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by zmimon 18y ago
I think it's very interesting that Google is brave enough to put this app out there from a security point of view. They are letting any random stranger without registration etc., run code inside their sandbox. For example, switch to groov
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by zmimon 18y ago
There's no doubt it's overhyped, but there's also no doubt that, rightly or not, it's making a huge impact. In fact, I think it's a fascinating case study in how the most horribly implemented and feature deprived technologies are sometimes
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by zmimon 18y ago
How do you define troll? A blanket statement labelling an entire technology with a pejorative without any justification or explanation seems fairly trollish to me. However both of us are certainly off-topic and should be downvoted heavily
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by zmimon 18y ago
I remember reading about a proposal for a kind of "good samaritan" type law that would prevent people from being made liable through giving an apology. (I think this was specifically for medical malpractice.) It seems like a good idea. I th
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by zmimon 18y ago
IMHO, putting aside all technological and specific market considerations - now just seems a terrible time for any company to sell itself, if it can afford to do otherwise. I honestly think even if Sun can just stay in limbo for another 5 ye
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by zmimon 18y ago
But doesn't that quote at the same time draw the very distinction between math and programming that Jeff is talking about? " Knowing some math can enable you to write some programs " - two separate activities, one benefiting the other.
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by zmimon 18y ago
The very title of this article shows the religious nature of much of the hype around dynamic languages. Why is using the right tool for the job "jilting" another language which was never designed or meant to be suitable for the same job? I
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by zmimon 18y ago
Facebook is winning because it has hit the jackpot in finding how to convince regular consumers to throw away their privacy in trade for connecting with friends. I never had a single person find me via myspace whereas dozens of people who I
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by zmimon 18y ago
I had an experience where a customer purchased software (about $400 worth) and then after 2 months claimed they never received the email containing the license keys. I attempted to email them through many various routes (eventually from my
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by zmimon 18y ago
You don't have to have a college degree but unless you have experience you will face a significantly higher barrier to entry in getting a job without one. The question will always, be, if you are really such a kick-ass coder and love pro
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by zmimon 18y ago
This is really just pointing out that IQ tests are time based and so people who think faster do better at them. Measures of intelligence that are not time based might not show the same difference. I often found in school / college that I c
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by zmimon 18y ago
Sorry, I was away for a day or two after writing this so couldn't respond. What I mean by not credible is simply that they implied upon release that Chrome would be a cross platform product and that mac & linux versions would come reall
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by zmimon 18y ago
Chrome is much more than I had hoped for. There are only 2 disappointments with it for me: * where are the plugins? * where are the linux / mac builds. In both cases the waiting has gone on too long to be credible any more. However everyt
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by zmimon 18y ago
This is one reason why learning either vi or emacs key mappings and then using those in your IDE of choice is a vital skill. With these under your belt, your hands should just about never have to leave the home row on the keyboard and you
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by zmimon 18y ago
I find a great way to understand the complexity you are coding into a method / function is to try and write a unit test for it. Short simple methods are easy to write tests for, while long, complex ones become exponentially harder to capt
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by zmimon 18y ago
To me it's kind of a weird arbitrary divide to make. All the text editors mentioned offer IDE like functionality at various levels. They help you with various kinds of auto-complete, context sensitive help, etc. etc. Where is the line t
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by zmimon 18y ago
I knew a guy who was wheelchair bound with no use of one hand and the other only semifunctional, able to peck out keys one at a time. I can't claim he was a great hacker, but he managed to hold his own on the team and even outperformed so
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by zmimon 18y ago
It would be surprising to me if someone didn't build this concept with valves and vacuum tubes before 'software' even existed. People always quote it as some major milestone like the invention of the wheel or something but it honestly seem
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by zmimon 18y ago
People who bought the iPhone have already bought into the notion that paying a premium you into a tier of exclusively higher quality experience. Paying for content once you have the iPhone is just an extension of, and in fact, a way of re
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by zmimon 18y ago
This comes off as petty to me, and a bit stupid. Maybe only 3.7% of his users are IE users because they get a whole lot of attitude when they visit his site? Or because a lot of IE users either don't have the choice (corporate) or the de
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by zmimon 18y ago
I'm not very literate in functional programming ... so excuse such a dumb question. But I'm curious why you write the recursing function duplicated? eg. isn't this version of your code equivalent? function Y(X) { var fn = func
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by zmimon 18y ago
This is potentially useful, mainly for running different variations of IE. However ... a) "from the web" is misleading. It is a native windows exe. It is in no sense running "from the web". b) nor does it really run in a real virtualized
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by zmimon 18y ago
The small portion of time I spend maintaining a Facebook app that my company supports is without doubt the most unenjoyable, tedious, soul destroying time I spend on anything. What isn't outright broken is ugly, poorly documented, highly fr
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by zmimon 18y ago
Just remember: almost nobody ever picks the bottom of a market right - by definition.
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by zmimon 18y ago
Buying a house is important for reasons that are not financial at all. It simply feels good to know that you have basic shelter with no overheads to pay. Also, basic things like a house are protected in many circumstances under bankruptcy
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by zmimon 18y ago
Yep. Add to that, the acrobat installer, silently without notice or any option to avoid it, installs Adobe AIR without your consent. I take this as a sign of a company entering a stage of decline. Successful companies on the rise do not
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by zmimon 18y ago
The only thing I ever dislike about programming is being forced to do it at a substandard level, usually because I have to work with substandard legacy code that is too hard to modify other than by continuing whatever bad practices it emplo
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by zmimon 18y ago
I think you are half right but you are a little harsh. The Java eco-system evolved to solve some problems that really are hard, not just simple problems. However you are totally right about the complexity - the real issue is that the comp
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by zmimon 18y ago
GPL License? No thanks. Stick with YUI which is the same but more flexible, BSD licensed and far better documented (although admittedly, higher weight).
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by zmimon 18y ago
Agree - chrome is now my default browser purely because it can bring up a window so fast I can barely see a delay, even if I have bogged down the machine with compiling or other intensive tasks. A couple times I have caught myself firing u

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