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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> No, mostly not. At least not without help from regional oligarchs or colonialists. Those two types tend to be at best relationships with new "enterpreneurs" in the areas. > There's very little utility to the west in most of Afric
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> More interesting (for Google) is that 90% of Chinese people don't buy Windows and iOS phones. 70% of people in the west doesn't buy Windows (nobody buys Windows phones, period), or iOS phones anyway. So, it's not much surprise that A
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> A larger ecosystem. People writing android programs for the Chinese market will probably also upload them to Google's stores. Don't bet on it. Most of those will be highly localized, and those people, mainly Chinese, would have to ju
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> there are things Americans perceive as having been that way forever that did not exist at the beginning of the 20th century. For example, 8 and 10 year old kids used to play free in the streets and come back at home late at night, ev
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Popularity means good software? Windows must be the best OS by very far then! Yes, windows too, has had historically delivered the things its users cared about. "Good software" is not some mystical status of code perfection, it's doi
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> What you want are driven, motivated and open-minded individuals that can created disruptive innovation; entrepreneurs. As if the problems of the third world are not already in large part created by greedy enterprises operating there?
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
LOL. Check how every one of those links is invalid... One is from Malawi. Two refer to a report comparing "collateral damage" in balistic tests (in gelatin used for the testing, not people). Another is from people outraged at the police ris
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> 1. wikipedia =/= reputable 2. Look at the contents of all those "resolutions" and you come to realize that none of them stand or are unbiased. 2a. A lot of those Resolutions are contradictory and self referential. anything else? Yes,
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
How are these for reputable sources? The United Nations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resoluti... Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_territories US State Dept: http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrp
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Do you have any example where innocent american bystanders, in american soil, are referred to as "collateral damage" in "CIA, FBI, and Police reports"?
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Is it just me or are apple making more dumb mistakes lately? There's this and that ajax caching issue from a month or two ago. Perhaps I'm just having selective memory? No, it's not just you. It's the whole tech pop culture sector th
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Here's an easy clue: if your comments never get above or below 1 point for days, that means you are hell-banned.
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> I have never considered Apple to be a solid software company. What does that even mean? That they make bad software? For one, they make the most popular certified UNIX OS in the world, and one of the two most popular mobile OSs. Thei
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Well, who said the video captures the whole of the attack? Now, slightly off-topic, but I don't like words like "collateral damage". It's not a building demolition we're talking about, in this context collateral damage is newspeak for "inno
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
His land was being occupied -- and with deplorable tactics at that.
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> But surely all that happens in these cases is that the function gets re-evaluated (...) Unless your function has side effects and it's vital that it is only run once for each argument I can't think of a scenario where that code is dan
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Yes, because nobody else on HN made 100.000+ on a software/hardware solution written in assembler or similar low level stack. I mean, it's preposterous, real programmers just write RoR applications.
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Jealous much? Because you keep playing the "100s of 1000s of dollars" tune, oblivious to the fact that he only talks about making said amount with his assembler program. He doesn't write that rewriting it in C made him 100s of 1000s of doll
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Maybe for that reason, OO languages (Java/Python/Smalltalk) were more likely to come without their batteries included. Surely you mean "WITH their batteries included"? For this is the very situation in Python (and it's slogan in fact
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Yes, literally. People flogging that dead horse fail to realize that a word has many meanings, not always compatible with it's original or primary meaning ("sad gay people", do exist, for example). If they have looked into a recent dictiona
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> The 40-hour week is forever gone in the startup world, and that is simply one of the trade-offs in having moved from a world where big enterprises emphasized long-term relationships with defined pension benefits and health coverage fo
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> The most "power user" cars in the world, Formula One, can only go around 60 miles between fill ups. Formula One is not a "power user", it's a sport. A correct analogy would be truckers and professional vans.
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> What are people storing on all these massive USB sticks? I'm not being snarky, it's an honest question. I can't even fill up half of my Macbook's 256GB SSD and I would consider myself a "power user." An hour of HD video from a camera
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Which is exactly what will happen when the higher paychecks deploy automation everywhere, thus solving the "we need all those people to make stuff" problem. The thing you're envisioning as a happy outcome, that is automation used everywhere
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> From the perspective of the owner, the social unrest is a temporary problem. As robots take over jobs, the potential for social unrest in the future reduces. Bosses don't have to worry about wage demands, housing, transport, kids, str
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Notice though, how you define "progress" as "more stuff". I'm not that convinced that even life expectancy raises are to be automatically qualified as progress. Is life and civilization merely a quantitative issue? Should the life in today'
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Why post this stuff? He offers opinion without explanation He does offer explanations (e.g, related to anonymous inline regular expressions that they cannot be cached and that they don't easily convey their purpose like a name would)
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Re: strict equality everywhere. If you "fail to see the argument for not using it", then you're not trying hard enough. Javascript was not designed with strict equality check in mind. The coercion it does can be harmful if you don't know ho