blawa

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by blawa 12y ago
Please don't divert my comment. His argument was wrong, it doesn't matter who he's mocking.
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by blawa 12y ago
Typical 'let me mock this because hating on MS on HN is cool' Can you name one build system that people like, and concretely compare how its better than MSBuild, please? Once you do that, please feel free to omit the perfunctory t
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by blawa 12y ago
Well, its a company that its fashionable to hate on on ycombinator, but http://gizmodo.com/5019527/bill-gates-made-men-the-wild-n-cr...
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by blawa 12y ago
Thank you for making it free for non-commercial use! This is very useful.
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by blawa 12y ago
Really constructive comment- and it was very easy to guess the 9 points you wanted to mention why it's not a good choice.
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by blawa 12y ago
As a computer science graduate, and having worked as a s/w engineer, researcher and quant and currently writing code in strongly typed language, I can assure you that unless you're doing research and writing your own PL, you would
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by blawa 12y ago
Oh well, just what I was fearing here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9201896 In 2 mins, you're the top comment How about actually disproving his arguments one by one. The world is not black and white is a bad s
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by blawa 12y ago
Thank you, I was fearing I'll see an ad-hominem argument criticizing Stallman and thereby nullifying the arguments while actually not saying anything against the arguments. Your points are right, and personally, I don't see a reas
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by blawa 12y ago
Very few people know this. People in my all Windows firm believe that OSX is everywhere because everyone in coffee shops is using it and same on TV, and I tell them its only them lol
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by blawa 12y ago
Can you explain what you're talking about? Do you mean that if a program exhibits bugs only under a certain condition that its bugfree? And even assuming you know the spam's distribution, the error function needs to heavily penali
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by blawa 12y ago
Its happened with me too, and a friend of mine as well. Funny story with that friend- he missed summer job emails because of Google, and cursed them a lot :-). But later ended up visiting Google for his summers.
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by blawa 12y ago
I doubt anyone will see this, people here don't upvote anything that's better than Google, specially if its MS
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by blawa 12y ago
While GO is a great language, I doubt it has any significant advantages over C#. Also, Microsoft is doing very well with the phone dev, its the end developer who're not writing apps. And they are not-not writing apps because of PL issu
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by blawa 12y ago
I hope this is not considered a spam, but I had another related question today: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=9178012
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Ask HN: CSS design question
2 points by blawa 12y ago|0 comments
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by blawa 12y ago
Sorry, I don't know about that. Would this help: http://www.geek.com/microsoft/linux-users-rejoice-heres-ubun... ?
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by blawa 12y ago
Thank you for taking the time to answer.
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by blawa 12y ago
I love my Surface Pro 3, thank you very much :-)
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by blawa 12y ago
You're right :-)
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by blawa 12y ago
Thank you. While not exactly what I was asking for, this is great to know.
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by blawa 12y ago
While not exactly what I was looking for, this is very useful, thanks!
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by blawa 12y ago
Thank you. I read them and they are exactly what I'm looking for. May I ask how you learnt this so that I can too?
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by blawa 12y ago
These are good tips, thanks!
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by blawa 12y ago
(I'm new to HN so not sure how to edit) Thanks for some excellent answers. So as to keep the discussion to the question's point for posterity, I think I wasn't very clear. As some people have poined out- I'm not looking
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Ask HN: Front-end “design patterns”?
144 points by blawa 12y ago|61 comments
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by blawa 12y ago
Why wouldn't I use Vimperator and be done with it?
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by blawa 12y ago
O is an upper bound. O( n ^ 99 ) is also valid for Theta. But looks like you actually meant Theta( n^3 ) same as Theta( n^3 + n^2 ), in which case, n^3 grows faster than n^2, hence subsumes n^2