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by BugBrother 13y ago
Hear hear! Let me take the example PHP, since you mentioned it and I don't know enough to have an opinion. PHP is generally claimed to suck badly. But even I can see that the "haters" on HN generally don't know/disc
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by BugBrother 13y ago
I'm Swedish, studied English many years ago -- and still know more English grammar than that. But I certainly do more "do/does" errors than a native English speaker. I remember the AI course at univ when we needed to par
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by BugBrother 13y ago
I think you are fully aware of that Wikipedia says this about 1944-1945, which was what I discussed: " The Red Army occupation lead to the deportation to Siberia of more than 200,000 ethnic Germans of Romania (around 75,000 Transylvani
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by BugBrother 13y ago
There are more than one way to skin that cat. I've been working in Romania a while. The takeover here by Soviet after WWII wasn't ... nice. E.g. all grown people with German ancestry were sent to Siberia for at least years (lots o
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by BugBrother 13y ago
I'm not going to support breaking security, but it seems like it would make it hard to ID dissidents if Windows viruses sometimes accessed random sensitive DNS addresses (I assume things like Danish cartoons, democracy/atheist inf
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by BugBrother 13y ago
Well, I do hate -- Max Martin and other slimy pop makes it embarrassing to be Swedish. :-) At least there is Meshuggah and other good Swedish stuff to be proud of. And yes, some of that is pop.
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by BugBrother 13y ago
>> Can it really be attributed to XboxOne and Surface? Hardly the Xbox One, consoles generally lose money on the hardware for year(s) after release. Otoh, the revenue was the record and not the profits? For that, more hardware certain
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by BugBrother 13y ago
Note that this was for one specific iPhone model, so it is hardly (a) or (d) -- that is, not that Android is more efficient and not that iCloud sucks extra bandwidth for backups. Etc. (To be obvious: If it were those alternatives, or (e),
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by BugBrother 13y ago
You are totally correct in all you write. Yet, it is still quite easy to think of future 1984 scenarios. For instance, consider the Chinese version of NSA, it is an ideal tool for a free economy (i.e. a working economy) with control of the
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by BugBrother 13y ago
Huh? Wasn't the money put into Apple part of a deal after Microsoft was found with source code for Quicktime getting into their own video software? The "Microsoft believes in Apple" from that might be more Job's reality
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by BugBrother 13y ago
Maybe too many clever ideas, but in the real world we evaluate a language for how is to use when you follow the coding standards etc. There really might be an initial extra cost of some work days, but unlike most people on HN I don't r
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by BugBrother 13y ago
You see no problem with a secret marketing agreement? (A bunch of years ago, astroturfing used to be shocking news.)
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by BugBrother 13y ago
You really see no problem with astroturfing? (Or is that your job? :-) ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing Edit: I am a bit shocked to see so many people (well, accounts ) arguing astroturfing is OK, it used
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by BugBrother 13y ago
A better reference than Wikipedia? :-) E.g., Wikipedia says: Thus far, the evidence specifically implicating snus in pancreatic cancer is only suggestive.[25][26] Your link say: [Scandinavian] snus users have a significantly higher risk
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by BugBrother 13y ago
The variants in small bags are easy to use. I smoke/snus when drinking, so I use nicotine ~ once a month. I feel better the day after with snus.
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by BugBrother 13y ago
Snus is a relevant data point to support Synaesthesia's claim. It is (non smoke) tobacco, but won't give you cancer or destroy your lungs (still not healthy with nicotine, of course, but many times less bad). http://en.
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by BugBrother 13y ago
The Perl way is to declare minimum language version to execute a code file. E.g. use v5.12; Then you can do extensions [even changing central functionality] in a sane way, with backward compatibility. (A language implementation need to
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by BugBrother 13y ago
Please check CPAN Testers and copy that too to the Python world. Not only will you get comprehensive tests and reports of all the packages with different OS/language versions, it is a great test of the language implementation with diff
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by BugBrother 13y ago
I agree with vdaniuk, that it is a good point. It changed my mind a bit. On consideration, I'm a big fan of Google, Apple and Amazon. The thing that makes me (and probably others) nervous about all three is that they are too big. For
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by BugBrother 13y ago
Is the origin of the Goths new research? The sources I've seen (Jordanes, the Silver Bible's language) said that the Goths were Germanic. Around a decade ago, I know an archeologist that got research money for the Goth's orig