mattiask

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by mattiask 14y ago
Very true, big companies are usually as good as their despot. At least when it comes to taking risks and "saying no". Apple could go all-in because Jobs had the clout to give marching orders to the whole company. Microsoft has Ballmer, who
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by mattiask 14y ago
"We heard you like tablets, so we took your tablet and made it a laptop so you can pretend it's a tablet while you're using Windows!"
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by mattiask 14y ago
Thats what made it so funny. I can see the Microsoft meeting: -Hey so everyone talking about this Retina thing how are we going to compete? -Let's make up our own word! Do we have anything lying around we can use? -Developer: Well, we ha
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by mattiask 14y ago
I'd be very surprised if Microsoft sold these under their own brand. Perhaps they're more like the Intel proof of concepts and "the real thing" will be announced by Nokia?
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by mattiask 14y ago
I'm not going into an originality discussion, certainly that argument has been made thousand of thousand times on forums all over the internet. Very few companies are truly original. Even fewer are successful while being truly original. But
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by mattiask 14y ago
I'm actually a Windows user (although I own an iPad), but you have to be a bit humored by all this. As usual where Apple has used a feather Microsoft have used the whole chicken with keyboards, screws, different versions, the whole enchila
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by mattiask 14y ago
It was quite serendipitous how although Rocket jumping was "incidental" to Q1 most levels still played extremely well using that feature. Still level-designers who later knew about it and designed for it managed to (ab)use it even more. I d
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by mattiask 14y ago
Every time I watch an episode of House or read a story like this I think "Why isn't there an expert system for diagnostics". The notion of a person being able to manage such vasts amount of knowledge seems ridiculous and cost-ineffective. I
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by mattiask 14y ago
Obviously Eurovision is something of a subgenre which is more about its own "brand" of music rather than for established artists (otherwise we'd just send Robyn and win every year). If you see it as the Pride festival for music it makes a l
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by mattiask 14y ago
I find that once you realize there's a problem that can be solved it's often the case that a solution is available if you look for it. My bank for instance makes it easy to set up automatic payment of most of my bills. Yet if I never realiz
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by mattiask 14y ago
The key is to combine "minimalistic living" with life hacks. Reduce your life down to the essentials, then use life hacks to go even further. For example: you probably won't get away without paying your bills so a "life hack" that automates
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by mattiask 14y ago
I've had an ipad for a while, in the beginning I hardly used it at all, I read some books or watched some video/tv on it occasionally, but mostly at home. But after a while I found what I think is the tablet sweetspot, and that is a "digita
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by mattiask 14y ago
I used to be a gamer but then I realized something. While gaming is fun, sometimes fulfilling and a source of "flow" it's ultimately without higher meaning. Imagine spending hundreds of hours playing WoW, DI:3 or whatever, now imagine what
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by mattiask 14y ago
I've had a similar experience, in school I got hooked on chess. Having an unfortunate tendency to try to master anything I suck at that I find interesting I dedicated quite a lot of time to learning chess, playing in the swedish masterships
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by mattiask 14y ago
Some day there'll probably be a nextgen language that addresses at least some of these issues. One way to resolve some of them today however is code generation. While not appropriate to all kinds of solution I've had some success with build
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by mattiask 14y ago
I agree that single dispatch seems to be a pretty obvious problem with most oop languages, if you have a method that has two different types as parameters, on which do it belong? Take a pick and hold your breath... or do some unwieldy manag
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by mattiask 14y ago
As I've become more experienced over the years I've come to believe that the prolification of patterns to "fix" oop problems (dependency injection, immutability, builder patterns, events etc etc) are a symptom of inherent flaws in the obje
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by mattiask 14y ago
Loved the story and it's very good advice indeed. I'd like to add one thing though. Having a "fuck them" or "they are losers" attitude (not saying the article advocates that) isn't really healthy. It might be great for a boosting your ego s
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by mattiask 14y ago
While file-less source control would be a very interesting concept I don't see how the lack of it would affect the editor. Simply present code as file-less and behind the scenes put every entity (class, struct, whatever) into it's own fi
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by mattiask 14y ago
I'm not arguing for patents, only that a programming language should probably be patentable if other similar creative efforts are, I don't see why they should be exempt. I agree with you that patents are bad overall (if that's your stance)
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by mattiask 14y ago
Aren't all patents ideas? Surely the difference between a patent or not can't be whether the ideas is a physical object or not. If all patents were abolished tomorrow I wouldn't mind, but as so long as they aren't it seems silly that some
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by mattiask 14y ago
Are they arguing that all languages are free or that the Java language specifically was free? If it's the former it seems a little strange. If I tomorrow invented some programming language that for instance described some novel way to h
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by mattiask 14y ago
Personally I prefer the more hackerish: "h*n", harder to prounciate though :)
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by mattiask 14y ago
Am I the only one that would like to see some kind of locking support in the API? So if you have multiple clients working against the same file it could take out a lock for x minutes and the other client could query to see if a file is lock
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by mattiask 14y ago
I think the best way I managed to wrap my head around the refutation of that is this: First off, some foods make you hungrier so you consume more calories. People have a very strong tendency to eat when they're hungry. The might be able to
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by mattiask 15y ago
Little Bobby Tables apparently has a norwegian cousin
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by mattiask 15y ago
If you dress differently because of what other people think then perhaps you're not the rebel hacker you think you are ;) that includes not wearing a suit if you're comfortably in one. Personally I don't get get why not more people wear
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by mattiask 15y ago
I'm for one is limbering up to outrun our new robotic sprinter overlords
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by mattiask 15y ago
I'm sure there are developer pairings and scenarios where pair programming indeed would be beneficial. The point is that in your case the developers where free to themselves test and evaluate it's efficiency and then chose whether to use it
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by mattiask 15y ago
http://forums.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2011/01/09...

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