no_future

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by no_future 12y ago
Sounds like snake oil to me.
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by no_future 12y ago
How can Julia be "on par" with C when it is itself implemented in C?
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by no_future 12y ago
Oh wow, another person evangelizing about X obscure language from inside their pseudoacademic ivory tower yet providing no examples of anything useful they've done with it, or anyone has done with it for that matter. Everytime I see t
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by no_future 12y ago
The inconsistency is that I don't think anyone would say Google isn't one of the most if not THE most successful web era companies, and according to pg the founders weren't driven by a "spirit of benevolence" which
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by no_future 12y ago
I remember reading somewhere that they use the Foursquare API for something.
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by no_future 12y ago
How exactly did Microsoft hold back the internet?
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by no_future 12y ago
The idiom "nice guys finish last" isn't an idiom for no reason, Paul. Just because you're good at picking out people who you want to give money and support to doesn't mean that their niceness has any correlation wit
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by no_future 12y ago
I've read most of pg's essays and he seems to contradict himself a lot: From this one: "There is also a complementary force at work: if you want to build great things, it helps to be driven by a spirit of benevolence. The sta
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by no_future 12y ago
The person who wrote this seems reasonably intelligent. Why did he work at Radioshack for so long if it was so horrible?
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by no_future 12y ago
Google confounds me. They are one of the largest tech companies as far as just pure reach, they own the top search engine, email service, and mobile operating system, as well as a host of other properties both hardware and software(and a hu
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by no_future 12y ago
How old are you geezers? Do any of you actually use Snapchat/know people who use it? If you did you would know that nobody actually uses it to send nudes because if people get nude photos they would actually like to keep them because s
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by no_future 12y ago
If companies get swallowed up by the Google/Facebook behemoths like so many do then investors usually get their exit, to make an example of 2 from your list Tumblr was bought for $1bn by Yahoo and Snapchat allegedly had multibillion do
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by no_future 12y ago
They're both multibillion dollar backed companies, so more likely the opposite will be true: any regulation against them will be lobbied out of existence.
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by no_future 12y ago
Whats wrong with building toys for rich people? Rich people need to play too.
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by no_future 12y ago
>The people native apps benefit the most is OS vendors, because of lock-in C and Java can run on any platform(far more than HTML and JS which were developed to run in browsers), what lock in?
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by no_future 12y ago
Sure there are languages that transpile to C, but they don't run as well as hand written C. I wasn't saying that compilers couldn't write C, I was saying they couldn't do it better than a human.
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by no_future 12y ago
>it's like complaining that assembly is useless because nobody uses it directly Everybody always tries to make this comparison(WELL IF YOU WANT IT TO RUN SO GOOD JUST WRITE IT IN ASSEMBLY), and it really goes to show how little they
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by no_future 12y ago
C-family languages are still the best languages for systems dev, they've aged well, and Java is good for it as well. Systems dev hasn't changed much since they were developed, mostly just more transistors and cores were shoved int
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by no_future 12y ago
What a dreadful notion, I hope this never happens. Development on mobile devices is a great way to develop on a web connected platform that reaches lots of consumers, but instead of using horrible, ancient tools that are expected to do thin
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by no_future 12y ago
Though a lot of people seem to love Wired(I used to read their magazine, back when those were a thing, and they did have some really nice layouts), for a while now their articles have been shameless, overhyping, clickbait. Every single head
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by no_future 12y ago
I thought gitlab was self hosted. Do they offer a free hosted service now?
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by no_future 12y ago
Well SV is one of the only places where they have these wheelbarrows full of millions of dollars to throw at tech companies, so I would think that location is pretty important if you're interested in VC funding.
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by no_future 12y ago
According to Mark Cuban(who I'm pretty damn sure knows what he is talking about), it isn't remotely a bubble, because in the dot com bubble everyone was investing - regular working people quit their jobs to become day traders, you
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by no_future 12y ago
I've said this before, but I have absolutely no sympathy for people who think that there is something wrong with the fact that everyone in their workplace is not exactly the same as them(the author explicitly points out several times h
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by no_future 12y ago
>3-D buttons that don't actually depress when I click on them 0/10 closed the page
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by no_future 12y ago
Barring the fact that Apple probably provides tools for unlocking their devices to authorities(like Microsoft's COFFEE), its a 4 digit passcode, it isn't that hard to crack.
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by no_future 12y ago
Why is everyone so into Twitter? I've never actually met someone who tweeted.
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by no_future 12y ago
There is a miasma of fakery and posturing in the startup world about making money, everyone pretends as if they are so passionate about what they are doing and not interested in money at all, even though they are almost certainly interested
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by no_future 12y ago
After doing web for a little bit, ending up loathing it, and then checking out iOS and enjoying it so far, I couldn't hope for this outcome more. I never realized how crippled browser based web applications and the ancient, shitty tool
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by no_future 12y ago
Is this named after the anime character, or the Russian geographical region? If it is named after the former I'm not using it. Why do all software people have to be massive weebs?

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