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by sigmaml 10y ago
To those citing Apple's profit: it is certainly an important metric. Nonetheless, there is also another angle to consider: how much a technology enables, by being affordable and accessible. I live in India. In large parts of this coun
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by sigmaml 10y ago
> we have some work in flight to keep the old kernel the default if you have proprietary drivers installed and they aren't updated to match That is reasonable, and should reduce the number of such problems. > Have you looked at t
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by sigmaml 10y ago
Thanks for responding! My concerns are (almost) all in the context of use in laptops. 1. LTS: In my experience, the issue that has caused most trouble is kernel version changes within a Fedora version. Why? Because drivers break. The la
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by sigmaml 10y ago
Nice that you solicit this feedback. Thanks! Here is my personal list. Very, very important: * LTS - this cannot be overstated * Ubuntu-level font rendering * Laptop driver situation improvement - graphics, wi-fi, power management Importa
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by sigmaml 10y ago
> there really isn't any reader on android as nice as GoodReader Any particular lacunae in Adobe's Reader?
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by sigmaml 10y ago
Several companies that I consult for use Google Apps. All of their iOS users use GMail, Calendar, Drive and Hangouts at the least.
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by sigmaml 10y ago
This subject of "inclusiveness" is getting out of hand, evidently. We should probably look into using "no exclusiveness" as a principle, than this hairy construct of "inclusiveness".
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by sigmaml 10y ago
This is exactly how we are using a raw `receive` in one of our production systems -- multiple asynchronous, but serial within, processes. Thanks for sharing this. It gives me more confidence in what we have done!
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Programming, Languages (talk at GeekNight, Hyderabad)(docs.google.com)
2 points by sigmaml 10y ago|0 comments
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by sigmaml 10y ago
Do you have a definition of culture? The argument for, or against, preserving it depends heavily on that definition. I am from India. Millennia of foreign trade and coexistence with other religions yet preserved a cultural identity within
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by sigmaml 10y ago
I agree with most of what you have said. In fact, in my talks in various places, I propose similar changes. I give concrete examples that make sense to them locally. Less number of children, no air conditioning, and less number of clothe
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by sigmaml 11y ago
Thanks for sharing!
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by sigmaml 11y ago
My experience is aligned with yours, too. That is why I specified that time-to-market must have been the predominant factor.
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Ask HN: How critical was “time-to-market”?
2 points by sigmaml 11y ago|4 comments
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by sigmaml 11y ago
The scope of Tika is different and wide. For the PDF subset, Tika uses PDFBox to parse and extract data from the document.
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by sigmaml 11y ago
I used PDFBox a few weeks ago to dynamically annotate a set of PDFs. The library works well; but it is severely under-documented. Also, the API is asymmetric w.r.t. get / set in several places. After several hours of frustration,
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by sigmaml 11y ago
> I don't get why you're so upset by it. Because harsh expressions are usually gratuitous. Because blanket assertions are usually wrong. And, because combining both is rude. (This applies to parts of PG's essay as well!)
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by sigmaml 11y ago
> I don't have time for bullshit. I don't build my own PCs, I buy Macs. It is sad - and disgusting - to see this degree of arrogance in bluntly categorising those who use (or build) PCs (and not Macs) as indulging in bullshit!
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by sigmaml 11y ago
> I think the frame of reference is the programmer intent. Sure. However, that is secondary. The sort of mistakes that you mention can be caught during code review or unit testing, completely independently of what the actual user requi
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by sigmaml 11y ago
> But I agree that code is only a bug if it does not do what was originally intended, if the original design was bad, and the code correctly implemented that bad design, there is no bug. The frame of reference for determining if somethin
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by sigmaml 11y ago
> if you are swayed by someone's tone or style instead of substance then that speaks ill of you, not the speaker. Gratuitous arrogance! Humans have feelings that are impacted by the tone and the style of the other person's co
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by sigmaml 11y ago
Thanks for your replies! We have convinced the customer that it is better to get the English version into production first, get market feedback, get some traction, and then proceed with i18n+l10n.
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by sigmaml 11y ago
As one of the users (js-ojus) of `drive`, I can say that it is shaping up nicely! Keep the good work up, odeke-em!
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by sigmaml 11y ago
Can those who 'lost' the post at Java describe what makes it 'lose' them? Curious. Also, is the implication that the merit of the tool is decided based on your personal liking/disliking for the language it is imple
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Impact of adding internationalization to a modern browser-based business application
2 points by sigmaml 11y ago|3 comments
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by sigmaml 11y ago
During 2004-5, I designed and implemented a K-V object store on the top of BerkeleyDB. It served as the persistence layer for a number of applications my then company developed for regulated industries. The approach was very similar. The
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by sigmaml 11y ago
I met him once at a conference in Bengaluru. He was President then. When it was his turn to speak, he said: ``My staff has written a wonderful script for me to read aloud. You can read it on my Website tomorrow. But now, I shall talk abo
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by sigmaml 11y ago
I agree, and am pleasantly surprised by how well Breeze seems to adapt to a phone interface. I'm hopeful that Visual Design Group will have polished the UI/UX even better for the phone form factor, by the time the distribution bec
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by sigmaml 11y ago
> People complain about stale data issues in immutable programming styles not because they're more prevalent, but because they can rule out so many other classes of bugs immediately. This generalisation is too broad (as with almost
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by sigmaml 11y ago
I have similar experiences too. Trying to keep data immutable introduces scenarios involving stale data, and a new problem to solve. I have seen interesting problems with cache coherence that were quite subtle in their manifestations. Unde

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