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Comment: Re:What are alternatives to (Score 2) 121

by kwerle (#38776507) Attached to: Google Kills More Services, Open Sources Sky Map

Reader

... any news aggregator?
http://www.newsonfeeds.com/faq/aggregators

Gmail?

You're kidding, right? Any mail provider... I don't know what to say.
* I hosted my own until a few years ago
* yahoo
* hotmail
* my isp
* everyone and their brother

I mean we know they are going to close them eventually as well, right?

I don't get it. Why are you just spreading FUD? OK, maybe you don't like google. But you can't come up with a single service that they have shut down and really inconvenienced their users. And you're naming gmail just looks dumb - they make money off that. And while it would not surprise me even a little if reader goes away, I fully expect that it will just roll into some other service they provide (plus, probably); not to mention that they make it trivial to migrate away, should you so choose:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/07/export-feeds-from-google-reader-folder.html

What's the deal?

Comment: Re:Cloud Services vs. Desktop Apps (Score 1) 121

by kwerle (#38775887) Attached to: Google Kills More Services, Open Sources Sky Map

Usually there really isn't any good warning ahead in time.

... when it isn't google.

With Google it's just a few months.

Riiiight...

Not all of Google's services are free either, and since they most often don't release the source code, you are basically locked to their services.

OK - name one of google's services that they have canceled in a way that screwed the users. Where they lost their data or could not get it out in a very meaningful way.

Comment: Re:Ethics? (Score 1) 619

by kwerle (#38042740) Attached to: In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner

Just because PETA says something is unethical doesn't mean it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics

Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime, etc.

Nearly by definition, what you eat (no matter what) is a subject of ethical debate - exactly *because* you don't think there is anything wrong with eating any kind of animal and because other people do.

Comment: Re:Another programming language? (Score 1) 250

by kwerle (#37406980) Attached to: Google To Introduce New Programming Language — Dart

You have to try hard not to see good examples out there in use. The most common case is the prototype version of the Decorator pattern, seen in the uniformization of DOM support across browsers done by jQuery (and similar libraries). Decorator patterns with multiple-class subclassing gets ugly fast, and is trivial with JS.

I'm spoiled by the languages I've used. Ruby has very strong support for decoration at both the object and class level.
http://tenderlovemaking.com/2008/12/04/nokogiris-slop-feature/

I *really* do enjoy ruby. If you have an opportunity to take it for a spin, I think you might enjoy it.

I seriously cut my teeth on Obj-C, but it's been quite a while. I remember it had reasonable decorator possibilities at the class and object level, but it was fragile base class where variables were concerned. Methods you could do anything with. I *think* that's changed in the past 10-15 years.

I never tried Smalltalk, but I thought it would decorate just as easily as javascript.

So I'm still hoping for something with strong subclassing support. I just enjoy 'em more.

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