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by 16bytes 10y ago
Individually owned cars--and the infrastructure needed to support them--are a very inefficient mode of transportation, even in the use-cases that you mention. Plenty of people with children and elderly live in New York city which has among
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by 16bytes 10y ago
Language and tooling wise? Yes, or very close to it. There's a lot to be said about the huge amount of value in the main maven repository vs. what's in nuget. Java's decade long head start in that area doesn't seem so hu
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by 16bytes 10y ago
I'm guessing safe meta-definition means type-safe meta-programming. For example in Lisp, code is data and data is code (aka homoiconicity). This makes it very convenient to write macros (i.e. functions that accept and return executabl
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by 16bytes 10y ago
Hi Alan, I'm preparing a presentation on how to build a mental model of computing by learning different computer languages. It would be great to include some of your feedback. * What programming language maps most closely to the way t
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by 16bytes 10y ago
We deploy node on windows server in production. It wouldn't be my first choice if I was deploying a new node project. In this case, however, it nicely integrates into our existing windows infrastructure. I haven't found any reaso
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by 16bytes 11y ago
> One of these vehicles offers the possibility of huge profits off rich d-bags. The other one, not so much. I stopped reading when I reached this caption. Companies exist to make profit, not act in the public interest. Demonizing normal
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by 16bytes 11y ago
> It's a form of censorship, so it's both evil and underhanded. I disagree. There are practical limits on speech. Yelling "Fire!" in a theater, defamation, inciting a riot etc. Asking for a few days until a situati
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by 16bytes 11y ago
To be clear, here's the relevant text: "Sue just called back and theblockwill staythroughMonday" I don't get why this would be considered evil or even underhanded. It's normal operating procedure for various govern
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by 16bytes 11y ago
Still waiting for the transcript, but here is the relevant part. "If I were in the job now, I would've simply told the FBI to call Fort Meade--the headquarters of the National Security Agency--and they would have solved this probl
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Former US counter-terrrorism chief says FBI can ask NSA to decrypt iphone(npr.org)
7 points by 16bytes 11y ago|2 comments
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by 16bytes 11y ago
As a Scala proponent, I was worried at first about Typesafe's rebranding. Now, however, I'm of the opinion that a strong Lightbend company is good for the Scala community. That being said, I think Lightbend could have done more t
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by 16bytes 11y ago
Background: Typesafe was the primary commercial entity behind the Scala programming language. They've recently rebranded to Lightbend: http://www.lightbend.com/blog/typesafe-changes-name-to-light... This announcem
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Questions answered on the change to Lightbend and Lagom for Java(lightbend.com)
10 points by 16bytes 11y ago|3 comments
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by 16bytes 11y ago
"Lightbend" as a name is I think the least interesting part of this announcement. So, Typesafe pivots away from being the company behind Scala to being the company behind the "Reactive Platform (tm)". I didn't under
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by 16bytes 11y ago
You can't send a powered down phone a push notification for post-hoc analysis. You would have had to know the target and push a vulnerability beforehand, which wouldn't have helped in this case.
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by 16bytes 11y ago
> That would be similar to a court order allowing law enforcement to enter your premises and take out the safe in order to pry it open at some other location where specialised equipment is available. I would think it's more similar
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by 16bytes 11y ago
> hg clone . ../CloneForCoworkerInvestigation This is way, way better than CVS. Some people complain about how this doesn't work in place, like git or shelve, but I prefer I don't have to change anything in my main repo,
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by 16bytes 11y ago
As a society, we have decided that some contract terms are unenforceable, as there is often an asymmetric balance of power between vendors and consumers. For example, what if the tractor terms say that you couldn't vote Republican or y
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by 16bytes 11y ago
One incident does not make a trend. I disagree with Alex Miller's decision about Curtis Yarvin, but as far as I can tell, this is the only controversial speaker related issue that he's made. Have you actually been to Strangeloop?
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by 16bytes 11y ago
Agree, this is large enough an issue to verify its validity. If true, however, it is very problematic and of questionable legality (e.g. unintended HIPAA data disclosures etc). Apparently people will have to start to invest in configuring o
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by 16bytes 11y ago
I read the blog, but now it's returning a 404? Did they take it down? If so, then somebody at Oracle realized that post reflected poorly on their organization. Perhaps there is some hope for Oracle yet.
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by 16bytes 11y ago
I completely agree with you. As a US citizen, I've found it easier to get through customs in France than to get back into the US. I find that fact completely astounding.
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by 16bytes 11y ago
I think that you are misinterpreting this statement as a general caution. Sending a company proof that you've accessed a security hole (e.g. demonstrating it to them) can and has been prosecuted against has a hacking attempt and/o
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by 16bytes 11y ago
I've seen high-level departures from corporations for years and recently have been on the inside track of one (i.e. I knew about the departure before it was public knowledge). From the time that I was told to when it was made public wa
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Scala doesn't have to be complicated(voxxed.com)
1 points by 16bytes 11y ago|0 comments
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by 16bytes 11y ago
Have you considered that you missed the point entirely? It's hard to see how you consider this an insult and not an interesting "live" experimental result. "Test your problem solving skills" is merely the experiment
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by 16bytes 11y ago
For one, speed. Provisioning a VM image takes a lot longer than a container. Secondly, composition. Can you provision and link the 10 instances that make up your application? Web servers, app servers, proxies, caches, databases, hadoop e
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by 16bytes 11y ago
What is false or lazy about this? The service is free; Google makes money selling ads to users. Is this in dispute? Pointing out that Google has little incentive to support it's users in a post about getting little support from Googl
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by 16bytes 11y ago
To be fair Chrome doesn't ask you either, at least on the storage location. It looks like Atom puts itself in APPDATA, which is the easiest place to install because you have known permissions and update strategies. I actually like th
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by 16bytes 11y ago
> No, Google is. I didn't say they were the biggest, but they are one of the big boys. They just opened a huge robotics facility in Pittsburgh and yoinked dozens of staff from CMU Robotics. They are betting big on automated transp

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