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by africanboy 6y ago
on one hand I agree with you, on the other hand it's very hard to apply the same kpis we use for other countries, given the size of China. For example the city of Beijing has the same GDP of Sweden and Belgium and it's not far fr
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by africanboy 6y ago
I imagine that nobody in that position is actually free to say whatever may be on their mind. EDIT: as an example: Larry Page hadn't spoken in public (and been heard of on the news) for 3 years before retiring. Where are Brin and Page
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by africanboy 6y ago
it's me that have to thank you Professor for your work! I was at Code Mesh in 2018 in London to attend your "ULTRACONCURRENCY IS THE FUTURE OF PROGRAMMING" presentation Meeting you and Joe Armstrong in the same place has been
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by africanboy 6y ago
> Imagine an alternative universe where the FSF had invested significant time an resources in developing a Savannah that actually, you know, worked well. it works well enough for those who use it I guess But I also like to imagine a worl
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by africanboy 6y ago
> The FSF is Free Software's worst enemy. That's a bold claim, but since I don't have a horse in this race my opinion is that FOSS space is huge and one size fits all is not possible anymore. They can't make everybody
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by africanboy 6y ago
> but the whole concept of “progressive” web apps is to be resilient to these variations Your confusion comes from your personal definition of "Progressive Web App" For sure the confusion starts from their name, but in short «
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by africanboy 6y ago
It's funny that we are both being downvoted by the same people that think they could do better than Stallman, but are usually younger (sometimes much younger) than the FSF itself. I was merely 10 years old when it was started, so basic
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by africanboy 6y ago
According to this comment, he did better than any other leader in the World. > Alienating of many people who are generally keen on most of the Free Software principles Did donations went up or down during his leadership? And what happene
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by africanboy 6y ago
> let's move on and talk about effective leadership for the movement instead. Let's move on and welcome Stallman back, because we need him more than those that slandered him. Let's also talk about what should change so it
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by africanboy 6y ago
but every person that falsely accuse an autistic of something he hasn't done, is.
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by africanboy 6y ago
> you say something bad, you deserve bad back But he didn't, he was falsely accused. So maybe the people that accused him deserve something bad back too.
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by africanboy 6y ago
> But he is not good at being a leader Don't 35 years leading the FSF say otherwise? Judging from the reactions in the FSF community to his coming back, people were missing him.
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by africanboy 6y ago
Finally! When the Garrets of the World are defeated by facts, it's always a good day.
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by africanboy 6y ago
it's very easy to order the responses once you received them, it's a different problem from the original one, parallel sorting doesn't depend on the order, every chunk is ordered independently and returned to the caller, unle
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by africanboy 6y ago
probably you haven't realized it, but the person you are replying to is Carl Hewitt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hewitt
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by africanboy 6y ago
it's true, but that's a problem every other implementation suffer from. synchronization is a basic requirement in concurrency. in my experience the actor model implemented in Erlang provides simpler solutions to the problem as hig
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by africanboy 6y ago
I think OP is implying that if Safari is the only one lacking a feature that is part of the W3C standard[1], Safari is at fault. [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/push-api/
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by africanboy 6y ago
restaurants use pasta cookers[1], they use brands of pasta that they already know and don't need to taste it (also because it's a system that doesn't scale) they already know the cooking time. Of course is not a science, some
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by africanboy 6y ago
Europe has the same number of Fortune 500 companies than North America. The largest market for European companies is Europe itself.
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by africanboy 6y ago
Has anybody already mentioned "reginette" here? https://pastidea.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/762-TRAFILA-...
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by africanboy 6y ago
as an Italian, according to my personal understanding, "al dente" means the point where pasta is cooked but not yet overcooked (it starts becoming softer). The meaning of cooked and overcooked depends a lot on personal taste, but
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by africanboy 6y ago
they do not, because that's not what their name means spaghetti = little strings vermicelli = tiny worms
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by africanboy 6y ago
or they had killed each other already. https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/news/20190722/guns-in-home-g...
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by africanboy 6y ago
> "correlation does not equal causation" I'm familiar with the concept and I do not want to change your mind. I also wish the best for everybody too, I lived in the USA and still have many friends there and many of them, o
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by africanboy 6y ago
> . Unfortunately I don't know of any community that has erradicated crime and dangerous animals. I agree, risk zero does not exists, but there is a lot that can be done before platoeing To put things in perspective, these are some
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by africanboy 6y ago
Because I am from Italy and lived in Zurich for 4 years. You really thought that an African boy couldn't possibly know? Seriously?
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by africanboy 6y ago
I don't predicate ownership, first of all. Secondly: Americans own too many guns and that's stupid. third: USA is the richest country in the Worlsd and the largest owner of guns on the planet, so please don't make it a class
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by africanboy 6y ago
> Fix the situation before you expect them to relax. The only way to fix the situation, in my opinion, is gun control. People are worried, admitting that's the main motive, because there are too many armed people around.
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by africanboy 6y ago
> Nope, "units of work" is features delivered, bugs fixed, new people trained and so on Wrong: in a salaried job units of work is hours. Unless your contract says otherwise. > As the parent commenter said, if you can do it i
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by africanboy 6y ago
> The way it’s supposed to work is if you’re salaried/exempt, you’re getting paid to do a job, not for a specific number of hours That's the opposite of how it is supposed to work when you are on salary. You are paid for units

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