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by adgar 14y ago
My new goal: come up with someone clever enough that Apple rips it off and I can ride their coattails. That's the best I can ever do, right?
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by adgar 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law
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by adgar 14y ago
Snarky comments have always existed on HN. Whether they are downvoted or upvoted is up to the community.
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by adgar 14y ago
So the word "fanboy" is not an accurate term to describe anyone or the level of discourse about a subject? You think that everybody on this website is engaging in rational, high-minded discourse? It's easy to assume every mind is a willin
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by adgar 14y ago
You seem to have misunderstood "mere accusations." Takedowns due to "mere accusations" to me means that I can fire off an e-mail if I see a kickstarter project that looks sketchy and have it taken down post-haste. To me, that is highly subo
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by adgar 14y ago
> Some level of proof is still necessary, though. Not just an accusation. Is anyone arguing that mere accusations should result in kickstarter takedowns? You make a good point... just a sort of obvious one. This is clearly a hard proble
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by adgar 14y ago
> I'd say so, yes. Proof beyond all reasonable doubt is a lovely standard for a criminal justice system. Note that it is not used in civil suits in America - only criminal cases. We're not talking about taking away people's freedom
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by adgar 14y ago
> Can we actually prove fraud in any of these cases, though? Is this the standard we want? If you used an investment service which said "we require proof beyond all reasonable doubt of criminal endeavors before taking down [some UGC],"
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by adgar 14y ago
If you think iOS 6 maps are in any single way an improvement over Google Maps, or anything other than a power play in general, you're pretty damn likely to be making a worthless fanboy comment.
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by adgar 14y ago
Nope! They're just bad at their jobs.
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by adgar 14y ago
Just look around this thread. Apologists abound. HN isn't immune to worthless fanboy comments.
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by adgar 14y ago
Android's google maps have been better by features than iOS's google maps for a couple years now, since Google could update the Android app. Vector graphics since 2010, local integration (reviews, including zagat now), more advanced directi
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by adgar 14y ago
I've got the same opinion. It's amazing how so many entrepreneurs love the idea of crowdfunding their next project. They don't see how their crazy startup idea is just another insanely risky investment alongside scammers and people who have
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by adgar 14y ago
Do you think that it is possible that the kickstarter model leads to press-than-sufficient sure diligence by lowering the barriers to investment that have traditionally driven larger investors to do more sure diligence? Is it possible that
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by adgar 14y ago
> If anything it sounds like maybe Git itself violates this, but I thought that Git hashed the difference between all the changes of a commit to get the hash. Some of the others sounds equally obvious at first glance. Git creates hashed
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by adgar 14y ago
> That's like saying HN is just full of college kids who think making a social web app with geolocation and a REST API is going to turn them into gazillionaires when they pivot to something useful (after all, the idea doesn't matter, it
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by adgar 14y ago
> It is possible to write sane CoffeeScript that is lexically scoped and not subject to misinterpretation. Possible is an extremely low bar. We hold ourselves to a higher standard these days in computer science, including language desig
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by adgar 14y ago
You might be wondering why people think that. Here's why: it's the entire point of CoffeeScript . According to the first two intro grafs at coffeescript.org: > CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath
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by adgar 14y ago
> Once this was achieved, we had no interest in this becoming an ongoing legal matter. All that says is "we're not pressing charges." You've added nothing to the discussion!
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by adgar 14y ago
People don't press charges for lots of reasons. You are picking one and ignoring all the rest because it fits comfortably in your worldview. it must be nice to put your mind on cruise control.
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by adgar 14y ago
This is a Google project. I'm refuting the idea that we're loaded with "java developers" who can't step outside their skillset.
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by adgar 14y ago
My 5-engineer team at Google all write java day-to-day. But we've all needed to write python, especially scripts, and have it properly checked in and maintained. Not sure how you could get by most places in the company without being able to
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by adgar 14y ago
30,000req/minute is 500qps. That's... just not a lot for a large service.
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by adgar 14y ago
200 LOC is miniscule. Like, not worth discussing. 200k? Now we're talking about a medium-to-large project.
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by adgar 14y ago
> There was a cost, they paid it, now they can reap the benefits. Quick example of how you're wrong: their version history is now trashed. They're going to pay the price for that for years.
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by adgar 14y ago
> Improve the codebase (make it small, cleaner, more easy to read, and fix issues of pastime) is NOT a wasted time. Not necessarily the BEST USE of time at a given moment, but dedicate some time to refresh the code with better tools, be
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by adgar 14y ago
IMDB data has serious licensing restrictions. I would be extremely surprised if it were used as a source for this.
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by adgar 14y ago
Why? It seems like a complete waste of time to this typical software engineer with 100x more objectives than time. Why not convert all your Java code to Scala? Because you have real work to do and reskinning your existing code provides no b
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by adgar 14y ago
> hell, even twitter was down recently You seem to think Twitter has a strong reliability record.
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by adgar 14y ago
It's entirely plausible that you work for the FBI and are trying to discredit talk of the FBI's involvement by proposing relatively poor arguments to the contrary. See how ridiculous you sound?

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