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13111.
by api 11y ago
Is there some high-level document or blog post somewhere that outlines the vision of the systemd developers and why they are building these systems? So far I see a variety of projects (of IMHO varying quality) but no attempt at articulating
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by api 11y ago
"It turns out that somehow, Comey believes that the question of whether to ban encryption without backdoors is “not a technical issue.” He told the senators that “plenty of companies” provide services online while still maintaining the
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by api 11y ago
I didn't know about proxy... that looks interesting. Looks like it might obviate the need for Object.observe so maybe I take that back.
13114.
by api 11y ago
Can observables be implemented efficiency without VM support? I can't think of a good way to do it without constant deep comparisons -- effectively "busy waiting" on changes.
13115.
by api 11y ago
Andrew Tenenbaum, thou art avenged! Seeing a lot of this these days.
13116.
by api 11y ago
It's a done deal at this point but I think this is a mistake. Observables would have interesting uses other than in bindable UIs, such as making database interfaces where fields are bound directly to objects.
13117.
by api 11y ago
"While some hookahs are indeed used to smoke tobacco..."
13118.
by api 11y ago
Maybe he's talking about the area just east of Santa Monica and South of Hollywood: Silicone Valley.
13119.
by api 11y ago
A few hundred mil would cause a dip, perhaps a pullback for a bit, but not doomsday.
13120.
by api 11y ago
"Hacker, disrupt thyself."
13121.
by api 11y ago
This provides circumstantial evidence to support something I've thought for a long time: that America's lead in entrepreneurship is more cultural than it is a product of economic right-leaning / supply side policies. Sweden i
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by api 11y ago
There is another related dimension too: C++ is verbose for a reason and sometimes trying too hard to make a thing not what it is does harm. C++'s verbosity carries information that has value. Personally I tend to not even use typedef&#
13123.
by api 11y ago
It depends on the situation. It's bad to forego millions in recurring revenue, but it's not bad to forego smaller gains if you have a vibrant business in other areas and if those smaller gains require that you go down a path that
13124.
by api 11y ago
I think that's a valid point but it only explains a small fraction of the ugliness of enterprise software. It explains why it tends to trend a bit behind, but it does not explain why you need 2gb of RAM to run a web application server
13125.
by api 11y ago
That's not what I said. I certainly would. I was responding to the bias against enterprise -- my point was that I understand the bias but do not agree that it should exclude developers with an enterprise background.
13126.
by api 11y ago
> "Second, companies dislike programmers with enterprise backgrounds. Our data shows that companies are less likely to hire programmers coming from Java or C# backgrounds." This I totally understand. Enterprise software is syst
13127.
by api 11y ago
Instead of rolling your own look at Piwik. It works very well and is basically a GA clone. I actually like it better than GA in some ways. It's easy to set up and you can run it on your own site so you're not contributing to a g
13128.
by api 11y ago
I love this stuff. I'll quibble with a few things. (1) Conspiracies I totally disagree. I find long-lived conspiracies quite believable, but with the caveat that they must be socially realistic and have plausible operating principles.
13129.
by api 11y ago
... and network protocols.
13130.
by api 11y ago
I suspect that the idea that stereotypes are inaccurate might be a noble lie to counteract how bad we are at statistics. Let's say we have a stereotype "blue people are quick to anger." Even if there is truth in it, what it r
13131.
by api 11y ago
I'm curious about this. I've never totally discounted the possibility but I've always been highly skeptical mostly due to the number of reports that come from places that just don't seem isolated enough to conceal a bree
13132.
by api 11y ago
War on drugs 2.0 here we come... sigh.
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by api 11y ago
"I tried to sell some of my startup shares for below what the market turned out to be willing to pay for them, but people said no because it wasn't trendy and it sort of hurt my feelings, but then I got rich so haha!" I feel
13134.
by api 11y ago
Medium is a magazine with unpaid writers. You create the content, they get the brand equity and readership.
13135.
by api 11y ago
I heard once that the book originally lacked many footnotes and they were added later after an outcry from the scientific community. I don't know if that's true but I can believe it. Like I said the subject area is fascinating and
13136.
by api 11y ago
Wolfram is known for this. He's clearly a bright fellow but he is not even close to being the only or the first person to work on stuff like cellular automata, computational theories of physics, or complexity. He did not invent everyth
13137.
by api 11y ago
There's a lot of business advice that makes sense if you are a VC fund seeking to beat the market and that must "only invest in things able to return the entire fund" but that does not make sense if you just want to build a
13138.
by api 11y ago
The whole thing has smelled like a manufactured controversy for a long time. But then again, most major controversies these days that hit this kind of pop culture attention are manufactured. You could probably dig into this a little and fin
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by api 11y ago
I understand the concepts here in outline terms but the math and the really deep details are a bit beyond me. Does this mean there is effectively an information to energy equivalence like there is for mass and energy (E=mc^2)? If so that se
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Information heat engine: converting information to energy by feedback control(arxiv.org)
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