adabsurdo

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by adabsurdo 7y ago
> Life arising only once could very well be the more plausible option Indeed I feel like coming to this conclusion is something that the authors - and most of us rationalist types - do not _want_ to come to. Because if you accept that h
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
>> But none of that really matters. I would bet that you are neither a woman, black, jewish, poor, or gay. So the fact, for example, that ron paul is a huge racist is something that you can discount at no cost to you. edit : wow, i
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
kind of ironic to say hackers are above branding, when here we are arguing Apple vs Google vs Facebook!
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
exactly. all those car-sharing services may become much, much more useful and prevalent when you can use your smartphone to whistle the car to come to you. that would also spell doom to taxis. perhaps then only the very rich, those who live
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
you know you're on hacker news when the most upvoted comment has found something negative to nitpick out of a cool story.
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
depression would be more accurate. the problem, i think, is that there is a core contradiction at the heart of the euro system: 1) you can't have a currency union, without a fiscal union; 2) you can't have a fiscal union, without a true pol
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
>> Any action requires a hilarious number of clicks to get done. like what? again, i'm not challenging you, i'm genuinely wondering.
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
for now i only use linux server-side, but i'm thinking of maybe swiching from osx to linux for my next laptop. i played a little with both mint and ubuntu in vmware, but i don't think i can make a fair assessment. personally, i don't care f
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
honest question: why are so many people hating on unity? is it the launcher bar?
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
my point is that this style of writing is pervasive within the scala world, including the official api. and it's not just the list class. look at the base xml class, NodeSeq: http://www.scala-lang.org/api/rc/scala/xml/NodeSeq.html
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
no. the problem is that scala allows almost any string of characters as identifiers, and this encourages programmers to use symbols instead of english words for their function names. So you end up with identifiers that convey no meaning wha
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
i used scala for a few months. it sounded very promising, java without the verbosity. but in the end i decided to stop using it. The biggest problem for me was readabilty. Scala is the first language that i've learned where at first i could
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
personnally i find it quite amazing, and incredibly short-sighted, how developpers are willing to give up the freedom of the web in favor of the golden chains of the apple platform. because, make no mistake, this is where its going: in a fe
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
i didn't mean to imply that. i do agree that your db client should check for write errors if you care about your data, and that mongodb should make their official drivers have safer defaults. but the poster to which i was replying seemed to
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
> preferably without needing at least three machines if you don't have such redundancy your data is not safe, no matter what database engine you are running.
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
Mr. Krugman's point, very succintly, is that money is power, political and otherwise, and that as it concentrates into fewer hands (as has happened to a huge extent in the last 30 years), those at the top start to behave like a ruling class
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
what you say is true, but i think your haircut example just glides over the more important question of what we can actually compare objectively and what we can't. it's true that taste varies and is culture-dependent, some people hate punk r
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
yes, but you have to agree this is really awkward, beyond sharing with fellow hackers. most casual users would never go to the trouble just to try your app. my point was that the technology exists to make sharing apps easier, but apps like
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
this would be great stuff indeed, but the restrictions you mention seem like a killer to me: you basically can't share any program that was written on this app. so how can this ever be more than a toy?
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
no, not all. the web is fully open. google is not the exclusive gateway to the internet. if google were to become wildly inaccurate,, or start to willingly leave out relevant results, other search engines (hello bing!) would take over prett
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
I was referring to 'in app' payment gateway
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
jailbreaking is indeed a way to get around the apple store, but how many people do this? Must be a tiny fraction of the market. I would like to know of a company that has made serious money targeting it. there are a whole bunch of apps that
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
Well, Microsoft never set itself up as the gateway to install third-party software, or as the authority on taste and acceptable content, or on taking a cut on commercial activity taking place on its platform.
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
I think the Apple app store policies is the bigger problem, because Apple is using it to control not just quality, but content, and forcing applications to use its payment gateway; which in itself, wouldn't much of a problem if they didn't
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
Yes, I would say it is the single worst idea to come out of C.
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by adabsurdo 15y ago
as far as unix is concerned, i would say a huge part of the complexity of those systems comes from insisting that dependencies be installed, and shared, system-wide. This approach comes from a time when disk space was very expensive. Hence