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by adwhit 9y ago
I kind of amazed that Microsoft are still successfully charging SO MUCH for their absolutely run-of-the-mill OS and Office products. Office, in particular, brings in something like $25bn/year revenue with presumably very healthy margin
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by adwhit 9y ago
A real shame that Oxford decided to name their department after an oligarch who expropriated huge wealth out of Russia [1]. Sad to admit I consider any position associated with the Blavatnik name tainted. [1] https://www.theguard
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by adwhit 9y ago
> [Tetris] simply shuffles a list of all 7 pieces, gives those to you in shuffled order, then shuffles them again to make a new list once it’s exhausted. Interesting tidbit! So all the times I've furiously cursed at my gameboy becau
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by adwhit 9y ago
Facebook is a highly addictive attention machine. It is designed that way to serve you ads. Even if you block the ads, you can still get hooked on the machine. Maybe you think that is the same thing as enjoying yourself as you wish. But the
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by adwhit 9y ago
Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lZFnD1U...
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Why It’s OK to Block Ads (2015)(blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk)
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by adwhit 9y ago
I think this is a critical point. I bet that Google has reams of internal research on the use of ad-blockers. I am further willing to bet they have discovered the following: 1) Users say they block ads because they are annoying, rather than
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by adwhit 9y ago
Wonder if this got to the top of the front page because it looks like "Code Rust". It has nothing to do with Rust, of course.
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by adwhit 9y ago
The point is that the landlord becomes wealthier through improvements to the area, for which s/he is not responsible. i.e. they are capturing public investment. Put concretely, my taxes go towards upgrading the Overground Line which im
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by adwhit 9y ago
Rent is an amazingly effective means of redistributing wealth upwards. I have easily paid over £100k rent in my life, always to people substantially richer than I am. Always enjoyed this Churchill quote - from 1909! Roads are made, streets
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by adwhit 9y ago
High productivity, huge trade surplus, low unemployment, very high standard of living
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by adwhit 9y ago
And yet.. Germany has probably the most successful economy in the world. I guess being friendly to startups and freelancers just ain't that important?
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by adwhit 9y ago
Indeed, 1 in 6 are most likely 'struggling' already. The UK ruling class have really done an excellent job of squeezing the life (physical, financial and social) out of the average citizen. I don't think they quite realise wh
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by adwhit 9y ago
ripgrep, exa and now fd... any other CLI tools I should cargo-install?
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by adwhit 9y ago
You might be interested in this paper [0] wherein the authors implement a high-performance GC in Rust. Quoting the abstract: We find that Rust’s safety features do not create significant barriers to implementing a high performance collecto
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by adwhit 9y ago
I would be interested to know what Wes thinks of the Weld project, which seems to have some similar goals, but takes the 'query planner' concept much further. https://weld-project.github.io/
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by adwhit 9y ago
Given that 400+ years of growth has got us into a position where the likelihood is that the planet will be unable to sustain human life within a few hundred years, I'd be curious to find out what future historians will make of the West
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by adwhit 9y ago
Expecting a big publicity drive from Mozilla soon, because if Firefox 57 ends up as snappy as Nightly is right now, it could win back some of the people who want to support Firefox but eventually moved to Chrome for performance reasons. The
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by adwhit 9y ago
Fair enough, I suppose I should have read the guidelines at some point.
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The comments on this article make me absolutely certain that Google has a large PR team patrolling HN. HN may be fairly right-wing but there is an implausible amount of apologetics for one of the world's largest and most powerful compa
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by adwhit 9y ago
Indeed, the value of keeping toilets sanitary is far greater than that of creating the next web app. "This work is essential to the health of the population, but because of something to do with marginal economics and supply and demand
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More like if you had 40 cars and the government said they were going to charge you 90% tax for your 41st. In other words, nothing like that.
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by adwhit 9y ago
Indeed. If only they hadn't given their janitors paid vacation, they'd be in Apple's position right now!
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I think we can all agree that the conservative thing to do is carry on like we are and see if we destroy the planet.
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by adwhit 9y ago
I love the idea that someone got this far into the article, then stopped in a furious rage to fire off a missive to the HN collective. If only they had read on just One. More. Line!
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Indeed, hard to imagine anyone really being upset by any of these industries disappearing. But easy to imagine that in the future people will be incredulous that many of them existed in the first place ("You bought a handbag for 30-tim
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Just to add (written just after 1.0): http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/214016.html I think the above post indicates that he is extremely proud of how Rust turned out.
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by adwhit 9y ago
For 40+ years, the economics profession at large has advocated policies which have massively favored the wealthy over everyone else (globalisation/neoliberalism). The same economists were showered with huge pay packets, consulting fees
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No true Scotsman: "We found a terrifying vulnerability in your codebase. You should rewrite it in modern C++." "OK, done!" <Time passes> "We found a terrifying vulnerability in your codebase. It must not have
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by adwhit 9y ago
It may be true that parser generators are superior from a technical point of view (I can't comment), but parser combinators sure can be nice to use. I very recently used nom to implement a parser for a structured text format, it feels

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