markokocic

Every language is small compared to C++. And keep in mind that Rust is still very young, and if simplicity is not a goal complexity can skyrocket before Rust reach 1.0 state.

I wanted to write Wuala. That's what you get when you have autocorrect enabled on Android phone.

Mingw _is_ native gcc on Windows. Even more native than Visual C, since it doesn't need additional c runtime redistributable, like msvc needs.

Take a look at Ayala, it matches all your points except it isn't Google.

Maybe because those same articles are trying to portray Edison like a genius inventor, which he clearly wasn't.

Tesla was the genius inventor, Edison was "just" a great businessman. There's nothing wrong with being great businessman, but don't try to present him something that he wasn't.

It's true that sometimes the best tools are free, but there are a lot of organizations where you are not allowed to use even those free tools as they are not approved by some legal or IT department. The fact that those tools are free doesn't make a big difference for BigCo types of organizations.

The headline is a "little bit" misleading. I first thaught it is about Omgpop owner refusing to sell to Zynga for $210M.

Why so much sympathy for Loic, and not for people being laid off? Loic will be fine. He didn't burn his own cash, he burned VC and angel money. And given that he already has success track record, his reputation will not be damaged too much.

I hope those 18 guys were working for market salary, and not for some equity/options schema.

Otherwise, it's 18 more people that learned the hard way that it doesn't pay taking risks and salary sacrifice if your are not the one that makes decisions, and will avoid working for startups in the future.

Sure that modern lisps are not that similar with original McCarthy lisp. It's where that "gets better over time" kicks in.

You are right. You cannot patent something that has already been published elsewhere.

You can't. This page would count as prior art.

Since Lisp is one off the oldest and arguably (one of) the best, it's true that languages get better over time.

> Go is designed for large codebases, which is a problem that the author may not have, and so he may not see the benefits.

If Go is really designed for large code bases, then IDE support for go with code browsing, refactoring, debugging and profiling would be developed in parallel with the Go language itself.

Since Go IDE support go only as far as petty Vim and even pettier Emacs modes, I couldn't call go "made for large codebases".

Let them hand over to youtheir stake in your startup, and find other cofounders / employees.

But you still sit at work 50 hours, or you go home after 30 hours?

It's true that I'd rather go home after 30 hours instead after 50 hours, but it's also true that I would be bored to death just sitting at work and doing nothing those extra 20 hours.

Well, I don't agree with the author.

Why would it be ok for Yahoo and other big companies to use patents "only" to threaten small shops and keep the status quo?

Let them fight between eachother, let Yahoo sue Facebook sue Gooogle sue Microsoft sue Apple sue HTC sue Samsung sue Sony sue Oracle sue ... let everyone sue everyone else. Let the total war on patents begin. Let the big players burn a ton of money on pointless legal battles. And then, and only then, they might push for a patent reform which will level playing field for all players, including new ones.

Did they provide pricing information yet? I played with it in the past, and it seemed like an interesting solution, but wouldn't invest too heavily in it because of pricing uncertainty.

Native Clojure in Clojure?

Pure inertia. Over time, a lot of people were using LAMP stack, and they continued to use MySQL for familiarity reasons.

Also, MySQL got commercial entity behind it in its early days which promoted it a lot. In addition, it worked an all platforms, including windows, while Postgres was there just in last couple of years.

Sorry, but fake facebook account isn't worth that much. YMMV.

Facebook now requires your phone number in order to register. Have a way to use fake phone too?

Sorry but this is insane.

The real question is why is IE allowing Facebook, Google and others to bypass its privacy controls? Maybe beacause IE is not that secure. If your software have security problems, please fix those problems instead of complaining that others are exploiting them.

Ok, how is it different to mailing list with nice looking subscription page?

Looking at your (minimalistic) page, I can't see a reason why should I give you my email and click "sign up". Some more info about service, guest preview of what is offered might make me interesting, but one page with one image and subscribe button will not.

There is a difference between inventor and assignee.

Typically, inventor is a person or group of people that acutally invented something, while assignee is "the owner" of the patent that can use it fro protection, lawsuits, etc.

Noone can change inventor, but assignee can sell patent and reassign it to someone else.

> I don't buy these discussions about how it is Apple's fault. It's not.

Does Apple provide application level permissions system where users can see what permission application require, and where users can choose if they will grant application permission the right to read address book or choose not to install it?

If Apple doesn't do this, than it's Apples fault that it didn't sandbox applications enough in order to protect its users.

As any other rule, 80/20 rule has to be broken if it doesn't apply to current situation. No rule should be obeyed blindly.

I don't understand what is the problem. I installed Ubuntu multiple times just to uninstall Gnome and install KDE as a first step after install. Never bothered to actually try KUbuntu.

Is this method of installing KDE still supported, or they are dropping support for KDE completely.

Gentoo had slightly fresher packages (I was running ~x86). But, arch packages are in principle more stable. I haven't had any major breakage with Arch for a few years now, while with Gentoo it was a norm to have breakages every month until I finally switched off.

I don't believe some people are willing to sacrifice sleep for a long periods of time in order to "do startups". The sad thing is that we even have to discuss if it is bad or not?

I was running Gentoo before. In Gentoo, you could configure everything up to the smallest details, and you had the system that worked exactly as you want it too. The cost was frequent recompiles and a bunch of time lost playing with the things.

After I swithced to Arch, I found it much easier to configure, and it required almost no maintenance. It is a great balance between ease of use and full power.