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   by nardi 12y ago

   I think this attitude is perfect for Linux, where many developers will not expend effort to maintain their software. On the other hand, developers for OS X and iOS are often willing to expend enormous amounts of effort to keep their apps
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   by nardi 12y ago

   IMO, Protobuf is at same layer as JSON, not JSON API. It's a serialization format.
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   by nardi 12y ago

   > 1. Resolution of 2304x1440 which means at Retina this is 1152x720!. This is worse than the 11 inch air, much less the 13 inch 1440x900. I don't think people realize how cramped this will seem if you start doing work on this laptop
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   by nardi 12y ago

   You are ignoring the obvious answer that Apple even said in the announcement: wireless everything. This is exactly like the removal of the DVD drive in MacBook Airs. "HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO USE MY DVDs?!?!?" The answer is: don'
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   by nardi 12y ago

   Thus continues Yehuda's quest to join every cool core team on the Internet. :) See also: Rails, Bundler, Ember.js, jQuery, W3C TAG, TC39.
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   by nardi 12y ago

   What do you mean by "not widely available"? Just as examples, Coq and Idris are both free: https://coq.inria.fr http://www.idris-lang.org/ Did you mean they're not in wide use?
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   by nardi 12y ago

   The classic economics mistake of focusing on a single group to the detriment of the whole. Yes, there is a group of local engineers that is hurt by companies importing cheaper, better labor from overseas. But everyone else benefits.
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   by nardi 12y ago

   In general, this argument is self-defeating: "I don't need a type checker because I write unit tests." Obviously that means you need a type checker, because then you don't have to write 70-90% of your unit tests. Unit te
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   by nardi 12y ago

   Priority queues are an incredibly important concurrency primitive. This is very important work. If you weren't expecting to find detailed technical articles, you might be on the wrong website.
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    by nardi 12y ago

    Over 16,000 classes. Better increase your PermGen.
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    by nardi 12y ago

    That is an amazing title. Bravo.
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    by nardi 12y ago

    Man, the sense of entitlement. They can't fit all that stuff in there yet. Give it a few years, man. It's amazing what they can fit in there already.
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    by nardi 12y ago

    Didn't they do that already back in June?
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    by nardi 12y ago

    This argument is about the definition of the word "innovation." Definitions of words are important, and worth arguing over.
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    by nardi 12y ago

    For some definition of "work." They are mostly fiction. Unless a "driverless car" is supposed to only really be driverless on the freeway. The point is that actually shipping a successful product to consumers is the true
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    by nardi 12y ago

    Ah. Well, other languages also get new features, improved performance, and refined syntax after 1.0. Are you objecting to the implication that the pace of development here will be more rapid, or an assumption that they plan on making backwa
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    by nardi 12y ago

    Correction: > Just because an innovation is only a research project* To which I will have to vehemently disagree with you. Otherwise we'll have to start celebrating science fiction authors for their "innovation."
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    by nardi 12y ago

    He didn't say they were. You seem to be in violent agreement.
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    by nardi 12y ago

    GGP is talking about the iPod, not the iPhone. GP is right that iTunes had no foothold when the iPod was released, and Apple had no "empire."
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    by nardi 12y ago

    What do you mean?
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    by nardi 12y ago

    This is an "iPod with a wristband" in the same way an iPad is a "really big iPod touch": not very much.
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    by nardi 12y ago

    Yeah, I was wondering about this. My guess is that security will be based on the fact that you wear a watch, so it's much harder to lose it or steal it. Maybe they will have a passcode that applies until you take the watch off (which
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    by nardi 12y ago

    Others noted that the iPhone shipped 6 months after the announcement. The iPad shipped 3 months later. Your entire comment is premised on a falsehood.
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    by nardi 12y ago

    I was curious, since I've seen this joke a lot of times, and thought surely there must be some truth to it. The longest class name I could find in the Java standard library is "SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException". The n
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    by nardi 12y ago

    An online-only bank (with ATM support of course) that lets you have as many "virtual" accounts as you want, and lets you set up programmatic rules for transferring money in between accounts on certain days/times, or triggered
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    by nardi 12y ago

    I agree. This comment seems off-topic. Not sure why it's the top comment.
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    by nardi 12y ago

    Can you admit you were wrong yet? Unless the number of kids evenly divides 60, then some kids will have better odds than others. Just some small admission that the odds don't work out perfectly unless N is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15,
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    Launch of Mayday Labs(mayday.us)

    1 points by nardi 12y ago|0 comments
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    by nardi 12y ago

    I meant I hadn't read the paper . I had of course read the linked article, which is light on details of how they created the catalyst.
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    by nardi 12y ago

    Hey, I like chemical batteries too, but they're not capacitors. You don't put electricity into them. You drive an electrochemical reaction with them, which is subject to its own inefficiencies, as well as wear and tear on the batt