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by aikah 11y ago
> they got paid higher wages, and got treated with a lot more dignity over it This. But I guess working conditions will need to go back to early 20th century ones for people to find out how low can things go without bargaining power.
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by aikah 11y ago
> Given Microsoft's recent moves towards a freemium desktop operating system It's not even free. New computers still pay licenses for windows 10. The "free" upgrade offer ends in July.
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by aikah 11y ago
> Does make bring out people's conservative side or something? Misuse of tools in software development is why we end up with broken software, useless solutions that solve stupid problems because the problem wasn't well underst
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by aikah 11y ago
> but for long-running processes like file watching, dev servers, hot reloading, etc. I don't think anybody should use make to do that at first place. That's not what make was built for. Likewise Foreman should not be used as a
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by aikah 11y ago
> It's funny how a company like Google making Billions from ads, having ton of smart engineers, have never figured out during the last decade how to "scan ads for malware". Google claims they are doing just that : https:&
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by aikah 11y ago
Or better, as a consumer get more value for your money by pressuring companies to stop shitty business practices through activism. And how can you "vote with your wallet" in an industry that is de facto an oligopoly ? it's no
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by aikah 11y ago
> When I buy a plane ticket I only buy it for the privilege of being flown from one area of the country to the other Sure you want to pay for a confortable flight that will not make you feel totally exhausted or in bad shape once you lan
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by aikah 11y ago
> Maybe engineers are just more likely to be effective extremists? No , it's just that the educated are just more likely to become ideologues (thus more dangerous) because more articulate than the common thug. Ben Laden was an educa
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> Everyone should learn at least one functional programming language and try to apply what they learned in other languages. But if functional programming languages want to become popular, they have to be less about puzzle solving. Becaus
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by aikah 11y ago
First time I hear about mob programming. > http://mobprogramming.org/ so it's pair programming, but with 10 people in front of the same computer ?
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by aikah 11y ago
> "Reverse racism" is not a real thing. I swear people invent ways to feel persecuted Reverse racism is certainly a real thing. Bigotry against white people is certainly a real thing. Go spend 5 minutes on salon.com, come back
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by aikah 11y ago
> generic maps but no other containers Yet it feels like magics. Why just maps? why not sets, with useful set methods ? (union...) . It doesn't feel consistant in a statically typed language. It also feel like a mistrust of the dev
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> News organizations do NOT like these impenetrable homogenous conservative culture A good thing that Japanese people care very little about what the "Gaijin" thinks.
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> You do what most countries do What country with a declining population did this and succeeded ?
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by aikah 11y ago
> Is nobody willing to acknowledge the reality of genetically inherited IQ? What are you saying? are you really saying the lighter the skin the more "intelligent" one is? Ceteris paribus ? you know it's ridiculous and you
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by aikah 11y ago
First, I must say, whoever is downvoting you it's not me. > Instead, I was describing a very real phenomenom which may have been overlooked in the article. Ok, I understand and I agree with you then. > Not sure if you or I should
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by aikah 11y ago
> the "only black person in the room" I can't begin to understand how it is an issue, and I'm black (and European). I don't care about the color or the sex of my coworkers. What difference does it make? you can&#
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by aikah 11y ago
> I can't tell the difference between a native app and a JS Cordova one Sure, what kind of app are you writing ? games ? a video player ? a messaging app like Telegram ? a background activity on Android ? of course if it's a b
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by aikah 11y ago
> Presumably having broken the terms of the agreement, you'd be able to sue them for any damages. The "loophole" is there is no way to sue when the host is illegally subletting his apartment at first place. And a good bunc
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> I think that gofmt is particularly innovative, in the sense that it acknowledges that formatting is integral part of the language. gofmt is still optional. Python significant white spaces are not.
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by aikah 11y ago
async/await is not in the ECMA spec. It a proposal, like Object.observe(which was discarded) And remember one thing, Nodejs maintainers DO NOT control V8, the javascript engine powering it, they are entirely dependent on what the V8 te
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by aikah 11y ago
Thank you.
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by aikah 11y ago
Well StackMob shut down, and Bing Maps are getting more and more expensive... while it's not that difficult to replace a BaaS, it's another matter for map services. And it's going to get more expensive no question. The time o
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by aikah 11y ago
So there is a crisis at the WM foundation? could you explain for those who are not in the loop? is it about their search engine project?
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by aikah 11y ago
You can unmarshall a JSON document into a map (map[string]interface{}) or implement some interface and unserialize JSON "by hand" with a method. Go type system is flat so it's often hard to express something without being tem
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They are beating Google at their own game. I wouldn't be surprised if Google announced a real desktop OS, since they basically pulled the plug on Chrome OS and Android isn't even fit for Tablet. Microsoft is basically trying to ou
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by aikah 11y ago
Completely off topic but thank you ! I was starting C programming and I was wondering how to check an executable dependencies. If I were to package an executable which was dynamically linked to use it on another computer without recompiling
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by aikah 11y ago
+1 for msys2 and pacman. I was able to compile rather obscure libraries with next to no effort thanks to this. It's simple and straight forward. pacman -S msys/apackage I had very little linux experience in the past and
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by aikah 11y ago
Thanks for your testimony, so that service did make money. What was the name of the company that build it at first place?
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by aikah 11y ago
Aside from being an ad network based on data-mining search what did Google successfully monetize ? are they making money with Android directly for instance or is it Ad-sense that is paying for that ?

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