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New comment by coopdog in "Things that suck in AngularJS"

coopdog — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:34:09 +0000

GWT on AppEngine (which it has great integration for) has a ten second startup time when not loaded, and on the free tier they unload it when not in use, so that's not the greatest.

I used GWT for a while and it would be great for enterprise and large teams. The static typing which I usually love/insist on though, does seem pretty cumbersome for something as simple as a web page. I've switched to scala play for the back end and lots of tiny angular 'apps' on the front, and it's so much faster to develop for.

New comment by coopdog in "Poll: How do you create the website for your startup or side project?"

coopdog — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 03:01:45 +0000

I've used them all but settled on Themeforest. Yes you can make your own, but why would you when you can choose something that's already well designed for a couple of dollars. Save the design practice for the app itself.

New comment by coopdog in "Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary"

coopdog — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 07:23:43 +0000

I will only buy / recommend nexus phones. Knowing that the phone will be updated quickly and for a long time is worth a premium, rather than being a cash in strat for Google.

New comment by coopdog in "How Seinfeld's Productivity Secret Fixed My Procrastination Problem"

coopdog — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 01:48:55 +0000

And if you miss a day don't forget to say "serenity now!"

New comment by coopdog in "Why I gave up my US passport"

coopdog — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 03:05:33 +0000

Most countries will, if you declare that you are closing up shop and living in anther another country for more than a year, allow you to cease all involvement with that country (including tax, levies, welfare), and then welcome you back as a citizen when you decide to come home. It's just too complicated otherwise.

New comment by coopdog in "How do you fail to make money passively? (Passive Income)"

coopdog — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 11:29:09 +0000

I built a tool for visual interpretation of test results against requirements. It was pretty cool and I'm sure large engineering companies would use it if they knew they needed it.

I learned that you should go niche, but find a niche with a problem that customers KNOW they have. Otherwise you have to educate them before even having the chance so closing a sale, which is too expensive.

I'm backing up and making simpler tools for the domain, this one could become an advanced feature for big enterprise.

New comment by coopdog in "Java to Scala converter"

coopdog — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:05:40 +0000

It's actually all just pointers to data, so when you change something it makes a new node and copies a few new pointers so the new tree is still correct. All of the old data and pointers that aren't changed stay exactly where they are.

New comment by coopdog in "Angry entrepreneur replies to patent troll with racketeering lawsuit"

coopdog — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 23:23:36 +0000

I thought it was interesting that they named companies who'd settled.

It would be interesting to make a site isettled.com where people could leak that a company had settled to trolls. The idea being that you'd have to weigh the cost of fighting the troll against the risk of bringing a flood of secondary trolls. If the secrecy was removed it would start to make business sense to fight

New comment by coopdog in "Most TOR servers are vulnerable (NSA crackable)"

coopdog — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 01:19:56 +0000

So why isn't the repo up to date?

I honestly don't know the answer as I don't deal with Linux repo's much

New comment by coopdog in "NSA can't trust 'brilliant' people, will automate sysadmins"

coopdog — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 07:14:28 +0000

Actually 'I was just following orders' is not a defence. It's every soldiers obligation to question the moral standing of their orders. An illegal order, such as being told to bomb a church/mosque/hospital is invalid and shouldn't be obeyed.

Obviously it's very hard to have the moral courage to accept being bradley manninged (because some orders come all the way from the top), but the obligation to question orders has definitely been established.

New comment by coopdog in "What did the tech CEO say to the worker he wanted to automate?"

coopdog — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 03:45:05 +0000

Maybe I'm just optimistic but she must be able to do something productive. Even if it's sewing toys together for children or making sure the elderly don't fall over. To me that's one of the benefits of a basic income, to help people find their niche, as humble as it may be for some

New comment by coopdog in "Welcome to the United States: Discriminated, detained, searched, interrogated"

coopdog — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 03:08:28 +0000

Doing the checks on landing doesn't address security though (rather than just drugs), so the airport checks are definitely pointless from that point of view. It's to show the public that politicians are 'tough on crime', even if they're not entirely committed to actually improving anything

New comment by coopdog in "No federal challenge to marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington"

coopdog — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:13:25 +0000

The state gets addicted to the revenue, people spend more time looking at their speedometers instead of the road, and the limits keep going down (instead of becoming more realistic) because the 'think of the children' crowd is just as powerful as ever. Source: Melbourne, Australia

New comment by coopdog in "Ask: Stigma of the unemployed - a better job title for a lifestyle entrepreneur?"

coopdog — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:11:13 +0000

Definitely. If it were a dating game, I'd almost go with 'I don't have an employer, I'm really passionate about software though' and leave it there.

girls.filter( girl => !girl.isGoldDigger ).map(_.reply("how about you?"))

New comment by coopdog in " The detention of David Miranda was an unlawful use of the Terrorism Act"

coopdog — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:33:09 +0000

So true, it's the abuses of these laws that really catch the general public's attention, until that happens it's all academic.

And this is a real life example that really strikes home to the heart of all journalists. Short of shutting the entire media down, this can only be a bad move.

New comment by coopdog in " The detention of David Miranda was an unlawful use of the Terrorism Act"

coopdog — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:18:22 +0000

If he was a part of 'overly broad legislation' that 'could be used inappropriately but shouldn't be', then he's an idiot, or naive.

Put specific cases in which the law is applicable into the law itself, and specifically exclude as many applications as you can see that it shouldn't be applied for.

Giving broad powers to police and trusting them, just like trusting any human with broad powers, is a recipe for disaster. But then again we all knew this, I'm glad it's been an eye opener for him.

New comment by coopdog in "Let’s stop the NSA before it destroys the cloud industry"

coopdog — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 06:19:22 +0000

Agreed, for enterprises (who also have the $$) the cloud is dead. Giving your data to a third party is now the same as waving it around it public, thanks to the US government. I had hope for a while, but not after seeing Keith Alexander lie directly to congress with no repercussion.

Good for sys admins, bad for software engineers.

New comment by coopdog in "Meta (YC S13), The Crazy AR Glasses That Aim To Do What Google Glass Can’t"

coopdog — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 01:41:02 +0000

The lazer tag could be incredibly awesome, since you can actually see all the lazers coming at you, and with none of the range and safety issues that come with paintball. You could conceivably play it as a team event in your own office using just the glasses, or scale up to full real-time war simulation with the right cameras and software.

New comment by coopdog in "Two Stories of Passive Income Excess"

coopdog — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 03:56:40 +0000

It must be, especially considering the data is cached in many different countries with varying degrees of oversight.

New comment by coopdog in "Defense subcontractor posted a job listing for XKEYSCORE 2 weeks ago"

coopdog — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 01:56:30 +0000

Or he's just maximising himself in the hire-by-keyword game that inefficient managers/recruiters use.