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Re:Ask HN: Should I use Polymer for my next project? on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @12:09PM (#7971643)
I also had issues with it crashing safari on an ipad
The inkling app lets you buy ebooks.

https://www.inkling.com/

why were they using python for performance critical code in the first place? Go seems closer to java's niche to me.
Re:Test-induced design damage on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @12:49PM (#7668216)
wouldn't a single abstraction over postgres, filesystem, hadoop, etc be either really leaky or really inefficient? different datastores are better suited for certain kinds of queries. It seems like the programmer should be aware of what he/she is querying.
Re:Play, Scala, and Iteratees vs. Node.js and Socket.io on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @02:45PM (#6849589)
I'm assuming that the Iteratee companion object uses implicits to get the client connection. I'd really prefer something more explicit like socket.io's approach.
Re:Rust is not fast on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @12:17PM (#6762620)
The special language syntax is being removed. Its now just a library.
Re:Groovy 2.2 released on Monday November 18, 2013 @04:35PM (#6757234)
It seems like most people are excited for kotlin, but no one is really talking about ceylon which recently 1.0. Im curious why that is, have you looked at ceylon?
Re:Portable Native Client on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @04:49PM (#6721448)
It seems like every time someone tries to replace javascript with a better solution someone has to bring up vendor lock-in. Are we supposed to just live with javascript for eternity? When javascript was introduced it only worked on netscape browsers than other browsers adopted it later. It wasn't made a spec until later.
Re:Portable Native Client on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @04:46PM (#6721426)
How is this proprietary? Isnt there an open spec?
Re:Web Framework Benchmarks Round 7 on Friday November 01, 2013 @09:09AM (#6653381)
Then send a pull request
Re:Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @10:02AM (#6598764)
I've heard this argument from people refusing to install packages that depend on haskell too. I don't get it, 294mb is a trivial amount of space nowadays.
Re:Multi-tenant Java 8 VM in beta on Thursday September 19, 2013 @09:31AM (#6411454)
I think java 8 gets rid of permgen
Re:Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @01:44PM (#6329120)
why even use EC2 then? It would be much cheaper to use any other hosting provider.
Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months on Friday August 23, 2013 @12:25PM (#6264555)
not to mention loading up the OS with a ton of crapware and free trials.
you're not factoring in the advertising money they're missing out on with digital downloads.
Re:Hyperloop Alpha [pdf] on Monday August 12, 2013 @05:34PM (#6202190)
I have taken a 40min commuter bus everyday for nearly 2 years and I never had to get off early to use the bathroom.
Re:Will Ubuntu Edge commit to using only free software? on Thursday July 25, 2013 @03:39PM (#6104514)
Not to mention binary blobs are at least slightly more free than having the firmware built in to the device, which the FSF doesn't object to.

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100614#feature

I consider Separation of Concerns, Dependency Injection, and TDD to be basic software engineering principles. Sure if you have a mostly static page with a few dynamic components jQuery will work fine, but with a larger project that you really need to consider a more maintainable architecture.
Re:Google Unveils The New Nexus 7 Android Tablet on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @01:02PM (#6097357)
I assumed they meant "WiFi only models"
Re:Impressions of Go on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @01:16PM (#6091419)
But since you have to use casts you are giving up some advantages of static typing, right?
Re:Stunned by Go on Thursday July 18, 2013 @02:24PM (#6065450)
Does Go not provide method overloading? Couldn't they have 3 versions of the copy method?
Re:Larry Page addresses PRISM on Friday June 07, 2013 @05:20PM (#5842000)
unless you assume the NSA has the root SSL certs.
Re:Let people pay you. Make it easy on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @11:00AM (#5564841)
But then you have to pay stripe's transaction fee. Why not use something like venmo that is free when you use it with ACH?
Re:Using AngularJS at Localytics on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @12:21PM (#5526099)
The first one requires a global method. The angular one is a method that is tightly scoped and easy to test.
Re:Announcing the Netflix Cloud Prize on Thursday March 14, 2013 @01:27PM (#5376380)
So if you're adding tests to an existing repo do you have to copy the whole repo first instead of doing a pull request?
Re:This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again on Thursday March 14, 2013 @12:42AM (#5373132)
I don't see why this has to be perfect. I know a lot of people who live off of potato chips, cookies, and soda. Surely this diet would be better than that.
Re:This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @07:52PM (#5372007)
I don't understand why everyone on this thread is making it seem like this impossible. I feed my dog the same food and portion every single day. He is lean, muscular, and full of energy all day. We're both mammals, how different could it be?