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by mncolinlee 9y ago
This is straight-up nonsense. You can't just put any clause you want into a contract and expect it to be enforceable. This is also a major concern for startups. You need to always make it possible for clients to opt-out and to understa
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
> That said, I think only ... could absorb the extra demand for skilled employees without sucking the wind out of the other local businesses' sails. This is a bad thing? Wouldn't that work in favor of Minneapolis-St. Paul where
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
I've only seen Minneapolis really snowbound maybe once in my career. We just work from home when it happens. Also, the city has the most sophisticated snow removal in the western world. Both downtowns have extensive skyway systems to a
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
I would argue Kotlin is a lot more fun than Java. As for the Fragment lifecycle, it still sucks, but no one forces you to use it. Lots of apps never even use one fragment. Google simply made fragments hoping everyone would make their UIs in
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
I worked there years ago, so here's a bit of trivia. The Cray Supercomputers you see in Seattle is an acquirer of Cray Research. The original Cray was bought by SGI in the late 90s and sold to a Seattle supercomputer startup named Tera
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
I was specifically referring to the level of SVG support, which is constant across given OS versions, not per device like the fragmentation in old camera hardware abstraction layer implementations. In that sense, the only reason there would
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
I'm not sure about iOS, but on Android the reason is the cost penalty of rasterizing larger icons and images on the fly. There's also some fragmentation with differing levels of SVG support on different OS levels. As a result, SVG
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
Nuclear suffers from the same problems as many political issues. The greatest risks of nuclear energy is not "safety," but rather cost, insurance, and financing. As humans our brains are attuned to avoid worst case scenarios inste
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
Not true. In the short run, solar is the safest. A massive spill of solar energy is just called a nice day. In the long run, it's the most dangerous. The sun may eventually consume the Earth and much later, go nova.
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
Spaces over tabs is the default for IntelliJ. Given there are over ten million Java developers who are in very high demand, Python is practically a rounding error.
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
We should have a system more like what Thomas Paine advocated. The system he described sounds like Social Security, except it's not limited to retirees. He suggested that everyone 21 years old was due a "natural inheritance"
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
We already provide free college to the best performing students and those students very likely achieve much higher ROI. I benefitted from a four-year tuition, room, and board scholarship from my college, as did my brother and sister from th
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
I'll go with a different angle on this problem. Computers have become indistinguishable from magic for most of the modern population. Even with IDEs like IntelliJ and Visual Studio, the interface of programming has not kept pace with t
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
Absurd, not really. I even forgot one of the most important platforms. It's very production ready on server and is highly supported by Pivotal for Swing Boot server apps. It seems the only "beta" platform listed there is LLVM
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
I should note that Kotlin now supports JDK, JS, iOS, and LLVM as backends. Gradle also announced support for Kotlin. This means you can write your Android app, iOS app, web browser app, desktop app, and your build scripts -- finally all in
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by mncolinlee 10y ago
Major organizations' style guides disagree with you. At least in the USA, the Oxford comma is under real and constant assault by the defenders of imprecise and ambiguous grammar. Whenever someone inevitably takes the side of these atro
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by mncolinlee 10y ago
The answer is simple. Developers are victims of their own success. Talented developers are in such high demand that book publishing cannot compete with what they can earn. Conferences and training vendors cannot afford to pay them properly
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by mncolinlee 10y ago
As a tech company, Tesla has never delivered a product on time. Worse, it's usually 2-3 years late, not the usual 3-6 months delay for software. At this moment, GM beat the Model 3 to market with its cheaper competitor by at least six
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by mncolinlee 10y ago
There's actually one peer-reviewed study in a psychology journal. Granted, it's only one data point and might not be applicable directly to coding. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/can-alcohol-make-men-smarter-stu.
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by mncolinlee 10y ago
There is something called the Ballmer Peak, which has even been demonstrated in one study. Up to a point, the theory goes, creative work benefits from mild intoxication. Beyond that point, productivity goes out the window. For me, I believe
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by mncolinlee 10y ago
"After all these years, I still find the most difficult and un-natural thing is mixing concurrency / background tasks that must outlive the UI with complex UI component lifecycles." This and the weaknesses of AsyncTask are th
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by mncolinlee 10y ago
These complaints are all valid and serious. I believe the solutions involve writing more readable code in languages that compile down to Javascript, CSS, and HTML. There are thousands of languages that compile down to JS. https:/&#x2F
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by mncolinlee 11y ago
I'm not an expert on federal campaign law, only state level, but it's possible this could also be considered a large in-kind campaign donation by the DNC. Certainly, there are real dollar prices associated with access to NGP VAN&#
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Realm (YC S11) Java 0.87 – With RxJava Support(realm.io)
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Google's Project Fi adds support for iPads, other data-only devices(theverge.com)
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by mncolinlee 11y ago
Someone needs to write a JAPH of "sudo shred /dev/sda1 &" <Begin obfuscation contest>
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Show HN: Vidku - Short video sharing with full control and elegant design(vidku.com)
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Go with the Flow: A Reactive State of Mind [video](youtube.com)
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by mncolinlee 12y ago
I have an idea related to this guideline. Good tools already exist to do automated sentiment analysis. It would be extremely interesting to build forum software for HN that detects when a commenter is going too far with negativity and then
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by mncolinlee 12y ago
Vidku - Minneapolis, MN - Android engineers Vidku is the social video startup that created Flipgrid, a cloud-based, mobile video SaaS product currently used by millions of teachers and students in K-12 and college classrooms around the worl

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