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by oautholaf 9y ago
You believe correctly.
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by oautholaf 9y ago
Stewart Brand, "The romance of maintenance is there is no romance of maintenance". This was basically his point in "How Buildings Learn" (and really the Long Now too)
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by oautholaf 10y ago
I ought to have distaste for them? No. Sure I'd reform the program, but I am glad that they can come here and so are they. I would be upset if they couldn't anymore and so would they. Sorry to say, I don't think reforming the
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by oautholaf 10y ago
And I haven't met any of them who would prefer it gone entirely...
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by oautholaf 10y ago
I can't speak to any abuse of these programs, but as a US citizen I value my co-workers on H1-Bs and want them to stay.
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by oautholaf 10y ago
I'd like to believe you, but 'the most likely' outcome has not consistently happened recently. Regardless of lobbying, the incoming administration ran a campaign that was built on anti-immigrant sentiment. Their base wants th
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by oautholaf 10y ago
Pre-acquisition YouTube was probably skating on thin ice here. Rumor has that eBay's origin was less pure than selling Pez dispensers. Having worked at many startups, I can say that it is very common for startups to have an 'origi
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by oautholaf 10y ago
That's very sad. He was a hero of mine in the NeXTStep era. I always figured I'd run across him sooner or later but time ran out...
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by oautholaf 10y ago
As someone who was there, let me say that the decision to use Java was definitely not made before the Google acquisition. The codebase that came with the acquisition was C++/JavaScript and was completely rewritten.
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by oautholaf 10y ago
Uhh, as someone who was there when Android began: There was no Go in 2005. And anyway, Go started with explicit about initial goal of being a server-side language, with choices (eg, only static linking) appropriate for that goal.
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by oautholaf 10y ago
I am not a lawyer, but it's possible the non-compete is enforceable in California in this case. When an employee gets something "in kind" for the non-compete agreement, which arguably this is, then it may be upheld. For examp
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by oautholaf 10y ago
> Within the context of the U.S.'s current economic/legal system, I think it's more in accordance with common usage to think of the existence of private property and contract law as being the basic substrate on which every
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by oautholaf 10y ago
I think your lense of "free market" needs to be supplemented with a little game theory here. If you're an employer, what's your disincentive for tucking in a little non-compete in your contract? None at all[1], especiall
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by oautholaf 11y ago
That's funny, as someone who has used both github and gerrit for several years each, I completely disagree. I found the gerrit flow worked well. At the gerrit-based shop, we kept very good discipline of regular, small checkins. And yes
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by oautholaf 11y ago
> The author invokes the old myth that "digital audio must be sampled, therefore it's lower quality" Actually, the author made a different argument: That the removal of the higher frequencies in PTSN PCM combined with the
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by oautholaf 11y ago
Inside an organization, separate repos and versions can simply be unnecessary overhead. As long as you can have an edict from above that 'thou shall not break the build or its tests for you or your dependants; the punishment is immedia
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by oautholaf 11y ago
For me, dwarf's state machine debug encoding was a direct inspiration for my work on the Android Dalvik dex debug data, which I made sure to recognize in its documentation: https://source.android.com/devices/tech&#
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by oautholaf 11y ago
A lot of the examples and counter-examples in the threads here are great, but Microsoft in the Windows era is a great counter-example here: from operating system to Office dominance. How did they crush Lotus and WordPerfect again?
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by oautholaf 11y ago
And for how long was Siri just a set of regular expression rules?
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by oautholaf 11y ago
Does that make your application more responsive to the user?
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by oautholaf 11y ago
Not only can JSON be slow, SQLite has been shown be very problematic as well: http://0b4af6cdc2f0c5998459-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2f... The filesystem is a fantastic way to persist data for 80-90% of mobile applications.
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by oautholaf 11y ago
Which was more prescient, this or "Content is Not King"? http://firstmonday.org/article/view/833/742 In many ways, it seems like Microsoft's late-90's obsession with content didn't r
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by oautholaf 12y ago
I wish the experimenter had explored random distributions other than uniform. I suspect uniform distribution may be non-ideal here and other distributions may produce better results.
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by oautholaf 12y ago
There's really a strong reason to do this for things like user session tokens, where using crypto and avoiding database updates could easily remove a substantial portion of your database traffic. But for things that are less common, li
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by oautholaf 12y ago
As someone who was present at Google working at OAuth at the time OAuth 2.0 was negotiated: the way to interpret refresh tokens is in the context of a large organization like Google or Facebook, not a small website. A refresh token, which i