MrBuddyCasino

Interesting - does the motor run all the time, or in intervalls?

Read your article and found it extremely interesting - I guess that puts me in the 'clueless' category, though I'd like to think of myself more as a technocrat.

True, there is a negative connotation there - maybe using that term was a mistake. There certainly are huge variations in baseline skill depending on location and line of business. I was thinking of t…

Exactly. By definition, most developers are mediocre, and thats okay. Platform stability and limiting complexity is really important in the long run, so (luckily, imho) C++ and Scala are non-starters.

Java hits a sweet spot of simplicity, platform stability, safety and performance. Also, its popularity in the enterprise is partly because interchangeable, cog-in-the-machine low quality developers…

Yep, that used to be one of the main reasons to have DI in Java. But now that everything (even static methods) can be mocked, that reason is no longer valid. Is this not possible in .NET?

previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3888638 related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3336584 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6…

Not sure why downvoted, vector clocks are an interesting alternative. Its just that they won't fix your log timestamps or kerberos clock skew errors.

> 3. Aircraft pilot and flight engineers This was very much unexpected.

I agree, multi-layer gluing and pre-made ground planes would probably work. The big issue is how to connect the layers, I don't see how to do vias either. Maybe there will be a symbiosis of this …

Nice, I like that it uses commodity printer hardware - inkjets have a really high resolution nowadays, and they claim that 0.4 mm BGAs still work, which is usually out of reach for the typical DYer an…

Sorta related: Larry Wall on programming languages (incl. js) - surprisingly sane, insightful and funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR8fQiskYII …

Can't tell if sarcasm or serious

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7803855

With Chrome on OSX I can see what he means - "new" (but already cached) pictures still flicker, the old ones do not. So it can't be caching.

Thanks for the detailed reply. One nitpick though: I've recently learned that .NET apps created for version 1.1 - 3.5 do not run on .NET v. 4.0+ - as a Java developer that was kind of surprising…

That is an interesting quote: “It [the skimmer] will immediately disrupt those wishing to operate via Russian ATMs: A majority of the BINs [Bank Identification Numbers] of Russian banks are hardwired …

I've used Visual Studio, XCode, Eclipse and IntelliJ - the thought that Visual Studio is the unchallenged king of them all never crossed my mind. Honestly curious - what makes it the best in our …

But then where would we get most of our sigint from, if not from the NSA? Its not like we have those capabilities ourselves. But I agree that Germany is starting to look a little.... foolish, but ther…

Ironically, he may well have put in the 10,000 hours practicing those skills - fashion, looks and charisma certainly take time to master.

The 10000 hours rule might be bogus, but the examples given are unconvincing. Sid Vicious not being able to play bass well means just that - hes not good at it, probably because he didn't practis…

The Patriot was so overhyped and yet so bad in practice that Israel went and developed its own missile interceptor system (Iron Dome), because they realized that from the claimed 80+ % success rate, P…

I absolutely agree that the main issue is that the system can't be improved by competing concepts. The development model is really important - what started as a private hack became a designed-by…

I fully agree with your distinction of selectors, properties and values - not all parts of CSS are bad. When you say "property values should be the results of expressions in a pure functional lan…

Thats pretty impressive! I mean its a BBS with more than 1.5 million registered users, for gods sake. Also there is some creative ASCII art in there, go check it out.

I get what you mean, but lots of languages have seen limited popularity due to their unfamiliar or odd syntax (e.g. lisp).

In case anyone missed the Java results, I do think it is worth mentioning that it is very competitive: "Our fourth result is that Java imposes a speed penalty of 110 to 169 percent. Given the sim…

My impression too. Tried 8rtacks, but the limited skipping and the terrible ui put me off. It seems they are now redirecting all playlist URLs to daily.songza.com though - can I still access them in s…

I know that, but that doesn't prove anything. - If Dorian was the real Satoshi, he would of course have used his 'real' account to try to disprove the claim. - If not, the only to way t…

Still seems fishy to me. The real Satoshi could have proved that he couldn't be that guy (using the blockchain or something else), but he didn't.