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by thurn 15y ago
I've actually worried before about not drinking being a social handicap at today's hip tech startups. It certainly makes bonding with the rest of your team more difficult if their primary social venue is the bar.
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by thurn 15y ago
It's a little annoying that every big tech company has solved this problem in house in their own way. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft all have internal build systems that do basically the same things.
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by thurn 15y ago
The same benefits could probably be achieved by maintaing your current habits and then increasing sharply your caffeine intake at times when you need a boost. It's all relative, right?
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by thurn 15y ago
What's the fun of that? Playing with new syntax ideas is the whole point of language creation.
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by thurn 15y ago
I don't understand the question. How is using a PC more "cross-platform"? If anything, Mac users are a big driving force behind cross-platform initiatives.
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by thurn 15y ago
Competition is ultimately good for users. As long as Google isn't using its size in a Microsoft-vs-Netscape capacity to compete unfairly and destroy innovation in a particular market, I think we should welcome this trend.
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by thurn 15y ago
Support for solving programming challenges in Bash? Killer feature!
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by thurn 15y ago
Emacs has hundreds of thousands of man-hours of development time put into building features for it. Throwing that away just because you want something prettier isn't worth it.
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by thurn 15y ago
I don't understand this code. In the Ruby example, mouse_x() appears to be a method on the current object, in the Python one it's a method on some other object (a module named "processing"?). Since the code examples are the same, I'd say wh
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by thurn 15y ago
I'd argue that the idea of a first-class "symbol" data type is one of Ruby's best features, and one that was directly copied from Lisp.
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by thurn 15y ago
Undo is actually 2, C-/. And not all key combinations are created equal. I'd argue that I can hit C-S-j faster than you can hit F1 (especially with caps lock as control)
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by thurn 15y ago
Yeah, and new Facebook features probably get 10 million users overnight. So what?
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by thurn 15y ago
Facebook implies his account was shut down for reasons unrelated to the Google+ ad: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2330342&cid=367...
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by thurn 15y ago
Yeah, it's even arguably a programming joke!
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by thurn 15y ago
How does this work? Now that most email clients block images and stuff in HTML email, isn't it basically impossible to know if they read your email?
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by thurn 15y ago
Google+ doesn't export contact data either! It only produces contact information for people already in your Google address book. How has Google earned this "Holier than thou" attitude?
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by thurn 15y ago
It would be more impressive if TechCrunch were better at math... 13% of Facebook's monthly active users would be 100 million, not 10 million.
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by thurn 15y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it correct to say that there are two genders , but not that there are two sexes ? Since gender is only a social construct, presumably the prevailing views of the society in question are what defines it?
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by thurn 15y ago
In fact, Google hit 1 billion monthly uniques for the first time in May: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/06/21/google-notches-one-bi...
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by thurn 15y ago
Agreed, but there's a world of difference between ad targeting and selling data, and public perception to the contrary hurts the web industry.
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by thurn 15y ago
I'll admit that I'm deeply biased by being a Facebook intern, but why is Data Liberation better than the equivalent feature on Facebook?
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by thurn 15y ago
The idea that Google (or any major tech company!) has ever even considered selling user data is highly damaging to our industry. I don't expect that kind of baseless paranoia on Hacker News.
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by thurn 15y ago
I guess Google didn't have any lisp programmers in the early days!
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by thurn 15y ago
It would be if the company didn't actually own the car, but instead "gave away" a car from a local auto dealer without their consent.
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by thurn 15y ago
Can you get Chrome itself without admin rights? That would probably be as beneficial or more for circumventing draconian (and short-sighted) IT policies.
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ComScore data shows Facebook gained 3.2 million US users last month(blog.comscore.com)
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by thurn 15y ago
Furthermore, B-trees are designed for storing things that don't fit into primary memory. They are the right answer for things like file systems, I think almost every file system uses some variant of them.
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by thurn 15y ago
Part of "move fast and break things" is a willingness to take big risks. The walls here at Facebook are lined with posters that say things like "What would you do if you weren't afraid?". Far from this being a meaningless platitude, Faceboo
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by thurn 15y ago
Time Machine has always done deltas (unless I have no idea what you're talking about?)
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by thurn 15y ago
Requiring users to create passwords continues to be an engineering failure in our industry. There are some promising alternatives, but we need to realize that users are not at fault for picking poor passwords. We are at fault for not giving

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