ryanobjc

21 ms·

631.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
This is a good example of using the power of technology to enable the weak against the powerful. And yes I don't care what you think, but a company with a billion(ish) of funding is more powerful than YOU.
632.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
Ah classic Wired. I read this one on paper, yikes dating myself!
633.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
from 2004-2010 or so it was definitively the case. Yes, everyone else has caught up. Yay less spam!
634.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
Interesting post, and I think he is on to something. But I really wish we got an alternative with the crap-fest. Otherwise you are just left with a 'ugh now what'. Personally, I still like the guidelines in "Growing Object O
635.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
We talk a lot about successes. It's also good to talk about failures, both partial and more complete. And redemption. The road to victory is long, and I would put my back against Rand because I know this struggle has made him better.
636.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
this is a good point, and while TOS may 'legally' protect a company via so-called 'consent' the reality is people often have a different idea of what they THOUGHT they were getting in to and what legally the company clai
637.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
It is addressed by better design. First off, it's important to know the difference between value types and objects. For a value type, public final fields are good. They are set in the constructor once, and can only be read, and can&#x
638.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
How exactly? You can still -target 1.4 and there hasn't been any removed APIs.
639.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
Actually past releases do stop being maintained, updated and realistically can no longer be used for production, or even development due to bugs. Java is backwards compatible in the syntax, and future compilers have, so far, been able to co
640.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
Maybe, or maybe java8 will be good enough? Scala isn't inevitable in the long term. Not everyone wants all the insanity that Scala (currently) entails. I mean the long term roadmap admits the collection story needs improvement! As a
641.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
A system without comprehensive tests is one that cannot be changed. The big question is, do they have tests or not?
642.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
you're really reading too much into a simple story, from over 20 years ago, etc. In any case, we already know where your line of thought leads, risk adverse cultures ultimately stagnate and wither away.
643.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
I disagree that it was appropriate that you were fired, but interesting story all about.
644.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
This is extremely awesome, I know some of the Sudo folks, great job all around. I hope the noisebridge reboot can bring them in to this territory of Getting Shit Done. One side note, there is already 2 wireless ISPs in san francisco. The v
645.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
*he ?
646.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
When I Read the title I thought of the Google and Apple wage fixing case, and I thought... the ACM really isn't representing the professional programmer much. Not in the same way that the AMA, Bar association or many other professiona
647.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
When you file with the IRS with a LLC, and you are the sole member, the IRS doesn't consider that a 'real' corporation, and you have to take that earnings on your 1040. Likewise, just because these police organizations are us
648.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
Also "the ecosystem is boring in a good way" doesnt fly when... well... strings.
649.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
Such an excellent write up, thanks for this. In progress on a startup now, and I have realized the most important thing is trust between the cofounders. There is a lot of people who want to be 'cofounders' but don't understa
650.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
I don't think you understand the word basic... CRDTs wont have mainstream success until people stop using the words 'monoid' and 'abelian' etc. Most programmers aren't required to learn this kind of math in a C
651.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
So the author provides a defensible breakdown of the unit economics and goes into detail... and all you have is "super-hard to understand how a tech company..." Technology companies are revolutionary in terms of leverage, but real
652.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
He was using this to point out the discrepancy between the lease rate from Uber's pre-selected finance company (15%) and the best possible rate one could get - 3%. It's just to illustrate the range of finances, and note that the f
653.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
No mention of nuclear weapons. I'm not sure I can treat this seriously.
654.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
Yeah I totally agree here. There is a lot of hand wringing about hiring 'the best programmers' etc, but the reality is everyone is human and humans make mistake. Lets make the systems resilient to mistakes that humans make - stra
655.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
On the partition side of things... not really. Usually you end up with coordinated failures of various types. For example, lets say you run redundant networks. Are the physical paths diverse? What happens if someone trips on BOTH network
656.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
Yes, there is the notion of what CAP requires, but we cannot cling to the strict definitions of these papers. They must be translated in to lay persons terms. If you don't, how else can you communicate with your stakeholders? How ca
657.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
Great write up! I wish there was a little bit more color around what "availability" really means. Yes some data stores are offering higher availability, but that doesn't mean they are immune to node failure. Even for a &quo
658.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
Incrementally compiling a 3000 line file in 2011 as you edited it. I'm sure the Jetbrains folks have fixed that right up, but at the time, breaking it into 500 line chunks was required, due to the exponential nature of the slowdown we
659.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
He's just telling like he thinks it is. There, fixed that for ya. I agree with the Java vs Scala poster. And unlike him, I have a 30,000 line scala production project under my belt. Everything he says is true, and then some. Ever s
660.
by ryanobjc 12y ago
Well, considering the low quality of iCloud, no real loss.

More ›