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by amag 10y ago
Dunno what GCC is doing but a statically linked C++ "Hello World" built by MSVC is about 140k and for C it's about half that.
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by amag 10y ago
I agree, I'm going to save that URL for any future discussions on HN regarding anything.
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by amag 10y ago
A man's life ruined. The cost to society of imprisoning a person for life. Over something that's worth what, $5? Probably less. I guess now every person in California pays > $5 each for his imprisonment. If he were to be proper
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by amag 10y ago
This is where I find the Norwegian prison system interesting. It seems their prisons are just pretty remote "villages" more like monasteries where the prisoners work together. ASFAIK they are much more successful in rehabilitating
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by amag 10y ago
Well, in most legal systems having a prior will very likely increase the sentence.
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by amag 10y ago
Only in this specific case it's exactly one line of code. Unless your hourly rate is obscenely high it is essentially a free optimization.
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by amag 10y ago
This very much depends on the countries. For instance Swedish companies typically have very flat hierarchies, much more so than US companies. In fact when a US company buys a Swedish company often several layers of managerial hierarchy is a
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by amag 11y ago
A bit late maybe, but GPL does not only hinder proprietary software, it also prevents the use of a more permissive license, such as MIT. Personally I would never GPL any of my code because of this. I prefer a more permissive license (such
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by amag 11y ago
Maybe they are already looking for crewing up Ark Fleet Ship B. The rest of us will come along shortly...
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by amag 11y ago
Personally I see throwing a tantrum is something a kid does. If an adult does it, it just seems immature. I've seen executives throw tantrums at their underlings and of course get away with it. However in doing so I'm pretty sure
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by amag 11y ago
Oh, yeah, Sweden got that too. A "nice" organization called copyswede that tries to claim that all digital media is used for storing music, so we must pay a tax, per MB, for all storage media. The irony of it all, since Spotify, a
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by amag 11y ago
Well, it seems stupidity abounds in a lot of countries when it comes to copyright. The supreme court of Sweden just ruled that taking a photo of a piece of public art (as in art in an open and public space, not even a gallery or museum
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by amag 11y ago
You don't? Beer's the ultimate veggie!
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by amag 11y ago
I think (L)GPL has reached a point where in most cases it is self-defeating. It does not encourage adaption in the same way for example MIT does. This means that copy-left becomes a moot point. Open-source is happening (just look at Microso
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by amag 11y ago
While I do agree that there could be a lot of peer pressure etc to not take parental leave, there are some interesting things with their policy which makes me think it's great: 1. That it's fully paid alleviates the money discussi
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by amag 11y ago
Look at Japan for what will happen then, just last week I heard that the biggest producer of diapers in Japan sells more of the adult sized version than the baby sized one. The population problem is a result of some people having too many c
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by amag 11y ago
Maybe if you look at it as the Business recognizes that the child may one day be an employee of the Business or a consumer of its products. That makes the parent very productive (not only does it produce value for the Business today, but al
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by amag 11y ago
> Etsy defends the right to maternal leave Actually it's gender neutral. So I hope a lot of dads at Etsy also take the opportunity (as it's fully paid you'd be nuts not to take it).
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by amag 11y ago
Nah, it was shoddy work. Compare Terminator 2 which was 25 years ago.
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by amag 11y ago
It was designed with a low price and low energy footprint in mind. Each extra component has a price and energy cost.
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by amag 11y ago
Yeah, I hate comments at the end of a line of code. No good can ever come from having a comment on the same line as code, it only encourages completely meaningless comments like: int a = 0; /* assign 0 to a */ a += 5; &#x
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by amag 11y ago
I don't understand why you're being down-voted. I mean I want to scream "NO!" to what you said, but against my will (I love books) I have to concur. Same as in all other branches of the entertainment industry too much cr
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by amag 11y ago
Ah, but it doesn't. That would be a logical fallacy. Germany could have another reason for regulating barbers. My original comment wasn't about the regulation of barbers in general, it was about regulating them in the US (which wa
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by amag 11y ago
Germany != Sweden
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by amag 11y ago
> You mean there are no "safety reasons" involved in cutting hair? Ah, but this isn't really for "safety reasons", it's for "legal reasons". Sweden is widely regarded as one of the (if not the) mos
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by amag 11y ago
> (and really, I hate to have to say this, but that's all standup is for) Hehe, this earned a +1 from me. I've had standups where the scrum master (who also was a lead developer) spent the first 15 minutes talking about what
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by amag 11y ago
I've found that tracking tools are good to have even at times when I've been able to work in the manner of freedom the article describes. It's just that they are used differently, more in a way to help remember things. Things
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by amag 11y ago
100% of what stock, didn't Bezos own everything?
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by amag 11y ago
Yeah, I know, I realized that as I wrote it, but I guess I like to be out in the woods and do some heavy labor. A bit of a simplification maybe, but as a lumberjack there are N+2 moving parts you need to care about, the saw, the tree and N
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by amag 11y ago
Yeah, that and a lack of responsibility sometimes attracts me. My whole career (+15yrs) has basically been in industries where things are not allowed to go wrong. Some days I wish I was a lumberjack or maybe a programmer in an industry wher

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