cppsnob

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by cppsnob 15y ago
Oh, that's what he's asking? To the OP: do your startup in Java. Then at least you'll be hiring devs who give a damn about building your product, rather than ones who just want to screw around in whatever's shiny and new.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
C. Understand the foundation and everything else becomes a lot easier to learn. And yes, you can do the web with it. Many still do.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
This article is NOT talking about technology. It's talking about growth in team size and expenditure.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
S3 is sloooooow. You'll really need to have cloudfront if you want to do this and still have a good user experience.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
"An exception is Apple [AAPL], which “has been able to preserve a first-rate design capability in the States so far by remaining deeply involved in the selection of components, in industrial design, in software development, and in the artic
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by cppsnob 15y ago
Carly Fiorina took care of that task a long time ago.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
Lua's threading is just as broken as Python or Ruby. Maybe even more so.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
When a market is growing, it allows everyone to grow... for a while. Check out the Commodore 64 in this graph: http://jeremyreimer.com/totalshare5.gif
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by cppsnob 15y ago
What's future is past. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Linking_and_Embedding
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by cppsnob 15y ago
Can someone describe the white hat credo with respect to 0 day exploits? Did he give Microsoft a head's up about these and a chance to respond before going public? Or does he just give a conference talk and post it to his blog, potentially
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by cppsnob 15y ago
> It's technically impossible to know if a user has left a review on the App Store. You know they've clicked through to your entry in the store. Users don't know they'll still get their coinage if they then don't rate the thing after c
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by cppsnob 15y ago
$30 billion is less than Nokia's current value.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
The most important part of marketing-dev collaboration is getting the two to have any respect at all for the other one's work and have a willingness to learn about it. After that point, communication seems to become a lot easier. As a sid
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by cppsnob 15y ago
> But then to ask for a facebook like?! The entire world of Facebook/iPhone apps is basically this these days. Be sure to rate this app with 5 stars/Like/etc. for your freeeeee in-game coinage!
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by cppsnob 15y ago
I'm still waiting for that "open" FaceTime specification.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
> Statically typed language for webdev = <3 Like Java, or Scala, or even C++ (Okcupid did it)? I'm trying to figure out why Go made you arrive at this conclusion and other languages did not.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
> There are no alternatives if you want to distribute on the most popular mobile platform. Symbian, Blackberry and Android don't support Objective-C as far as I know. Only iOS does, which is far from the "most popular" mobile platform,
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by cppsnob 15y ago
I think you mean: "125 jobs that mention node.js anywhere in the description."
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by cppsnob 15y ago
Oh please. NIO, Generics, annotations. Here's a comprehensive list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history Whatever you think of Java, it has improved HUGELY since the 90s. Though it does miss closures.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
The full quote is better "So this cluster fuck of apps has become so diluted in human value and so inflated in capital value that Ninja Warrior Agile ScrumMaster and Incompetent MBA Popped Collar actually have a decent chance of landing on
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by cppsnob 15y ago
File under "things that don't need fixing".
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by cppsnob 16y ago
Because... we all know Windows Python users are stylin with the Windows command shell. I agree with the grandparent, this decision was political.
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by cppsnob 16y ago
Java?