laureny

> The main reason Angular JS will fail is because it’s difficult.

I'm glad good scientists don't stop studying something because it's difficult, it would have sucked for quantum theory.

Seriously, though, that's the argument? A technology will fail because it's difficult? Hopefully the OP meant "overcomplicated" or "I tried to learn it and it was beyond my ability", but saying that something will fail because it's difficult is just stupid.

Besides, even if Angular were to fail overnight, right now. The download sites go dark, the team is disbanded and starts working on something else, I'd argue that Angular has already succeeded by showing everyone a new way to tackle single apps and how to structure Javascript applications.

Having said that, I'm pretty sure Angular is going to be around for quite a while.

> This is such an unfair move

Which unfair move?

Google could have gone ahead and hire these people anyway. Nothing prevented them from doing so except their decision to not risk angering Jobs.

Also, the page wants to use my microphone, did anyone try to speak to it?

$30 for an e-book? Seriously?

Can't say I'm excited about this. I can't see a single positive thing coming out from a non gaming company buying a game focused company (and an extremely promising one at that).

> one can say what one will about Amazon (and there are certainly many reasons why I believe the future is not AWS's alone), but AWS services do not have a trust issue.

... so far. Trust is fragile, it only takes one incident to completely take it away. Just because AWS hasn't faced such an incident so far doesn't mean they never will. And when they do, they will be at the same level of trust as Google. It can happen overnight.

Similarly, there is really no guarantee that Amazon won't decide to shut down AWS at some point in the future for some reason. The two companies are really on an equal footing on these two points.

Which is why I think the reasoning "GCE is not seeing traction because people don't trust Google" is flawed. There are several possible reasons why GCE is not growing fast and Google is slowly addressing them one by one.

Don't discount them, and don't think for a second that their competitors are magically immune to the flaws you are currently seeing in Google's offer.

> The Clojure community (I'm at Clojure/West as we speak) is full of people who (a) are really good, like top 1%

Says someone part of the Clojure community. How does it feel to be one of these top 1% developers?

This kind of attitude is why the Lisp community has had a terrible reputation for five decades.

> You could argue that, but you'd have to be pretty deluded to think anyone would believe you.

It doesn't matter, courts need to prove you're guilty. My point was that this sentence in an email doesn't get the prosecution any closer to that goal.

> Aw... Eric Schmidt. I suspect Larry and Sergey would have done a couple times better

A couple of times better than what? Being multi billionaires and leading one of the most powerful and most respected companies in the world?

Most experts agree that picking Erick Schmidt as CEO was instrumental to Google's success.

> > Then Eric Schmidt says: > I would prefer Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later > How does someone this stupid rise to such a high position of wealth and influence?

What is stupid exactly?

Saying "We should discuss this verbally so we don't risk to get sued" is not illegal. It's not even acknowledging doing something illegal. You could even argue in court that you are explicitly taking an action to not do something illegal.

Flash will be dead when web game companies (e.g. Zynga) stop using it.

It's still years away.

Fair enough about the HR person (who probably acted in fear for their job), but how often does the co-founder of a very successful start up get put on leave within 24 hours of an article published on Techcrunch?

> We know we have to take action and have begun a full investigation. While that’s ongoing, and effective immediately, the relevant founder has been put on leave, as has the referenced GitHub engineer.

Pretty much a full admission that everything that Julie said is true.

This is great news, but putting these people on leave seems to be too nice. It's clear that these two people obey ethics that are in direct oppposition to the healthy growth of the company. Surely they don't want them back?

> The founder’s wife discussed in the media reports has never had hiring or firing power at GitHub and will no longer be permitted in the office.

Why did it take a Techcrunch article to reach this decision? Didn't anyone at Github see anything wrong with that founder's wife doing what she did, according to Julie's statement?

> GitHub has grown incredibly fast over the past two years, bringing a new set of challenges. Nearly a year ago we began a search for an experienced HR Lead and that person came on board in January 2014

Doesn't appear so. They did get an HR person, but an experienced one? Not a chance. No experienced HR person would have let any of that get as far as it got. That HR person should probably be put on leave or be fired as well.

> Chris Wanstrath > > CEO & Co-Founder

This narrows down the choices: the "founder" who is the cause for all this drama is either PJ Hyett or Tom Preston-Werner.

I doubt it, Google went public in 2004.

Being rejected at an interview at Google means you have a one year cool down period. You can try again then (or they might call you back themselves).

> While there are many users, gamers in particular, who shy away from Apple's buttonless offerings

Many? I have yet to come across a single person who likes any of the Mighty Mouse models that Apple produced. They are all reviled and considered some of the worst mice that were ever created by a hardware company.

Steve Jobs was no genius, he got a few things very right and quite a few others very, very wrong.

> If there is a choice - it is better to place your bet with the company whose main business line depends on the service you are using. Google has a long history of dropping services, because it can.

Depends.

Google might decide to stop supporting it because they want to focus on something else and DropBox might decide to pivot because they can no longer make enough money compared to the costs they incur (especially as Google is slowly squeezing them out of the market with the kind of price slashing we are currently discussing).

Nobody can claim with certainty which of Google or DropBox is more likely to support their product the longest.

> I think at this point I'm a little more comfortable paying more for a company that I know won't abandon this market.

Interestingly, after I read this sentence, I thought "Yeah, I'm not so sure DropBox will be around as long as Google, so I'll stick with Google".

And then I realized you wanted to make the opposite argument.

So basically he's just an opportunist who lives in a country as long as it suits him and then leaves it when he's being inconvenienced?

> BUT, Snowden is the best example that I know of as a person that really values the plan for the US as laid out by the Constitution and who saw first hand an insidious threat to ignoring those principles without the public even being aware. If there's anyone who has earned the right to call himself a true patriot and defender of the Constitution, it's Edward Snowden.

This is naïve at best. At most, he's shown some interest in a tiny portion of the Constitution but his alignment with Russia and his appeal to dictatorships for asylum shows he doesn't value freedom of speech and other values enshrined in the Constitution.

> Clean oxygen in the room

What's the difference between clean oxygen and dirty oxygen?

> Prof Odersky has been quite vocal about the feature bloat and lets hope the future releases are more conservative in that sense.

Languages never get simpler as they age, and Scala is certainly proof of that rule.

If anything, advanced features that make up for good academic papers have priority over fixing bugs and streamlining the libraries.

Paul Phillips, a Typesafe cofounder, recently left the company and went on a tour explaining why he thought Scala was headed in the wrong direction:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jh94gowim0

> Out of genuine curiosity, what's the advantage from your point of view, other than being able to communicate to other people who use the same system, at the cost of not being understood by everyone else?

The metric system is 10 based, which makes it trivial to measure and convert: 1000mm = 100cm = 1m. This becomes even more important when you are talking about volume or any ^3 dimension.

I have lived in the US for 15 years and even today, I'm unable to convert fl oz. to any kind of mass measure without getting a headache along the way.

You can always revert to the old try/catch/fail if you need to test something more complex (e.g. testing the message of the exception) but most of exception tests fall in the simple case shown above.

That's quite an old fashioned way of testing exceptions, TestNG has allowed you to do the following since 2005:

    @Test(expectedExceptions = FooBarException.class)
    public void test() {
      thisShouldThrow();
    }

If the method doesn't throw or throws the wrong kind of exception, this test will fail.

Meanwhile, at a Microsoft board meeting:

"Guys, I know we've been making around $20 billion a year selling Windows licenses but this guy jmnicolas on Hacker News is suggesting we should give it away".

"That's... brilliant... Why didn't we think of that before?"

TDD might be useful for unit tests (even that I'm not convinced of) but not for integration tests.

The bug happens very deep inside the handshake protocol and it's extremely hard to test it automatically.

Yeah, the US totally fail at ORM.

Wait... wat?

4 inch screen, 3M pixel camera, no Android Play and 4Gb of ram? What year is this, 2010?

It's going to take a better phone than that to turn that ship around.

Gmail ads have nothing to do with spam.

From a purely ad perspective, Google doesn't really care if the email is spam or not: they still display ads on the side.