lucifer

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by lucifer 17y ago
This is too radical a correlation. The issue is the protocol - it was designed to let colleague in academia and military to exchange messages (with all the weight of their collective social contracts bearing on their use of the system). I
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by lucifer 17y ago
If smtp could be replaced ...
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by lucifer 17y ago
What's ironic (and somewhat irksome) is the preachy tone of your post.
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by lucifer 17y ago
If only hacker sketches on a napkin looked like this: http://tinyurl.com/y9b5n2d
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by lucifer 17y ago
The register suggests it is possible to avoid Google products, but the web is literally infested with Google ads and that is a tracking mechanism.
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by lucifer 17y ago
Here you 'go': http://golang.org/src/pkg/sort/sort.go http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html#Type_assertions is possible, but it is costly. Basically, you either have to go through the tedium of writing "convenience" boiler plate (per abov
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Ask HN: what is /tmp/com.hp.launchport?
1 points by lucifer 17y ago|0 comments
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by lucifer 17y ago
I wasn't being "smirky" and don't appreciate your characterizing me as such. The OP has indicated no interest in creating "technology", whether in bits or in the abstract, but has indicated his interest in both business and technology.
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by lucifer 17y ago
But the OP is not a theoretician, nor does his post indicate any desire to be the next Dijkstra. Dear [here I'll say it for you] But-I-am-not-a-geek: Obviously you are neither interested in the non-people-oriented ;) aspects of "technology
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by lucifer 17y ago
A shady character: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/tu/slides/feynman.gif
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by lucifer 17y ago
Using "terrible" to describe Java is precisely what I meant by dumping on Java. A terrible language is a useless language; something not worth using; terribly broken; more trouble than its worth. Just the sheer volume of quality work b
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by lucifer 17y ago
The OP stated: "but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble to instantiate a Random object". My reply was a counter point to that statement, and not a discourse on using Random.
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by lucifer 17y ago
I'm experimenting with Go on a few personal projects and enjoying it; it grows on you and its good not to have to deal will objects all the time. But the experience (specially the performance) has made clear Sun's accomplishment in the J
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by lucifer 17y ago
(new Random()).nextBoolean(); // too much trouble? (new Random()).nextInt(2); // too much trouble?
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by lucifer 17y ago
Yes, trust your entire (cyber) life to Google Inc. They do no evil, haven't you heard? Platforms like Chrome OS are the enablers of (very possible) future police states.
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by lucifer 17y ago
Paul, when you wrote this, did you mean by "programmer" anyone who started programming in the new century? Because Dave Winer -- and here I'm feeling like you did when you bought the iMac ;) -- wrote extensively on Apple's treatment of dev
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by lucifer 17y ago
You can pay for a copy you use. And that copy is intended to be run on an Apple platform. You do not have the liberty to put your copy on a non Apple platform that you are selling for a price. Don't like the terms? There is always Linux
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by lucifer 17y ago
Exactly. (Obviously the preference would not be to prototype ideas in a statically typed language.) My expectation of the mythical Google engineer is that s/he can crank out the code whether its Python, Java, or C++. So, I remain unconvin
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by lucifer 17y ago
Productive in this context means 'coming up with an idea that Google can turn into a product'. /tongue-in-cheek
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by lucifer 17y ago
Precisely what category of "awesome new thing[s]" needs to be developed in Python and can not be implemented in Java or C?
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by lucifer 17y ago
The irony rings clear even today.
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by lucifer 17y ago
Thanks for the summary.
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by lucifer 17y ago
Pretty sure that's pre-funding. But even after funding, I thought that was unrealistic on his part, but needed sanity check and thus my Q to HN.
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by lucifer 17y ago
That pretty much sums up my thoughts. Not quite sure what you mean by "get past the prototype stage, then some more serious conversations can begin." Do you mean build it on my own and retain code ownership?
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by lucifer 17y ago
0, ...
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Ask HN: Technical founder startup share
6 points by lucifer 17y ago|11 comments
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by lucifer 17y ago
Sorry David. Selling bug tracking software can be a network-effect business if your product is a platform : http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+Plugin+Dev... [edit: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAEXT/JIRA+Plu
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by lucifer 17y ago
From the history article: "In addition to eschewing traditional enterprise software, the company forged a different sales and marketing model, relying on word of mouth and selling their products online without the use of an outbound sales f
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by lucifer 17y ago
Lets organize a network strike: Drop all net activity (specially e-commerce) for a day to send a message that we all have a say in this matter.
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by lucifer 17y ago
Excuse my (regrettable) cynicism, but people were accustomed to various other things as well and I don't recall their even bothering to throw up their hands in the post 911 Patriot Act regime when they were taken away.

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