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by spitfire 13y ago
You could always start your own company. I loved the upper peninsula when I visited years ago. and it seemed /dirt/ cheap, I paid $20/night for a motel. Plus any place with Cornish pasties at every stop steals my heart.
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by spitfire 13y ago
We've been able to do this in C at runtime for decades. Just use strcpy. Humour aside, in 10-15 years time I expect it to be considered strange not to have hot-swap features in production languages.
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by spitfire 13y ago
Will there be any intermediate solutions before slow/hell banning people? FWIW I was slow banned years ago and it still hasn't been removed. It may just have been a moderator having a bad day, but the message when it's left t
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by spitfire 13y ago
What does the ACH process look like? As far as I understand I can simply give a customer by banks ACH/routing info and have them pay directly. If there's some value add here I'd jump on it. Offering ACH has been a significant
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by spitfire 13y ago
This was a marketing piece if I've ever seen one. But to throw salt in the wound, looking on the companies website their product doesn't seem to do what the article claims. At least not without additional custom code. Which leads
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by spitfire 13y ago
The concern to me is this might cause a chilling effect on people's comments. This sort silence by default will stop a lot of good contributors from taking their first few steps to joining the conversation. It may make people who might
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by spitfire 13y ago
Colour me disappointed. It's like the last 50 years of management and organizational research never existed. Peter Drucker is rolling in his grave right now. Great marketing for first round, though.
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by spitfire 13y ago
It's cool that they have a phone number on their website. But how about pricing and contact email as well?
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by spitfire 13y ago
SOA architectures are supposed to have formalized generic interfaces to services. EG: a standardized interface to a mailer, so you can pull out a mailer and replace it with another at will. In practice, most "SOA" architectures ar
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by spitfire 13y ago
Where's the simplex algorithm? Optimization has had absolutely astounding effects on the modern world, but it's missing there.
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by spitfire 13y ago
Devils advocate here. Viaweb: lisp. ITA software: lisp.
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by spitfire 13y ago
I'd learn computer science, again. Languages come and go, the core tools for thinking are solid foundations. Then I'd learn Lisp, Python/Ruby and Mathematica.
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by spitfire 13y ago
Learn computer science and you'll know what's coming (Though not the exact form) over the next 30-40 years. Maybe even longer. For those who were paying attention in language classes it's a game of waiting for industry to cat
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by spitfire 13y ago
An epic comment from patio11, Well done. I happen to know that in America there are collections agencies which peak at bulk debt purchases then contact the debtor trying to illegally collect a debt they don't own. Eventually the bulk d
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by spitfire 13y ago
Do you mean predictable revenue, the book about salesforce? I can't find predictive revenue on Amazon.
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by spitfire 13y ago
> How much hand holding do we need to do, here? A lot more than is currently the standard. Security is a horribly complex subject, and the people that need it most often don't have the time or knowledge to judge tools and sort out i
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by spitfire 13y ago
I always liked what SGI Irix did. From the get go the desktop was all vector based. So you could run at 800x600 or 1280x1024 and either way things would look normal. Both OS-X and Windows solutions are a hack.
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by spitfire 13y ago
Neat, it's like an updated version of Tandems 5-minute rule for the cloud era.
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by spitfire 13y ago
Is there any evidence this actually works? I see lots of talk but absolutely no demo. Not even a proof of concept demo.
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by spitfire 13y ago
This is the type of article that makes HN worth reading regularly. Eloquently written and accessible but at the same time going deep down into fundamental issues. If we could have one article of this quality a week we'd be very lucky i
621.
by spitfire 13y ago
Computer Science or Programming? There's a wide gap between the sorts of problems you can solve (or even identify) with the two skill sets.
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by spitfire 13y ago
Cool! We're catching up to Enterprise Object Framework from NeXT in 1994.[1] Skip to 23:00 for the demo of Steve Jobs building a database app in a few minutes. Yes, this is stuff we should have. [1] https://www.youtube.com&#x
623.
by spitfire 13y ago
They were buying some sort of inventory (seats or flights outright), correct? -> You are now an airline. airbnb, über, ebay and craigslist don't have any expensive inventory. They just provide the eyeballs and matching venue to make
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by spitfire 13y ago
So they sold seats on smaller jets ("private jets") between 10 cities. They may not have realized it, but they were just an airline with really bad economics. Hint: You don't want to own the heavy inventory, just have control
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by spitfire 13y ago
Was it an actual vintage microvax or are people reproducing FPGA microvaxes now? If it's an FPGA one I'd like to know where to get one so I can play around a bit.
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by spitfire 13y ago
Awesome. Is this a new thing? I can't find it in the Mathematica 9 documentation. So now there's just strong types and something like records left for me for general purpose development.
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by spitfire 13y ago
Correct, it seems to be a repackaged Mathematica, with better deployment options.
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by spitfire 13y ago
I've never heard that story before. Can you flush that out with some more details? I'm genuinely curious to hear. I've used MMA since 2.0 on NeXT and love it to bits. But I've met Stephen and he lives up to his reputatio
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by spitfire 13y ago
How about hashmaps, something like records and other constructs for building large, long lived applications. I'd kill for hashmaps, some sort of records and strong typing in Mathematica.
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by spitfire 13y ago
So for the HTML deficient are there any template sites for foundation yet? These exist for bootstrap, and for someone who doesn't have even a single bone of design talent in his body they're a godsend.

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