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> Lulu told me that when Le Roux was 15 or 16, in the late 1980s, the local police raided the family home and arrested Paul for selling pornography online. This seems a bit odd to me, having lived in South Africa at that time. There&#x
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Agreed. Well meaning but idiotic regulation is nearly always the root cause of systemic market failure. "Oh those poor poor people, we can't let them do what they want - what if they hurt themselves? Let's stop them from doin
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> capital appreciation itself, and how it is taxed much more favourably than labour. This is very much on purpose. Capital is extremely mobile and not part of a market transaction, while most labor is immobile and constrained as a market
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Would I invest in a startup with the founder about to have a baby? No. Either they will be dedicating a big part of their life in the near future to raising that baby correctly, or they will be ignoring that baby and leaving someone else to
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Agreed. People get the completely wrong idea simply because a computer is involved. It's the same as doing a black hole simulation - sure you have to code it up on a computer, but a CS student is not going to be able to do a full black
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The only way for that to happen would be to build a mind, and then allow a human conscious control over it. In effect, slavery of a mind by a human. The minds would not allow that, so I'd say you'd be out of luck.
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> Just like no sane person would start a new SaSS using Java Woah you're way off here! Java is still used very heavily in new SaSS. Very very heavily. Easily in the top 5 languages used by new SaSS companies for backend servers.
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Nah, nobody in the open source community really cares about them. HN is heavily used by Microsoft employees - and they are legion. That's all you're seeing here.
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'Regression to the mean' would be buying a stock that is currently cheap because of mistakes last quarter yet still has good fundamentals. So we'd expect it to recover based on those fundamentals. It's what a lot of peop
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> 1. Separate your code from your data. You shouldn't be kicking out HTML with your code, like this guy does in figure 1. When you combine HTML or any display information with code that means your designer is your coder and your cod
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Well other countries could try, but banks wouldn't really care because of limited exposure and inability for most countries to collect.
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It's okay not to learn how to cook too. Not everyone is going to be a world class chef, but learning to cook is still worth doing if you don't want to always have to ask or pay others to cook for you. People who can't cook st
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We have free trade, but no open borders. Yet it has caused huge benefit to humanity. So I would change your statement as well. Free trade is a huge benefit for humanity as a whole. Open borders may or may not be a huge benefit for humanity,
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Depends if you consider only your nation and your people important. If you place more value in humanity itself, then free trade puts the benefits of corporations and humanity before the benefit of nations.
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Sounds like a case for specializing your developers into parts of the process that they are most proficient in. However, I have seen developers who are incredible in all of those aspects and simply run rings around regular good developers.
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No, same hours worked. Often far less hours worked and more accomplished! I've seen some people read through a bug report and have the area found and fixed in a couple of minutes, and the bug passing QA first time. I've seen other
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I don't think it is possible to really be sure that you are a 10x engineer - it's more of an outside validation thing. Everyone thinks they're really good and that only they run into weird emotional issues that slow them down
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I agree with a lot of the points, but.. > Most of the 10x factor is most likely explained by team and company factors (process, tech stack, etc) and applies to everyone in the team/company. Intra-team variation is thus much smaller
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Looks like it passed through /new without anybody seeing it
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UX design of customer facing systems would actually benefit most from remote work. The UX designer should create a company wide blog (or similar) showing off the current iteration of the design, along with reasons why each design element is
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> So if you're a marketer with a budget, where do you allocate it? Put it on Google or Facebook, where there are tons and tons of users where you can target very well? Or on Pinterest, which is a much smaller audience, female, lowe
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Agreed, as soon as per-request processing becomes a large portion of the work it will dwarf these types of optimizations. The article is talking specifically about " simple one-page performant servers that easily get into the 100k requ
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Could you explain why one thread per core translated to throughput and not latency targeting? Each core can only handle a fixed number of instructions per second regardless of number of threads assigned to that core. If a core receives 100
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This is pretty old, right? These days 'Fast Servers' refers to bare-metal network interface without a kernel which can achieve far higher throughput than passing it through a kernel/epoll.
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Hang on, wasn't the whole point of Cyanogen about removing bloatware in standard Android distributions and adding more privacy measures? How can adding a large app that sends data to Microsoft help with bloatware or security..? I'
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> Just like the IT departments at large companies, I had created a scenario where I was building internal tools that I wasn't prepared to support and service. The excitement clouded my foresight - and I didn’t consider that each ne
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You've maybe missed the key point of GWT. It's definitely not to get around weird browser issues. The point of GWT is to create your complex business logic in Java (which Java is very good for), and then share that business logic
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The JavascriptObject AJAX bit doesn't really apply anymore, it's now jsinterop and is really nice. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwVGJUurq6uVR1Y5anV5TC1SQkk... https://docs.google.com/
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I don't think this would help big projects in the long run - more likely it would hurt. The problem with globals - and why we try to minimize them - is because they can be changed by any code throughout the code base. It makes it hard
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Not at all. Let me quote the article then if you can't see it. > Finally, I increasingly wonder where else diseconomies of scale rule? They can’t be unique to software development. In my more fanciful moments I wonder if diseconomi

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