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by maigret 14y ago
I never told they are stupid. Rather, I think a simpler environment enables more productivity for the developer. Assembler is hard, some people master it in incredible ways. Does that mean that C is useless? No. Node goes the way of unifyin
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by maigret 14y ago
I use MDN, not extensively though. I like this site, it is useful and very well organized, but feature availability (browser & level) is not as well documented as in w3schools I find. Chrome is probably not the issue here, rather - let'
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by maigret 14y ago
MDN: Too Mozilla centric. I certainly hate devs who make Firefox-only pages more than ones who look up on w3schools. And I've met a few of them ;) dochub: Where are the tutorials? Sitepoint: The structure is messy. It looks like a blog, but
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by maigret 14y ago
It helps. Let's take the example of numbers. You begin learning as a child with 1, 2, 3... Everything is an integer and begins with one. Rapidly, you learn the notion of 0. And then at school, at some point, come the negative numbers. You h
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by maigret 14y ago
Yes, a random page in w3schools is for developers, not for beginners. And yes, they do have tutorials where beginners should begin with. After the tutorial, they indeed know what a block element and a style is. Google downgraded w3schools i
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by maigret 14y ago
You're missing the point of Node. You can construct a web rendering application and its AJAX parts in one codebase. You can move fastly code between server and client rendering. etc etc etc. Probably Erlang is "better". BTW, Java & C ar
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by maigret 14y ago
The fact is that the school is divided very early in way where you are going to college and others where you'll just learn a more simple job (mechanics, cook...). So at a young age, teachers decide where you are going to go. Studies show th
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by maigret 14y ago
Flood the debt with inflation ;) That means the ECB buys the debt basically, but of course it creates the Euros out of nothing, so that creates more Euros for the same economical situation. The reason behind that is that if the ECB buys the
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by maigret 14y ago
Huge trade surplus before? When? http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=gm&v=85 and http://www.tradingeconomics.com/germany/balance-of-trade It correlates too well with the introduction of the Euro to be just random. The issue is exac
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by maigret 14y ago
As a way to make that visible to Facebook (probably someone there is looking at that thread, but your vote count isn't visible...) - I would totally pay for FB also, at the price that linkedin or others are proposing. My demand would then b
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by maigret 14y ago
Not really. Look at Amazon's PE, keeping strong since years and much higher than Facebook's. If there is really a huge growth potential and a good track of growth for many years, a high PE can be justified. Of course, the future will tell u
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by maigret 14y ago
And in the future, lucky enough to keep. Glaciers melting due to global warming will probably harm many countries in South America and elsewhere.
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by maigret 14y ago
> Unfortunately, most languages other than C are more or less a dead end. Except for Java, where you can reuse code directly with JVM-compiling stacks like Clojure.
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by maigret 14y ago
There are currently a few projects ongoing with enabling VMs on smartphones. The way it was thought is that you would put your corporate stuff on a protected VM that would have no external app install, and the rest (games, social networks..
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by maigret 14y ago
If anything, I see the same pattern on mobile as on desktop: - Native is the only way at the beginning - Multiple platforms appear - Devs begin to see the cost of developing x times the same app - Browsers get more powerful and easier to pr
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by maigret 14y ago
I used to think that, but honestly the desktop lost in 2005 with the rise of Ajax. There's probably no way back. And HTML5 is even doing markup elegant.
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by maigret 14y ago
Using logs wins against debuggers a few cases though: - Your program runs on a client system and logs help you understand or reproduce the system without having to do a remote session (which might be impossible on some firewalled envs). - Y
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by maigret 14y ago
Or at the opposite to get a better return on it. If working more produced automatically more income, Japan would be magnitude richer than Europe. Food for thoughts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...
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by maigret 14y ago
The US is far from the path to debt free either - the difference with Greece is that they can print their own money. The US is trading low taxes against high inflation right now.
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by maigret 14y ago
Rather it is 6 weeks vacations + public holidays. 8 hours a day is a bit low, in IT you'll most probably do around 9 hours, not including lunch break.
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by maigret 14y ago
Good point!! A quick search brings some interesting statement - basically that is the only perceived way out of poverty for many people [1]. Also the risk seems really low, because it is "rooted" in your usual budget, like cigarettes, so yo
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by maigret 14y ago
Funny, because two codebases exactly what Firefox is doing with FF 10 ESR, but without the renaming. So I don't find his proposition stupid, at the opposite. And come on, working on different codebases is a usual dev task, and every develop
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by maigret 14y ago
Yes, but the GP doesn't it that way because humans tend to under-evaluate low probability events. Forgot the name of the theory. Basically, low (so until 10% probability) are taken by most humans as "0%". I agree with your statement fully,
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by maigret 14y ago
Have you looked into Netvibes?
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by maigret 14y ago
Rather, I would say - bad tools may prevent you from doing great work.
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by maigret 14y ago
Problem ist most companies don't have someone who actually owns the URL namespace. Or the engineer who wrote that bug reporting tool was too shy to contact the CIO, etc. I agree with your point, but it's also valuable to understand the stru
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by maigret 14y ago
Shutting down was driven by fear, not by cost.
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by maigret 14y ago
Or maybe just not upvote? Good argumentation, still can get in the way of why HN is here. It's not just a place to make formal argumentation, but to exchange experiences, or get some opinions from others. In some case the opinion is wished
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by maigret 14y ago
> Micropayments do not scale. It's just a matter of time before it does. I'd rather say the current micro payment offerings are not good enough.
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by maigret 14y ago
This is why there is the Euro also ;) Still missing a big manufacturer in there tho.

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