Nitramp

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by Nitramp 7y ago
I don't think that universally true. I work for G in Munich, and salaries post cost of living are competitive with the Bay Area (maybe 10%-20% off, but OTOH consider quality of life). From what I can tell, Zurich beats the Bay Area.
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by Nitramp 7y ago
Actual space on a plane is very expensive compared to making the seat look nicer (while still the same cramped). So it's unlikely you'll get to repeat that experience much in the future, unless you're willing to pay for busin
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by Nitramp 7y ago
He's served his term of 20 years. He has the same human rights as you or I do.
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by Nitramp 7y ago
> [...] violated his rights and his "ability to develop his personality," That's a rather poor translation of "Recht zur freien Persönlichkeitsentfaltung". It's not really about developing your personality,
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by Nitramp 7y ago
... in your country maybe :-)
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by Nitramp 7y ago
> It's all in the books. Gang of Four, etc. No worries, I've read the usual suspects. Taking your example of Gang of Four though (and this applies similarly to the other usual suspects), it definitely does not discuss this obse
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by Nitramp 7y ago
> [this is wrong] because an interface is a contract promised by the implementor. I think the point the article makes is that you can instead think of an interface as a list of requirements demanded by a user (so your criticism here is a
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by Nitramp 7y ago
> Java was just terrible [...] Java was released in 1995. Compared to the state of the art back then, I believe it was a significant advancement. There was plain C with all its shortcomings, C++, but in a much worse state than today, and
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by Nitramp 7y ago
I think my comment is reasonably clear as it stands, if you don't intentional try to distort it. Your style of argument (including the ad hominems) suggest to me you're neither interested in an exchange of ideas nor in a civilized
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by Nitramp 7y ago
> How do you think America is malfunctioning compared to other countries? Apparently many people are upset with their housing cost and commute situation, which I understand triggered the original post on making more land. Having lived in
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by Nitramp 7y ago
> america functions just fine [...] I think reasonable people might disagree with that assessment. Also, as an example the South Bay (Santa Clara County) houses 2'400 ppl/km2. That's cherry picking a bit, but somewhat comp
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by Nitramp 7y ago
> Nobody here is arguing that. Well, OP that I responded to literally argued that. I agree the platform needs to expose useful features in a predictable manner for application developers. But I'd much rather have browsers decide w
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by Nitramp 7y ago
It's called "user agent", not "developer's agent". We'd be in a terrible situation if the browsers just followed developer's whims. Cf. popup blocking.
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by Nitramp 7y ago
I have my own extension for Chrome that yanks the autocomplete attribute. I much rather deal with over eager completion than websites disabling it for silly reasons and pseudo security.
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by Nitramp 7y ago
> It was always a feel-good hi-viz, low-impact measure given little evidence behind the measures. I think the EU when banning this had data, they sampled garbage they found on various beaches and decided that straws are both common and e
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by Nitramp 7y ago
I don't know. I think not everything a large company does necessarily immediately pays for itself. Also, Google overall benefits when people use the web more.
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by Nitramp 7y ago
You don't need to just blindly trust, there are ToS and privacy statements. My TL;DR is that Google doesn't use logs outside of service health (eg vs DDoS).
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by Nitramp 7y ago
> What's undeniable _in practice_, is that legal prostitution leads to less criminal behaviour and exploitation. Uh, that's totally deniable. Ten years ago, Germany legalized prostitution in an attempt to reduce crime and impro
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by Nitramp 7y ago
The post mentions that they can drastically reduce memory usage at some CPU time cost in the lite version. V8 is presumably doing the right thing for the end user here, given the in-the-field telemetry etc. It's an instance of carefull
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by Nitramp 7y ago
One of the interesting aspects of benchmarks is that they are usually designed and intended to run in isolation. E.g. if you benchmark a database system, you expect that to be the sole system running on your server machine, in control of al
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by Nitramp 7y ago
Yes, we use that to use TS together with Closure for all our TS code at Google. It's a bit difficult to hook up though, and we haven't had the cycles to make the open source version user friendly, I'm afraid :-(
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by Nitramp 7y ago
You're correct, the Soviets outproduced Germany as well as being willing to run much higher losses. E.g. in the Battle of Kursk, the Soviets outnumbered the Germans by x2 in just about everything (tanks, planes, men). They won, but los
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by Nitramp 7y ago
World War II was (at least one of) the first industrialized war. So the whole situation was genuinely novel to most participants. Additionally, the German army command didn't think that way. Where the US relied on overpowering by mater
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by Nitramp 7y ago
> I wish I understood what problems people solve day in and day out such that they need to call IO in the middle of Dijkstra’s algorithm. For Dijkstra, imagine a very large graph that cannot fit into memory, where you'll need to go
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by Nitramp 8y ago
There are unions, and then there are unions. In Germany, labour unions are strong, but things like union security agreements are unheard of (and I was amazed something like that would exist when I first heard of it). The stories you read ab
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by Nitramp 8y ago
> they filter for people that are ready to follow orders without complaining. Well, if that was the goal, boy did we ever fail to deliver on that one ;-)
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by Nitramp 8y ago
Also, zero road data or local shops. It's like Apple Maps outside the Bay Area...
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by Nitramp 8y ago
The first thing ATMs (at least over here) do is check if you have enough balance for your transaction. If you just stored events, you'd need to collapse all the previous delta operations at that point, which would be arbitrarily slow i
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by Nitramp 8y ago
> date of birth required US law has some requirements on accounts created by minors which essentially means you must check the age for people creating new accounts, and you must not allow accounts for people < X years (but are not all
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by Nitramp 8y ago
It's a bit hard to follow what the author wants to tell us, so I might be misrepresenting below (sorry!). I don't think the assertions that (I think) they make hold though, or are particularly useful. The author claims "funct

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