IMO the sign-off culture would be a problem at MS with or without triads. When you have such a large middle-layer (especially ones with ranks like 'partner' who seem to mostly be faking it) there are going to be loads…
And of course, we can expect that Ballmer will still be around...
Oh I definitely can agree with the notion of renting a car for the edge case. Others have also suggested that families could have two cars, one electric for daily use and the other gasoline-powered for road trips or…
I'm glad you are skilled at being snarky and rude, but it has no place here on Hacker News (or really anywhere). Now onto your post: Writing off something as DOA because of current technologies is not a good argument at…
No one is mentioning Hydrogen fuel-cell cars that have been in trials, such as the Honda FCX Clarity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_FCX_Clarity). Relative to battery-powered fully-electric vehicles, some advantages…
How does the Model S solve the longer trips issue? On a road-trip I might drive 500 miles in a day. The priciest Model S gets 300 miles at 55 miles an hour. And with climate control on that is likely to be less in…
What about for IDE features that are 'non-intrusive'. A lot of the editor features Visual Studio (+ Resharper) or IntelliJ provide don't get 'in my way'. To be honest I can't think of many ways in which tools get in my…
I don't agree that it stops the language from advancing. What is your definition of advancement here, exactly? Lots of successful, productive languages pay attention to tooling as well. I see it as just weighing the…
Out of curiosity, why don't you like the idea of language developers spending time on tools?
I don't think things have to be mutually-exclusive. The article suggests that you have to be in either the language camp or tools camp because of the time-investment developers have to make in either - but in reality…
And yes, we do need to agree at a global level and be willing to pay more for certain goods/services as a result. The entire economic system will just re-balance itself around that, if we as a global society agree that…
The article's headline is inaccurate. From Harvey Anderson's blog post (http://lockshot.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/windows-eu-ballot-s...): "Cumulatively 6 to 9 million Firefox browser downloads were lost during this…
This basically seems like a tax on hyperlinking, which is at the core of the web. Absurd. A Forbes article (http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/10/30/explainin...) explains further that the complaint from…
With all the articles written about all this, I am not sure what the real motivations behind Apple's recent shuffle are. However, I can say that the 'war on complacency', regardless of whether it is applicable here, is…
Disagree - there is nothing rude about this. The thread is not "someone else's" - it exists to benefit the community. I, and others, found these additional leads useful.
I and my family opt-out 100% of the time. Part of it is due to the unknown risks (however low the chance may be), part of it is on principle (violation of rights), and part of it is to have everyone else see in…
Yes, but $69 is for a regular e-ink Kindle. The tablets don't start until $159.
A good read, and more-or-less in line with my observations from working at a couple big software companies. I think there is generally less value in estimating versus doing, especially for tasks/projects that are…
It's much much bigger - the blurb suggests that this is just the "release team", which I am guessing means they manage the release process.
> Similarly, the restriction of the oil supply will drive up cost, drive down usage, and force the economy to grind to an ugly halt. The economy wouldn't necessarily grind to an ugly hault - there is a sweetspot in…
PERM regulations are also quite lax in MANY ways, and companies abuse this in order to be able to hire at a lower wage. For example, labor certification (to determine that there is a labor shortage that requires outside…
I can confirm that this sort of thing is prevalent across the board.
False: http://www.snopes.com/computer/program/stroustrup.asp
> If the objective is to create well-rounded, cross-disciplinary citizens, then no, that is a horrible idea. Why is it that everyone thinks a STEM education means you are automatically not well-rounded or…
IMO the sign-off culture would be a problem at MS with or without triads. When you have such a large middle-layer (especially ones with ranks like 'partner' who seem to mostly be faking it) there are going to be loads…
And of course, we can expect that Ballmer will still be around...
Oh I definitely can agree with the notion of renting a car for the edge case. Others have also suggested that families could have two cars, one electric for daily use and the other gasoline-powered for road trips or…
I'm glad you are skilled at being snarky and rude, but it has no place here on Hacker News (or really anywhere). Now onto your post: Writing off something as DOA because of current technologies is not a good argument at…
No one is mentioning Hydrogen fuel-cell cars that have been in trials, such as the Honda FCX Clarity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_FCX_Clarity). Relative to battery-powered fully-electric vehicles, some advantages…
How does the Model S solve the longer trips issue? On a road-trip I might drive 500 miles in a day. The priciest Model S gets 300 miles at 55 miles an hour. And with climate control on that is likely to be less in…
What about for IDE features that are 'non-intrusive'. A lot of the editor features Visual Studio (+ Resharper) or IntelliJ provide don't get 'in my way'. To be honest I can't think of many ways in which tools get in my…
I don't agree that it stops the language from advancing. What is your definition of advancement here, exactly? Lots of successful, productive languages pay attention to tooling as well. I see it as just weighing the…
Out of curiosity, why don't you like the idea of language developers spending time on tools?
I don't think things have to be mutually-exclusive. The article suggests that you have to be in either the language camp or tools camp because of the time-investment developers have to make in either - but in reality…
And yes, we do need to agree at a global level and be willing to pay more for certain goods/services as a result. The entire economic system will just re-balance itself around that, if we as a global society agree that…
The article's headline is inaccurate. From Harvey Anderson's blog post (http://lockshot.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/windows-eu-ballot-s...): "Cumulatively 6 to 9 million Firefox browser downloads were lost during this…
This basically seems like a tax on hyperlinking, which is at the core of the web. Absurd. A Forbes article (http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/10/30/explainin...) explains further that the complaint from…
With all the articles written about all this, I am not sure what the real motivations behind Apple's recent shuffle are. However, I can say that the 'war on complacency', regardless of whether it is applicable here, is…
This basically seems like a tax on hyperlinking, which is at the core of the web. Absurd. A Forbes article (http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/10/30/explainin...) explains further that the complaint from…
Disagree - there is nothing rude about this. The thread is not "someone else's" - it exists to benefit the community. I, and others, found these additional leads useful.
I and my family opt-out 100% of the time. Part of it is due to the unknown risks (however low the chance may be), part of it is on principle (violation of rights), and part of it is to have everyone else see in…
Yes, but $69 is for a regular e-ink Kindle. The tablets don't start until $159.
A good read, and more-or-less in line with my observations from working at a couple big software companies. I think there is generally less value in estimating versus doing, especially for tasks/projects that are…
It's much much bigger - the blurb suggests that this is just the "release team", which I am guessing means they manage the release process.
> Similarly, the restriction of the oil supply will drive up cost, drive down usage, and force the economy to grind to an ugly halt. The economy wouldn't necessarily grind to an ugly hault - there is a sweetspot in…
PERM regulations are also quite lax in MANY ways, and companies abuse this in order to be able to hire at a lower wage. For example, labor certification (to determine that there is a labor shortage that requires outside…
I can confirm that this sort of thing is prevalent across the board.
False: http://www.snopes.com/computer/program/stroustrup.asp
> If the objective is to create well-rounded, cross-disciplinary citizens, then no, that is a horrible idea. Why is it that everyone thinks a STEM education means you are automatically not well-rounded or…