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If you try building a realtime single page app using Meteor and measure the amount of time it took you to complete it, you'll find that the hype is justified.

How would it go away? Ellen Pao's going to appeal against the verdict which will lead to Kleiner-Perkins being in the news again.

I read this book a few years back and while I found it quite interesting as a story, I did not glean any major insights from it.

It most likely has to do with my own ignorance about philosophy, but all I got from the book was that the author hates Aristotle and rigorous classification. And that quality is a more important property than morality.

Thanks for the link. I already have a pretty decent setup, but I'm always looking to improve it. Trying it out now.

Emacs with Evil mode is the best editor ever. For pure text editing capability Vim can't be beat, but it lacks some niceties like ability to run shells, an integrated package installer etc.

With Emacs and Evil, you can get the best of both worlds.

I was referencing vayarajesh's comment, not hnnewguy's.

OP is a term that's been used thousands of times in discussions posted on HN, the same can't be said of hashtags.

> Why is it bothering you?

I'm not the OP, but it bothered me too. It goes against HN's general discussion style.

Simply donating money isn't the most effective way to change the world. Who knows how the charities spend the money?

In an ideal situation, the CEOs themselves would run the charity, like Bill Gates. Of course that is not possible in a majority of the cases.

There are plenty of legitimate products out there to promote, but those Acai Berry/Weight loss rebill offers were really shady and one had to have absolutely no moral compass to promote those. Even newbies knew that they were flat-out scams(for the customer).

You would see marketers justifying these products by saying that the customers were suckers for not reading the TOS or that nothing was wrong with rebilling(citing Netflix,which is totally different; people knew it was a subscription unlike with these shady stuff) and stuff like that. It was amazing the lengths people went to fool themselves into thinking they weren't ripping people off.

If you can't beat them, join them! Of course your comment was meant sarcastically, but I wonder if authors(of genuine books not the spammy ones) might turn to posting fake reviews and justify it by saying that they have no other choice.

We can see this happening in the case of SEO with many white hat sites employing black/gray hat techniques simply to maintain their current positions in Google.

It's always a cat and mouse game however. Once they employ machine learning, I'm assuming the spammers will adapt and create reviews that fool the algorithm(though at an increased initial cost).

It could simply be a case of disillusionment at Tesla. Also Apple employees are known to leave Apple, either to start a company or for a sabbatical but then go back to working at Apple once they're done.

Perhaps they are good enough for the stage the company is in. Not all startups need highly-skilled developers when all they're doing is build CRUD apps.

The article's passive-aggressive tone is overbearing. Why can't they simply present the evidence, say they are very disappointed with the YC company for stealing their design and be done with it?

Isn't that a big setback for adoption though? The world is moving to multiple-cores, albeit slowly.

Can Pharo/Squeak programs utilize multiple cores? Last I checked, they used green threads and there weren't any plans to add true multi-threading.

The main process or any parent process can be made to not block by spawning sub-processes that handle an entire group of child processes , so I don't see how that is a problem.

No actor-model based language has this problem, so perhaps all it comes down to is baking in the right(or even any decent) concurrency support from the start, at the language level.

> Where would you look for a Mac freelancer?

Odesk and Elance. Only hire people who've worked on multiple projects and have high ratings. There are plenty of talented people out there.

> For the record the Yosemite issues are the most glaring ones.

I commiserate. Apple's arbitrary decisions on what APIs are deprecated in newer versions must be really frustrating for developers. One of many reasons I shy away from creating desktop applications.

I think there's another option. You could hire a freelancer and have him/her fix the bugs and get it working on Yosemite. Depending on the complexity of the code, this may or may not be feasible.

SlimRom's another nice ROM that has Lollipop support. I'm using it on my 2 year old Galaxy tab 2 and apart from a few minor bugs, it's running fine. SlimRom supports a good number of devices too(most samsung devices and almost all flagships), although not as many as Cyanogen.

Yeah, it's all brought to us by the friendly PHP folks who found it to be so dog slow they had to write a compiler to get it running at a decent speed. Further, they found the semantics so flaky, they actually wrote a statically typed variant on top of it, just because they're stuck with PHP.

Looks like they've got the war-chest ready to defend against future lawsuits when they get into markets that actually take IP laws seriously.

Their hardware's actually decent, but they shamelessly ripoff Apple. They could have gone the route of providing the same hardware with stock android and getting treated like a credible company. Instead, they ripped off iOS wholesale.

> I'm always slightly bemused at how quickly people feel the need to rush into the next operating system.

The difference with this release is that it's a pretty big UI overhaul and some developer features such as storyboards for Mac aren't available on older versions. People who develop for the Mac or iOS have little choice but to upgrade.

I've been running Yosemite since DP 1, and haven't had any major problems yet. There are minor annoyances, but on the whole, Yosemite's feels like a step up over Mavericks(after using it for a little while). Although I should mention that I have a pretty beefy computer with 12Gigs of RAM and a decent graphics card.

There's bureaucracy outside of government?

This seems like the most plausible reason. I'm curious why he didn't sell it off before he left to work at Apple. Perhaps he didn't have the deal ready yet.

Yeah, it would have been better if the article went into detail about its use of the term "invariably". I don't know if the author was just loosely using the term or if he actually meant that she was habitually late.

Still, I don't see that as "unacceptable" behaviour. It's something to be frowned upon for sure and it would be great if she could be punctual all the time, but being the CEO of an incredibly large and diverse organisation, she could be forgiven if she was late due to some other meeting or work-related issues.

Also, remember she's getting only about 4 hours of sleep everyday and practically lives at her workplace, so I doubt she's being late on purpose.

Depends on the reasons why she was late and if they were legitimate or not.

> Ah, you mean the flavour of the month?

That's a bit unfair. There are many mature(upwards 5 years of continuous development) UI components for javascript. Charts, Visualization, Data grids, UI Binding and pretty much anything an application would need are taken care of by some high-quality JS libraries.

Sifting through the various libraries to find one that fits the application is vastly preferable to having to write it by yourself.