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by stephen 13y ago
Gah! I am just now seeing this...looks really awesome.
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by stephen 13y ago
Wow...that sounds exactly like the same sort of staging as "Pallywood": http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0b4_1375922321 Sobering to realize it happens here. ...although it's also a reminder that all news/m
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by stephen 13y ago
"Not just a teaser version". Nice!
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by stephen 13y ago
Do you have kids? Perhaps you don't understand the righteous anger that a parent would feel in this scenario. If this happened to my kid, I would also completely take over, and want them involved as little as possible. Yes, even if the
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by stephen 13y ago
Groovy doesn't get enough love as a post-JVM language because they missed the static typing boat. People that like static languages use Java, Scala, etc. People that like dynamic languages use Python, Ruby (JRuby), etc. Who's left
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by stephen 13y ago
The U2414H is 1920x1080, that's only 91 DPI. Wtf? The UP3214Q is 3840x2160, but it's huge, 31.5", so it's only ~140 DPI. Neither of these are mind-blowing, especially the U2414H. I suppose it is nice to see >100 DPI o
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by stephen 13y ago
Well, 1) I wish him all the best and would love another good build tool alternative, but 2) I don't see his utopia of demonstrably making open-source building easier happening because the OS world is a bazaar, not a Google-esque cathed
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by stephen 13y ago
Exactly. The money these billionaires have doesn't magically disappear from circulation (perhaps they keep it under their bed?). They spend and invest it. And, give it a generation or three or four, and their kids will have blown it al
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by stephen 13y ago
I don't think Freshbooks really counts... They do great marketing, and the name being a play on Quickbooks is simply brilliant, but it's not at all an accounting system. No double entry, no general ledger...it's just invoices
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by stephen 13y ago
I have no idea, but I doubt it. Although, yes, it should really be standardized though, like the JVM debug protocol. The Google Web Toolkit team was looking at this; instead of their historical approach of using a JVM to run/debug user
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by stephen 13y ago
+1 for buildr. It admittedly takes awhile to learn the DSL, but it seems like all of these DSL build tools take awhile to learn. (I think that was one really nice thing about Ant--you could scan their manual/list of tasks and understan
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by stephen 13y ago
> but they decided to roll their own Ivy/Maven compatible dependency engine. I'd heard about that...as a non-Gradle Ivy user, when they started this, I asked two of their devs if they were going to basically write an "Ivy
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by stephen 13y ago
Tangentially, can someone on the W3C please fix the sorry state of key bindings across UAs? Cross-browser idiosyncrasies are finally improving...except for webapp key bindings. Alt-F is taken in IE, Ctrl-whatever is taken in other UAs. Or a
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by stephen 13y ago
I'm not a Clojure guy, but I'd love to see this type of funding for language/tool developers take off. We as an industry/community get so much for free (and expect it these days), that it's ridiculous the only way f
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by stephen 13y ago
My impression (as a static typing bigot) is that Cucumber style testing is like the crap shoot of dynamic testing (what should I type? What are valid commands? What params do they accept?) made an order of magnitude worse by using regular e
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by stephen 13y ago
True. I suppose I was mostly nit picking on the portrayal of "oh, hey, we had a good business, but, meh, so what." When, for a lot of people, myself included, that sounds pretty nice. E.g. (from another reply) 2-3% monthly gro
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by stephen 13y ago
When you say it that way, it basically sounds like greed. You assert to have had a good, long-term business going; but screw that when you can take another spin of the VC wheel, right? I guess if the yard stick is always "become the Ai
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by stephen 13y ago
And yet no one mentions a trackpoint.
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by stephen 13y ago
Not sure why you're getting down voted--I remember seeing at least 2 articles go by in the last few years about the Israeli airport security. Both times it was portrayed as super amazing (low hassle plus high security) precisely becaus
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by stephen 13y ago
Looks similar to SpeedTracer...is it related at all? The replacement?
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by stephen 13y ago
Wow. For all the years Linux has been stuck with X, I'm impressed they've essentially replaced it in <6 months. (Disclaimer: IANAE)
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by stephen 13y ago
It astounds me that the costs of these plants (plus the costs of getting the raw/recycled material there) can be amortized to some fraction of the $2 we pay for a bottled beverage.
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by stephen 13y ago
Well, your reply echos a lot of Occupy sentiment, but I'll side step that, and just say: > I think some -- many -- of the people making simplistic arguments that "the workforce will adjust" -- and thereupon simply washing their hands of
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by stephen 13y ago
> If you can make one little piece of the economy 50% more efficient, you're freeing up capital for the next highest use Nice! Spoken like an economist (I recently read Economics in One Lesson).
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by stephen 13y ago
Knee jerk "oh no, what will the workers do?!" reactions are understandable, but in the long term society is best served by leveraging technology to get the most services for as cheaply as possible. If this was not true, we should ditch tra
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by stephen 13y ago
So, I know Google is putting out a lot of these Web component specs--how likely are they to get certified/widely accepted? Is Mozilla/etc. on-board with all of it? I can't tell if it's an industry-wide movement, or just a bunch of the Googl
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by stephen 13y ago
Newegg's anti-troll stance is exactly why I bought 2 weeks ago I bought the majority of my desktop components from them, without even pricing checking on amazon/etc.
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by stephen 13y ago
Exactly--I'd love to read more about our industry, but I just can't find the material. It used to be going into Barnes & Noble was amazing, there were so many books I'd find interesting. Not that I by any means have mastered "every sing
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by stephen 13y ago
I blame employer-provided health insurance. It leads to people thinking "hey, it's free!". The story I've heard is that at some point (WW2-ish?) there was some sort of government-induced cap on wages, so employers couldn't compete for emplo
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by stephen 13y ago
> Instead there is a protocol of credits and debits and a settlement process to work out the exceptions. Exactly--the ecosystem as a whole is BASE, but the individual systems are ACID, and the "eventual consistency" aspect is implemente

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