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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> Think of it this way: as soon as someone else has an automated fleet, Uber is finished unless it has its own. This is an existential requirement. But the converse is not true, i.e. even if Uber is the first large scale company operatin
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
I understand the reluctance to use litigation against mega corporations, given that any procedural error can basically cost you your existence, even if the core complaint is very simple.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> A Switch is definitely worth less than the cost of having an attorney prepare even the initial legal complaint against you, let alone setting foot into court. Small claims will be submitted to a collection agency, which will handle the
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> It's really puzzling that Intel would risk the entire company to include features like this. Intel's large scale customers wanted this feature. To Intel, it has been a net asset instead of a liability, and maybe this will sti
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> Sure... but if I've got the money You don't if you can't buy 2000+ per year.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
That's a very apt description of an automotive OEM's development model.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> But I would wager 99% of home automation consumers won't, don't, or can't do DIY software solutions. It's more about hardware. Good luck getting your fire insurance cover damages when your Alibaba sourced board that
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> Paying taxes is an obligation with which we comply, both to the letter and in spirit. No. You're following it to the letter only, and that's the problem. > Governments should fix tax evasion, not corporations. Globalizatio
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
That's a commendable level of passive-aggressiveness, but the whole affair warrants it. I think it would have been for Intel's and the general public's benefit (given the impact of potential issues) if there had been some coo
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> There are teams of full-time Chinese researchers looking for and reporting vulnerabilities in Android? Are they doing this to win the bug bounties? I hope you are being sarcastic; guess again!
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
Kotlin is a nice successor for Groovy; type inferene instead of dynamic typing, but almost as concise.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> but the thrill of discovery when you stumbled across a gold mine of information was a huge part of the appeal. To be fair, this feeling is very similar to what you feel when finding something really great in your Twitter queue.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
Very nice. I have used both WPF/XAML and QML and definitely find QML's model much more intuitive (anchors make things so much easier). Looking forward to trying it out!
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
It's not necessarily the UI that must have been confusing, it might have been that these modes of operation are inherently confusing.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> Actually, iirc the OpenDocument format also includes an uncompressed, human readable, pure XML format. For some values of "readable" and "human".
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> so "readable without any software" is a good test for wether it's "readable with any sfotware" What an extraordinarily stupid notion. Your filesystem is not readable without a filesystem driver for the specific
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> "the lower deployments are in large part a result of deliberately de-emphasizing commercial and industrial solar energy projects with low profit and limited cash generation." Euphemism for government funding running out.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
Because people don't want to put stupid shit on their face that doen not even have any trace of marginal value. There's no transcendental deeper reason.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
And this has been working for a decade. It's one of the reasons I laugh in their face when a JS developer tries to sell his babel reload crap as progressive.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
Sounds like the combination of the product being mature already and the introduction of static typing that makes maintenance much more safer.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
So, it was probably a UK op.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
Pervasive in the German automotive industry.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> Python, R, Matlab and Excel Mentioning Matlab and Excel immediately puts the product in the category "they know what they are doing" as opposed to "another group of sophomores trying to reinvent data science". I&#x2
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
Here comes another exciting 3 days of fixing random crashes with our medium product build that builds fine on the command line.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
CORBA's IDL was great; we're using a home grown variant for C++/C#/Java/JS interop, and it's much, much better than SWIG. Maybe the problem with a lot of RPC tools is that they conflate serialization format and
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
"Captain, it looks like we have reached a MySpace singularity!"
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> The current President of France met and fell in love with his wife when she was his teacher. Conincidentally, she also has a very rich father.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
Some people insist on being obtuse (coincidentally, I'm looking in the general direction of a template heavy C++ user), and for worse or better, personal preference is a large factor in language adoption as opposed to what works best f
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
Nice to see Windows support. I think first class Windows support is an underrated factor in Rust's adoption as opposed to other similar languages (i.e. it had pretty good Windows support very early).

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