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by weland 13y ago
> That's why hardware doesn't get investment. Just look at kickstarter; great ideas popping up, people wanting them, people getting them. What exactly leads you to believe that hardware doesn't get investment? Besides Kick
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by weland 13y ago
> These board creators just want to ease the path for most web developers to become hardware developers. It not only opens up a whole new industry to work with, but also it creates a good 'filter' to filter out the bad ones. I
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by weland 13y ago
If you think you're hiring abnormal developers, you either have a very distorted view of your candidate pool, or your hiring process borks somewhere in the middle. There is at least one faulty assumption in your post; I don't thin
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by weland 13y ago
She has no idea what a backbone is, of any kind.
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by weland 13y ago
> Thought this was going to be about the Ripple emulator used for making Chrome act like a device while you are working on PhoneGap apps. Nope, it's about a program which satisfies a legitimate technological need. Sorry you were dis
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by weland 13y ago
Only if we avoid the future that people like him shape.
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by weland 13y ago
Thanks! Enjoy the hockey games!
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by weland 13y ago
I didn't do anything special, really. I spent most of my teens hacking around quite eclectically, and especially played with a lot of operating systems and computers, old and new. Other than that, after finishing university, I applied
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by weland 13y ago
It does, especially in the embedded world. I spent a good portion of my two last years working on an operating system for very resource-constrained devices. The web kids get all the rage, we get all the fun.
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by weland 13y ago
QNX was beautiful. I worked with it for very little time, but I loved it. Elegant and well-thought. I also share your feelings about Mach. Please, do continue when you have the time. Cheers!
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by weland 13y ago
> I don't accept the word "misleading" -- I do not believe the page in any way misleads. How about: * The important information (i.e. the monthly subscription) remains off-screen for anyone whose resolution is 1366x768 or
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by weland 13y ago
This is an old business practice that I remember from when I was a kid. There were a lot of second-rate publishers (books, in this case, but it worked for pretty much anything) which basically worked on a "buy a book now, and we'l
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by weland 13y ago
No, no, "the cheapest Nokia I could find" should be taken literally, I have a Nokia 1280 :-).
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by weland 13y ago
It would. I've actually considered it and warmly recommend it to anyone who can. It's not an option for me due to personal reasons, but if I could do it, I wouldn't wait a single minute.
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by weland 13y ago
Unfortunately, enough, well, for the lack of a more elegant term, MBA leeches, have climbed the corporate ladder high enough to generalize equating the vague term "proactivity" (which tends to involve permanent availability, dilig
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by weland 13y ago
This is part of the reason why I obnoxiously refuse to get a smartphone. My phone is still the cheapest Nokia phone I could get. The social behaviour they generate is interesting on every front. For instance, there's this shopping mall
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by weland 13y ago
I am a programmer, but my diploma says Electrical Engineer. I actually majored in EE because I thought it would help me be a better programmer (and I think it did, but that's a story for another time). I actually did EE work, too, and
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by weland 13y ago
How dare you bring technical excellence as an argument? Don't you know this is about money, not performance? Jeez, get an MBA.
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by weland 13y ago
> Supporting everything is their thing, and it is one of the things that has made them big in the first place Supporting everything made sense when they built an operating system for something that was, for all intents and purposes, a le
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by weland 13y ago
Yes, it is. It's an ethical problem because making researchers sift through more crap just so that you can pad up your CV is slowing down further research into your field. I know it's an oversimplification, but the essence of it i
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by weland 13y ago
My highschool teachers didn't (European school, too). I found it by myself one or two years later (I hated trig in the meantime) and was very proud of my achievement. Then I went to university where all the teachers were treating it li
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by weland 13y ago
Of course not, but bringing the gender equality into discussion is pointless. Teenagers find any reason for bullying. I was bullied for having a lazy eye and enjoying baroque music back when everyone my was hooked up on Smooth Criminal. M
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by weland 13y ago
That's exactly what we thought, too. We only understood we were a bunch of stupid fucks when we got older. We're all stupid when we're teenagers :-).
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by weland 13y ago
I tend to agree with the points you are making -- I certainly don't mean to derail this by a straw man argument, like it already happened above. But I think the importance of this particular incident is... well, somewhat overstated.
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by weland 13y ago
Don't trust everything you see on Wikipedia. I went to school in one of the countries you mentioned. There is a firm cultural policy there that the teachers' authority ends at the doors of the school. Barring some extreme cases (e
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by weland 13y ago
Come on, we've all been to school. Unless it's your graduation party, the dean never wants to "just talk", like, you know, grab a beer or two together.
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That's partly due to historical reasons I think. Some of the platforms they intended to run Plan 9 on had very buggy GCC ports. It's also worth noting that that the "native" Plan 9 compilers had some quirks of their own
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by weland 13y ago
Have you also used Acme (non-trivially)? The UI makes heavy use of text (the whole thing being a text processing environment after all) but the graphical aspect is highly significant, and most of the (fairly complex) interaction is via mous
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by weland 13y ago
> Sure there are anti-vaccine myths just as their are pro-vaccine myths. Some vaccines provide almost no benefit and entail fairly significant risks. Can you provide some examples (three or four would be ok, that should count as "
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by weland 13y ago
> That's absolutely ridiculous. Plenty of CEOs carve out a little time to jump into the trenches and work on things they really care about, or work on fun things to relax and get away from the big stuff for a little bit. Come on, re

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