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Re:GLASS: Gemstone, Linux, Apache, Seaside, Smalltalk
on Saturday July 19, 2008 @06:52PM (#250948)
GLASS, truly a name that connotes rock-solid system architecture.
Re:Donate to help a MySQler
on Saturday July 19, 2008 @06:10PM (#250928)
Of course. I was merely making the point that it's manipulative. Not that it shouldn't be.
Re:Minimalism (computing)
on Saturday July 19, 2008 @12:32PM (#250700)
Yea, good thing we never have to sell software to people who don't care how elegant the code is...
Re:Who's Going to Fund the Next Steve Jobs?
on Friday July 18, 2008 @03:36PM (#250123)
I think only western culture can produce someone with that kind of boldness and lack of humility.
Re:Donate to help a MySQler
on Thursday July 17, 2008 @11:10PM (#249414)
So you're saying they didn't intentionally compose this picture in such a way as to increase the likelihood that people will donate?
This is not hacker news. There are lots of kids out there who are in just as much need of help. This one just happens to have a father who works on an open source product.
Re:Donate to help a MySQler
on Thursday July 17, 2008 @09:53PM (#249361)
Wow, that picture is really manipulative.
Re:8 Mathematic Tattoos You Need to See
on Thursday July 17, 2008 @01:08PM (#248727)
Right. Because a tattoo becomes less idiotic of you use equations instead of skulls or random chinese characters.
Re:Ask HN: what language should I learn next?
on Thursday July 17, 2008 @12:36PM (#248678)
Exactly. For maximum outsourcing utility you should learn Kannada or Tamil instead.
Re:Documentation or death (or: the rise and slight drop of rails blogg...
on Wednesday July 16, 2008 @03:55PM (#247910)
This could be the best-written, most well thought out blog in the history of the internet, but I will never know because I can't get bast the title.
Re:Linus Torvalds on security
on Wednesday July 16, 2008 @03:29PM (#247881)
It is possible to speak your mind without being crude and callow, actually.
Re:Linus Torvalds on security
on Wednesday July 16, 2008 @02:18PM (#247797)
Is it a job requirement for tech super geeks to have the maturity of a high-school kid?
Re:Coolest 2GB ThumbDrive Ever
on Wednesday July 16, 2008 @11:15AM (#247631)
I didn't downmod you, but I believe your post is being downmodded because it has no content.
Re:In the Basement of the Ivory Tower
on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @11:07PM (#247292)
The classic nurture side of the nature vs. nurture debate. The problem with your argument is that it's simply not backed up by evidence. There are plenty of cases of children who grow up in virtually identical environments, yet go on to have widely varying interests. My brother and I grew up experiencing basically all the same stimuli: same parents, same TV shows, same music, same magazines, same everything. As adults we couldn't be more different.
There's more to this picture than just stimulus response/valuation/categorization.
Re:I Finally Understand Closures
on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @07:17PM (#247164)
Why are there so many of these "I finally understand [cloures | pointers | misc CS concept]" posts? I mean these are pretty fundamental concepts that any first year CS student should be able to grasp pretty quickly.
Re:IBM's eight-core Power7 chip to clock in at 4.0GHz
on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @01:24AM (#246400)
Didn't they get the memo? You're supposed to add more cores now instead of clockspeed.
Re:Why you should never be a startup girlfriend
on Sunday July 13, 2008 @06:38PM (#245370)
Again, spoken like someone who hasn't lost someone. You may become progressively less likely to let any given person become that important to you over time, but losing someone truly important really doesn't get easier.
Re:Why you should never be a startup girlfriend
on Sunday July 13, 2008 @01:39PM (#245228)
Only people who haven't really lost someone say this kinda stuff. The pain of loss eclipses all the good parts of having loved by a large margin, in my experience.
Re:The Shaggy God - Richard Stallman in Boston Magazine
on Friday July 11, 2008 @10:22PM (#244230)
He's taking credit for Linux now? wtf?
Re:When I Thought I Was Smart
on Friday July 11, 2008 @03:46PM (#243922)
"i still think i'm smart, actually."
Not smart enough to use proper capitalization, it seems...
Re:Algorithm to detect the photoshopped Iranian missile launch
on Thursday July 10, 2008 @08:13PM (#243073)
Because the copied rocket actually came from another photo. The original analysis showing it copied from the adjacent rocket was wrong.
Re:Ridiculous Small-Business Plan Encouraged By Friends
on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @11:18PM (#241968)
No. No no no no no no. Please no Onion on the Hacker News front page.
Re:Free & Proprietary
on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @11:17PM (#241967)
Proprietary software is never better.
Re:Spartan Programming
on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @09:37PM (#240630)
Geez. Please tell me these pun threads are not spreading here from reddit.
Re:Richard Feynman on The Value of Science
on Monday July 07, 2008 @08:09PM (#239360)
Feynman in action: http://youtube.com/watch?v=HKTSaezB4p8
Re:Kill Your Users Table
on Friday July 04, 2008 @08:22PM (#236681)
LOL
Re:LinkedIn Architecture
on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @01:54PM (#233220)
It's really not that hard to just type "site:news.ycombinator.com <search terms>" into google. Just sayin...
Re:Top ten essential Emacs tips
on Saturday June 28, 2008 @07:02PM (#230817)
1) Use vim instead.
Re:Flash on iPhone would be a huge revenue leak
on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @06:30PM (#215396)
I don't think non-hacker types even know what an interpreted language is.
That was actually my point. When someone doesn't know the technical meaning of a phrase, they generally assume the literal and broad meaning of it. The target audience for the original blog post presumably falls mainly into that category.
And just because something is not of particular interest to you doesn't make it anal nitpicking that "does nothing to further discussion."
Re:Flash on iPhone would be a huge revenue leak
on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @04:31PM (#215266)
I don't think anyone is claiming that Java is an interpreted language. The claim is that "interpreted language" to most managerial, non-hacker PHB types means "a language that at some point during execution requires interpretation."
Re:Flash on iPhone would be a huge revenue leak
on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @04:09PM (#215227)
The difference is that binaries contain instructions that map directly to hardware operations, whereas bytecode is interpreted by a binary. The interpretation is an intermediate step that doesn't take place when a program runs on bare metal.
edit: Of course, it would be possible to build a machine that actually executes JVM instructions directly. It would also be possible to build such a machine for JavaScript, but if someone asks you whether JavaScript is an "interpreted language," the answer would still be affirmative, even if there are cases where it's not true.