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justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Farewell to Flash

Again, if you are going to follow Microsoft as a leader, you're following the wrong dog. Never, EVER, use Microsoft browsers as a reference.

justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which recruiters do you like?

In 30 years of working in electronics and software, I have never been sent on an interview, or even contacted by an employer, through any recruiter, despite getting weekly calls from them all these years and rising through the ranks of these industries in medium sized companies.

justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Safari Is Not the New IE, But…

Edge is IE12. They forked the Trident engine to remove all the legacy stuff. Otherwise, everything else is the same and gets the same new stuff that IE12 would have. No different.

justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Brian Kernighan on C [video]

To blame your tool when you don't use it correctly is a typical fallacy found on forums everywhere. You blame the car for your accident, your parents for being in jail, the hammer for breaking your thumb.

justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Brian Kernighan on C [video]

Hmm. As an assembly language programmer, electronic engineer, who was forced into learning this new "high level language" by our MIT educated boss, decades ago, I can assure you that we were neither beginners nor students as we created the product most likely used on you and yours in hospitals everywhere.

justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Will Unix become the next MS-DOS? (1985) [video]

Nothing could be further from the truth. Do you think these tests were created and maintained for free? Do you think the certification process happens on its own? Do you think there is no value in the whole Unix standard is stagnant, none-changing, and never reviewed or updated? And it all happens without cost? Do you think no one pays any attention to that?

justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Apple's 30%

Who creates what you see on the App Store? Who wrote all that and designed it? Who wrote the code for the App Store? Are you saying no professional sales people were involved in this? How does anyone in the world know when a new item shows up in the App Store? Who pays for all those ads you see on TV and in magazines and online?

justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Apple's 30%

Anyone who thinks the cost of selling software is remotely near zero should be ignored. Ads need to be produced and thought up and salesmen need to be paid and packaging still must be done and and someone has to be in charge of all that, along with all the people beneath him.

justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Let’s sunset C/C++

My problem with this article and its statement is that it's saying to "sunset" C/C++ because it causes problems but the problems are caused by an incompetent user, not C.

I see so many articles complaining about C letting you shoot yourself in the foot but no one who would shoot themselves in the foot should be handling a gun.

"You know you wouldn't have so many splatters on that painting, Mr. Pollock, if you would just let a computer handle that brush for you!"

justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Let’s sunset C/C++

Which emphasizes my point. There are few places where C's strength is not prevalent and its weaknesses won't kill you.
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