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by mpk 16y ago
You mean like a startup that cranks out guaranteed #1 pop hits? /cynicism
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by mpk 16y ago
> a. due to Apple's efforts, the phrase has gained an amount of familiarity and also b. it's simply a good name. +1 glad to see someone's paying attention :) The term 'App Store' is being used by a lot of vendors operating in the cloud/
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by mpk 16y ago
He mentions .NET in the same breath as the JVM because they're almost identically positioned and have almost identical capabilities.
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by mpk 16y ago
> This feels a bit too much like a witch hunt 'zactly. It feels like a load of knee-jerk reactions to me. One mistake in a commit in public does not sound like grounds for a crucifixion. Everybody chill out and hop off the bandwagon alr
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by mpk 16y ago
Well, github can do that too. You can set up an organization that isn't tied to any particular account and manage repos from there. Projects start out as one person messing with code. Of course the project belongs to one person at that po
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by mpk 16y ago
> I can't shake the feeling that people that like CoffeeScript are those that don't "get" JavaScript I disagree with this (though I agree with the rest of your post). The people that like CoffeeScript (and StratifiedJS and other project
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by mpk 16y ago
That's actually quite a painful way to write async code because the control flow is now inside the functions. That makes it very hard to perform refactoring. Might I suggest you take a look at my preferred solution for this, var cb1 =
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by mpk 16y ago
> Restarting services usually takes care of the majority of the sanity checks. Sure, that usually takes care of most checks, but the point is to eliminate as much as possible unusual scenarios. A service-level restart will catch ser
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by mpk 16y ago
Now this is an excellent reason and timeframe for doing periodic reboots. It's basically a scheduled sanity check for your infrastructure. It boils down to robustness and assurance. If parts of your system won't survive a reboot this is a
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by mpk 16y ago
> This makes them sound like mortal enemies. That makes it sounds more dramatic than it is. Stallman is an idealist and attaches moral value to the licensing of code. Torvalds is an engineer and just wants to ship code. His license of c
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by mpk 16y ago
I really like JS and it has excellent closure support, but it's really obvious that heavy async programming like we're doing nowadays with AJAX is not what it was designed for. The 'nested callback' problem is one I've encountered over and
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by mpk 16y ago
I recently attended a presentation on StratifiedJS and it is really cool, but as you say they do some rather aggressive source transformation. You are basically writing in a different language and loading in an interpreter in JS to handle t
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by mpk 16y ago
The root is a cycle, so that wouldn't work.
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by mpk 16y ago
> For example, many science-fiction fans get involved in lengthy discussions about physics [...] This always bothers me when talking to sci-fi fans that only read sci-fi. It also bothers me in more modern sci-fi when the author puts too
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by mpk 16y ago
Most people don't know what the FCC's charter is, what its position is in relation to other governmental entities and lets not get started on the Internet itself. Most people just think of it as this magic black box (and why would they not?
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by mpk 16y ago
The paper describes the algorithms, implementation and operation in several real-world scenarios. The essential routines are described using pseudo code in the appendix. Not really seeing the problem here. This is actually more useful than
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by mpk 16y ago
> would it have hurt to send a little more information about the issue [..] Call me a cynic but I think they don't send any information on purpose . They're not required to send information and Legal probably doesn't want anything sent
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by mpk 16y ago
It's open source. I played with it a bit and then read the source. Poof! Magic gone.
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by mpk 16y ago
Sure, those reasons are pretty obvious. If you want to familiarize yourself with the main reasons, check out the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Q&A/FAQ page at http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html If you haven't read it, I
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by mpk 16y ago
> [..] registered in the UK. Actually, it's registered in the Isle of Man, which is a self-governing island that is not technically part of the UK.
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by mpk 16y ago
I think the term you are looking for is 'Metacognition' or 'Meta-cognitive reasoning'. It boils down to being aware of what you are reasoning about (and subsequently reasoning about that). On a practical level it's about analyzing your own
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by mpk 16y ago
I'll refrain from commenting on the allegations, but the timing is very suspicious. I mean, really, right after this big leak? And anyway, how many people make the Interpol Red Notice list for rape allegations? As long as we're on the tin-f
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by mpk 16y ago
> It's also more likely to impose responsibility in such cloaked goings-on, as the actions may be revealed later. Call me a cynic, but I think that what will happen in the short term is that people (US diplomats in this case) will conti
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by mpk 16y ago
Thanks for misrepresenting that. 52% is the highest tax bracket which most people won't hit. The brackets are 2.35%, 10.85%, 42% and 52%. The first two brackets also contain the Social Security payments - which the part-time workers defin
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by mpk 16y ago
The wikipedia article also mentions, [..] the NNSA eventually decided to invest $23 million to attempt to find an alternative to FOGBANK. and, In 2008, following the expenditure of a further $69 million, the NNSA fin
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by mpk 16y ago
> In a lot of industries, I believe that to deliberately be the case. Maybe a simpler way of looking at this might be that given a large pool of potential applicants the incentive to actually pay these people simply isn't there if a lar
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by mpk 16y ago
I assumed the same thing. I bet you read Wired magazine in the 90s too, right?
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by mpk 16y ago
I'd suggest going to local programmer meetups. This should be pretty obvious, but let me clarify that. Most meetups are centered around a certain technology or language and this tends to discourage people who are working with different tech
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by mpk 16y ago
The how is of course the tricky part, but as to the why - well, to quote George Mallory, "Because it's there" That's good enough for me, but there are plenty of other reasons why. Species survival would be one of them. There are pl
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by mpk 16y ago
Wasn't Carly Fiorina the one who destroyed HP's R&D division and consequently relegated a large chunk of the HP product line (HPUX, systems and storage) to obsolescence in the space of a few years?

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