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Re:Moore Curve Voronoi Animation on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @11:43AM (#42117101)
That's hypnotic
Re:Rewriting Rust on Friday September 27, 2024 @09:44AM (#41670356)
From the examples he's mentioned, it sounds like there's quite a bit of [bike shedding] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality) in the process for RFC's in Rust. That's a problem when you've got lots of smart people trying to help.
There's a bit of irony in reading a text about printed vs. digital text in a digital text.
Maybe it's not "AI delay" that's dampening demand. Maybe people just don't need a new phone.
Re:The Continued Trajectory of Idiocy in the Tech Industry on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @11:56AM (#41581493)
Because it's not often apparent where useful innovations will come from. If we could predict in advance what will be useful and what won't, we would surely save a lot of money and effort but life isn't that easy.
Re:The Continued Trajectory of Idiocy in the Tech Industry on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @09:50AM (#41579737)
Thing is, ultimately, some of these technologies may yield useful innovations.

NFT's are the biggest load of speculative garbage to come down the pike in years but in terms of smart contracts (which may have some use) they're not total garbage.

AI is in the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" portion of the hype cycle but that doesn't mean it will never yield anything of value.

The Tech Industry isn't really unique in our chasing the latest shiny object behavior. Anyone recall when 3-D TV's were going to be the next big thing? The consumer electronics industry was practically salivating at selling us new TV's every couple of years.

Re: on Monday April 01, 2024 @09:48AM (#39894152)
Just a little something for April 1
So am I missing something here? If they think Zuckerberg is so damaging to the company why don't they sell their stocks and invest in a company they feel good about?
Re:Why .NET? on Monday December 14, 2015 @11:35AM (#10731998)
It's hard to take anyone who's building new .Net applications on C# very seriously. F# is about 1,000 times better--as evidenced by the fact that the C# team themselves are stealing features from F# left and right.
Re:Facebook eats Googles lunch by 2012 on Friday April 29, 2011 @09:21AM (#2497229)
I'm thinking about $1.3 Billion or so in 2012.

http://www.talkandroid.com/29769-googles-android-os-could-br...

Re:Facebook eats Googles lunch by 2012 on Friday April 29, 2011 @08:42AM (#2497134)
Oh good--post a link to your own poorly-reasoned blog post on Hacker News. Terrific--there's 5 minutes of my life I won't be able to get back.

1.) I'd be a lot more inclined to take your opinions seriously if you would take a moment to spell check your work before posting it. It's not that difficult really--use Chrome or Firefox--spell checking is built in.

2.) <sarcasm> You heard of this phone OS called Android? I hear it's really starting to catch on. I think it's somehow related to Google. But they'll never catch up to Facebook's smart phone OS--what's it called again?

Yep Facebook is bound to eat Google's lunch any day now. Because Google is staffed by a load of incompetents who'll twiddle their thumbs while Facebook nimbly beats them to death. </sarcasm>

There's nothing insightful or worthwhile about your blog posting. Don't waste your time. More importantly don't waste my time by linking to this poorly-reasoned, misspelled tripe on Hacker News.

Re:Nerds in Mourning: A friend, father, and founder leaves us on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @04:07PM (#1862100)
Anyone who would flame you for writing this would be a jerk--not worth worrying about.

I am sorry for your loss. It sounds as if the world has lost a decent person who used his gifts to give something back.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Commercial Users of Functional Programming - Michigan

A few of us that are interested in the practical commercial application of functional programming ideas are meeting to discuss our common interests and learn from each other. We're organizing under the umbrella of the Commercial Users of Functional Programming organization (http://cufp.org). If you're interested, we're meeting June 24 @ 7 pm at the Troy Community Center in Troy, MI. More...

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