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by _yosefk 11y ago
I don't know about uptime, but most of the new programming languages have no undefined behavior (a Java program always behaves as a Java program whatever your bugs are), while most of the old languages do have undefined behavior (even
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Unlike the other political comments, this one is on topic and, in my humble opinion, very funny!
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Erm... isn't the actual root cause of the problem raised in TFA the opposite of debasement ? Namely excess supply of people who're willing to go into academia to "do the most essential work in society", whatever the ter
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by _yosefk 11y ago
These numbers can be explained with IBM having peaked before Microsoft which in turn peaked before Apple in terms of product development. So Apple's revenues are still growing fast, Microsoft's are growing more slowly and IBM&#x27
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Your link says John Major instituted a fixed exchange rate regime and made pounds overpriced. Soros didn't even break the news (a German official did), he just made the most profit shorting the pound. I wouldn't call it "brea
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by _yosefk 11y ago
You're probably right (and you'll remain right if "Soros" is replaced with the name of many, many people), but I don't think you're the kind of source the grandparent asks for; I think they wanted evidence that
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by _yosefk 11y ago
It's pretty easy to hack a comment form so that there's no real heavyweight craptcha but on the other hand a bot will not know to fill it unless your site is specifically targeted. Security by obscurity. Works like a charm for me.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I use WordPress, a huge PHP blob with a database, for my self-hosted blog. I somewhat agree with the parent and sister comments in that, as a programmer, the way these things work irks me out. However, I don't agree with the apparently
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by _yosefk 11y ago
As someone who isn't a native English speaker, I've long noticed that, as you mention, "minority" doesn't mean "the opposite of majority" (I'm not sure since when, or exactly what it does mean; you
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I wasn't arguing with your analysis of the differences between asking different people different questions and asking everyone the same questions but then holding different people to different standards. I was only arguing that "d
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By "investing", you mean front-running the central bank, right?
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How is "discriminating against a group" different from "balancing its overwhelming predominance in a particular field"? The dictionary definition of "discrimination" says there's no difference. Is the defi
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by _yosefk 11y ago
That's me alright, but I think my comment in this instance didn't warrant the claim about "religious dimensions." Having a firm opinion and using (OMG) the word "shit" when stating it does not mean it's a
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Well, your definition of bad C++ devs may differ from mine or Google's. Or it might not, but for all I know, you might require knowledge of arcana that I don't care about, even when I happen to know it. To me success includes bein
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I didn't mean that energy prices are affected by a guy on HN voicing his opinions on them, just that many people become more likely to voice their opinion because of having a position, because they feel good when they convince others,
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I don't deny that there are useful features in C++11/14 (though I find "modern C++" an irksome marketing trick by people peddling a disgusting programming language; it was called "modern" since at least the ear
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by _yosefk 11y ago
...and ugliness is software's!
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by _yosefk 11y ago
> Google is still just another enterprisey megacorp employing 30000 blub programmers. Expect the usual 'enterprise' failures. Ouch! That must have hurt 'em. Of course the original meaning of "Blub" is "anyth
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Well, prediction markets do better than polls, but actual financial markets are in part prediction markets and they do pretty badly at times and sometimes there's a guy who calls a bubble long before it pops. And that guy doesn't
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Erm... * QE was tremendously inflationary for all asset prices, including real estate prices which are not called "consumer prices" but it's not that easy to buy the argument behind it. Certainly for a lot of folks, real esta
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I don't know if a guy "putting his money where his mouth is" is more or less trustworthy than a guy who isn't: * If I have a position, I'll want to convince everyone that I'm right because it'll make me r
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by _yosefk 11y ago
That programs and libraries get installed in a consistent place is nice in some ways I guess, but for me it's always been terrible, since it's more often than not really hard to install multiple versions of the same program or lib
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Of course he does! And I'm already mentally preparing to part with a large share of that money which I have left after paying the income tax, the capital gains tax and those other taxes. ("The rich" will not mean Warren Buffe
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Interesting! How are they taxing "illiquid" assets like real estate, paintings or jewelry?
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Generally, however funny or bad this sounds, justice isn't the only objective of a justice system - various kinds of impact on behavior are other reasonable goals (you might believe three strike laws to be just but oppose them because
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I think Stalin gained influence in part by "having the goods" on a lot of people, but I don't have a citation on that. This didn't happen in a democracy to begin with, however, there was much more open discussion and dis
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Well, yeah, I'm just saying it wasn't a picnic at 40nm or 90nm, either. It didn't go from a walk in the park to a nightmare at 28nm. Also I believe all the bugs in TFA are logical bugs where the circuit would have misbehaved
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Not that I believe the Russian economy to be better-run than the American, but right now the US does have the big advantage over just about everyone else of being able to print the world's reserve currency, which makes it easier to mak
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I figured you were an Arab Muslim. FYI, Israel has affirmative action where Arabs have a lower standard of admission into medical schools, for example; "racism", perhaps, but of a different sort (which is not to say that no Israel
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by _yosefk 11y ago
"Agree as well" with what? I basically said the US killed far more people for far worse reasons - do you agree that Israel is different in that sense? What about Russia where Intel operates and which invaded Georgia and Ukraine? D

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