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by trimbo 15y ago
Dividend, book it. Major shareholders are probably getting antsy about it. Just an example, if they paid out $50bn in a one time divvy, Fidelity would get around $2.6 billion.
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by trimbo 15y ago
Ha! That's awesome.
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by trimbo 15y ago
> TIOBE also says Delphi/Object Pascal is more popular than Ruby Why do you doubt this? Delphi was huge in the late 90s, and I would postulate that there is a major amount of legacy code still out there.
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by trimbo 15y ago
You took what I wrote out of context. I wrote " if Tiobe is at all believed , Python is declining...". I wasn't postulating that I have evidence of it other than to say Tiobe has indicated that. Though, it'd be interesting to write some c
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by trimbo 15y ago
> I think the minute Django supports Python 3, we'll see the level of whining drop to almost zero. As the grandparent's author for perspective: I don't use, nor have never used, nor intend to use Django. My issues with Python 3 have n
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by trimbo 15y ago
The unicode change is net-even functionally with 2.x. Unicode everywhere is a nice goal, but let's not pretend that 2.x can't do unicode and that 3.x is the only solution.
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by trimbo 15y ago
Honest question though: do you think that, given all of the breaking changes and toughness of upgrading, _even more_ should have been broken in this release to improve the language? I guess that's my most major beef with it. The upgrade h
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by trimbo 15y ago
I'm kind of surprised people are surprised that upgrading to 3.x has gone slowly. You can't upgrade a major installed base overnight unless there's incentive. Windows Vista, for example? Additionally, it has stumbling blocks towards achie
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Crush Tools: command line aggregation/reporting tools(code.google.com)
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by trimbo 15y ago
Here's what an endpoint looks like.. one of "America's Best Kept Secrets" in this Wired Photo gallery: http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2008/01/gallery_...
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by trimbo 15y ago
OKRs started at Intel, not Google.
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by trimbo 15y ago
For receiving email, why would you want to donate your bandwidth costs to spammers? I understand the desire to use Postfix though, so just use Gmail, or even Pobox (which has adjustable spam settings), then forward to your own server with
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by trimbo 15y ago
As long as there is manual labor that can be found for that low cost, no one will invest the capital to automate.
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by trimbo 15y ago
If you hate what Google did with Android, then fork it and make a company that does with it what you believe is right.
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by trimbo 15y ago
> Which would explain Xbox Halo explains the Xbox -- which Microsoft acquired to make exclusive to the Xbox.
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by trimbo 15y ago
Same goes for the nouveau databases. It's going to be hard to get traction in an enterprise that can already afford and/or has purchased Oracle.
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by trimbo 15y ago
I'm going to guess this probably isn't the first time we crossed paths then :)
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by trimbo 15y ago
Rational. I only have a 120GB SSD. At the moment I'm not even able to keep any music on it, it's so filled up with work stuff.
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by trimbo 15y ago
A generation of hackers may have started with BASIC on Apple IIs, but getting a C compiler on a modern Mac is a 4GB XCode download The size of Xcode annoys me too, since I never use it. So I've been using this GCC install on my Mac: ht
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by trimbo 15y ago
Ah good point. In 1863, it was 39. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by trimbo 15y ago
One thing that occurred to me after posting is that now that the average life expectancy is much longer today than when some of these guys started. When Ford started his company at 40, the average life expectancy was 49 .
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by trimbo 15y ago
Sorry, I'm not groking what you mean. You mentioned problems with Maven, Jax-RS, and XML, then countered that with Rails in notepad. None of these is a language, they are all frameworks and tools.
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by trimbo 15y ago
I agree there's no rush. There's no rush at all. Henry Ford started his company at 40. Jeff Bezos, 30. Sam Walton, 44. Paul Galvin, 33. The Albrecht brothers were 41 and 39. TJ Watson, while not a founder, was 40 when he took over CTR
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by trimbo 15y ago
All of your complaints are about frameworks and tools, not the language itself. Have you ever tried Play?
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by trimbo 15y ago
Ex-VFX guy here. For me it's more like "don't let the door hit you on the way out." Consider all of the issues: * A toxic chemical process for development. Both the source negative and the (thousands of) projected copies. * Weave, both du
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by trimbo 15y ago
Groupon Palo Alto: - Ruby on Rails developers: http://www.groupon.com/jobs?jvi=oYNBVfw1,job - Back end engineers: http://www.groupon.com/jobs?jvi=oPZFVfw8,job - Email infrastructure engineers: http://www.groupon.com/jobs?jvi=o5xIVfw
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by trimbo 15y ago
> About the "the Valley is moving to X" I can tell you our objective is not to move the Valley here And yet the subject of the OP is: "Say hello to Appsterdam: developers aim to move the Valley to Amsterdam" Of course, if it was a less
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by trimbo 15y ago
According those links, San Francisco or San Jose aren't even in the top 50 most expensive. Every time I read one of these "the Valley is moving to X" articles, I'm reminded of the last 15 years of "the Valley is moving to X" articles that h
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by trimbo 15y ago
Groupon, in Palo Alto and Chicago http://www.groupon.com/techjobs
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by trimbo 16y ago
Groupon, in Chicago and Palo Alto. http://groupon.com/techjobs

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