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by teacup50 11y ago
That might make sense for the next omgchatpopapp, and it might make the marketing department happy to have a constant stream of feature noise, but that's not a universal truth, and I'd rather optimize my practices for practicing m
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by teacup50 11y ago
Short release cycles don't solve this problem. If anything, they exacerbate it -- you can just fix any bugs in the next release, right? On top of which, they incur heavy user cognitive costs when tools change every few weeks. Short rel
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by teacup50 11y ago
> spending time on setting up your infrastructure and tooling is irresponsible Investing in our infrastructure and tooling early-on was probably the most responsible thing I did.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Yes, I'm in favor of installing and maintaing "elastic search". It's not rocket science. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch#Users
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by teacup50 11y ago
In a hypothetical world in which SaaS has taken over the market, and 3rd-party clients are forbidden by virtue of license agreements, interoperability becomes impossible. Imagine if Windows Server had been SaaS; Samba would never exist, Mac
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by teacup50 11y ago
As someone who bootstrapped a "startup", there are plenty -- PLENTY -- of non-SaaS solutions that: 1) are perpetually licensed. You don't have to worry that they'll disappear on you, or jack up their prices. 2) are cheap
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by teacup50 11y ago
This is already the case for DRM-breaking code that is not DMCA-compliant, but you'll be hard-pressed to find a service willing to host arbitrary 3rd-party repositories via TOR.
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by teacup50 11y ago
I agree if you mean "whatever [technical] restrictions you want". However, providing the tools that allow instituting legal restrictions is a big can of worms; property rights just don't apply cleanly to client/server
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by teacup50 11y ago
> The point is that if JS couldn't do these things, it would be eclipsed by a competitor. It instead grew the ability to do those things, and its competitors never gained widespread adoption. REALLY ?? JS can't do concurrenc
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by teacup50 11y ago
There are no end of alternatives out there today, from mobile platforms to research languages exploring a myriad of aspects of computer science. Just let me know when browser vendors are going to break down the two-tiered system, and let us
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by teacup50 11y ago
That's not what he's actually saying there; that's a list of technical bullet points, not market adoption. However, even if we talk about market adoption; how is Firefox OS holding up against iOS, Android, and Windows? >
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by teacup50 11y ago
"Always bet on JS" is complete nonsense: http://brendaneich.github.io/ModernWeb.tw-2015/#74 It does those things poorly , and at great expense. Eich did one thing, in 10 days, that was market positioned such
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by teacup50 11y ago
If you want to see what things will be like if they're "not funded by the license fee", look at America's media. Appreciate any form of actual journalism while you have it.
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by teacup50 11y ago
It's a tone commiserate with the cost this has levied against our industry.
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by teacup50 11y ago
I've made an honest effort with C++ >= C++11. The language has improved -- lots -- but there's just no getting around the fact that: - Most of the improvements hellaciously leverage the hideous template system, and - Actually w
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by teacup50 11y ago
It'll inure them to the cost, but it won't make it any cheaper.
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by teacup50 11y ago
> Do you think it's OK for a city to tell a neighborhood that they need to accept a certain set of non-discriminatory zoning rules based on land use, even if it's not what the people there want? Residents answer to their neig
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by teacup50 11y ago
Supply/demand. If there's not enough housing, companies will either need to pay more, people would need to commute farther, or people will need to choose other cities.
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by teacup50 11y ago
It's an absolutely silly question; there's a clear difference between zoning rules based on land use, and zoning rules based on discrimination against a protected class.
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by teacup50 11y ago
In many places, yes, density would objectively and significantly decrease the quality of life of all existing residents, and that would be bad.
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by teacup50 11y ago
No, the alternative is living somewhere else . This is obvious to anyone that has watched the rental and housing market in a city across economic boom/bust cycles: - Bust: Demand dries up from the beleaguered economic sector (e.g., te
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by teacup50 11y ago
It's insane to think there's a "right" to live wherever you want. I live somewhere that's 1) expensive, 2) low-density. The expense is because the low density makes this a nice place to live; more people want to l
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by teacup50 11y ago
The people that live in a place shouldn't have a say in its future?
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by teacup50 11y ago
Housing density is only one attribute of a city; livability, open space, affordability, diversity, culture, safety, community -- these are often just as important to the people living in a city, and development doesn't occur in isola
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by teacup50 11y ago
Seeking to maintain a balanced economy, culture, and community isn't "class warfare"; it's just city planning with a view beyond the next MVP. You can never build enough housing in a high-demand city without destroying
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by teacup50 11y ago
I understand clearly what it is; perhaps it's only fluff to you because it's aimed higher than your technical reading level?
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by teacup50 11y ago
Unless you're trying to be precise and detailed (as opposed to spewing startup advertising), in which case "tell" is exactly what you should be doing.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Meanwhile, platforms that don't even try to wedge their technology into the HTML/CSS/JS universe have better applications.
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by teacup50 11y ago
If I want to implement NaCL execution, I only need to support a (sane) bytecode and a reasonable "syscall" surface (pepper -- and only if I want to support pepper. I may not want to for things like server-side sandboxing). I can A
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by teacup50 11y ago
> There is a lot of hate for the app store by developers, and i've dished out some of it, but frankly with over a million apps it's not an easy problem to solve. Sure it is. Stop trying to funnel the entire marketplace throug

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