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by prawks 14y ago
Normally I'd just on the author for using a prototype in production, as admitted in point #1, but being open about it garners brownie points. Good article, especially the praise towards CPAN. It seems to get lost in the hustle and bustle of
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by prawks 14y ago
>you created Agreed. However, working for a company with more than one developer...
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by prawks 14y ago
Never thought about it as a finite state system, but that's a great way of looking at it.
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by prawks 14y ago
I stopped reading after that line. Someone with such a skewed view of the world shouldn't be teaching children. But really, what kind of statement is that? Who/what is a "normal" person? How elite does the author think his/herself to be cla
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by prawks 14y ago
Perhaps it was a bit mis-worded. I meant that they cast themselves off from Engadget. A bit like I might cast-off my boat in search of adventure. I think extremely highly of Topolsky et. al.
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by prawks 14y ago
A strong percent of their users are gawking at iPads and iPhones, it makes sense.
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by prawks 14y ago
As are many people at The Verge, great publication started by some cast-offs from Engadget iirc.
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by prawks 14y ago
I look forward to the QuakeCon keynote every year. Anyone who engineers software should really listen to Carmack. Also, this article's kind of silly... there's almost no discussion? Just watch the video. EDIT: I guess it's not so much an ar
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by prawks 14y ago
The thing most of these types of criticisms of Twitter forget is that users don't make apps, developers do.
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by prawks 14y ago
If you've read Normal Accidents by Perrow, how would you respond to someone who said that a good reason is because of the extreme complexity of nuclear power coupled with our relatively new understanding of it? I think that's a pretty goo
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by prawks 14y ago
The real question now is how long will it be until Apple integrates it's own credit card payment system into iPhones to kill Square.
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by prawks 14y ago
I'm 99% sure signatures only come into play in the event of a dispute.
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by prawks 14y ago
I believe the reason people feel it's difficult is that a blank prompt is inherently not intuitive. There's no way you can hand someone a command line interface with an empty prompt and let them fiddle with it. They need to know what to t
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by prawks 14y ago
> Steam in my opinion is geared towards the PC desktop gamer not the (ARM) tablet* user, so Valve has nothing to worry about. The problem is that the PC desktop-gamer market is shrinking, and may shrink further if a large population ado