ElBarto

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by ElBarto 8y ago
There's several aspects here. I quite agree that if Google does not get into the top 2 it will likely be irrelevant in that market. The other aspect, as discussed in the article, is that this is a completely new market and way of doing
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by ElBarto 8y ago
This isn't dismissive nor reductionist. This is a simple fact of life. Perhaps experience is needed to grasp this, though, and to understand the analogy. Childish, because I feel that some commenters see posting as a pissing contest. I
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Hmm, my original comment was not a "gotcha" it is the simple truth. Anyone trying to sell you a tool by claiming that "it will make you a good whatever" is just trying it on. Yes, a good tool can help achieve better resu
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I've been looking at Rust recently, and my conclusion is that it is not production-ready. It seems like an ever-changing work in progress at the moment, with idiosyncrasies such as this.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
OK, so a programming language won't make you a good programmer, indeed ;) Edit: This place is disappointingly childish... It does not reflect well on Rust, either.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
So you agree that a tool does not make a good programmer.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
A programming language won't make you a good programmer in the same way as a brush won't make you a good painter.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Law enforcement is is routinely conducted by government agencies, including on these issues, nothing new here. E.g., in most EU countries with relevant laws, 'illegal content' in public spaces may be removed (with your being arres
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Most EU countries already have similar legislation.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
That is really horrible. It says "Select 'OK' to authorise 'Oath' and our partners to use your data." Is there a more general, less specific, way to phrase this? It's basically "please let anyone use
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by ElBarto 8y ago
If by 'work' you mean that quotas lead to more women in the targeted roles then that's obvious... But actually solving these issues (whether real or perceived) means not having quotas.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Politics and public opinion are major aspects in these disputes. If a country slaps tariffs on your products it is very difficult not to retaliate. That's true in general and that's especially true in China regarding any foreign a
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by ElBarto 8y ago
It asks permission to show you the translated version. But does it send the page's content to some Google server only if you agree? The point here is that it seems that the content is sent over to Google no matter what.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
So, by "not the US" did you mean Vietnam, then? That would have been clearer.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
A claim that the Chinese economy is a bubble is sufficiently extraordinary for those who make it to provide evidence. Asking me to provide evidence to the contrary is a rhetorical trick, nothing more. What is the evidence? The actual econom
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I have a book somewhere that I bought 20 years ago in which the author explained very seriously how the Chinese economy was an illusion and was about to collapse. There is no doubt that the speed of Chinese emergence means bubbles were crea
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by ElBarto 8y ago
That's what I wrote...
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Productivity is not profit at all, it's the value produced so indeed ~revenue. Wages are therefore constrained so that a profit is left after the worker has been paid. Ignoring other costs, profit is equal value produced minus wage pai
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by ElBarto 8y ago
There's no way around it. What I described is what higher-level languages do if they provide this sort of protection and it's what must do done if such protection is required.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Many of the jobs in that category are paid little because it's not really economical to pay more. Wages are constrained by productivity and what customers are willing to pay. E.g. if you have to pay people a lot to wash cars then those
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by ElBarto 8y ago
In such cases you can insert a barrier with a magic value to detect any array overflow. The other thing to do is to enforce checks on array indices.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Yes, but in that case the copyright extends to the literary work, not the recipe (i.e. the technical process) itself. Once you have published a cooking recipe you cannot prevent anyone from recreating the dish by following that recipe, even
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Cooking recipes aren't protected as far as I remember so it would have been surprising to protect the end result.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I can assure you that the law is very clear and established. Employees are often not very knowledgeable about it, though. And in any case some jurisdictions have employment at will...
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Which is madness in the business world, and perhaps outside of it as well.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Yes but that's "legal loyalty", basically being honest, which is not the same as e.g. making efforts or sacrifices out of loyalty.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Loyalty can only exist between individuals. Never be loyal to a company because a company will never be loyal to you.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
BBC reports that the error was with the Nigerian ISP, not China or China Telecom: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46194279
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Modern wars are neither short nor winnable... though they may be short indeed if nukes are involved. I think all powers know this full well hence why they never engaged in direct conflict since WWII. Wars since WWII have been limited wars a
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by ElBarto 8y ago
'Securely' as in 'completely visible to Microsoft'. This is an unavoidable issue with data and operations on them being 'in the cloud'.

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