Tehdasi

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by Tehdasi 7y ago
Dunno about the government, but ARM and Rolls Royce have certainly done very well in their given fields. Curiously they are parts suppliers, not whole product manufacturers.
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
Well see the just world theory says that if they have spent 10 years in a low wage job then they obviously have a character flaw that makes them unsuitable for any higher position in society so certainly we don't need to look at any ot
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
> Google shows whatever you want to see. Correction, it shows you whatever your government wants/ allows you to see.
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
Sorry, I thought you were talking about Hollywood and the recording industry there.
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
8bit machines are good in their simplicity, but they were not perfect. Storage of the 80s in particular detracts from the experience, it doesn't enhance it.
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
Tallness is in and of itself will get you more heart disease since it put more strain on the heart to pump blood ever further. And tallness as an attractive trait only works in comparison, if everyone was 7 foot high, then they are all of a
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
You need to read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Soviet_Union Contrast how the current Chinese economy is far closer to an average OECD economy to the USSRs economy.
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
I've heard it said that there is a line of business wherein you buy a software company, cut costs as much as possible, and start milking existing customers. The company you buy will not grow, or be expected to last many years, but the
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
Ugh, an annoying trend has been ppl grouping in unrelated services under the moniker of 'social media'. They are putting in so many different types of interactions that the label loses most of it's meaning. Then again I have
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
The algo described in the 'constraint propigation' section was basically how I implemented my sodoku solver, and it basically can do 99% of all puzzles thrown at it. And it wasn't particularly complicated.
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
"Yep, for all it’s business know-how HN just doesn’t understand this one." TBF his argument comes down to 'putting money into the company is too risky', which does go against the method of startups which is to pour huge
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
It's actually the reverse of how a bank makes money, they take on sell long term debts and buy short term debts.
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
I reckon the guy in the article was referring to COBOL basically having fixed sized data structures. Having all your data structures of a fixed size does allow for alot of optimizations that would otherwise not be available. However, you c
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
Would be interesting to see if it went up linearly or some other function of the number of ppl. Also, what do they define as a 'bystander'? If it's ppl with pre-existing relationships (which would not be clear from CC footage
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
The problem it's solving is the DOM being unsuited to writing the kind of applications that MFC and Swing are used for writing. (which, for the web, is a SPA)
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by Tehdasi 8y ago
from google define: "a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups." There's difference between appeals to certain groups vs. what is i
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by Tehdasi 8y ago
> - is literally WinForms. It's a 90s era GUI toolkit. I fail to see how this is a problem, mostly because the job it was designed to do (build guis for desktop applications) has seen little innovation since the 90s.
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by Tehdasi 8y ago
The reason why games have such large files is that the fastest way of loading a game is to do a serial read of the data, ergo the large files.
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by Tehdasi 8y ago
My company does actually give a subsidy to health care, so it's not a totally alien concept in Australia. But it's pretty rare.
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by Tehdasi 8y ago
The difference between the US and China is the US makes the bases to cement alliances (well mostly), which is why the US is wanted in those countries. China is doing it to cement their hegemony, which the populous of host countries are not
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by Tehdasi 8y ago
> At the time it looked utterly distinctive to all its competitors http://www.knowyourmobile.com/products/2404/lg-ke850-prada-t... Unsurprisingly a touchphone developed prior to the iphone also is a slab of bla
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by Tehdasi 8y ago
It's more DOM vs. whatever framework. DOM is very good for laying out webpages, but seriously falls over when trying to do layout for applications. The layout of the frameworks you mention are all designed around making application lay
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by Tehdasi 8y ago
> There is no way for any toolkit that's doing its rendering in WebAssembly to match font rendering with your operating system. It's just pixels. Barring patents a wasm program can text any goddamn way it wants to.
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by Tehdasi 8y ago
Sortof, if you are reading via a web based reader, the service itself only reads the feed once, and the users view the cached version.
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by Tehdasi 9y ago
> needing a weird combination of skills, can be solved by hiring people with half or a third of the expertise you need and training people. I'll add that companies don't mention their internal tools/libraries/current
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by Tehdasi 9y ago
"If you're not part of the solution, there is good money to be made in prolonging the problem"
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by Tehdasi 9y ago
> I think controversy is not that building more has no effect on rent prices - of course more supply drives prices down. After reading many internet conversations on property, the idea that supply drives down prices in property is far fr