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by marcodave 8y ago
"... Instagram enables easy sign up via just an email address" Is the "easy sign up" such an important selling point, that anything more complicated drives away users? I'm wondering how could be possible to avoid ho
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by marcodave 8y ago
It's lovely how node.js started with callback nesting hell, then to promise chaining, then to async/await, then to "magic" libraries like this. How long since someone will figure out how to get rid of the (error-prone) a
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by marcodave 8y ago
except that OkCupid users won't normally die if the site is down for some hours, the worst thing that could happen is that they leave the platform. While I despise the practice of cowboy-style software dev, the upside is that you might
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by marcodave 8y ago
JSON is easier to use from Javascript
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Voting Software(xkcd.com)
122 points by marcodave 8y ago|5 comments
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by marcodave 8y ago
I don't remember where, but I read from a blog article that 5-star reviews are unreliable, when used by the general public, due to ignorance on how to properly rate. The proper way would be to ditch 5-star reviews in favor of just &quo
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by marcodave 8y ago
> Maybe it's different in the USA ... I went over to the store Disclaimer: I don't live in the USA Maybe it has something to do with the fact that many cities in the US have residential neighborhoods separated and far from com
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by marcodave 8y ago
Let's not forget that Flash-the-creation-studio-application was hugely successful with amateur animators, which provided content for sites like Newgrounds et al. Such artists were enabled to produce animations without dabbling with pr
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by marcodave 8y ago
and yet, the saddest thing of them all, is that one can just... install Chrome! it's not like the dark ages of IE6, where having to resort to use IE6 was also forcing to use Windows as well and forcing to use a dated, closed, non stand
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Why YouTube is 5x slower in Firefox and Edge(twitter.com)
2 points by marcodave 8y ago|0 comments
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by marcodave 8y ago
Related to the question, another nice short story posted some time ago on HN about hacked compiler code https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
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by marcodave 8y ago
> You are ignoring the whole other side of him that made him effective and revolutionary: His vision of the future was second to none. Well, it's easy to say this after-the-facts. The iPhone in my opinion was a HUGE gamble, and also
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by marcodave 8y ago
those are hard to be considered cheat sheets... extensive reference documentation, maybe, but "command --help" is more similar to a cheat sheet than "man command"
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by marcodave 8y ago
Minecraft is similar to that, when you die you lose everything, but you can regain your items back in the span of 5 minutes. You respawn in the last place you slept, and the adrenaline rush is to try to get back there on the death place as
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by marcodave 8y ago
I would guess that more irritating than that, are ignorant people trying to discuss a field they have no idea about (I'm looking at you, antivaxxers)
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by marcodave 8y ago
Basically you just described the situation at my first workplace in 2007. To be fair it wasn't a software company, and most of the software was for internal use. Still. The first proper installation of SVN happened only in 2010...
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by marcodave 8y ago
> Similarly, Google's ad revenue allows it to pursue incredible advances in AI and driverless cars that would otherwise be unprofitable. yet at the same time, they can decide what's "in" and what's "out&quot
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by marcodave 8y ago
The very fact that someone spent its time and effort to write an article like this, means that the trolls have won.
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by marcodave 8y ago
> reliable and repeatable results. ...given that the environment is in a predictable state. if the package manager allows for such state to change, and depends on it, how can one be sure that a package installation/disintallation ca
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by marcodave 8y ago
...with root privileges nonetheless
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by marcodave 8y ago
am I the only one that would answer that question with "this code is evil and you should feel bad" ?
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by marcodave 8y ago
> teens go where their parents aren't > As I heard a teenager say a couple years ago "why would I create a Facebook account, its for old moms." Precisely. Apart from the illusion of becoming an internet star, kids simpl
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by marcodave 8y ago
so where are these "interview brain teaser questions from Google" coming from?
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by marcodave 8y ago
> unless you override Java's default serialization behavior and build a whole lot of black magic. ...but then, if the developer is writing custom deserialization code that does black magic (like, executing the equivalent of eval() o
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by marcodave 8y ago
> serializing objects is so very complicated and dangerous. Serialized "data" is a program that can do everything a normal Java program can do. As I recall, the default behavior of Java (de)serializer, would only write the data
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by marcodave 8y ago
How is that relevant to the topic of answering the criticism?
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by marcodave 8y ago
That's a very good approach and mindset. Now the tide has passed, let's wait until waters calm down
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by marcodave 8y ago
I would bet that back in 199x there would have been countless articles (more like usenet posts) about "from C++ to Java and back" telling all the downsides and gotchas with Java.
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by marcodave 8y ago
I agree, very well spoken!
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by marcodave 9y ago
> VR will become a new creative medium [...]. Are movies and symphonies "useful"? Watch out when comparing current typical art mediums with VR, a technology still in the property of a 2-3 big tech companies, paired with countle

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