IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

every feature ... leaves another possible angle of attack for hackers

Hm, I think the point is that some features are worse than others (larger attack surface, more bugs exposed), and WebGL is particularly bad.

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

Lots of investors own minority parts of facebook. But no outside company owns facebook.

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

It doesn't say which day they'll skip.

I'd pick a Monday.

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

Oh look, it's there near the end in one dismissive sentence, and comes along with two wrong "facts":

1) the household contribution to algae creation is negligible - That would be the good result of this policy limiting the use of harmfull chemical, and not a reason to remove it.

2) the scientific evidence on the issue of algae's effect on fish runs in all directions Piles of dead fish are not a subtle effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone_(ecology)

and the whole thing is filled with this bizarre idea that the sole purpose of governement regulation is to hurt people. I'm sure that there are lots of good, bad and trival drivers of policy, but pure sadism is unlikely to be among them. If anyone wants to understand what's actually going on (ecologically or politically) this article has absolutely nothing to offer.

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

An anoying article. The author rants at length about how evul the gubmint is for banning clean shirts, calls "trisodium phosphate" "a natural element" which cannot be correct chemically correct, and falls for the "natural must be safe" falacy. He totally fails to even mention the reasoning that led, rightly or not, to this chemical compound being no longer used, never mind adding up pros and cons of it.

The first para at wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisodium_phosphate ) is more informative, which is a damning lack of reasearch.

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

If social recommendations didn't work then amazon would have no 'people who bought, also bought...'

The point is, if your business starts off as "we sell books" (and expands to "we sell books and stuff") and you get a lot of users that way, you can mix in some social recommendations on the existing user base and thereby sell more books and stuff.

If your business is "we do social recommendations" you're screwed.

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

I can say I became a Go fanboy in the last few weeks

Go looked to me like a c-language guy's take on very simple OO with a few functional and parallel features. On the whole the API looked terse to the point of being cryptic, which is a throwback to the 1980s.

Can you sell it to me? What's the best part? Is it something that's not in any other language, or some way that the parts combine?

Many other languages have loose, duck typing and a few others (notably erlang) have the lightweight parallelism.

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

have an order of magnitude less number of apps

Past a certain point, that stops mattering. Does iPhone have 1 million apps available, or is it 10 million ? I don't know and I don't care. what I do know is (assuming that I had an iPhone not android)

- 90% of them are crap. Sturgeon's law.

- I would install fewer than 100 of them.

- There's probably an app for it. For any it. e.g. Today I found and installed an app for my local airport, so I can keep track of an upcoming flight.

- There are several good twitter clients, but I'll only install one.

- Between maps, twitter, facebook, calendar, email and angry birds, there's 95% of my app usage accounted for.

And you could say roughly the same for WP7, even if there's only 10 000 apps avaialble.

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

For comparison, I came up with this in C#

  Func<int, int, int> sum = (x, y) => x + y;

I had to specify the type explicitly, could not use 'var' type inference; the error is "Cannot assign lambda expression to an implicitly typed local variable". This is because the lambda could mean more than one kind of thing (delegate, expression tree, Func<>). Yeah, it's c# baggage.

Of course, once the type is known, you could do

  var sum2 = sum;

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

I have no idea how you could tell a dev to wing it, let him work for months with no oversight and then be shocked when he came back with something unexpected.

I hope he's exagerating the examples for effect. It can't really be that idiotic, right?

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

Yes, it kind of failed on "movie times for 'source code'". That's a sentence that's hard to parse without context ;)

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

do you know anyone who doesn't know C but is still excellent at coding/computer-science?

You don't? How parochial. I recommend tht you study a good functional language for a while. It helped me understand coding on a "far deeper level".

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

It got "how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a wouldchuck would chuck wood" right for me. I am impressed now.

But it couldn't handle "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" Maybe I'm not pronouncing it quite right.

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

There is no easy way to see what Android version you are exactly running

Is Menu|settings|About phone not enough for you?

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

Hah, that trumps my example by 200 years. Well done.

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

This is very well explained, but not all that novel. Brian Eno used to generate long soundscapes like this, using loops of mutually prime lengths of time.

Edit: See also -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_1:_Music_for_Airports

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_music

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

I'm also not splitting hairs.

of course you aren't. We know this because you say you aren't. What you are is making a nuanced distinction between what you mean when you say "stores hashed passwords" and what is commonly meant by that.

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

Close. Which is what I don't like about the samples that I have seen in his Go language. Code like "Fmt.PrintF" seems a step backwards to me.

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

Personally, I find "thisVariableIsTheLoopIndex" to be a terrible loop index variable name. But "i" isn't great either. "index" seems to be closer to the sweet spot to me. Or "fooIndex" and "barIndex" if loops over foo and bar collections are both in play. That beats the hell out or trying to parse "i" and j" as indexes over two collections.

The simple rule is that the larger the scope of the variable the longer the name - i.e. the more widely references to the var occur, the further they are from the definition, the more descriptive the name has to be.

IDisposableHero

15 yıl öncediscuss

Doesn't Java have any kind of type inference for variables yet? C# allows you to say

  var foo = new Dictionary<string, int>();

and foo's type is infered as Dictionary<string, int>

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