phillmv

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by phillmv 14y ago
The point of TFA is that there was a long debated solution in the works that got tossed aside in favour of something a vendor representative chucked in. How can you determine if it's technically superior if you discriminate on the basis of
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by phillmv 14y ago
We're reinventing the wheel, yet again. Wasn't this what CORBA, XML-RPC, or SOAP was meant to solve? And then we all happily ditched them for loosely defined RESTy JSON because it was so goddamn easier. I think TFA is describing a legitimat
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by phillmv 14y ago
By customer unfriendly you mean "arbitrarily freeze people's money for indefinite amounts of time without giving them any recourse in the matter". I think that might strike some people as unethical.
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by phillmv 14y ago
Well… Zuckerberg isn't liquid, is he? I'm sure you can find a buyer for Facebook stock right now, but it seems like the obvious way for all those VCs, angels and early employees to cash out. Being able to issue more shares to be used as s
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by phillmv 14y ago
Yes. But why is this a new situation? What's changed about the economy if this is only now becoming standard practice? Is there really a large glut of recent graduates and a corresponding lack of new jobs, or is this just a collective act
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by phillmv 14y ago
Do we have a good economic narrative for unpaid internships outside of naturally abusive talent driven industries (music, film, journalism)? Do internships just fall in this hole where you'd like to have an office wench but can't quite just
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by phillmv 14y ago
>"Mark and his signature hoodie: He's actually showing investors he doesn't care that much; he's going to be him. I think that's a mark of immaturity," Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter complained to Bloomberg's Mark Milian. "I
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by phillmv 14y ago
> Let's say I want to plugin some Java lib for image manipulation. How? And who will guarantee that these libs will be concurrent and/or non-blocking as well? What? What do you mean by non blocking in this context?
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by phillmv 14y ago
House prices here in Toronto are totally obscene. I genuinely don't understand how people are forking over $500k on average .
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by phillmv 14y ago
"An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them."
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by phillmv 14y ago
> Rubyists in general want to use Ruby for everything. Well… why not? This is a relatively objective statement; the problem with ruby tends to be the crappy interpreter we're forced to suffer through - not the language itself. The Ruby
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by phillmv 14y ago
I'm interested in collecting links and thoughts on this very issue. Do you need to use special ink on acid-free paper? Is it easy to buy acid-free paper? Have we figured out any good ways for long term just plain data preservation? (let's f
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by phillmv 14y ago
I find this amusing. Stylistically, I side with the no semicolon people. Grammatically they're redundant. Pragmatically, if you ever find yourself saying "read this enormous, hard to read spec just so you can identify the three or four edge
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by phillmv 14y ago
Uh, the packet still has to traverse the same loops of microprocessors. More loops, I would wager, than just sending some bits to a display.
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by phillmv 14y ago
If you're doing a standard web app stuff that doesn't push any boundaries of science, you probably won't need a specialist until after you've hired four or five engineers anyways.
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by phillmv 14y ago
This text field is your soapbox. Where is the FUD? He points out the ridiculousness of anti air missiles being installed in random flats: it is far more cost effective to be a shit head by triggering those missiles than it is to actually hi
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by phillmv 15y ago
Someone please correct me if I am wrong. Skimming through the code, this lets you register a Queue class to serialize your jobs. So, if you use something like Delayed Job, you register the (corresponding) DJ::Queue class that stores the job
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by phillmv 15y ago
I'm curious. I'm not sure equity in lieu of salary is a good deal, but equity to "sweeten the deal" seems reasonable. What do you personally consider reasonable?
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by phillmv 15y ago
I think we can all agree that copyrighteable APIs will be really crappy.
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by phillmv 15y ago
It's… awkwardly sycophantic.
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by phillmv 15y ago
I would doubt it. For starters, how would you enforce licensing? You'd have to… sue other people for patent infringement. I thought we were all agreeing that software patents are mostly unadulterated bullshit. Secondly, if they put up the p
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by phillmv 15y ago
I interpreted it as a concession to moral rights - we can't initiate a lawsuit without your consent, sort of idea. More broadly, they're hedging their bits by trying to preserve some financial value to their patent portfolio. Suppose you pa
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by phillmv 15y ago
Nothing saddens me more than the really smart developer who has no other interests. How a person can know one subject to such endless detail yet be clueless about the world around them.
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by phillmv 15y ago
One, >When building the engine, Notch wrote a function which would continuously pan the camera around and clip through the walls and keep the view on top, so he could make changes to the code and see the effects they made in real time.
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by phillmv 15y ago
I skimmed the document. Nothing terribly damning, or that you wouldn't suspect that FB would hand over. No, the part that creeps me out is when they start being able to hand over my political preferences and ideological bents and how likely
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by phillmv 15y ago
Why Madeira? Are you from the Madeira? What's 'wooden' about your app :P?
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by phillmv 15y ago
>Of course the original author can put whatever license on their code. But the license effectively renders the code useless to me. Not because I dislike the GPL, but because I use a different license. I've learned through much harsher e
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by phillmv 15y ago
1. This only kicks in if you're distributing the program. If you're building a web service, you're good to go. It's only an issue if you're using the Affero GPL. 2. You're using free code off the internet . If you don't like the license te
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by phillmv 15y ago
You do understand how there are people who would disagree with your characterization, and thus the more neutral term 'copyleft' is the most… let's call it politically-safe term to use. Let's not even touch lumping the copyleft licenses with
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by phillmv 15y ago
This is my reply box, the concept of which is that I discuss what I like or don't like about the topic at hand.

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