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CmonDevon Three new papers examine fears that machines will put humans out of work

> ...most people in Africa still live in proverty. Not to mention the fact the childhood proverty has increased in america.

When you over-produce something, it loses it's value.

CmonDevon Experiences Using Go as a Teaching Language with Young Programmers

I am glad I graduated before that. It is easier to learn a dynamic scripting language after you have learned a static one. Many types => single type.

https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/dynamic-lan...

CmonDevon Every 30 minutes Windows 10 sends all typed text to Microsoft

Not to defend them, but in modern world my assumption is that everything I do on the machine is recorded by someone. As long as my bank account is not affected, not sure I care.

CmonDevon “It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed”

That would be about enough to hire about one person (providing there is profit sharing on the horizon).

CmonDevon Building a desktop application with Electron

Win developers could just stick with C#, F# and XAML and see the whole mad circus pass by :).

CmonDevon Change Your Name

Well, that's 13M that you don't need to give back personally (unlike some bank loan). And .com is pretty important for a site like that. Fb.com is even better though.

CmonDevon Change Your Name

What about https:\\ though?

CmonDevon 3-D Printer Firms Fall Flat, as Buyers Wait for New Models

Also delivered not within next 5 minutes.

CmonDevon 3-D Printer Firms Fall Flat, as Buyers Wait for New Models

100% Something like this, but cheaper: http://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/products/3d-printing

CmonDevon Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”

It's like app store 20% get the 80%. The subj article was focusing exclusively on 20%. Let's hear the "dad bod"'s story.

CmonDevon The mobile web sucks

Yes, documents should not pretend they are apps.

CmonDevon The mobile web sucks

Let's be honest: web is crap period. Ever since people came up with the crazy idea that documents can somehow be scripted into applications.

CmonDevon The mobile web sucks

No, Apple is funding them behind the scenes anyways (based on their reviews).

CmonDevon How India tried to ban porn and failed

Why would they want to ban it? If anything it would result in an increase to population.

CmonDevon Alan Kay – Normal Considered Harmful (2009) [video]

Most of those JS libraries are same MVC/MVP/MVVM done over and over again.

CmonDevon JavaScript is the C++ of the Web

"Mozilla and Google are already working on WebAssembly"

She picked her favourite companies, I guess :). The reality:

"The team working on WebAssembly includes people from Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Apple" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly

CmonDevon Matchstick to refund everyone's money

Their fault for dealing with Firefox OS.

CmonDevon The Unemployable Programmer

He probably wants to be a developer rather than a support though.

CmonDevon Nokia’s Here Maps Sold for $3B to Audi, BMW and Mercedes

They failed to release to Windows Phone, though.

CmonDevon Show HN: Print iconic patents for your walls

Can you add the best of Nikola Tesla section?

CmonDevon Postcards from the east: on the art of everyday communist life

It was not a communism, it was a flavour of socialism. Just like China, Sweden and USA.

CmonDevon Windows 10 upgrade resets your default browser to Edge; Mozilla is very unhappy

Why not? Look at how Google is proactively preventing Microsoft from delivering a good YouTube experience on WP: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/7/4813836/microsoft-reverts-...

All weapons are good in the war for clueless users, the experienced ones will find their way.

CmonDevon Firefox for Windows 10: How to Restore or Choose Firefox as Your Default Browser

Can they also release a guide on how to switch to a different scripting language in Firefox away from the default of JavaScript?... Oh, I forgot, developers don't deserve a choice.

CmonDevon On how Jet.com chose F#

Where are all the wonderful .NET github repos written entirely in F#? They sure do like writing about F#.

CmonDevon On how Jet.com chose F#

As compact. Most of type errors will shift to compile time, instead of blowing during runtime. Profit.

CmonDevon On how Jet.com chose F#

Python/Node/Ruby/JavaScript

Yeah, but those are scripty dynamic languages that many developers don't like.

CmonDevon The Programmable Typewriter

He also designed the game Minecraft had heavily "borrowed" from.

CmonDevon [dead]

Developers thrive on strict dress-code. I guess Dilbert works at HP.

CmonDevon [dead]

> "Wafers are in production please stay tuned for future product updates."

Yeah, yeah, call me when it's ready and available. Right now it's vaporware.

CmonDevon A Woman Finding Tech Jobs for the World’s Poorest People

> I grew up believing in meritocracy and the American dream.

Well, that's the very definition of outsourcing!

> "... benefit the most vulnerable people in society ... They want to live in a country with a strong middle class..."

Let's ruin the previous middle class with outsourcing and replace it... With new one? What's different - the colour of the skin will be "better"?

> "A lot of people are happy to give money ... city of San Francisco, bastion of liberalism, were more innovative when it comes to how to spread the wealth."

Why are labor/liberals always about taking/getting money from people who earn it and giving it to people who don't?