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by Tloewald 11y ago
I think the point is for consumers to bear the cost and vote with their wallet. The problem is that the disposal costs of stuff aren't borne directly by the consumer (e.g. as a disposal tax) but collectively by the community. It&#x27
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Aside from the inherent foolishness of shipping water around in small containers to people with faucets, how is Coke the problem? Back when they had glass bottles, they reused them. They use recyclable packing for everything and along with
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Beating a dead horse: This article is great for a reasonably knowledgeable programmer to read and think "oh yes, this really nails what a complex and subtle and deep thing programming is, how astonishing it is that when I type a key so
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by Tloewald 11y ago
He's trying to engineer a solution to the drought . Engineering a solution to X does not imply X does not exist; that would be stupid. But if we want to dwell on semantics -- a drought is defined as being an aberration from some n
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Really? Surely the content has to be considered. (I love being downmodded for making a simple statement of truth.) And, frankly, the article is well-written, but hardly superb.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
It's like being an Apple user from the early days when most computer programmers thought having a GUi or user interface standards was for wimps. Now every other person at Starbucks has a Mac or iPhone, and even Linux users claim to car
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by Tloewald 11y ago
A keyboard is just as optional as a typewriter. When I first learned to program the device I learned on did not have a keyboard in the sense described; many people have learned to program by, e.g. Flipping switches on a panel. The first com
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Such as?
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by Tloewald 11y ago
And it was also doing the job of your telephone.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
The author has no shortage of fawning adoration for the piece.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
WIC seemed to me more like a self indulgent brain dump than a work of art or a useful piece of information. First of all, it treats code as being somehow uniquely impenetrable as a value proposition - when we have plenty of similar examples
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by Tloewald 11y ago
The title of the article assumes a drought. The sentence in question is arguing that there is enough water, using the word drought casually (I don't think the writer is arguing whether technically a drought exists). The basic point is
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Even without the 38" year the average rainfall still makes the argument work; quoting a 4" deficit and singling out the highest year is disingenuous. The lowest year was also an outlier.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Exactly — the stuff on keeping a mail register essentially amounts to manually creating the equivalent of an email client, complete with tracking conversation threads, subject lines, figuring out which messages need replies, and which messa
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by Tloewald 11y ago
The article isn't arguing that there's not a drought, it's arguing that even in a drought Southern California wastes more water (runoff) than it consumes and it would be easy to capture and use it.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
No, I'm just pointing out the sticking ads next to content from other people without paying them is a huge part of Google's business model. By the way, in what way does anyone consent to having google ads show up in search results
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by Tloewald 11y ago
When you search for, say, Apple developer information in Google, Google sticks ads in the results next to links to Apple's content. Does it pay Apple?
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Seems to me that it's the computer-illiterate relatives that install all kinds of crap...
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by Tloewald 11y ago
As an aside, Bézier curves were invented at Renault.
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The price of Lego isn't the problem. It's the tiny, over specialized parts.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I was referring to this: $ swift Welcome to Swift! Type :help for assistance. 1> 3.14 * 2.5 * 2.5 $R0: Double = 19.625 2> println("The area of the circle is \($R0)") The area of the circle is 19.625 3> 4> $R0
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by Tloewald 11y ago
So, it's all going to happen just like they said it would if for "breakthrough new computer technology" you read "existing computer technology" and for "new operating system" you read "Linux port&quot
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by Tloewald 11y ago
It does seem like a rather odd line. A scanner that could do this might be useful -- a printer doing it would be kind of nutty.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I like the style, brevity, and practicality of the book (at least the first few chapters; haven't read it all yet). Good stuff and good luck with it. I did find the first few examples with the REPL to be a bit confusing. Were you using
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I assumed you were talking about there being a well-defined relationship between a struct definition and its layout in memory. As far as I know, Swift can allocate chunks of memory and play with bytes explicitly without resorting to assembl
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Sandboxing affects obj-c and swift code too.
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I'm not sure Apple would go far out of its way to help such users.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
> Why would I ever care about Go for Android when I can write apps in Kotlin Power consumption.
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It seems to me that Microsoft and Apple are -- quite consciously -- in a war to own the next ubiquitous language (the precursors being Javascript, PHP, Java, C++, C, Fortran, and COBOL). This is the language that Comp Sci students will spen
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by Tloewald 11y ago
To write an OS you simply need to be able to compile code that can be launched by a bootloader. That's it. You don't need explicit control over the layout of your data structures in memory. I'd hazard that the engineers at Ap

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