joeburke

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by joeburke 15y ago
I've seen several proposals, such as making patents non transferable, shortening their life time or not allowing cases to go to court unless you can prove your business depends on that patent.
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by joeburke 15y ago
Yes, especially when there is no actual court case. Let's talk again once the owner of the patent successfully sues over it, making millions in the process. Never going to happen. Software patents are not the problem, patent trolls are.
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by joeburke 15y ago
You only have a 50% chance of this being correct. Replace "average" with "median" and you're at 100%.
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by joeburke 15y ago
Yup, because if Steve Jobs wants something but the team pushes back, he'll abandon the idea.
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by joeburke 15y ago
Facebook only recently added groups after years in existence, they seem to be doing alright.
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by joeburke 15y ago
> Circles are ok to set up at the beginning, but many people belong in more than one circle and it gets cognitively tiring to sort people appropriately into one-and-only-one circle. A person can belong to more than one circle (that's wh
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by joeburke 15y ago
Look at the position of Javascript. It's fair to say it's used exclusively for web development (node.js is quite marginal) and it still tops the job chart. Ruby on Rails would be there as well if it were mainstream.
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by joeburke 15y ago
1) There is a literal syntax for Java: entries = new ArrayList<Integer>() {{ add(3); add(4); }} But yes, certainly not as elegant as Scala. Having said that, you don't encounter literal collections very often (except maybe in te
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by joeburke 15y ago
Another mistake the author is making is calling the ORM "an abstraction". ORM is a mapping technology: it takes input from one world and turns it into data suitable to another world. It doesn't abstract anything.
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by joeburke 15y ago
All the frameworks "are growing up", this is nothing to be proud about. The real question is: is the framework becoming mature? Because RoR has this tendency to reinvent itself every 18 months or so, the answer to the question is a resoundi
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by joeburke 15y ago
"How to learn Lojban Write to The Logical Language Group, Inc., and we will be happy to provide information" Yup. That's gonna work.
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by joeburke 15y ago
Interesting article but the grammar and the typos... ouch. Especially when he's trying to use some uncommon words.
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by joeburke 15y ago
This article is much more about the evilness of patent trolls than about software patents. My thoughts: - Prevent the existence of trolls (for example by mandating that only patents that are central to your own business can be enforced). -
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by joeburke 15y ago
Probably about the same as if you played that video with some other technology.
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by joeburke 15y ago
I only see people downvoting a flawed analogy.
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by joeburke 15y ago
It means there's a huge potential for that income and revenue to grow.
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by joeburke 15y ago
As do people who want to "abolish patents". While the system might need some revisions, it's certainly not as broken as a lot of abolitionists are depicting. Some things are working fine, and innovation is happening at a very fast pace in
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by joeburke 15y ago
"Where's the library at?" "You should never end a sentence with a preposition." "Where's the library at, jerk?"
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by joeburke 15y ago
Correct, Dick didn't really get any business off the ground, and he's probably ashamed of this email, looking back. For quite a few years now, he's been the chairman of OOPSLA (now renamed to SPLASH), which I find quite ironic.
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by joeburke 15y ago
There is really no reason to feel embarrassed because you use a GUI. A terminal is a terrible vehicle to display the complex information that git needs to show you, especially `status`, `diff`, etc... To me, git GUI's are like IDE's: they m
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by joeburke 15y ago
"generally easier to understand" "Ultimately, more Scala used means more modern Android development. " The author has a clear chip on his/her shoulder and is making statements that are pretty controversial, even within the Scala community i
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by joeburke 15y ago
What happened to him is very unfortunate but see the kind of conclusion he draws from his ordeal: "I have formed the opinion that medical specialists are no more equipped to make a medical diagnosis than lay-people." You would think someone
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by joeburke 15y ago
> I haven't seen Tony Morris abuse anyone in the community, and the IRC channel is an amazing combination of immense knowledge and patience with newbies. Seriously? Here is the latest example on scala-debate, just two months ago, where
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by joeburke 15y ago
Predictably, this blog post reads like a Haskell pamphlet and it hits all the Bingo marks: purity, no side effects, ah but yes side effects with the IO monads, monads, concurrency, the awesome community (seriously? Have they actually looked
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by joeburke 15y ago
Indeed, and it goes in the same direction as the linked article, which does look like flattr lowering the barrier to entry because they're not getting enough traction. This kind of trend never ends well.
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by joeburke 15y ago
It's called "click through" and I also prefer the Windows behavior. Especially since the behavior is not consistent on Mac OS: certain actions do not require a click through (e.g. you can close a window in the back without bringing it on th
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by joeburke 15y ago
Please, let's keep the fear mongering down. This is the first incident of this kind in 40 years and the number of casualties will probably not exceed a few hundreds. Coal alone killed over 100,000 people over the past century.
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by joeburke 16y ago
Nonsense. If you want to work at Google, learn Java or C++ (but especially Java). And show that you can code.
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by joeburke 16y ago
I work at Google, but let's be honest: Java and C++ continue to be the only game in town for existing and new projects, Go occupies only a very tiny niche in our code base, mostly for the reasons that Chuck mentioned: a lot of the paralleli
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by joeburke 16y ago
When can we hope to get a 4.3 for Verizon? I hope we're not going to start seeing from fragmentation like Android already has, as this post correctly observes: http://shysnowsquare.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/no-fragmentati...

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