lucian303

fucking a that's a total shitfucking clusterfuck

I can't think of a more worthless and demoralizing idea. Not all bugs are created equal, thus the measure is inaccurate.

It's not about etymology, it's about people adopting silly phrases for common terms that already exist simply to try to appeal to emotion. Rockstar developer? Really? Would a Boy Band Developer count?

If you want to do that, go write fiction. If you're as adept at writing in the English language as Anthony Burgess or James Joyce, you can feel free to even make up words as you go along, not just new uses for existing words.

All good points. It would be interesting to see the different JSON implementations in different languages benchmarked. As far as static vs. dynamic, both have their pros and cons.

Really? Another static vs dynamically typed language argument? Not this year.

FIY is an acronym. Your turn.

Exactly for that reason.

Yes, it is, although most developers I've met I would say are introverts. Of course, that's just anecdotal. :)

It's not a fact, it's my opinion. AFAIK, there is no definition of "introvert" or "extrovert" by which to divide people up. But you certainly don't build software standing and talking by the water cooler. That's my experience in the industry anyway. (Unless your build process is running while you stand and talk by the water cooler).

That is, IMO, the nature of introversion. It is a myth than introverts cannot or hate social situations. While everyone is different, I can speak only for myself. Small talk is the bane of existence. If one has nothing of essence to say, one should shut up. Otherwise, I will find a way to politely (or not) move away to something of interest.

I can hold a conversation about software development topic X for probably hours with plenty of energy, yet another conversation about the weather for two minutes drains me more than the former.

You bring up a good point. Curation (filtering) has been quite a huge problem for quite some time. While I do think that traditional publishing houses provided this, they did so at the expense of great writing. So it was far from a perfect system. A lot of crap got and still gets published and a lot of good content doesn't.

I wish I had an answer for it. I tend to look at the music scene, specifically electronic, for a relatively successful model: the DJ as filter (curator). I'm not sure that such an equivalent can be achieved with movies let alone books.

I do think a lot of it will have to come from self promotion and word of mouth (whether by actual mouth or electronic) will become more and more important. It's already almost impossible to navigate the Kindle store if you don't know what you're looking for and that goes for other similar services (Amazon Prime Streaming, Netflix, Hulu, etc.). For example, Netflix ratings in my experience are pretty decent indicators of the quality of most movies, so for some crowdsourcing the value of media may work. (You need a good algorithm and a large enough data set of rated movies.) Others may choose to go more with suggestions from readers whose taste they trust.

What I'd like to see is literary reviews that are accessible to the common reader and that do not assume that you've read the book. This is similar to a lot of the book/movie criticism out there, except for the last clause which is imperative for finding a good book rather than analyzing an already read one.

That impact is quite disputable.

"But its impact this year was indisputable." Really? How much profit or even revenue did it bring in. Because in the end, that's all that matters. Digg committed suicide by algorithm and feudalism.

Yeah, predictable three ... now four years ago. Zynga and the rest. Can you say bubble burst when FB finally goes down?

Mountain bike. It's SF. And Trek makes some of the best.

This and their re-hauled (for awhile now) UI to a horrible mess that is almost impenetrable even by seasoned UI/UX developers is most likely due to a shortage of good engineers willing to go down to Los Gatos every day. I told them, one day a week, but big companies like this never learn till they're on the brink of collapse and it's too late. coughBlockbustercough

And you confused yourself. This thread is about JSON support in GO.

json_decode() without the second param or with it as false will create an object for you that is typed, loosely only if you mess with it afterwards. So what is the advantage other than speed? If I'm CPU bound, then yes, it's worth a look just as many other alternatives are worth a look. But that is a whole different issue.

I have to check it out. However, if the book really does argue from a utilitarian POV, it fails right there. Utilitarianism by itself is hardly the basis of any human's thought. Otherwise we'd all be vegans thanks to Peter Singer's "Animal Liberation."

Still, I'm not going to take Wikipedia's take on it. Thank you for the first book recommendation of the new year.

Me too. The problem is that extroverts are seen as the norm in most societies and since introverts, while usually contributing a lot more, are not as well viewed.

It's the high school popularity contest over and over again (especially in the US).

The tables have and are still changing however. Those extroverts need their Facebook, Twitter, whatever to survive.

We build those systems for them.

Who's in control now?

And some do both. To limited extents. As in, I can take this much recharge from people and this much from my alone time. It's really a matter of numbers, although the numbers are variable over time.

As a writer, I absolutely agree. It's also not new advice. As in hundreds of years old.

or Guy Kawasaki

Entire history, yet published in the early '90's?

Let's face it. Had Steve Jobs not returned, Apple would have been bankrupt by y2k.

Bullshit is an art indeed.

Does it matter? His title was "evangelist." Like John the evangelist.

Where's your church Guy?

Feel-good books about programming from an "evangelist." Yeah, just confess your sins and accept Apple/Whatever as your savior and you'll be a great programmer.

No prior programming knowledge needed.

$999,999,999 for the 2 hour seminar.

Thanks Mitt, but I think we've had enough.

Traditional publishers are worthless when it comes to e-books that the author can market himself. Distribution is taken care of so only marketing/advertising is left and that can also be taken care of by a competent author.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

"We actually don't have a good gifting tradition yet for e-books," says Sourcebooks' Raccah. Despite all the advances in reading technology, physical books are still the best Christmas presents.

Yes, that is sad. Or even lending (looking at you Amazon!). Nevertheless, e-books have done to publishing what mp3s and online video has done to the record labels / movie studios.

It's basically killed them, yet they are still running around with zombies waiting for that headshot to put them down for good.

E-books are here to stay and publishers, just like record labels, are useless as one can now establish a firm and successful marketing campaign mostly through the web.

Self-publishing may not kill e-books by publishers but has killed not only their monopoly, but also their whole business model.

Welcome to 2013. Accept it or zombify. Or better yet,

die;

Indeed. Well put.