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by reagency 11y ago
But in those 5 years industry passed it by and now Google is crippled by legacy technology. Compare to Guava Java, which also powers Google, is open source, and is still best in class today after many years
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by reagency 11y ago
You mean like this? http://www.google.com/about/company/philosophy
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by reagency 11y ago
C++ reference would be longer if it had to define behavior for all the currently undefined cases.
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by reagency 11y ago
Flypaper accumulates more bugs than clay.
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by reagency 11y ago
Flickr was originally a MMO, pivoted.
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by reagency 11y ago
Startup idea: build a way for people to be active on multiple different forums, sharing a username and karma across each, in a respectful way, so each user can tune their content but still have a common community.
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by reagency 11y ago
IOW they bikeshed the financials.
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by reagency 11y ago
The internet has been incredibly powerful in giving isolated queer folk a place to come together and organize.
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by reagency 11y ago
The earlier you see failure, the luckier you are. The haskellverse is jammed packed with popular packages that won't build and run properly on your platform. Nothing quite works except for small toy projects and Haskell +systems whiz
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by reagency 11y ago
Your last sentence doesn't really make sense. Plenty of rich people buy plenty of frivolous things
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by reagency 11y ago
Does OpenJDK need patches? The occasional security patch, sure, but that won't stop soon.
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by reagency 11y ago
You are talking about Sun really. But Java got really stale when Oracle bought Sun and no one cared about Java language for a few years. That's why 7 was so late and had almost no features. Everything in 8 was supposed to be in 7.
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by reagency 11y ago
2 years is not a long time to migrate large system that works fine except for minor maintenance. It isn't just time, it is finding budget for churn work.
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by reagency 11y ago
Why? OpenJDK is the popular one.
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by reagency 11y ago
Have you tried hacking your library classpath to make your eclipse project see the java7 classes?
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by reagency 11y ago
Yes, parsing "I/we" is a great way to filter out collaborative team players and hire antisocial narcissists. Is that what you want, though?
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by reagency 11y ago
You are absolutely right, but your behavior would offend the kind of person who thought it was a good question in the first place.
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by reagency 11y ago
Why not just give them a scale and ask them where they fit? Quizzing them about in the structure of the scale is awkward game-playing.
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by reagency 11y ago
I hope you are being coy, because dvt's post was obnoxious and ill-founded.
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by reagency 11y ago
Take a look at the "sh" module for python, and JuPyTer/iPython for the UI.
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by reagency 11y ago
Factoring out constants has a nice effect of turning your header into a sort of declarative program, a quick summary of the interesting behavior choices the program makes, a guide to understanding the program at a glance. With numRetries=5,
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by reagency 11y ago
This is how almost everything works now and so it's weird to even have he discussion.
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by reagency 11y ago
Are you baffled when you run an open source application and the GPL pops up?
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by reagency 11y ago
This is great. This link is here today because of a reedit.com/r/showerthoughts post wishijg for such a site, and tosdr got linked in the comments. Then someone reposted it to /r/internetisbeautiful. Both posts made reed
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by reagency 11y ago
Reading between the lines, there is a very strong hint that lottery officials violated lottery rules to enable the exploitation, possibly for indirect benefits. What the students is very similar to how card counting is supposed to not work:
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by reagency 11y ago
"Indictment" is a funny word choice. That's exactly what is missing in law enforcement misconduct.
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by reagency 11y ago
He didn't win at all. The hospital won.
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by reagency 11y ago
So, they are generated in a computer using an invented program, but the mid level graphics API is implemented on his hand, instead of wholly inside the computer.
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by reagency 11y ago
IIRC, when Simonyi invented the term "product manager", he was referring to what is now called tech lead or architect.
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by reagency 11y ago
Apple was famous for building multiple prototype versions of a product internally and then scrapping all but one pre launch.

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