anon1385

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by anon1385 12y ago
If Uber drivers do not have valid insurance[1] then the only "choice" I can make to avoid that is to not use public highways at all (an uninsured Uber driver can crash into me even if I'm not an Uber customer). I'm sorry
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by anon1385 12y ago
I can't even tell if you are being sarcastic or not. Either way I certainly wouldn't hire you. Edit: Perhaps you should keep this in mind next time you declare 99% of programmers incompetent because they made a typo when you aske
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by anon1385 12y ago
It appears that you have replied to the wrong post, otherwise your comment makes no sense.
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by anon1385 12y ago
In the case of Uber it's not just the regulatory cost that is being pushed onto the drivers but the capital risk of vehicle purchase and maintenance as well.
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by anon1385 12y ago
Pushing those kinds of costs onto the drivers seems to be one of the main points of Uber. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/understanding-the-econom... >Since no one can provide plausible Uber growth theories base
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by anon1385 12y ago
>uninitialised variables are warned against when compiling with the (hopefully standard) -Wall -Werror Not with GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18501 https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla&#x
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Curfew tags – the gory details(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
2 points by anon1385 12y ago|0 comments
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by anon1385 12y ago
>The nicest part of it is the built-in hash table type and the related syntactic sugar that everyone for whatever reasons insists on calling "object". People call it an object because that is what it is. If your code is using J
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by anon1385 12y ago
On the other hand, people use open source to market themselves to promote their talks, books and consultancy gigs. You have to accept the negative sides of that as well. People will start to question the motivations of your contributions. P
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Understanding the Economics of Uber(talkingpointsmemo.com)
4 points by anon1385 12y ago|1 comments
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by anon1385 12y ago
The common agricultural policy is largely an ecological and humanitarian disaster. However, it's only one aspect of the EU, and most of the member states would have similar subsidies if they were outside the EU anyway. Even the anti-E
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by anon1385 12y ago
What is the alternative to Google Adwords, that has anything like the same reach?
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by anon1385 12y ago
You can tell that this is a carefully rehearsed PR account since the issues at Coinbase never was about "cancelled orders". That's a very literal and lawyerly rebuttal of Istof's comment. A trustworthy human being would
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by anon1385 12y ago
Cameron is planing to make encryption illegal: >Cameron, still speaking in the Commons, says he does not believe it is acceptable that there should be internet communications that authorities are not permitted to intercept. The governmen
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by anon1385 12y ago
Somewhat amusingly, it was actually a remarkably comparable situation. There was a significant populist anti-relativity movement in Germany in the 1920s: http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/news/features/feature
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by anon1385 12y ago
Chrome is the only browser to support WebP, as far as I know (I don't really count modern Opera or Chrome on Android as separate browsers). That was why I made the comparison.
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by anon1385 12y ago
That has become the modern accepted wisdom among some people, yes. There are some people today (e.g Mozilla) arguing that WebP isn't better than plain old jpeg either. So maybe in 5-10 years everybody will "know" that WebP wa
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by anon1385 12y ago
I do find it slightly strange that saving a few bytes from the size of an image is suddenly of such pressing importance that we need to resort to all these hacks. JPEG2000 has been available in some browsers for years and years now, but I&#
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by anon1385 12y ago
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/ There are libraries for doing it in Javascript: https://www.npmjs.org/package/grapheme-breaker (is that part of the Firefox UI done in Javascript? I'
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by anon1385 12y ago
>Patents stop them (JPEG2000 is not a free format). Oh please, stop with this FUD. JPEG2000 is no different to Ogg or VP8 in that regard, both of which Mozilla is happy to ship. It was designed to be usable without having to licence any
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by anon1385 12y ago
>Not completely. Proprietary modules and forks of both exist, so in the broadest sense they are not This is also true of GCC. Lots of organisations have private forks and the GPL allows that. More generally, if somebody offers 'comp
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by anon1385 12y ago
>Nothing stops Mozilla from supporting JPEG2000 except their nasty attitude in general. JPEG2000 is actually supported by many image editors, unlike APNG. I think in most of these cases the real reasons are more mundane - spending the re
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by anon1385 12y ago
pg has mentioned in the past that he would like to ban techcrunch, but couldn't do so because they provide so much coverage of his startups. Submissions from bullshit SV news sites is the price you pay for using a site that primarily e
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by anon1385 12y ago
>As for image formats, there was a table going around Twitter that I can't find now showing implementation of new image formats by browser. Basically Google implemented WebP, Microsoft implemented JPEG XR, and Apple implemented JPEG
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by anon1385 12y ago
Non-Mozilla technologies are not welcome in Firefox and never have been. That is why we have been stuck for 15 years without a lossy image format that supports transparency (meanwhile they put lots of effort into supporting an animated png
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by anon1385 12y ago
>Making a thread-safe GC perform as well as today's highly-optimized single-threaded GCs is hard. That is entirely a problem of your own making. You decided to bet hard on single threaded dynamic Javascript being a suitable model fo
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by anon1385 12y ago
>Am I missing something? No not really. Just web developers being excited that the lords and masters who control their s̶h̶a̶c̶k̶l̶e̶s̶ sandbox have dropped them a few crumbs allowing them to compete with the native software of 1996.
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by anon1385 12y ago
By being cheaper and by doing what AirBNB did - scrapping and spamming.
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by anon1385 12y ago
Because somebody seemed surprised that people expected this to be illegal. The fact that it is illegal in a large number of countries is a useful datapoint, and shows that the initial reaction of "shouldn't this be illegal" i
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by anon1385 12y ago
>Interesting: when I try to post that link as a URL the submission is '[dead]' on HackerNews. Why? Because it's a site calling out the user-screwing acquisitions that Y-Combinator exists to make money from.

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