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Corvette Z06 can do 0-60 in ~3s for $80k

I also had issues with it crashing safari on an ipad

The inkling app lets you buy ebooks. https://www.inkling.com/

why were they using python for performance critical code in the first place? Go seems closer to java's niche to me.

wouldn't a single abstraction over postgres, filesystem, hadoop, etc be either really leaky or really inefficient? different datastores are better suited for certain kinds of queri…

I'm assuming that the Iteratee companion object uses implicits to get the client connection. I'd really prefer something more explicit like socket.io's approach.

The special language syntax is being removed. Its now just a library.

It seems like most people are excited for kotlin, but no one is really talking about ceylon which recently 1.0. Im curious why that is, have you looked at ceylon?

It seems like every time someone tries to replace javascript with a better solution someone has to bring up vendor lock-in. Are we supposed to just live with javascript for eternit…

How is this proprietary? Isnt there an open spec?

Then send a pull request

I've heard this argument from people refusing to install packages that depend on haskell too. I don't get it, 294mb is a trivial amount of space nowadays.

I think java 8 gets rid of permgen

why even use EC2 then? It would be much cheaper to use any other hosting provider.

not to mention loading up the OS with a ton of crapware and free trials.

you're not factoring in the advertising money they're missing out on with digital downloads.

I have taken a 40min commuter bus everyday for nearly 2 years and I never had to get off early to use the bathroom.

Not to mention binary blobs are at least slightly more free than having the firmware built in to the device, which the FSF doesn't object to. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issu…

I consider Separation of Concerns, Dependency Injection, and TDD to be basic software engineering principles. Sure if you have a mostly static page with a few dynamic components jQ…

I assumed they meant "WiFi only models"

But since you have to use casts you are giving up some advantages of static typing, right?

Does Go not provide method overloading? Couldn't they have 3 versions of the copy method?

Yep, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Harman#AIPAC_controversy

unless you assume the NSA has the root SSL certs.

But then you have to pay stripe's transaction fee. Why not use something like venmo that is free when you use it with ACH?