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by nbevans 7y ago
Whoosh. He is saying you aren't seeking software engineering perfection - so forget trying to be an architecture astronaut and all that that entails. You are seeking product perfection - at any given time. And product perfection can on
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"All that prelude is to say, coming in to the Hong Kong protests from a less developed country like the United States is disorienting." This sentence got me hooked. It must be so alien to the average American that there are more d
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by nbevans 7y ago
When you're at Dropbox's scale it's easy to just hire a load of iOS and Android devs, and some product managers to keep them all in sync. But when you're not at that scale - you can't afford to build the same app tw
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by nbevans 7y ago
Why not pump the 'water' out of the bulk into a separate containment vessel. This way the ship's crew could neutralise the risk without reducing the weight of their cargo. When unloading they can give back the 'water&#x2
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by nbevans 7y ago
The Tesla here looks like an early Lotus Elise/Exige in terms of body shape and size - sans a front intake. This type of shape was okay for the Elise/Exige because these weren't marketing a 250mph+ top speed or anywhere close
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by nbevans 7y ago
The Lotus Evija looks better than this. But hey, that is a 1.5mil car. The "250mph+" claim looks dubious given the shape/aero of this car - though I don't claim to be an expert and I suppose this might not be the finishe
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by nbevans 7y ago
This is also how I perceive the 10x discourse. The Twitter thread - much more so than this HN thread - was quite revealing of this political/worldview aspect. Liberal views tend to encourage us to think that we are all equal and have t
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by nbevans 7y ago
That's not true. A proper cloud provider (AWS or Azure) would not bat an eye because the CPU is frequently pegged at 100%.
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by nbevans 7y ago
F# is a pragmatic dual paradigm language where both OO and FP are fully supported and encouraged. There is no "[don't use OO in F# unless you really have to]" sentiment anywhere.
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by nbevans 7y ago
I tested them all (well, the main contenders) and even the flagship Surface Book trackpad is not comparable to a current MacBook. The Surface Book trackpad is like almost identical to a MacBook from around 2012-2013 era. Admittedly the curr
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by nbevans 7y ago
They already have. This only affects the "International Firmware" editions of Huawei phones/tablets. The Chinese editions of these devices are unaffected because those already use AOSP.
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I don't think Microsoft is that dumb. They have business in China that they want to protect. They will certainly have China advisors available to their board to prevent such miscalculations. And that is assuming Microsoft considers Len
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by nbevans 7y ago
And why wouldn't you count SQLite extensions? Its JSON1 extension is practically ubiquitous.
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by nbevans 7y ago
Xamarin Forms is that.
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by nbevans 7y ago
.NET Core will welcome this round of Java orphans with open arms.
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Office UI Fabric for iOS – Framework for Building Experiences for MS Office(github.com)
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by nbevans 8y ago
Whilst this is an interesting read and is almost certainly largely true it does not entirely square with the fact that Boeing are working (and the FAA expect the certify) a software fix by April - as noted in their press release. Software b
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by nbevans 8y ago
We cannot extend unilaterally. It needs EU's consent and they've already stated that: 1) it won't be free - £1bn/mo has been mooted from various sources, 2) there would be clear legal strings attached such as a requireme
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by nbevans 8y ago
Is that because carriers have put GCM/FCM on some sort of white-list?
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by nbevans 8y ago
Analyses of only the R&D budget is surely a biased interpretation of the statistics. To spell it out: If XYZ nation contributes 100bn and receives 10bn back to spend on R&D (because it has loads of high skilled workers / indust
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by nbevans 8y ago
This is a smart move that will drive more traffic to the Windows Store. They should have done this ages ago!
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by nbevans 8y ago
It seems the issues are two fold: 1. PDF file format doesn't support a "whole document signature" as a concept. Instead, it only supports signing arbitrary fragments of the document. 2. PDF tooling/software doesn't
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by nbevans 8y ago
Hi yatherm. Thanks for the comments. It is possible, after reading the OP article and being caught up in the shock moment of "this guy's story is identical to mine!" that I commented in a bit too much of a "Alcoholic&#x2
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by nbevans 8y ago
I, as a F#'er, would argue that lines 2 and 3 of the C# snippet there is not an example of type inference. But I realise this is not a mainstream opinion so please don't downvote me :)
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by nbevans 8y ago
"Object-oriented programming has its drawbacks, of course." They say it takes 10 years to become an expert in anything. In my case, with OOP, I did it in 6. I would highly advise to anyone that once you become expert level in anyt
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by nbevans 8y ago
This is a scarily similar story of how I ended up in F#. I'd reached the peak of C#. Every possible best pattern and practice (including the ones that were still a few years away) I'd already done them and perfected them. I was so
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by nbevans 8y ago
Likewise a right wing government could also choose more protectionist measures by blocking Facebook in favour of a home-grown solution. Much like China and a few other countries in the world... You can therefore argue that Facebook depends
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by nbevans 8y ago
They could fix this by having a second query string parameter, say, "targetInstance". Which would take the number of the instance. Indeed, things like this would have come to light sooner if they went through a more normal RFC pro
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by nbevans 8y ago
Eh? It was a worthwhile comment written in a tongue in cheek style. Just look at the conversations it spawned.
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by nbevans 8y ago
Dave Cutler is a better OS engineer than Linus Torvalds. Fact.

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