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by adwhit 9y ago
Worth noting that Labour's manifesto mentions investigating a Land Value Tax as a replacement for council tax and business rates [0]. OK, unlikely to happen, but the best chance we have for reform in the near-to-medium term. [0] http:
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by adwhit 9y ago
The capitalists who funded the mass propaganda effort to deny the reality of climate change - what is their endgame? Are they simply hoping to maintain the status quo as long as possible and bleed the planet (and public) dry in the meantime
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by adwhit 10y ago
To be clear, Rust only panics from integer overflow when in debug mode. In release mode it will silently overflow just as happily as C.
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by adwhit 10y ago
London is far too diverse for this comparison to make sense. It has ten times the population of San Francisco. If you think London is a particular way, it is probably because the bit of London you are in is that way.
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by adwhit 10y ago
I second this. Build a compiler from scratch. Main annoyance is that it uses SML - most readers are likely to want to use OCaml, and it's a bit fiddly translating between the two.
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by adwhit 10y ago
You need glfw3. sudo apt-get install libglfw3 libglfw3-dev
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by adwhit 10y ago
These sorts of articles are starting to pop up a bit more frequently, presumably because Rust is starting to get a bit of traction. The theme is "I know $LOW_LEVEL_LANGUAGE therefore I should be able to program Rust. I spent a few days
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by adwhit 10y ago
It's a little underwhelming: [0] I enjoyed visiting Tokio (Tokyo) the city and I liked the "io" suffix and how it plays w/ Mio as well. I don't know... naming is hard so I didn't spend too much time
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by adwhit 10y ago
This was my first thought. Of course their jobs can be automated. Automation increases the productivity of the average employee to the point where fewer employees are needed. Investment bankers are extremely vulnerable to this given how muc
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by adwhit 10y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but when wasm is fully established I expect to see (another) step change in the complexity of the web. Fully-featured applications, 3D, VR, AR etc. We are on the brink of it already. And beyond a
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by adwhit 10y ago
Rust is indeed known for memory safety and zero cost abstractions. But there is another side to Rust which is even more interesting - a type system that is almost as powerful as those of functional languages like OCaml and Haskell, but wrap
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by adwhit 10y ago
Write your Rust app. Compile to a binary on the backend, wasm on the frontend, using asyncio to communicate transparently between the two. Update the DOM directly from wasm, with 60fps rendering from Servo's WebRender. Totally typesaf
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by adwhit 10y ago
One of the points Piketty makes in his book is that the rich generally aren't the heroic creative geniuses of Ayn Rand's imagination. Most wealth is inherited. Wealth grows faster than the economy at large. The rich get richer. Th
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by adwhit 10y ago
I await a bikeshed about the precise meaning of bikeshed.
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by adwhit 10y ago
I'll be the unfashionable person that agrees with you, then. Most developers (workers in general) at worst are merely pointless. I think you could easily make the argument that working in banking (/oil/marketing/think ta
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by adwhit 10y ago
Video is a high-bandwidth way of delivering information at a low bandwidth. But try watching tech videos at 1.5 speed, it makes them much more engaging. Also works for ponderous anime.
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by adwhit 10y ago
If only someone had warned us! We would have prevented this! Seriously though, interesting that climate change has been in the news a lot since Trump got elected. As if anything useful was being done beforehand. As if we previously had some
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by adwhit 10y ago
It really is a terrible indictment of HN that it could be the top comment. We should be 15 years beyond these kind of smears.
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by adwhit 10y ago
I don't think many people blame globalisation. They blame neoliberalism, of which globalisation is just a small part. Neoliberalism is a political project that has been dominant in the West since the mid '80s. Other elements of ne
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by adwhit 10y ago
Karhoo were trying to do far more than Uber. They were partnering with hundreds of minicab firms around London. Each firm was supposed to report their taxi's locations and availabilities back to Karhoo at regular intervals. Karhoo then
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by adwhit 10y ago
The renovation has been underway for years now. Apple are simply taking out a lease on some of the new office space. I love the building but the surrounding area is ground zero for grotesque property speculation in London. Recently it looke
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by adwhit 10y ago
Obviously the tax-evadee can expect some reward from the tax-evader. Throwing a few thousand jobs Ireland's way is the least Apple could do.
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by adwhit 10y ago
Perhaps I should have been more explicit - "Masters of the Universe" is a phrase used to refer to financial capital in general.
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by adwhit 10y ago
Amusing that Ireland are going to appeal a decision which results in their receiving billions of dollars. They accurately calculate that a few billion is scant compensation if the Masters of the Universe then choose to go elsewhere for thei
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by adwhit 10y ago
I will upvote any HN article about climate change! I really want the tech community to start seriously panicking about this stuff. They after all have the skills and the influence to do something about it.
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by adwhit 10y ago
I spent a lot of time learning new languages and filling in my missing computer-science education. You can do a lot in 3 months if you have no distractions! I was probably there 60 - 70 hours a week and have never managed to hit such a swee
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by adwhit 10y ago
Recurse center (nee Hackerschool) changed my life. I was a miserable PhD student, playing around with poor-quality datasets, battling office politics and learning a bit of Python on the side. Saw Recurse Center as an opportunity to see if I
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by adwhit 10y ago
I was just thinking about this today, after I ran out of time in an online interview where I had to write code to correct the formatting of various strings (add spaces, capitalize etc). I was given 20 minutes. I thought, I would have nailed
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by adwhit 10y ago
You should panic for purely selfish reasons. There will be huge migrations caused by global warming, literally billions of people, and they're probably going to want to live where you are now. They may not get there, but at the very le
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by adwhit 10y ago
A 99% chance that this year will be the hottest on record. [0] I would say that now is time to panic, but the time to panic was twenty years ago. Perhaps the West will pass from 'apathy' directly to 'resignation' and ski

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