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by SEMW 11y ago
> In this approach, threads own their data, and communicate with message-passing. This is easier said than done, because the language constructs, primitives, and design patterns for building system software this way are still in their in
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by SEMW 11y ago
Would you mind having a read of, say, UTCCR[0] and let me know what wealthy interests you believe it serves? Here's the text: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2083/made . As far as I can tell its
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by SEMW 11y ago
> Certainly in the UK there are many cases where "unfair" contracts can't be enforced AFAIK there's no unfairness provisions in common law. There are two statutes about unfair clauses - UCTA (Unfair Contract Terms Act
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by SEMW 11y ago
> are we benefitting as a society because of this? Arguably yes, though indirectly: society benefits from having a legal system that upholds contracts, even if one of the parties later changes their mind. Or to put it another way - the h
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by SEMW 11y ago
I agree, sadly. I'm not sure anyone who didn't already understand vector products is going to be helped by staring at "var rx = ay * bz - az * by; var ry = az * bx - ax * bz; var rz = ax * by - ay * bx" (as opposed to, s
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by SEMW 11y ago
A friend of mine, Peter Saxton, did his own redesign of the underground a few years ago - http://www.londonlayout.co.uk/ . His one is more like the official one than this redesign, in that it keeps more of the purely-topolog
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by SEMW 11y ago
> If someone (such as OP) believes that SteamVR can be a competitive experience with IMAX, then they can believe it can be certified or licensed by IMAX. Thus consumer confusion is possible here. The test isn't whether someone can
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by SEMW 11y ago
> games should do procedural terrains The decision between prerendered and procedurally generated terrain/textures/etc. is a tradeoff between.. oh, I dunno, developer time, artist time, platform disk space, download time, platf
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by SEMW 11y ago
> Implying they MITM our messages and can censor them. Their ability to do this has been known for a while - see past HN discussions: - Https URLs posted in private Skype chats visited by Microsoft https://news.ycombinator.com
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by SEMW 11y ago
Using a feature in exactly the way it was intended to be used counts as a hack now?
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by SEMW 11y ago
> read the article again. Nobody refused, but a few people couldn't be contacted No. Ten were uncontactable, and one refused. "Refused and Code Rewritten - 1/202" "Unable to Contact - 10/202" From the d
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by SEMW 11y ago
"Like UTC but without adding leap seconds" already exists; it's called TAI ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time )
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by SEMW 11y ago
In the context of the blog post - Erlang - "Let it crash" almost never means "let the entire application crash". It means "let the current [micro-]process crash, then its supervisor will restart it in a known-good s
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by SEMW 11y ago
An eloquent critique. Of an insane straw-man regulation ("Article 1: All roaming charges are illegal. Article 2: EOF" ?) that doesn't resemble anything anyone's actually proposed. Against what's actually proposed (
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by SEMW 11y ago
I don't follow your analogy. The smallest tradeable unit of bitcoins (the satoshi) is currently well under a thousandth of a U.S. cent. This is "too expensive ... to use for trade"?
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by SEMW 11y ago
Another interesting one in the style of the Singaporean puzzle that's been making the rounds recently: http://jdh.hamkins.org/transfinite-epistemic-logic-puzzle-ch... (knowledge of transfinite ordinals is useful)
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by SEMW 11y ago
As it happens, I don't actually believe that Google is being anticompetitive here, I think their actions are pretty reasonable, especially compared to Apple. But that doesn't mean that every argument that leads to that conclusion
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by SEMW 11y ago
It seems perfectly plausible that debian packages are mostly GPL while github is mostly MIT. (Eg Github first became popular in the ruby/rails community which tends to skew more MIT and corporate-friendly). I don't at all see the
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by SEMW 11y ago
If that were the case, there wouldn't be a problem. But it isn't. Google requires phone makers to comply with a stringent set of 'compatibility' guidelines in order to license any of their closed-source apps. See http
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by SEMW 12y ago
Since the reason for the 'waiting till the one with the right order to come in' behaviour is the use of ^pid, presumably you could get rid of mailbox scanning time by getting rid of the caret (matching any message), so the mailbox
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by SEMW 12y ago
A heat engine is great when your cold sink is 'free', but here, the cold sink would be the radiator fins, and extracting energy from the temperature difference between main ISS and radiator fins would effectively just make the rad
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by SEMW 12y ago
I imagine when most people say 'a cup of espresso' they're thinking of a demitasse of the stuff, not using '1 cup' in the unit-of-volume sense (which'd be an ~octuple espresso)
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by SEMW 12y ago
First thought: you've priced it quite ambitiously. A 10 user team would be $90/month, compared to $20 for JIRA + JIRA Agile, $42 for Asana premium, $50 for Trello business (or free for normal trello), $35 for Pivotal Tracker, ...
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by SEMW 12y ago
> I wonder if Russel & Whiteheads's classic 1+1 proof has yet been (computer-)formalized? http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/pm54.43.html (though using a slightly different set of axioms to R&W: http:/
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by SEMW 12y ago
Huh? There's nothing inherently monochrome about emacs or vi/vim. Both support colour syntax highlighting, and I'd be surprised if the vast majority of programmers using those editors weren't using it. Certainly everyone
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by SEMW 12y ago
Our solution to that is to always rebase & push right before you run through ci & merge. As well as updating the PR diff to be against the master it was actually merged against, this also has the advantage of making your git history
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by SEMW 12y ago
I'm honestly not sure what you're talking about. Android does have a system update mechanism. You go to settings -> About phone -> System updates. If manufacturers / carriers change that to check for updates on their ow
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by SEMW 12y ago
> The cool thing is that they allow you to solve the problem of having domain emails pointing to your personal emails so for example blahblah@joeblau.com -> josephblaus@gmail.com Am I missing something...? I didn't realise this
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by SEMW 12y ago
5m room size / speed of sound in air = around 15ms. Unless the amount of variation in latency in the phone's speaker + microphones is much less than that -- which I suspect it isn't -- that wouldn't be particularly accur
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by SEMW 12y ago
Data-point: I went to Makers Academy (in London) and was hired eight days after telling their hiring advisor that I was ready to start looking for a job. $100 (£65k) is very unrealistic for a junior dev in London. I was hired at £35k, which

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