olleicua

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by olleicua 10y ago
I feel like the main issue with this article was a failure to adequately define "computer" and "information processing". There were some good points. In particular the fact that a given experience will likely cause com
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by olleicua 10y ago
THIS
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by olleicua 12y ago
Fantastic article
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by olleicua 13y ago
This is completely unreasonable. The NSA doing this in secret is one thing but now they aren't even trying to hide it.
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by olleicua 13y ago
What does lavabit actually do?
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by olleicua 13y ago
Since you are making this claim, I'll assume you've read the entire codebase of iOS. Is there anything stopping Apple from sending out an update that uploads the fingerprint?? Is there anything stopping the NSA from requiring Ap
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by olleicua 13y ago
Yeah and Jobs wasn't exactly the innovator everyone wants to make of him anyway. Ritchie anyone?
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by olleicua 13y ago
The outrage is because objectivism is a fantasy that rich people use to convince them selves they are better than others. Just because I am fortunate enough to be a software developer doesn't mean I think that's fair.
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by olleicua 13y ago
Why is an article that basically says "I'm a randian objectivist and I think capitalism is just great at the top of Hacker News. So you're an naive idiot who thinks Steve Jobs was a great innovator and probably has never hea
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by olleicua 14y ago
Does anybody know what grievance is being aired here?
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by olleicua 14y ago
I really like this idea but I'm not clear on how this would fit into the current UI. Reddit does threads a little better I feel.
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by olleicua 14y ago
This is a philosophical stance that goes beyond the article's point. We have very good models for most of technology but we don't know enough about how Lithium batteries fit into those models. It's kind of tangential though. The point of
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by olleicua 14y ago
I don't know if you are more closely acquainted with the OP than I but I wouldn't assume that he isn't actually doing anything good in the world. If nothing else he's trying to encourage others to do something good and from the looks of th
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by olleicua 14y ago
What is the point? You don't like this company's business model so don't buy from them. Either you're right and nobody will buy from them and they'll fade into obscurity or you're wrong and some customers do like this model. Are you upset t
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by olleicua 14y ago
How is that a fairly strong statement? Here's a much stronger one: PHP is terrible at being a general purpose language. General purpose language doesn't mean you can do things that aren't web dev in it. General purpose means that it is
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by olleicua 14y ago
I think this may be too optimistic. It seems to me that PHP's lack of vision has already made it a horrifically bad language. The problem is not that it tries to do OO while also not really trying to do OO (don't get me wrong though, that
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by olleicua 14y ago
All the more reason to back Ubuntu on phones.
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by olleicua 14y ago
I cannot wait for this!
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by olleicua 14y ago
Except if Ferraris were also really slow in addition to having bad gas mileage.
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by olleicua 14y ago
I think this quote sums it up: "Do not tell me that “good developers can write good code in any language”, or bad developers blah blah. That doesn’t mean anything. A good carpenter can drive in a nail with either a rock or a hammer, but how
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by olleicua 14y ago
Ruby and Python are increasingly invalidating this argument. Python has some of the best diverse library support of any modern non-Java language. And for web stuff (which is basically all PHP does anyway) ruby is basically there. Yes we
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by olleicua 14y ago
I completely agree. Why has nobody made a WP replacement in rails yet?
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by olleicua 14y ago
The problems of PHP have been well documented here: http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de... I think its relevant that PHP does object and classes in terrible backwards ways and, among other things, a singleton will
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by olleicua 14y ago
I had precisely the same reaction. I'm used to seeing singletons in the context of Java. The reasons to want a singleton pattern seems obvious to me but I would only describe it the way its classically described if I was using a crappy la
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by olleicua 14y ago
Ok, I've read it now and maybe this isn't so bad but I do think walk-throughs have their place. In general I think UI design needs to be more thoroughly explored as a field.
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by olleicua 14y ago
I haven't read this article but I find the title highly objectionable. There is a recent distressing trend in UI design that providing the user with options always makes the UI harder to use. This means taking control away from users and
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by olleicua 14y ago
Consumers are so stupid. Do you really have such little sense of self worth that you'll let yourself be scammed like that?
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by olleicua 14y ago
Seems like cool software (if you're not cool enough to use emacs org-mode). I can see how this would help a novice programmer get to the next level but I keep these things in my head at this point. Once you learn enough about the API of a
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by olleicua 14y ago
I think the first sign that App Store wasn't trustworthy was Apple leaving gcc out of the free version of XCode. I never trusted App Store. I think without Steve Jobs Apple has lost it's ability to pretend it's a decent company. Why does
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by olleicua 14y ago
Really though Apple and Microsoft need to both just accept that they lost the browser war and ship with Chrome or Firefox.

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