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by tophat02 15y ago
One thing that really impressed me is that they didn't try to reinvent the wheel with their contracts. Good examples are the $PORT environment variable and sending all logs to stdout. It takes design maturity to do the wise thing instead
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by tophat02 15y ago
I've never understood this argument. I mean, yes, I get that all you're doing is moving the energy production somewhere else; but isn't that a GOOD thing? My response to the "you're just moving" argument is that you're doing more than movi
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by tophat02 15y ago
I swear, one of these days I'm going to write an IDE that doesn't look like it was made in 1992. I may be a techie, but gosh darnit, I'm spoiled by iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. I want the stuff I'm using every day to LOOK nice. (No offense
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by tophat02 15y ago
The last paragraph is by far the most profound thing in the article.
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by tophat02 15y ago
I had this, err, idea! Congrats for doing what I wouldn't do and implementing it. Perhaps I should have just put the idea on CaptainObvio.us and let someone else implement it ;-)
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by tophat02 16y ago
This shouldn't be an issue, but I'm afraid it is: it still looks like a late-90s OS. That should be a top priority for the Haiku project.
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by tophat02 16y ago
The current Iridium looks like it has focused its marketing to the segments that actually make sense: maritime, explorers, and military. But the infrastructure is up there and, sure, a bunch of people lost a lot of money, but it's THERE now
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by tophat02 16y ago
Most of my emails are short. When I must write a long one, it's usually because it includes technical content. In that case, I do this: Bob, I discovered why the frobnostication terminal was slow and submitted a fix. It will be QA'd tomo
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by tophat02 16y ago
My personal opinion: if you can REALLY do what you claim then you should get every country's equivalent of the CDC working with you to MANDATE that this be part of every phone, and then of course you get the revenue from IP licensing. In fa
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by tophat02 16y ago
Do this on one of my teams and I'll fire you that day. I KNOW it's a hack. That's why I asked you to hack it in! Do you think I like it?
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by tophat02 16y ago
Jesus!
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by tophat02 16y ago
I've never heard watched him speak before this. It's cool because you can tell he's a genuine geek at heart.
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by tophat02 16y ago
You've got folks who'll offer to tweet the content of your choice to 10,000 followers for 5 bucks, or put something in front of their 5,000 friends on facebook. That kind of thing. You get what you pay for, but it might be worth five bucks
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by tophat02 16y ago
Whenever I buy a stock I think of various "trigger points" that would make me sell it (or, at least, start to sell it). If I owned RIM stock, this would be such a trigger point.
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by tophat02 16y ago
I wonder if there's any more "social" that could be put into GitHub's already "social" platform. For example: I always thought it would be nice to have a forum system (separate from the issue tracker) so that each repository could have a d
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by tophat02 17y ago
No problem: take the same technology, rebrand it have a "business-oriented" name, make a different landing page, then sell both versions.
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by tophat02 17y ago
Did anyone else pretty much guess the problem areas as they were reading? As soon as I read "users will insert the pre-roll into their own videos before uploading" my mind went "ruh-roh!" I think it was a great learning experience and he w
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by tophat02 17y ago
I don't know about the rest of you, but the moment I turned 18, this kind of assault on my privacy by my parents would have been completely unacceptable.
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by tophat02 17y ago
Isn't this the same guy who said "the network is the computer"? The cognitive dissonance is staggering.
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by tophat02 17y ago
Do NOT bite your lower lip!
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by tophat02 17y ago
That and probably as a pun on the D language. I'm sure Walter Bright just LOVES the name. /s
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by tophat02 17y ago
Make something YOU want. Hope you're "most people."
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by tophat02 17y ago
Why not lend only to people who have already shown that they can handle money? In other words, why not mandate large annual fees for credit cards and VERY high down payment requirements for mortgages? And yes, in fact, I AM suggesting that
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by tophat02 17y ago
EXACTLY. It's not that radical. Sad to see ieee drinking too much Kool-Aide.
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by tophat02 17y ago
I like this idea, simply because the world needs a place for radicals to be radical. Sure, there may be a lot of crazy floating cults, but there will probably also be some great advances from societies free of today's regulations and taboo
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by tophat02 17y ago
But don't forget the part about "without due process." I think that in the future, we will definitely see the use of technology like this to read the minds of accused felons. I also predict the court will declare this perfectly consitutio
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by tophat02 17y ago
Agile(n): a buzzword used preemptively on a project to remove accountability when things inevitably go wrong.
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by tophat02 17y ago
Perhaps the people who do the "best research" in compilers/languages simply suck at marketing. Also, and I know this might be a heretical thing to say... maybe the ideas just aren't that good.
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by tophat02 17y ago
Software Engineering would progress a lot farther as a discipline if we weren't so preoccupied with throwing out the "old" to make room for the "new". My definition of "legacy" code: code that is field-tested, has a low defect rate, and gen
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by tophat02 17y ago
Before the idea is out in the market, then I'd say that vision is slightly more important than execution. BUT, once it's out there and it's clear people want to buy it, then vision takes a back seat to good, solid, competent execution. How

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