureny 13y ago
> If they were ever going to do it, they would have with the 5c. It's never going to happen The 5C is $100 and it can already be found for $50 in various large stores. If this is not catering to the low end, I don't know what i
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by laureny 13y ago
> iOS is starting to regain marketshare from Android. There is zero evidence of that and plenty of evidence that it's the opposite. Android is activating more than twice as many phones as the iPhone every day, it's a gap that t
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by laureny 13y ago
There are plenty of counter examples to your claim: YouTube, Google Maps, Picasa, various companies focused on voice recognition and Google Glass, etc...
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by laureny 13y ago
> Rails and Django have moved from the obscure into the mainstream. For prototyping, maybe (and even that is arguable). In practice, I see a lot more companies moving away from these frameworks toward JVM-based frameworks than the other
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by laureny 13y ago
That's a misleading graph, you switched it to relative values, which is meaningless. Here is the same graph with absolute values, which shows that Scala is completely invisible compared to the competition: http://www.indeed.
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by laureny 13y ago
> “Drastically?” The vast majority of the web developers I know use OS X. I'm guessing most (all?) the developers you know work in the US? Mac OS is close to nonexistent in that area in the rest of the world. Trying to sell an app c
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by laureny 13y ago
> Tablets are the post PC device, and the skip-the-PC device. It really depends what people mean by "post". If it's post as in "will replace", then it's nonsense: laptops and desktops are going to be around
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by laureny 13y ago
> I don't really know how I feel about it, but it seems like it's cheating somehow. I used to feel the same way about phone numbers: before cell phones arrived, I prided myself in knowing the phone numbers of all my friends by
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by laureny 13y ago
> Way too creepy for me. Based on my use so far, it only displays information that the user has access to, so I don't see anything creepy about it. What's creepy (in a good way) is how they manage to pick up the things that are
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by laureny 13y ago
> There's already a scala implementation for .net, Scala.net was abandoned a while ago. It's close to impossible to get it to run because .Net's generics are reified.
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by laureny 13y ago
They never were important, although Steve Jobs certainly tried to make them so (see his failure with NeXt).
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by laureny 13y ago
I love how certain people try to use complicated words and yet don't know how to spell them.
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by laureny 13y ago
> Touch ID is going to massively reduce the number of totally unsecured iPhones that require zero effort to access. I feel like we just went through this very same drill with the Chrome team refusing to hide web site passwords behind a m
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by laureny 13y ago
You are quoting the FSF's stand on the issue (which I don't have a problem with) but not Stallman's. Stallman has always believed that software should not be sold, either directly or indirectly. For example, a quick Google se

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