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by nirvana 14y ago
> the benefits of the concurrency model described in the original article can probably be achieved in peoples' existing/preferred dev env. No, they can't. This has been well explained elsewhere. You'd have to rework the language/dev e
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by nirvana 14y ago
You could re-implement erlang in C++, but then you'd end up with erlang again. Why not just use erlang in the first place? I don't believe it is possible to do real concurrency on the JVM, without rewriting key parts of the JVM.
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by nirvana 14y ago
That wouldn't really work. You can't just bolt on concurrency support. IF you spend about 2 weeks working on erlang, it becomes really easy to use. The learning curve is not nearly as steep as it appears-- its just that the syntax initiall
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by nirvana 14y ago
This is the inevitable result of social news sites. Most people are not libertarian, and so they down vote comments that don't fit their ideology. On Reddit in many subreddits (including the politics one everyone is subscribed to by defau
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by nirvana 14y ago
All you really need is Apple's developer tools and tutorials. They have a wealth of example apps and free books to download. You can also get WWDC videos from recent years, also free, if you have a free ADC account. This is how I learne
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by nirvana 14y ago
I've worked for a lot of startups and observed two primary causes of startup death: 1. VCs forced bad decisions on the startup. 2. Founders fought, resulting in bad decisions. I think co-founders are an improvement over single-founder, but
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by nirvana 14y ago
True story: Recruiter: "So you were writing Java code that talked to an Oracle Database, right?" Me: "Right" Her: "What version of Oracle was it?" Me: "8i I think" Her: "Sorry, we're looking for people with 9i experience." (9i had just come
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by nirvana 14y ago
My perspective might be in a minority, because I'm an autodidact. I did go to college- and studied Physics. But it has never hurt me in getting a programming job -- in fact, I have always simply ignored any requirements listed in job list
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by nirvana 14y ago
New MacBook Pro models are coming soon. At the very least, Apple will likely release new models with Ivy Bridge CPUs sometime between now and mid-summer. Further, there's long been rumors that Apple was re-working the entire "Pro" line to
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by nirvana 14y ago
This whole affair has been pretty terrible. But what makes it so profoundly tragic to me is-- I see no reason to believe that anyone involved will learn a lesson. That anyone will be punished, or that the US government won't continue to e
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by nirvana 14y ago
Skeumorphism is what makes the iPad the iPad. Instead of being a computer with its own paradigm that you have to learn , the iPad is a blank slate that changes itself with each app. And by using Skeumorphism, Apple makes it immediately o
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by nirvana 14y ago
... but if he hadn't have had an iPhone to "cheat" from, he would have been able to "cheat" from the desk calendar or the address book or any of the other real life objects that Apple makes their apps look like.
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by nirvana 14y ago
Camera's are not the same as reality. They take images at a certain number of frames per second. 24, 30 or 60 are common frame rates for digital cameras. Thus, the camera is effectively its own strobe. Since the frequency in the speaker
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by nirvana 14y ago
Or from another perspective, the entire cost of SpaceX's history to develop all these technologies is less than a SINGLE launch of the Shuttle by NASA.
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by nirvana 14y ago
Here's one objective way to measure fit: If you let a half assed article from someone who (I suspect) has never started a business dissuade you from being an entrepreneur, then you don't fit. The skill to have (and it is easy for me, but it
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by nirvana 14y ago
One thing I see is a lot of people stressing about starting a company when they are in college or just out of college. If you're struck dead by the idea for a business in college and is so compelling the idea of working for someone else is
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by nirvana 14y ago
When it comes to cinema, optical fundamentals are the most important for getting high production value from an indie budget. That means lenses of course, but this is a camera we're talking about, which means sensor size has a huge impact.
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by nirvana 14y ago
Your comment reminds me of when Bungie went up for sale. They'd found success making great games for the Mac, and were showing the early work on Halo to great acclaim. When Apple had the chance (I presume) to buy them they assumed that it
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by nirvana 14y ago
I think Apple should buy Valve. Valve may not be for sale. But Valve's creativity is off the charts- they make great games. Apple, on the other hand, knows how to deliver quality software, something valve has not mastered. Steam is "grea
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by nirvana 14y ago
I think its time to stop signing NDAs on job interviews too. (Is anyone still doing this?) I guessed that was what the article was about before I read it. The article is good, and I agree with all the points. But I'll go further. Realisti
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by nirvana 15y ago
If Apple had done this, this article would be front page of HN with howls of complaints from people who've never owned a single share of Apple stock.
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by nirvana 15y ago
I think the solution to your problem is relatively easy. You want something different, but your wife won't sign off on it in advance, because she's reasonably concerned about making ends meet. The solution to this is to get the opportunity
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by nirvana 15y ago
JSON. I've decided. Actually, I think I decided in 2001 or so when I decided that XML was just a bear. Seems most people have decided to go with JSON as well, and that XML is more used for legacy systems and systems where there's some ent
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by nirvana 15y ago
One line in this article may have given me an epiphany: >" If I don’t typically make a kind of mistake (like setting the wrong variables in a constructor), I don’t test for it." My primary objection to TDD is that it doesn't seem to wor
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by nirvana 15y ago
I think NY and SV differ culturally and thus differ in the mix of startups that take root there (hence the %400 higher likelihood of listing "content", for instance.) This may mean that women are more likely to pick areas for doing a startu
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by nirvana 15y ago
> (I downvoted you because I strongly disagreed with you. Freedom of association is a poor defense for permitting discrimination, particularly where employment is concerned, IMO.) Exactly, you don't wish to engage in intelligent discuss
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by nirvana 15y ago
Downvotes with no comments. Proof positive that Hacker News is not a place where intelligent discussion can take place. The votes only reflect how closely one adheres to the partisan political correctness of people who come to HN. And HN i
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by nirvana 15y ago
And now I have my answer. By standing on principle, and arguing for that principle, I've been down voted to negative one. When I responded, at length, with an explanation to someone who raised a vague disagreement, that was down voted as
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by nirvana 15y ago
I think it helps in these kinds of situations to imagine that instead of a job we're talking about, there's a girl. You're really desperate because your mother is hounding you to get a girlfriend and all your friends are teasing you about
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by nirvana 15y ago
>Expert opinion is pretty unanimous about what is likely causing climate change Actually it isn't. I submit that most scientists do not believe in AGW. Want me to prove it? I can't. I submit that most glaciers are expanding, rather

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