plastics

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by plastics 15y ago
If your company is put out of business by a feature from a competitor you can not copy it within 48 hours, you do not have a business.
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by plastics 15y ago
They're coming now - or at least soon - e.g. * Vico ( http://www.vicoapp.com/ ) * Kod ( http://kodapp.com/ ) * Chocolat (Alpha) ( http://chocolatapp.com/ ) also don't forget SubEthaEdit ( http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit ) an
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by plastics 15y ago
It's also possible, that real world Ruby applications are - in Japan - generally not written using Rails.
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by plastics 15y ago
Ruby was popular in Japan long before Rails.
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by plastics 15y ago
AFAIK it is pretty common for most universities in Germany to start CS programs with either (S)ML, OCaml, Haskell or any combination of these depending upon the individual preferences of the responsible chair. Java is (was?) pretty common f
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by plastics 15y ago
Or AliceML, its Hindley–Milner typed cousin.
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by plastics 15y ago
I am also quite familiar with the Java (and Ruby and pre iPhone Objective-C) ecosystem and invested quite a lot time in getting proficient with Scala since 2007 but recently got hooked on F#. My experience has been, that the available docum
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by plastics 15y ago
I can't talk for Python, but from my limited experience the Ruby community started to get the submerged in a wave of sub-par developers when Obie Fernandez et al. started to promote the meme, that attending a Ruby/Rails related conference p
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by plastics 15y ago
Ok, I will start to pitch the idea to the best of my abilities and will let you know what came out of it. :)
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by plastics 15y ago
The last time I tried installing Batteries (on OS X) it was a big PITA and it looked like it was dead in the water (this was about 18 months ago). During the same time using GODI to install a xml processing library completely hosed my sys
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by plastics 15y ago
The "Walz" is not for building primary skills (i.e. in our case Software Development or in their case Carpentry). It is assumed that carpenters doing it are already quite skilled in their respective profession. The reason of the "Walz" is t
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by plastics 15y ago
I guess a lot of hacker news reader work in said startup areas. So is anybody willing to give it a shot? I am located in Munich, Germany, not exactly a startup hup, but I have some connections to Berlin and would be willing to annoy my cont
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by plastics 15y ago
What would we need to create one?
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by plastics 15y ago
This guide is the most concise and bginner friendly introduction to an active lifestyle I have seen yet... I second the recommendation... additionally (sad as it is) I think a lot of "professionals" would also benefit from reading it.
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by plastics 16y ago
From what I heard (but I am no expert at all) Japanese culture encourages an extremely sharp (at least from the standpoint of Europeans and I would guess Americans) separation between business and private life, e.g. behavior which Europeans
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by plastics 16y ago
Can't you buy prepaid cards (vouchers?) for the App Store like you can for the iTunes music store? edit: I checked... apparently in principle it is possible if the App can be bought with the same currency as declared on your prepaid Gift Ca
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by plastics 16y ago
The problem with sleep deprivation is that unless you have an objective way of measuring your (mental) performance you're usually not able to realize when it declines, because your're self monitoring capabilities decline as well. A simple t
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by plastics 16y ago
For the "current" standards of good looking and for skill levels attainable by people having a life (and/or job) it would be probably something like that (roughly in descending order): * Basketball (for women tied with Volleyball) * Decathl
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by plastics 16y ago
If Agile is about doing what works for your situation, how is it different from magic pixie dust solving all your problems? :)
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by plastics 16y ago
Considering the amount of money governments are willing to spend on rootkits as compared to more benevolent activities, I suspect that these companies won't stay a minority for long.
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by plastics 16y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fo276/i_wrote_a...
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by plastics 16y ago
Holy shit,according to your chart it is even bigger than C and Java! How did this happen without anybody noticing? http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=F%23,clojure,scala,+C,+Jav... But maybe this is just a result of comparing relative growt
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by plastics 16y ago
> Aggressively cut my calories and started going to the gym 5-7 nights a week... about 40 lbs between Feb and July You consider this a success?
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by plastics 16y ago
Lean Gains is pretty good. I can also recommend Rob Wolf's Podcast - http://robbwolf.com/ he also explains when to be careful with IF.
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by plastics 16y ago
That control and communication are correlated is one of reasons why feudalism became so 'popular' after the fall of the Roman empire.
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by plastics 16y ago
See you there!