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961.
by pekk 12y ago
Let's hope it was the company which got them the valuation, because no Powerpoint presentation is worth $865M
962.
by pekk 12y ago
It isn't clear that they were "behind." They were doing something different (and I guess it didn't match up with YC ideas of coolness - not that this really means anything). But even if they were "behind," that
963.
by pekk 12y ago
In case you didn't understand the subtext, the point of this is to register offense that their music was used in this way (the opposite of what they would want). It's a form of passive resistance. This story isn't primarily a
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by pekk 12y ago
Even if that would offer some usability improvements, we've still lost something in how quickly you can draw a circle and play a sound. Don't forget your header files, can you use hardware acceleration?
965.
by pekk 12y ago
I'm saddened that you're saddened by nerds relating to each other, talking about things they actually liked and feeling nostalgia. Everyone, let's be sure we stick to the real business of HN: gossip about companies which were
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by pekk 12y ago
Mainstream Linux distros have not required those things for many years.
967.
by pekk 12y ago
You should be. Start saving. Anyone who tells you there's no age discrimination in the industry, old people are fired because they are no good, so just be good - that person does not have your interests in mind. They aren't think
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by pekk 12y ago
It shouldn't hurt your head. Windows 2000 marked a switch from the 95/98 line to the NT line and that created some compatibility problems in early days. The rest of this is subjective.
969.
by pekk 12y ago
Big companies cultivate the mindshare of product fans and employees who then feel naturally inclined to argue for their favorite companies, that's not always meaningfully different from astroturfing, but this doesn't necessarily m
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by pekk 12y ago
Netflix also has however many thousands of normal users there.
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by pekk 12y ago
Whenever someone says something you disagree with, just accuse them of being a sockpuppet of a shadowy conspiracy. Then you can censor their view very effectively.
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by pekk 12y ago
Being rich, being a VC, being Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs or Bill Gates is a lot of status, but despite popular assumptions, that doesn't really rub off on the programming equivalent of a line cook or plumber.
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by pekk 12y ago
The analogy mentioned quota programs, special scholarships, etc. But in reality there is not even allegedly any such thing aimed only at people who are non-nerds, so unfortunately these things have to be interpreted as being about gender. W
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by pekk 12y ago
I'm pretty sure there are females and males who have more natural aptitude or preference for one or another kind of technical work. And they typically are stigmatized as nerds when this is publicly known. We just don't have to sup
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by pekk 12y ago
What about the male foxes? A big problem with the analogy is that there were always female bears and male foxes. That makes the picture more complicated.
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by pekk 12y ago
Is it really necessary to say that women are better than men at making software? I think this kind of inflammatory claim just stokes the flamewar that erupts around here every time the topic comes up. No one would stand for saying that men
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by pekk 12y ago
This post shows how words like "UX" and "simplicity" are frequently used as euphemisms for "designing with a goal of depriving users their rights concerning devices they own" and "designing with a goal of
978.
by pekk 12y ago
To be pedantic, answers by randomly sampled people would be more useful than this, which is so skewed it's useless. In either case, it's irrelevant
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by pekk 12y ago
I'm also sorry that Ubuntu broke venv, but there were many (edit: at least a few that I remember) attempts to file tickets to get that fixed in Ubuntu, lots of stupid arguments against fixing it
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by pekk 12y ago
That's nice, but it's irrelevant because there are not going to be many "flynn" executables.
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by pekk 12y ago
To clarify, Xemacs is a fork, but almost nobody uses Xemacs any more.
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by pekk 12y ago
Instead of expecting people to change their taste and demanding re-education, find a way to give them what they want while also giving them what you think they should have. But honestly you may not be in such a privileged position relative
983.
by pekk 12y ago
What is the existing vendor-independent standard for packaging apps for containerization? Are you going to say tarball?
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by pekk 12y ago
Why not just "flynn"? Should I really be typing "docker" before every command for the sake of someone's branding?
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by pekk 12y ago
Why not both?
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by pekk 12y ago
Every entity working a PR angle emphasizes their own ethics. That's not unique.
987.
by pekk 12y ago
If macros are agreed by all Lisp users to be a "use rarely" thing, then why is internet Lisp advocacy so strongly focused on macros as an advantage of Lisp over the rest of the world?
988.
by pekk 12y ago
That's really disingenuous. The "Zen of Python" is not bragging on the part of Python, but an expression of values in a community.
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by pekk 12y ago
I guess that's useful for people who are already bought in to the .NET world, but isn't LINQ encumbered by patents that pose a risk to anyone building on top of it?
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by pekk 12y ago
I think it's even simpler just to observe that the way someone chooses to write and target a resume has no particular relationship to how well they would do the job.

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