tendom

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by tendom 12y ago
Oh, of course. It's okay to kill migrant workers, as long as I don't create pretty products. Apple is like any other company, it doesn't matter how they paint themselves. What matters is the peoples lives that are being ru
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by tendom 12y ago
Looks good.
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by tendom 12y ago
Records and retention is a large part of my current project. It permeates even the lowest levels, and it's practically impossible for the narrative to occur. I say practically impossible, because there is always some way some idiot c
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by tendom 12y ago
Bullshit.
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by tendom 12y ago
It would be great to post an image of what this looks like in a couple code examples. I've been working on this as well, primarily because I haven't seen a syntax that gets it right, usually it's rushed or sloppy, and some j
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by tendom 12y ago
> A more pessimistic outcome is that powerful AI arrives before we've really thought through the moral and ethical issues, and it possibly destroys us, or is developed and exploited by military interests to who knows what outcome. B
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by tendom 12y ago
I'm good with options, but I like the way Lua is, as it is. I don't really accept that types are needed for safety in my games, or any application I've used Lua (okay, almost exclusively games). What would be the use cases
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by tendom 12y ago
It's a bold claim, but I haven't seen anything to back it up. I haven't tried all the apps made with the framework, but I haven't seen too many heavy apps that would require the power. Every game is a puzzler of some s
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by tendom 12y ago
I agree, there are more than a few features I'd like to see C# adopt from this, and that's a big one. Proper string interpolation is another.
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by tendom 12y ago
Ruby isn't fast enough, and it would chew battery on a phone and make some apps impossible to do correctly. Ruby is a great language, it's my favourite hands down, but all that sugar comes at a cost. Even in ruby, we often use c
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by tendom 12y ago
Scala, yes, but not C++ at all. Indirectly from C#, perhaps (and there is a fair bit of that), but there is very little that borrows from C++ at the language level.
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by tendom 12y ago
Thank you, you made my day. Though in truth, I'm not very brave, I'm single, without wife, girlfriend, or kids, or anyone really depending upon me. And I work for government because I got tired of making rich men richer. I&#x27
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by tendom 12y ago
That was a calculation, assuming that they would loose more in the suit than in opening up it's patents, this isn't the same at all, though it is a direct response to the question.
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by tendom 12y ago
I'm not sure what the global numbers are at right now, but Microsoft and Google have roughly 30% each in America.
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by tendom 12y ago
I write sites for a government, and I most certainly write code to standards, then to aria, and finally pick apart any IE weirdness. This has been quite the fight over the years, but if we want to be considered professionals and called eng
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by tendom 12y ago
Well, I pay $83 a year for prime, I just don't get anything special for it.
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by tendom 12y ago
Wooohooo, yet another amazon prime thing that isn't offered to Canadians. Considering we pay more, get "2 day shipping" which is actually 3 days because Amazon cant' seem to do math, and get no other services, and Amazo
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by tendom 12y ago
Well, the bulk of the governments today can be classified as Democracy, Monarchy, and Constitutional Monarchy. On the whole, if we average the types of government, you'll find that Constitutional Monarchy actually has a higher middle
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by tendom 12y ago
Well, I think this is not the case in practice, only in ideal. Russia is democratic by definition (far more so than China is communist), so is almost all of South America, at least a third of Africa, most of Europe, and several Asian count
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by tendom 12y ago
None of this is about democracy, but the freedoms of the constitution and a less corrupt system than some other countries. Corruption still exists heavily in America, but it's primarily focused on money and lobbies and whatnot.
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by tendom 12y ago
Not an expert, but reasons I've discovered over my career: 1. Because words take up a significant amount of space. On mobile, icons improve the experience. 2. Words in other languages can destroy layouts, meaning customizing style
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by tendom 12y ago
Can you give an example where Microsoft has been innovating? Innovation mean 'novel change' and I've not seen anything outside Azure that was even the slightest bit novel. Balmer was not a risk taker, but the Azure and VS t
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by tendom 12y ago
America won the digital age, but the post-digital age will be won by whomever builds the most progressive laws into privacy and digital rights. America is at risk right now, and although momentum carries (hence why we even talk about Micro
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by tendom 12y ago
I'm new to HN, but are you new to the internet? Saurik knows a few things about iOS, google him.
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by tendom 12y ago
No, because you can set up a honeypot knowing this password, and then mirror your input to the sites you visit after I collect your information.
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by tendom 12y ago
I love the idea, though the paranoid security conscious developer in me is really worried about the security for average users. I'm not worried about the individuals opening up their routers, there is always a risk, but that can be mi
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by tendom 12y ago
I dunno, the whole fast casual movement seems to be catching on here. And most of the fast casual places are catering to people who want a fast meal but with real, fresh, non-processed ingredients. My rule would put a lot more focus on th