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New comment by camus in "Kanoa won’t ship its $300 earphones to customers who pre-ordered them"

camus — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 04:17:34 +0000

> You have to know, anything crowdfunded is very high risk.

People who ordered from Kanoa's site directly didn't "crowdfund" anything, they "pre-ordered" the headphones. They weren't gambling on Kickstarter. So what risk are you talking about? It has nothing to do with risk, it is fraud.

> I'm amazed some unscrupulous company has't abused it to take money with no intention of ever delivering a product.

there are plenty of million dollar fraudulent projects on Kickstarter, they don't care, they have only their reputation to loose.

New comment by camus in "The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBook Pro"

camus — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 00:25:25 +0000

> The touchbar is a problem looking for a solution. For the premium they charge for it I fail to see how it returns its value. Perhaps this was innovation for the sake of innovation, but I don't see the touchbar having a prolonged lifespan. Sooner or later Apple is going to come to the realization that they need a touchscreen on the MacBook.

IMHO the Surface Book from Microsoft is a great idea with a beautiful design but poorly executed [1]

I would have expected Apple to come up with this kind of product and phase out both the Macbook Air and the ipad. The Macbook + touchbar seems so half baked I'm not sure why Apple thought it was a good idea.

1: http://www.thespectrum.com/story/life/features/mesquite/2017...

New comment by camus in "The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBook Pro"

camus — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 00:14:22 +0000

> The touch bar will evolve into a touch screen keyboard.

Have you ever tried to type on a touch keyboard without looking at it?

New comment by camus in "Go, REST APIs, and Pointers"

camus — Fri, 30 May 2014 10:49:23 +0000

So you mean patch operations should be atomic right?

New comment by camus in "Lenovo shows new Android laptop in user manual [pdf]"

camus — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:08:18 +0000

I'll never get ChromeOS. An Os where you cant install anything is useless. Want to use webapps? use a browser,at least on Android I can develop "native apps",run background processes. Tell me what can do ChromeOS that Android cant do? All google services are on Android.

New comment by camus in "Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?"

camus — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:00:58 +0000

most ORMs have a query language too, it's not just "Linq". Orms are good for development purposes and you can always do raw SQL queries within ORMs at some point.

New comment by camus in "Report: 110 people own 35% of Russia's wealth"

camus — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:56:16 +0000

Would you want to live in Russia or China?

New comment by camus in "Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?"

camus — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:53:39 +0000

First thanks, Coffeescript saved me days of work.

But I can understand , because it's popular , some people feel like they are forced to understand or learn it.

Yet you can be proud that Coffeescript influenced the latest ES spec, that's all that matters , you pushed Javascript forward, by saying "Dont wait for other to make the stuff you need, do your own stuff and eventually people will wake up and adress your intial issue".

New comment by camus in "Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?"

camus — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:42:27 +0000

My point was speed of development deployement,but you're not smart enough to get it whatever language you use.

New comment by camus in "Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?"

camus — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:35:55 +0000

Classes without any kind of type checking are worthless imho. I would have prefered implicit interfaces instead of classes.

New comment by camus in "Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?"

camus — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:42:59 +0000

Why people dislike ActionScript ? we are talking about the language , not the Flash Plateform. As a language ActionScript is what Javascript should have been ,strict enough for large scale programs , dynamic enough to be written fast. Flash is the plateform and the framework , actionscript is the language. I dont really get that hate for ActionScript.

New comment by camus in "Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?"

camus — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:35:56 +0000

Last week i had to create an Android App generator that takes a json manifest and generate Java Models,ContentProviders,activities,resources,unit tests for each Sqlite table in my app = 4/5 hours of work in PHP. days of work saved each time i need to bootstrap an app.

This week I needed a command line script that optimizes image files for different form factors = 30 minutes of work in PHP

I needed the first script to be available to my peers so they can generate basic android crud apps through a web app = 1 hours of work/deployement on an apache server and no need to ask the sys admin for another server.

My point is you can hate PHP all you want it is a great tool that has its place in enterprise envirronement.

New comment by camus in "Report: 110 people own 35% of Russia's wealth"

camus — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:06:14 +0000

Irrelevant! these wealthy russians stole anything they could,they did not create any wealth.

New comment by camus in "If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy"

camus — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 05:58:03 +0000

Between writing less code with a text editor and writing loads of verbose code with a powerfull IDE i'd chose the former. How much text processing would you write in Java vs Python/Ruby ? This is a no brainer for me. Dynamic languages have their advantages,though i find Scala to be a good compromise.

New comment by camus in "If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy"

camus — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 05:31:14 +0000

But Android doesnt run on the JVM, it is not JAVA the plateform.

New comment by camus in "If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy"

camus — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 05:28:57 +0000

Scala is awesome but not a scripting language. Running Scala as script is insane as it takes 1 or 2 seconds to start the JVM/Compile/Execute a fairly large Scala file. You dont want to use that on your server for scripting purposes.

Ruby,Python or PHP are more suited for scripting tasks(especially Java code generation,i'm writing an Android app generator right now,since i was tired of all the boilerplate : json+php script = Activity classes , resources files , ContentProviders generated in less than 0.2 seconds no matter how many tables I need for my apps,saves me hours of work).

New comment by camus in "If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy"

camus — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 05:03:30 +0000

doesnt matter,the jvm takes a lot of resources which is problematic is some situations.raw speed is nothing without the memory footprint or AAA games would be written in java.they are not for a good reason:lack of direct memoy management.

New comment by camus in "If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy"

camus — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 04:45:23 +0000

MSFT could shut down Mono anytime it wants.How many business use mono (to build web apps) in production?

Scala,Groovy,Xtend,etc... there is enough languages on the jvm one doesnt have to use any MS related tech.

New comment by camus in "NodeOS: a "hacker-friendly operating" system written in Node.js"

camus — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 19:03:47 +0000

node is a mashup between v8 and some C/C++ libs,with a javascript interface. It's not really a framework , i would say node is closer to nginx than rails for instance.

New comment by camus in "SQL Fiddle"

camus — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 18:36:07 +0000

it's the HN effect , one should better web scale before linking one's work ;) nice site though.