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>That's not entirely true. The MeeGo org was a mess. Obviously you have an inside perspective that I don't, but from the outside it just looked like y'all made an amazing phone. :)…

> They built tablets and phones that were very interesting for people who want to add Debian repos to their phone. Did you ever use an N9? It was nothing like that. The 770 tablet,…

> Then the phone market changed, it became a battle of software. Nokia wasn't a software company, they didn't understand this new market and culturally couldn't deal with the chang…

They're not done yet. But they've slowed the bleeding tremendously, gotten out of unprofitable businesses, actually shipped the damn OS (instead of farting around with demos and re…

Oh he does. Just only while the VCs are writing checks. ;)

> There're way too many developers who read links from HN and try and push the javascript framework of the weak on everyone at their job without fully comprehending the consequence…

FOSS != GPL. I've written plenty of stuff under the BSD license which has been distributed with and without modifications in tons of commercial products, rarely with source. Totall…

> What's the advantage of that as opposed to the 'standard' java way of doing immutable via 'final'? They're not really comparable. This is code generation for builders, getters, e…

> Wasn't that Blackberry's line? Yes, and years later BlackBerry is still around, with a CEO that's almost finished reversing the damage the previous ones caused. I get your point,…

Oh, I think the idea is plenty neat. It's how it's ended up in JS that I'm not a fan of.

I wasn't responding to the parent poster directly, but rather addressing some comments I've heard in meatspace. Sorry I didn't make that clear!

> 1. why did you get out of the file host business or why were you glad to? Handling abuse complaints, wrangling bandwidth spikes, etc. ended up taking way more time than I wanted …

> I find most people who have gripes with JS prototypes are the ones who are used to classical inheritance. Counterpoint: Scheme/Lisp/FP fans also don't tend to like it. Myself inc…

> Are there any index funds that track the entire market? Wouldn’t investing in all companies solve the problem of index tracking? Yes, there are funds that try to match the entire…

> Nicotine is directly harmful to your heart. Yes, but it's worth noting that the increased risk of heart disease from smoking is due to more than just nicotine.

A long time ago I ran a file hosting service that almost exclusively served one particular "fringe" community (for some reason it got really popular on one site and spread from the…

> So you still need tools and tools programmers. You might not have an entire team building an editor, but you need something (and it's very easy to build custom editor tools insid…

> I think that game studios have the right model: Hire full-time tools engineers and task them with making the tool-users more effective. That's one approach, but it's not always t…

Which one is snake oil again? Well... cod liver oil, actually. And that would be here: http://store.chriskresser.com/ Frankly, I wouldn't put a whole lot of faith in either.

Great response! There's also the lovely condescension that I can't help but sense when someone tells me why writing code every day shouldn't be as fulfilling as it is. That's a big…

For me the big win with 80 is that I can easily do a side-by-side diff in my IDE without needing to expand the diff window at the expense of the outline, package, and other views. …

There's a middle ground though. On my team, the long-standing rule is that you need to make a best effort to stick to the module's existing style. So we're not gonna bust your ball…

Yeah, I'm not sold on "fewer characters" as a win. 'cause then we can have the code golf arguments that inevitably get into the nutty realm. For visual parsing, consistency matters…

Hmmm... I wonder if there's potential to use this concept for video. Not this implementation, naturally, but the concept. I'm a little too sleep deprived to think through this enti…