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by nbevans 11y ago
Apple is going through the same awkward phase as Microsoft did with WinXP. Except unlike what Microsoft did, Apple has not started a decisive internal process to change things for the better.
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by nbevans 11y ago
They joined big companies just a year ago as wet behind the ears, good for very little, graduates. So realistically how much stock are really talking about here? I'm assuming it is pitifully small which is why it was so easy to come to
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by nbevans 11y ago
He claims SQLite doesn't have CTE's but I believe it actually does.
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by nbevans 11y ago
How does this reply relate to my post? Other than for the typo correction.
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by nbevans 11y ago
Because America isn't just as passionate in restoring P-52 Mustang's.
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by nbevans 11y ago
246 employees with a swanky office is not a startup.
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by nbevans 11y ago
I love how after 6 months working for someone he is happily blogging about it and he isn't ashamed about it even in the slightest. If I saw he'd worked for someone for 6 months only then I'd want to hear a good reason why he
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by nbevans 11y ago
Somewhat worrying that they are feeding DeepMind a diet of DailyMail articles! Maybe this is why Skynet turned rogue. Reading daily trash about celebrities and body image dysmorphia inducing trash, is enough to make anyone go mad.
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by nbevans 11y ago
WordPress is overkill it says and then in text-muted it says "REQUIRES PHP5+ AND A MYSQL DATABASE". lol?
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by nbevans 11y ago
REST was more just a clarification and formal study to describe the intended way of using HTTP.
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by nbevans 11y ago
Seems rather pro-biased towards Java. Case in point: 1. Not a single mention of its main competitor .NET. 2. Not a single mention that as Java becomes more and more closed source and proprietary, under Oracle's stewardship, .NET become
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by nbevans 11y ago
I should have known throwing in the SV comparison here would cause this tangent. Oh well. The point is really that this was a Show HN post about a little hack someone put together in probably a single weekend. And with a totally unproven pr
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by nbevans 11y ago
Of course you can. Singapore isn't an Islamic state you know? It has some alcohol curfew laws yes. No public space drinking after 10pm. But in a bar which has tables/seats on the street; that's fine.
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by nbevans 11y ago
I don't apologise for cutting to the chase. I took issue with the pricing model and suggested a way that, I think, would be better suited. There is a different between those types of users, yes, but frankly that is a nicer problem to h
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by nbevans 11y ago
I didn't get the drug angle either. Most countries of the world are harsh on drugs. Even in Thailand or Indonesia, I do believe, if the corrupt police desire to, they can throw the book at you for smoking something they deem on that oc
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by nbevans 11y ago
Tip: Remove the "plans" page. This thing is too early stage to start talking about $ plans. Nobody even knows what the hell this is or what it is good for. Your business model should be as follows: 1. Make something new, useful an
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by nbevans 11y ago
I've been living in SG for a year and the startup scene here is asthmatic at best. Really, it would be generous to call it a "scene". It isn't. If you can document all the startups in a country on a single infographic th
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by nbevans 11y ago
F# has a compiler flag to force it to use OCaml syntax parsing. It basically amounts to just being a strict mode. Because F# has very slightly more forgiving syntax than OCaml; but essentially almost identical. To call it the .NET OCaml is
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by nbevans 11y ago
Dave Cutler is the real stuff of legends. Obviously this is my opinion but I admire him and his work far far far FAR more than anything Linus Torvalds has done. Arguably, Linus' greatest work was Git, not Linux. Linux is, architectural
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by nbevans 11y ago
Sigh. You can't blame hardware when it's an as-new MBPr. Every Mac lover seems to blame it on something else when it is just a crappy OS that is the root cause. On Windows it is extremely rare - maybe once a year, but you'd h
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by nbevans 11y ago
The beachball on OSX frequently causes the whole UI shell to freeze solid. This literally never happens on Windows. Also all IO on Windows is asynchronous. It doesn't support synchronous IO.
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by nbevans 11y ago
This post backs up the statement you hated so much though. That OSX is just a mod of various components plus an old era Unix kernel at the core. You literally validated the point. OSX is a strange OS to use. It looks and feels good at first
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by nbevans 11y ago
Why is this down voted to oblivion? It is the hard truth, albeit he meant to say Unix not Linux. OSX is merely an "okay" OS. The points in the article about Mission Control being slow and laggy are completely true in my experience
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by nbevans 11y ago
1. Maybe you've used up all your gigabytes. It happens. 2. Maybe you're a foreigner in the land without a local SIM card. Nobody data roams, except business travellers who don't give a shit about their employer. 3. Maybe your
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by nbevans 11y ago
+1 Seems pointless if it doesn't.
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by nbevans 11y ago
It looks like they have one arm already over the top edge of the hole though...
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by nbevans 11y ago
Highly unlikely. It would be written as a native C++ app. Whilst the .NET CLR is very powerful and highly performant these days, there just wouldn't be enough justification I don't think to design their web browser on it. Remember
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by nbevans 11y ago
It's quite clear that a lot of your pain was caused by Clojure's type system. Those exception messages are something you'd not expect in the 21st century.
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by nbevans 11y ago
That really isn't true. Perhaps 5 years ago it was but not now.
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by nbevans 11y ago
What on earth is HN sheep's obsessions with making logos for security bugs? This seems to be a very new phenomenon that the young upstarts expect to see when a big bug is found? This has nothing to do with Microsoft. It is about a fals

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