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It's fun? A lot of people build things for fun, you wouldn't tell someone building a table not to do it because we already know how to build tables.

That's how I do it, it works great that way. I didn't actually set up the gh-pages as a proper submodule, I just cloned the branch to a folder. Then I added the gh-pages folder to the top level .gitignore.

Go might have had less marketing than Java, but it still had a decent amount of support. There were several high quality promotional videos when it was first released. The web page is really full-featured; it has a ton of documentation, including translations for several languages. And all those appearances at tech conferences take time & money (and I'm sure that Google sponsorship helped to secure some of them).

All that stuff adds up in terms of manpower and budget, and it's out of reach of what a small independent team can do. It's not all about technical merit.

There's no crime there. People have the right to say offensive things in the privacy of their own homes. Other people have the right to disagree with the first people, and to even voice their disagreement. What's the problem?

I just happened to see a thread about that. Apparently it will work fine on JVM/Android/iOS since those targets use Java bytecode. It won't work on HTML5/Flash since those use the original Java source.

http://groups.google.com/group/playn/msg/c01cb315ec4dc8f5

GoFlow.com is a site about sailing, this site's at http://flowstateengaged.com/

You are correct, but it's still fun to speculate wildly.

There is a cost to voting on Reddit, it's the time/attention cost of moving your mouse over and clicking a tiny button. Sometimes you even have to log in! For people browsing a web site, time & attention is a significant currency.

It's true that karma is a flawed as an economic system or a measure of contribution. But, who cares if the numbers are theoretically unsound? The end goal is to generate usage, something which Reddit has been extremely successful at.

If you start depending on reflog just remember that changes in there are subject to garbage collection. Commits can be permanently deleted after they are 2 weeks old (by the default settings), so that's how long you can depend on them staying alive in the reflog.

Of course you can always give a branch name or tag to any commit to keep it alive too.

There's nothing about the US's past behavior which suggests that we're afraid of pissing off friendly countries. :) We're a bunch of international bullies, basically.

It's kind of surprising how flat the curve is. Even the "worst" major choices still have plenty of people that make it to the 1%.

Of course, nowhere from this data can we conclude that your choice of major has an effect on your future financial success. Just that there's a correlation.

That talk gets quoted pretty often, but it's a bit silly for Hoare to take all the blame/credit. Null references were discovered, not invented. They are so easy (from the point of view of someone implementing a non-functional language) that they were inevitable.

Maybe you could argue that it was the right approach at the time. But deciding that the data doesn't matter anymore is not cool, you have to take care of your paying customers or else you lose credibility.

Another interesting case is Quake 3 which used a hand-written stack based VM. They don't introduce much of a performance hit when used wisely.

I tried just hitting "Grade it" and got this reply:

> Oops, looks like we found 0 errors in your code. Try again and click "Grade it!"

So I guess that means I passed?

(After reloading the page it seemed to work better)

NaCl is nice and all, but it's better to have something that works perfectly fine on top of Javascript/HTML5, rather than only inside NaCl.

This story occurs a few dozen times a day in the valley, but I guess when it's a cute young girl, it's newsworthy.

I don't get how NaCl can be a tool for controlling content, when it's easy to convert an NaCl app into a native app that can be downloaded and run at will. You can't really have Microsoft-style dominance over a platform when users can leave you as soon as they are slightly annoyed.

Not to mention that NaCl is open source BSD-license, so, yeah.

Wait.. why is raganwald replying to raganwald?

There's one here:

https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl/blob/master/neo/idlib/Hea...

Surprisingly there's not a lot of platform-specific cruft in that code. The Xbox version of Doom3 must have been a separate code branch.

how come I went through a Facebook warning page when I clicked the FancyPants link?

Anyone that uses a check cashing business or accepts a bad loan is probably doing it wrong too, but that doesn't stop millions of people from doing those things. Regulating that kind of thing is a good idea. To be fair though, I don't know enough about Groupon's terms to say whether the comparison is fair.

Side note: TechCrunch got back to doing real news. Good for them!

Maybe, maybe not. It's a real challenge to hire the good software engineers, but a good engineer can be extremely productive (the old 10x efficiency thing). So, if you are one of the good ones, you can probably do a lot more good with your skills than with money.

Put it another way, anybody can throw money at the problem (and a lot of people do). But not many can write algorithms that efficiently work on terabyte data sets.

Great quote:

I came to think of it this way: Google doesn’t have enough irrational people working there, and the rest of the world doesn’t have enough rational people occupying it.

There's dozens of existing ways to have public posts that people can subscribe to (twitter, blogs, mailing lists, etc). In contrast there's not many places that let you share information the way Circles does. Kinda lame that as soon as people jump on Circles, they just want a rehash of the same features you can find anywhere else.

> That wouldn't end the deficit, that would just ensure the deficit was 0 the day before elections.

I think that's the point. Short-term borrowing is sometimes a smart idea, as long as there's a real plan to pay it off. The idea would be to only discourage irresponsible borrowing.

> This same logic, if we allow it to be applied to the deficit, could be applied to other things.

I think it's fairly uncontroversial that having unpaid debt is bad and should be avoided.. so it's not too similar to issues that are actually controversial.

This is good, I think people are close to realizing that the term NoSQL is silly and practically meaningless. In a few years we'll all have a good laugh about it.

It sounds like it's still pretty dangerous even if it's not "interesting".

As far as propogation, it could definitely be effective, it all depends on how interconnected the graph of Skype friendships is. There have been many nasty worms which travelled across AIM friend lists, for example.