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by nikster 13y ago
Alternative programming paradigms - what the original article _should have been_. Absolutely exciting and needed. Do you have examples of products you have built with one of these multi media coordination languages? I am familiar with flow
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by nikster 13y ago
This article is based on a flawed promise: "The goal is to be able to describe the essential skills that programmers need for the coming decade.". Good luck with that. You might as well attempt to predict the weather for the next
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by nikster 13y ago
You're too kind. Frameworks are the reason I can go and build a top class product in 6 months all on my own. If we didn't have them, each new product would require an army of programmers re-inventing wheels, and only big corporati
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by nikster 13y ago
I don't see you pointing out anything that is wrong?! I also disagree that all that stuff should be obvious to everybody. Certainly wasnt to me, although it makes sense, which is why it's interesting. Rather than saying "hell
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by nikster 13y ago
Religious science types always strike me as odd. There is nothing bad about thinking about things in a new way, and nothing bad about writing a little paper about it - maybe they want to generate excitement, maybe they want to make sure eve
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by nikster 13y ago
This is pretty good - I especially like the page where they explain how mosquitoes move; once you know that placing a few fans strategically should be pretty simple.
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by nikster 13y ago
I view these with suspicion. Do I really want tiny pieces of mosquitoes flying everywhere? It's pretty high on the satisfaction scale though....
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by nikster 13y ago
Here in Thailand people here have been using fans to deter mosquitoes probably ever since fans were invented. If you sleep in a non-aircon room with the windows open, your options are a fan, or a mosquito net. Both work really well. For out
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by nikster 13y ago
Given the long term (non-)success of prohibition, I don't think it's a good model to follow. More broadly speaking "doing whatever" to get something done is never a good idea. In some ways this approach is exactly why we
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by nikster 13y ago
Just a guess but if I were him Id have acquired some bitcoin before leaving. Learning from wikileaks ....
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by nikster 13y ago
Move along and keep on shopping. Nothing to see here.
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by nikster 13y ago
What surprises me is that for example Apple and Google don't simply ignore the gag orders, and just release what and how much they have handed over. Google/Apple are not going to get shut down over this. They can afford lawsuits a
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by nikster 13y ago
Avoid web services is hardly practical advice. The whole reason people use computers is the internet. And for that of course they don't need risky back doors (which some security researcher would find sooner or later). They just contro
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by nikster 13y ago
Indeed. I'd like Obama to explain why any business anywhere has any reason to trust US could services now. Right, they don't. If they're smart they stay the hell away from any US servers. It's a well known fact that the
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by nikster 13y ago
It's funny you would fall so hard for the mock outrage of our European politicians. Please. If the US says jump, they say how high. They couldn't be happier the US is letting them join in their war games. The USA and Europe are un
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by nikster 13y ago
Tesla made it because they're focusing on the car - their goal isn't to make a better electric car, it's to make a better car, period. And they're largely succeeding. This is a company that will do anything to improve t
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by nikster 13y ago
The demo was to convince people that length of time at the gas station is not an argument against electric cars. Slam dunk for Tesla, methinks. I am not sure that swapping batteries is what we're going to do going forward - but it&#x27
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by nikster 13y ago
Wouldn't it be much better to repeal the Patriot Act and any laws & organizations that provide blanket search warrants? I am deeply suspicious of any laws that take into account the type of investigation performed. Why would it mat
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by nikster 13y ago
I know! Nokia reduced to competing on distribution, marketing, and hardware alone? Why that's what they've always done, and they owned 30% of the market by doing that extremely well.
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by nikster 13y ago
I agree that the product name Windows Phone is one of the worst ideas ever in business. At a time when clearly the very last thing people want is all the shit that they associate with Windows .... name your new phone OS that. It's scar
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by nikster 13y ago
There are no slogs in business. Nokia is on the brink of death. The problem with the WP strategy is and always has been the exclusivity. From Nokia's perspective, why in the world would I want to exclusively sell WP devices, and not _a
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by nikster 13y ago
There's a fine line between bold and idiotic. The MS deal was probably one of the worst business deals in recent history. Giving up all your choices for a one time cash payment?! Putting all eggs in one basket, and at that, a basket th
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by nikster 13y ago
Nokia is near bankrupt and Microsoft doesn't want to buy them out anymore. It's a very strange kind of success.
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by nikster 13y ago
Strangely, this kind of thing is what happens to most of Microsoft's business partners. Also strangely, businesses never seem to learn and keep making the same mistake.
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by nikster 13y ago
Exactly. It's 2013 and the USA needs a Glasnost movement. It's ironic but here we go. Secret courts, secret court orders, rubber stamped approvals. Gag orders on anybody coming in contact with said secret court orders. Where are w
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by nikster 13y ago
I am excited by iOS 7. It's like discovering a whole new OS. I am actually thinking it's kind of shocking to do something as radical as that. Is my mom going to get it? She's barely gotten used to the old iOS. And for the jai
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by nikster 13y ago
Repeat as you maybe missed it the first time around: "Design is not how something looks; design is how it works" iOS 7 doesn't change the looks. It changes how everything works. All the built in apps have been changed complet
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by nikster 13y ago
Apologies for not closely following the thousands of different UX improvements / add-ons / tweaks available for Android. I wouldn't be surprised if it was in Cydia as well. But that's not the point. The point is Samsung
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by nikster 13y ago
iOS7 after day 1. This Steve Jobs quote comes to mind: "Design is not how something looks; design is how it works" Everything about iOS, and all the included apps, has been taken apart, and put back together. Everything has been q
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by nikster 13y ago
I've been playing with iOS 7 on my iPhone 5 for a day now as well. It's utterly fantastic. What is surprising is how much all the apps have changed - all the functionality was seemingly ripped apart and put back together. It'

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