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by mcot2 13y ago
I want more desktops not less. Not having native support for multiple desktops is a shame in 2013.
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by mcot2 13y ago
Electric vehicles & associated infrastructure. Very high speed transportation air and ground transportation.
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by mcot2 13y ago
So perhaps I was a bit harsh. Do check out this set of slides though: http://talks.golang.org/2012/concurrency.slide One of the last slides: http://talks.golang.org/2012/concurrency.slide#54
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by mcot2 13y ago
Looking at this some more... Why wouldn't you just make the waiting chan buffered and eliminate any tracking of connections.
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by mcot2 13y ago
I'm not sure I agree with how channels are used here. What's the point of this spaces chan? Why couldn't a simple atomic counter solve this (see sync/atomic)? Why allocate a thousand bools? // The bool
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by mcot2 13y ago
It's funny to read these comments trashing mongodb. Perhaps people should do a little less HN ranting and a little more serious study about the problem they need to solve. The design, benefits and tradeoffs of mongodb are well unders
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by mcot2 13y ago
The problem also seems to be portion size related. On the larger end of the spectrum some of these smoothies can be over 20 ounces.
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by mcot2 13y ago
Shortly after being hired full time at my first ever full time salaried job, my manager when I was an intern was laid off with some others. It really sucked and it was a good initial lesson for me. I will never be loyal to a company if I d
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by mcot2 13y ago
I say it is generally a sign to leave because at that point things have got so bad that there is a critical mass of people that don't think the company will succeed. Usually at these speeches no one actually leaves, things proceed as
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by mcot2 13y ago
Well this guy was in a league of his own. He openly made jokes about a fellow employees lazy eye in public and once made a semi-racist off color joke to begin another all-hands. I'm pretty sure he was left off of the investor quarterly
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by mcot2 13y ago
I used to work for a high level executive that would throw around the words "you're fired" as a joke sometimes during all hands meetings. The fact is, using those words on someone in public (joke or not) is embarrsing and cri
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by mcot2 13y ago
There are a lot of smaller technical trainings and conferences once you get to a certain level. I like to rate conferences by the technical quality of what is being presented. Am I constantly being blown away by new ideas? What can I use i
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by mcot2 13y ago
DefCon is a joke. Nobody with any skill takes that conference seriously. This is a complete farce as one of the key speakers last year was Gen Keith Alexander. NSA was fairly open about recruiting directly from DefCon and DefCon leadership
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by mcot2 13y ago
Windows just makes it difficult for developers. Or at least difficult for developers not using microsoft stacks. Why not have a bash compatible shell or at least built-in common programs like ssh and tar?? Even the "power shell"
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by mcot2 13y ago
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-flexbox/ It's simple with flexbox. Chrome and Firefox support the new standard. IE10 supports an older version.
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by mcot2 13y ago
Go is awesome! The best feature of 1.1 is very large heaps on Linux x64. I was bumping into the limits before but the 1.1 rc has been rock solid so far.
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by mcot2 14y ago
I would be a lot more interested in meteor if it took more of a library approach and wasn't tied specifically to node.js and mongodb. I understand they are moving towards this by having a protocol and different adapters for other databases.
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by mcot2 14y ago
This was a great read. It gave me a lot of insight on how the big decisions were made and some of the motivations of the key players in Bush's second term. I very much liked how Bush let this play out. He basically allowed Israel to take
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by mcot2 14y ago
If this model works than it is great for Apple and Google. TV "channels" move to becoming apps and it blows open the door for more than just a "hobby" project in the living room.
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by mcot2 14y ago
Chrome uses WebKit...
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by mcot2 14y ago
Samsung already has a cortex a15 chip. If this takes a year it will be woefully out of date using an a9.
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by mcot2 14y ago
Once I learned Python, Java and C++ took a backseat for me on anything that doesn't need to be fairly low level. Even for stuff that is low level I have learned enough of the python-c api to connect things up when I need to interface with
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by mcot2 14y ago
I think flexbox is bigger than any of those. The new spec is already in WebKit and the Firefox nightlys as well as Opera. Advanced CSS layout is vitally important for creating web apps with the nice benefit of eliminating almost all extra m
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by mcot2 14y ago
It sounds like this will all be fixed when js gets proper map types in ES6.
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by mcot2 14y ago
Verisign does not have an ssl/identity business anymore. This was sold to symantec in 2010.
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by mcot2 14y ago
This. Also look at windows phone 8 and blackberry 10 to see how the web stack can be used for native mobile apps.
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by mcot2 14y ago
I honestly couldn't tell if this was a joke or not. Tab is usually spot on and I like reading his blog. What difference does it make if someone uses the term "CSS4 Selectors" instead of "CSS Selectors Level 4"???
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by mcot2 14y ago
I don't really consider the Linux desktop "dead". Besides Android, it just has a marginal market share because you mostly need to be tech oriented to use it or install it. I think the risk for the future is that the idea that the tradition
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by mcot2 14y ago
I really like less.js for quick development. Once everything is working, the less code can be compiled and included as regular css. My toolchain is currently... python/apache pure json apis server side knockoutjs/jquery/less client side Th
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by mcot2 14y ago
Let's say I go on a trip to visit a friend for the weekend and his/her apt does not have an easily accessible electric outlet. Then let's say I drive while I am there and then drive home. This is a very very common scenario for me where I m

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