trips2 · HackerTrans

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No, no, no. No problem with your opinion. You can love Apple if you want. I just struggle to understand how you and others can see Apple in the light that you do, and be blinded to all else. I mean, the value to me is the data and the fact it's online. The database itself. I have my own systems for manipulating the data the way I want it (I would think most HN nerds would have similar skills, but maybe not). That's just me. Others seem to love things because they are produced by some popular company. And for no other reason. I just can't really understand it. These are computers produced in Chinese factories. Getting cheaper everyday. Data can be visualised in myriad ways.

Call it like you see it. Minds may differ.

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So is GV consistently approaching startups that are already being funded, i.e., making offers after the project has had a little time to mature?

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Maybe he works for Apple, they're his main client or owns lots of stock or something.

The Apple worship is truly mind-boggling.

OpenStreetMap is where the crucial data comes from. And if I'm not mistaken it's submitted by volunteers.

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This is like trying to tell people to stop typing

   cat file|program1|program2

instead of

   program1 file|program2

It is futile. There are so many examples of programmers just doing mindlessly stupid things, often because "everyone else is doing it" or they read some "howto" they found somewhere, or they are using some library written by someone else.

How many times do you think people use extended regular expressions and backtracking when it's entirely unnecessary? They often have no idea that there is even a simpler way that will work (in some cases it might be faster). They think more complexity is actually making things "easier". Must have PCRE. Why? "Because I can't get basic regex to do what I want."

Let 'em enjoy their complex regex. Until there's a problem and they have to try to decipher what they heck it's actually doing.

PEG is fine. Lua has a good PEG library.

Still, a good handle on basic regex will take you a long way.

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Vimeo is a pain though. It does not work well without Flash, as does YouTube. player.vimeo.com/config/12345678.smil will give some mp4 url's but they require the request to come from their swf or some other annoying impediment. Not everyone always has a super fast connection or uses Flash all the time. With YouTube that's not a problem. With Vimeo, it is.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=whatever

Is that not encryption? Or maybe he means make that the default?

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