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by zoul 14y ago
Note that the suggestion to release the next version of Perl 5 as Perl 7 is a part of a wider discussion the Perl folks are having about branding: http://shadow.cat/blog/matt-s-trout/names-and-numbers/ Plus many more posts by Matt, chroma
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by zoul 14y ago
For me, I don’t feel comfortable working without a static type system. I love Perl (and initially mistyped that as “live” Perl, which is nice), but nothing beats the feeling of the compiler going through the code for me. Granted, I still ha
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by zoul 14y ago
The point probably is that these rendering engines share a number of the basic assumptions that the new project could challenge (like concurrency mentioned elsewhere in this thread).
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by zoul 14y ago
Web development is quite a different beast. There’s huge amount of life and struggle in the ecosystem, but only a fraction of that pushes the platform forward. I am relieved every time I move from some web development work back to plain, sa
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by zoul 14y ago
What’s wrong about being a real person with opinions? That is, unless you behave like an idiot, which is certainly not the case here.
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by zoul 14y ago
This sounds unfair. I have been developing for the platform right from the start and I am very happy about the whole toolchain. My only real gripes are with the review process, nothing else. (I have never used iCloud as a developer, so I ca
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by zoul 14y ago
The great advantage to iCloud (whatever issues there are) is that it’s already there, integrated to the system. There’s almost nothing your users have to do in order to use it, quite unlike Parse and Dropbox. Granted, “almost everybody” has
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by zoul 14y ago
The biggest problem with Web Development today, IMHO, and the biggest reason why people desire Widget frameworks in the first place, is that the modern browser rendering pipeline is too complex for most people to understand. It’s a huge m
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by zoul 14y ago
This is my feeling, too. I do iOS development for living and whenever I have to do some web programming, I feel like writing in assembly, having to micro-manage things I should not care about. It pains me that Cappuccino has received so lit
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by zoul 14y ago
There is what we did and the results: successes and failures. I’d consider that OK, it’s how software development works. I don’t have that much experience to make general judgements, but in my opinion agile does not try to offer you a rec
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by zoul 14y ago
I think you should go for a walk. Really.
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by zoul 14y ago
But that’s not a problem with the agile approach itself, is it? Unless you would try to argument (as the OP does) that there is no way to do agile right. Which sounds like a lunacy to me, given that the manifesto basically says to stop doin
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by zoul 14y ago
Either start applying critical thinking or go sell crazy some place else. That’s exactly what the Agile Manifesto suggests: - Individuals and interactions over processes and tools - Working software over comprehensive documentatio
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by zoul 14y ago
The first thing that came into my mind as I saw the demonstration video was Bret Victor’s instant feedback theme ( http://vimeo.com/36579366 ). It would be so cool to change the component parameters interactively and see the changes in the
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by zoul 14y ago
That makes sense. Is there a better way for users to use a “desktop” (non-web) third-party app without handing out their username and password?
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by zoul 14y ago
The tampons still have to be manufactured, individually wrapped and packaged, and delivered to the customer. Let’s say a single menstrual cup lasts five years and a woman has periods for 40 years. That’s 8 menstrual cups and a HUGE heap of
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The Parrot is dead. Long live the Parrot?(lists.parrot.org)
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by zoul 14y ago
I think that one of the major points of modern(ish) art is being free from having to describe anything.
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by zoul 14y ago
It doesn’t make much sense to “try Feldman” by listening to excerpts, you have to experience the whole piece if possible. The process of trying to find some meaning in the music and the eventual point of giving up and just accepting it is v
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by zoul 14y ago
If Apple were to introduce the device, they have two options. First, patent the design (and then possibly sue others). Second, do not patent the design and get sued by others. Which one would you choose? I would go for the first one (and no
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Power Users vs. Empowered Users(imore.com)
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by zoul 14y ago
From the e-mail: In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection Maybe that’s enough? (I don’t understand
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by zoul 14y ago
This is an unfair generalization. Also please note that religion does not equal faith .
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by zoul 14y ago
Wow. I think that Atwood’s proposal was an honest and good move, and a needed one. If Gruber feels like someone is twisting his hands by asking publicly, why not say so in a decent, grown-up manner? “OK, this makes sense, but I would have p
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by zoul 14y ago
It’s better to let yourself to be swallowed whole by your current activity (be it just doing the dishes) than to continue in the endless chatter of your mind. Doing the dishes can be fun if you pay attention to the textures, temperatures, s
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by zoul 14y ago
Tent can't be slow, it's a protocol.
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Run Google Maps on iOS without the Safari chrome(github.com)
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by zoul 14y ago
Some kind of proxy that would join Tent with other social networks would IMHO do wonders for the adoption rate. But at the same time it’s not what the existing social networks want, which is why it probably wouldn’t work. Google+ doesn’t ha
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Ask HN: What are the major obstacles for the Tent social protocol?
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by zoul 14y ago
I too would welcome if iTunes could return to be a music player. It must be a huge pain even for Apple to work on such beastly monolithic app that does almost everything except the laundry.

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