zmimon

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by zmimon 17y ago
> I would argue (without data I admit) that the desire for privacy is actually caused by the desire to avoid punishment, ridicule and/or social exclusion. If these could be avoided then I don't believe there would be much of a 'need' f
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by zmimon 17y ago
Seems rather silly to say not to build a java application. Surely what matters is what the application does. If your idea will fail purely because of being implemented in Java then I think it must have some other rather serious issues w
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by zmimon 17y ago
> I believe that the whole notion of 'privacy' is actually a learned social construct I, and many others, including Schneier think you are wrong. Privacy is a basic human need, a fundamental part of our psychology that is as deeply ent
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by zmimon 17y ago
Too bad they aren't shipping until January. I would definitely buy one as a present if I knew I could get it for Christmas.
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by zmimon 17y ago
Yes. You can do nearly all this stuff just by hooking into MS's published interfaces. I've done many pieces of it myself, but seeing it tied together like this so comprehensively is amazing.
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by zmimon 17y ago
> I can write a FB app and have it up in a jiffy, that's just not the case with Apple If FB doesn't like your app they'll have it down in a jiffy too. It's not nearly so clear cut as you make out. Their review process is just reactiv
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by zmimon 17y ago
He was much more insightful than that. He acknowledged that Linux itself makes it hard for those vendors to make polished apps by changing and reinventing every damned thing every few years.
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by zmimon 17y ago
Can you say for sure that a good suite of functional tests wouldn't have saved your bacon as well? And they might have been much easier to write and also catch a whole lot broader set of problems at the same time. The post isn't advocatin
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by zmimon 17y ago
Yeah, nobody else has mentioned price. Vista is / was expensive! Like half a new computer expensive. Why would anyone buy it for an old PC at that price? Win 7 is too expensive as well. MS just doesn't seem to care about retail sale
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by zmimon 17y ago
> certifications are a base level of competence for a job Unfortunately some of the certified people I've met have been so genuinely awful that I don't think you can even claim that. I tend to be with the article author on this one - p
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by zmimon 17y ago
If it's straightforward to get near-C performance out of those languages, why do they lose out so badly in the language shootout? eg: Tracemonkey vs Java - http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=al... Java varies betw
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by zmimon 17y ago
The particular book where I read this is: http://www.amazon.com/Expect-Toddler-Years-Arlene-Eisenberg/... I went back and checked and unfortunately the book itself simply says "studies support the following general conclusions..." and don
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by zmimon 17y ago
Lucidchart is awesome. Google would do well to make an acquisition there - I really feel the pain of not having any diagramming integrated with google docs.
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by zmimon 17y ago
> there is a known phenomenon in the literature on education of gifted students of high-IQ young people being bored with school because it is underchallenging and getting poor grades Reminds me of some of the parenting books I've been r
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by zmimon 17y ago
> Not to mention the fact that the guy who co-invented Groovy is now a Scala advocate. This seems to have been turned into a giant piece of FUD against groovy which puzzles me. He didn't say anything bad about Groovy. He simply said t
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by zmimon 17y ago
What about grails? It seems to me that being on the JVM would make that a very attractive choice. I'm strongly considering the grails+groovy / Scala combo for my next project. I'm just waiting for Scala 2.8 to finalize since I need it
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by zmimon 17y ago
I've heard the refrain about keeping logic out of templates so many times, and yet professionaly I've never come across a situation where totally programming-clueless designers were actively editing templates. It always falls into one of t
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by zmimon 17y ago
Funny, I dislike twitter but nobody else seems to share my reasons. My main reason is that it's a closed centralized service. I suppose somebody will say "it's not closed, it has an open API" and that misses the point: it's closed in the
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by zmimon 17y ago
> Grab the mouse (or use the touchpad) or just point without touching. Is it so difficult? Point without touching please. I never want to touch someone else's mouse or keyboard. They are among the dirtiest most germ infected places y
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by zmimon 17y ago
I am trying to figure this out as well. I can understand there are problems - layout issues, popup windows blocked, activex controls denied permissions. However all these seem like things that are either totally cosmetic or could be fixed
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by zmimon 17y ago
I desperately want something like this to succeed before Twitter takes over the world and becomes the defacto standard with all it's closed, proprietary, single-vendor, feature deprived, insecure, unstable and unreliable patheticness.
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by zmimon 17y ago
I sort of agree with this but I also think it fails to mention the problem of over-design: anticipating requirements that will never materialize or any kind of thinking that goes too far ahead causes enormous cost. There's one thing wors
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by zmimon 17y ago
Would love to see java / tomcat / grails in the options!
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by zmimon 17y ago
Actually synchronized is not that expensive in itself. Especially in modern implementations it's not bad at all. It always used to amuse me how Java developers would go to contortions trying not to synchronize a method and then they'd fil
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by zmimon 17y ago
Actually, I lost a lot of weight just by cutting 10% from my calories. I did no additional exercise and no extravagant changes to diet ... just identified a few places where there was a big calorie win and knocked it out. Then, I just wa
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by zmimon 17y ago
I have a theory that at least half the improvements from Win7 have been quietly slipped into Vista without telling anyone. Or vice versa. For me Vista with it's latest updates is rock solid, fast and slick. I want to update to Win7 but I'
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by zmimon 17y ago
There's a slight problem with this (and I'm only half tongue in cheek here): corporate IT admins probably see it as an actual positive if their staff can't access their favorite social networking web sites or anything else not explicitly r
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by zmimon 17y ago
Actually he also said that PostgreSQL has a permissive license with a whole community of contributers where MySQL has Oracle and GPL and 1 corporate contributor. That's a significant qualitative difference in their nature and very well wor
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by zmimon 17y ago
I do the same but I usually end up writing the tests in order to understand their code. "Is this input allowed to be null? Hmmm... write a test with it null. Ouch! let's add foo may not be null to the documentation ..."
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by zmimon 17y ago
Maybe not your friend, but there are people in this world who truly have "photographic" memories. I had one such friend at university and it frustrated me no end that we could go to a lecture and then he would go out that night and do no

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