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by piokoch 12y ago
Exactly, 2/3 code reduction sounds so great that I would like to be able to see that.
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by piokoch 12y ago
Funny but... Some time ago Apple was after Polish grocery store [1] since they have an apple in their logo (not even closely similar to Apple's logo) and use domain name a.pl... I think that hilarity of above mentioned action still rem
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by piokoch 12y ago
Very often Excel is a "programmer in a hostile environment" last hope. By programmer I mean someone who works in sales, bussiness analysis, finances, etc. but knows how to write programs. In a typical non-IT company someone who ne
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by piokoch 13y ago
With regards to JWZ article. It is interesting how perspectives are changing in time. JWZ wrote: " - Java-the-language is, overall, a very good thing, and works well. - Java-the-class-library is mostly passable. - Java-the-virtual-mach
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by piokoch 13y ago
"which are awful, but necessary for now". I am not sure what is exactly that awful in having free credit for X days, rewards for making purchases (which effectively cancels fees) and, the most important thing, chargebacks. I can u
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by piokoch 13y ago
"Whatever you do, however hard you try, the code will come out mediocre, verbose, redundant, and bloated" That's, unfortunately, common misconception and excuse for writing bad software in Java. Java has its own problems (as
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by piokoch 13y ago
Rationality is not the only factor we should look at. Think of having sex with 12 years old girls - there is nothing irrational in it (it was normal and legal a few hundred years ago), why we keep it forbidden now? Similarly it is not legal
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by piokoch 13y ago
You should really put more effort to get Rust work smooth on Windows withouth counting on volunteers. Think of MySQL vs Postgres adoption. I belive that at the certain moment the primary reason that all Apache/PHP stack devs were choos
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by piokoch 13y ago
True. My coworker's kid goes to kindergarten where on of the teachers is male. This guy really had a hard time at the beginning. Parents were very suspicious and worried (why "man" is working in kindergarden???) or took him f
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by piokoch 13y ago
I don't know if Horvath is right or not, but this is nice case study how PR works. I would say this statement is a very clever move from GitHub side. I guess they have skilled PR people working on the issue. At first look, the cited ar
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by piokoch 13y ago
The funniest this is that's creationism is a side effect of a strange, but very popular view of "tolerance". We are told that tolerance means that various points of view on any issue must be accepted, regardless if they make
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by piokoch 13y ago
PHP has a reputation as a language that makes dead easy to write very ugly sphagetti code. As far as I learned a lot has chaned since last time I was using PHP - something like 5 years ago. Is there any good book or other resource which des
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by piokoch 13y ago
The fact that bitcoin is so divisible might be its true weakness in terms of adoption (given huge value of a single Bitcoin). Imagine prices in shop given as 0.000132 BTC, 0.000123 BTC, 0.0000132 BTC or even worst 0.0009999, 0.000999, 0.009
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by piokoch 13y ago
I am wondering why British employers are testing employees for drugs usage. Is this justified? Are cannabies, etc. really affecting badly people? If yes, then it makes sense for the employer to spend its money on tests. If no, it means that
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by piokoch 13y ago
I am not that surprised. Dog biting man is not an interesting news. Man biting a dog - that's something. So, anti-cannabies doctor is a common creature, the opposite - that's catching subject.
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by piokoch 13y ago
"This is why I've started to dislike revisionist history." History is a science. This is as if you said: I don't like Max Planc or Niels Bohr Dirac, since they were questioning classical mechanics in favor of some hard to understand mambo-j
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by piokoch 13y ago
"I don't want to have to make a decision every time I want to share a link to something interesting about what subset of friends I'm sharing it to." The point is that it is not about poster comfort, but others comfort - you think that you p
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by piokoch 13y ago
I would go with "How to design programs" - looks at the beginning to be siplistic, but it gives a lot of understanding about lisp like languages. Then I would go with SCIP and then Koans. I am treating lisps as a kind of mind game (I dont l
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by piokoch 13y ago
Nope. Revolution needs some "force in the middle" - the poor, lazy an uninterested will not start revolution. French revolution was not started by poor people, but by "middle class" who was not able to extend its wealth and influence becaus
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by piokoch 13y ago
This is direct result of Euro currency - the strongest economy gets even stronger. Greece, Spain, etc. were producing low quality goods, but they were cheap. Now they are as expensive as better German products. That's why sane governments (
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by piokoch 13y ago
High frequency trade and similar "financial instruments" are mostly created to enable banks to create even more empty, debt driven money. So although it is nice that this guy gives some money to charity, his everyday job leads in the long r
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by piokoch 13y ago
Is HN the right site for placing things like "100 free social icons", "300 free wonderful backgrounds". Such stuff is very useful, but I belive it does not fit well here.
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by piokoch 13y ago
"Today, your social graph lives in a brown box, called Contacts, on your iPhone’s home screen" Is my plumber a member of my social graph. Am I in the social graph of my clients. I doubt.
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by piokoch 13y ago
I am not sure if David had any power to decide about the deal with Yahoo. If he took money from Venture Capital he might have very, very little impact on bussiness side of Tumblr.
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by piokoch 13y ago
I thought the opposite (but I was wrong). Diaspora is like email or Jabber - one can have an account anywhere and communicate with everyone. I thought that Diaspora would be attractive for large news portals (those all kind of news portals
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by piokoch 13y ago
That's something that makes me afraid to invest more time in learning Go language. What if after investing my time in learning Go, one day I'll see Google blog post saying: "Go lang project at Google is shutting down, we will no longer deve
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by piokoch 14y ago
I don't understand the point of making benchmark of these message brokers in the default configuration (usually tailored for ease of development, not performance). Who is using message brokers in the default configuration in real deployment
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by piokoch 14y ago
The absurdity of that "research" can't be explained better. In fact the study ommits the most dangerous drugs, that is those which are used to fight cancer. They are very, very dangerous... and so what.
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by piokoch 14y ago
There are many. Think of safety-pin? When it comes to software it is much harder. The thing I can accept are cryptographic algorithms, since as an outcome we get a product - encoded text. All these one-clicks, etc. are pure bullshit.
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by piokoch 14y ago
Better condom - the greatest challange Western Civilization is facing right now.

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