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by teacup50 11y ago
Of course, collecting metadata -- especially via centralized services like Google Analytics -- means you're creating a very tempting trove of information for both the government and private entities that may make use of it to your user
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by teacup50 11y ago
Why? asm.js is a hack relative to NaCL.
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by teacup50 11y ago
The choice isn't between a Mac Pro and EC2. You can rack up x86 boxes chock full of GPUs far more easily than Mac Pros.
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by teacup50 11y ago
So we should only accept the intended signaling of people's clothing choices, and never think any deeper about why they made signaling clothing choices? There's a wide range of choices between wearing clothes that are well suite
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by teacup50 11y ago
> The Bay Area used to be for misfits who chose to go off and do their own thing: live among the redwoods, play with circuits and computers, go mountain biking. Now it's full of self-marketers who create the impression that they do
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by teacup50 11y ago
Special request! A game that teaches the category of sets as a road towards a more intuitive understanding of category theory.
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by teacup50 12y ago
Types. They Will Save You Tests™ :-)
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by teacup50 12y ago
Only for "Linux-style" software, and it need not be built into the base system. In fact, it should not -- if having a stable system on which binary software can be shipped is important, a built-in supported Linux-style dependency
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by teacup50 12y ago
Package management is what you need when you have a huge tree of unstable dependencies that have to be updated in lock-step. Proprietary OS don't have that , which is why: 1) They can support stable binary-only commercial software, an
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by teacup50 12y ago
Haiku lost its project founder and lost its way -- it has been captured by people whose day jobs are -- literally -- Linux kernel development. Instead of shipping BeOS R5 and no more, which was the project's goal since inception, they&
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by teacup50 12y ago
This is only legitimate if you consider designing a system that requires this to be legitimate. A simpler solution: 1) Use a "real" deployment mechanism, not an authenticated git pull from Github . 2) Write software to be easy to
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by teacup50 12y ago
Many valuable things don't wind up in an archive until after they'd have already been lost; a modern example of "what if she'd used Flickr?" would be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier
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by teacup50 12y ago
That requires an attentive, active, and costly effort to maintain an archive, as opposed to a medium that survives even when forgotten.
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by teacup50 12y ago
I think it's unfortunate that this article was written by a collector , and that this collector equates himself with "bibliophiles". I like to read . I have filled my house with books not because I fetishize books, but beca
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by teacup50 12y ago
A book stored on a shelf in a relatively temperate climate can last hundreds of years without issue. For an optical disc to last that long and still be readable, you'll need: 1) Archival-quality discs (e.g. http://www.mdisc.
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by teacup50 12y ago
... except that the choice isn't between Java or type-unsafe code handling people's money. That's a silly (and false) dichotomy.
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by teacup50 12y ago
> I've learned so much about programming and computer science in general from HN, and even physics, biology, politics, and other topics. I can almost guarantee that 1) you really haven't, and 2) the time here is wasted. With
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by teacup50 12y ago
GitHub means tying your company's incredibly valuable central assets to a 3rd-party hosted service, despite the service being brain-dead-easy to host locally. If you're avoiding servers, that also means that you have different ac
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by teacup50 12y ago
Apple simply isn't doing the research, at all. You can see the results in things like Swift (and Swift's insane bugginess).
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by teacup50 12y ago
Not the engine author, but from our app experience: Tracking Apple's breakage (in minor releases, even) and fixing our code -- code that was written to the defined API -- is a cost that is rising precipitously as Apple's quality a
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by teacup50 12y ago
Either they're dead weights or they're not. How does outsourcing change the equation? Certainly not by reducing cost -- not if you want to outsource to non-dead-weight development group.
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XcodePostFacto: Xcode 6.3 for OS X Mavericks(github.com)
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by teacup50 12y ago
None. People who have time to cultivate a following are very rarely the people who deserve one.
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by teacup50 12y ago
That's nonsense used to justify invasive and immoral tracking, nothing less.
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by teacup50 12y ago
Why would a user want to be tracked?
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by teacup50 12y ago
> Repeat after me: JS is the compilation target we have. No, it's the compilation target web developers have. The rest of us don't target the web.
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by teacup50 12y ago
Repeat after me: JS is not an ideal compilation target. The sooner this idea dies, the sooner we can solve the actual problem of being locked to an insanely high level VM and calling it a platform -- while writing that platform with much
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by teacup50 12y ago
When the options are taking the L to Whole Foods vs ordering Fresh Direct, both options suck. Fresh Direct just sucks slightly less.
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by teacup50 12y ago
Why not switch to desktops? You'll be more productive (faster/bigger/more capable everything), and you won't have to haul around an entire laptop. If you commit your work, you only need the network to sync between two de
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by teacup50 12y ago
So you work on a laptop? Not only do studies show that open offices decrease productivity, they ALSO show that less screen real-estate decreases productivity.

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