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by leothekim 14y ago
"I wrote this because you are all idiots." Speaking as an idiot, why do I want to run a screensaver on my iPhone?
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by leothekim 14y ago
Here's an article describing hands-on use: http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/18/technology/microsoft-surface... FTFA: Microsoft on Monday unveiled one of the most imaginative and intelligently designed PCs the world has ever seen. Or: Microsof
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by leothekim 14y ago
"You can use all the applications that you're familiar with." (19:58) Hm. Are applications sandboxed? That is, do I have to worry about running antivirus software on the device?
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by leothekim 14y ago
Yeah I can see that. The Surface might even be a superior product, but my point is the marketing fails to demonstrate that.
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by leothekim 14y ago
From a marketing perspective, the video on the site is terrible compared to Apple's iPad site. If you go here: http://www.apple.com/ipad/ You see someone using an iPad, how big it is, how simple it is to use, what it's capable of doing, a
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by leothekim 14y ago
Congruence relation!
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by leothekim 14y ago
I wonder what kind of company this is, e.g. media, marketing, finance, tech, etc. If you're not in a tech company - or sometimes even if you are - you're usually considered a cost center instead of a value provider. This would explain why t
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by leothekim 14y ago
Why is there an emphasis on foregoing college with this grant? Why not offer it to college seniors?
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by leothekim 14y ago
I don't necessarily disagree that big companies can't have startup atmospheres, but a small startup usually has a lot more on the line. The relative lack of funding and the pressure to execute well is much more of a reality at a startup tha
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by leothekim 14y ago
Wow, I just saw your awesome response! FWIW, I too work at foursquare and sit next to Neil (nsanch). Feel free to verify by asking him! I reiterate: /troll
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by leothekim 14y ago
These things happen. Next.
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by leothekim 14y ago
In some projects, yes. For example, see the Linux kernel.
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by leothekim 14y ago
I actually think the IDEs for Java, e.g. Eclipse and IntelliJ, are quite evolved and help speed webapp development, and they do it in ways that make up for Java's verbosity and boilerplate. For me a lot of the web frameworks for Java felt c
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by leothekim 14y ago
The scope of the study also seems suspect to me. From the paper: "The introduced study is a relatively large study with 49 subjects and required for each subject approximately 27 hours pure development time. Including the teaching time for
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by leothekim 14y ago
/troll.
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by leothekim 14y ago
I don't think what I said was bullshit. So you wrote tests to make mongo fail, and you've seen cases where people run into problems with it. That still doesn't disprove my point. With postgres, you roll your own sharding. With mongo, you do
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by leothekim 14y ago
Sounds like most of the commenters here would subscribe to this philosophy: http://programming-motherfucker.com/ Myself included.
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by leothekim 14y ago
What do you mean by "serious"? That's broadly stated as well.
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by leothekim 14y ago
They had to put engineering effort into it. With Mongo, you don't.