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by api 12y ago
Hmm... hard to say, but the first thing to comes to mind is programming-oriented stuff. Google tends to find a more accurate hit there sometimes. Google also seems to do a better job filtering out spammy stuff like those irritating portal p
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by api 12y ago
Side note: C++ should do something to address binary interoperability and ABI issues. This would be hard, as some of this lies outside the scope of language designers and specifications. The ball largely rests with compiler and platform dev
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by api 12y ago
I use DDG as my primary search now. Have been for months. It's getting a lot better. I'd say it's as good as Google about 95% of the time now. For about 5% of queries I end up bumping over to Google, but over time that's
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by api 12y ago
On Android you could accomplish this, but iOS has some fairly inane restrictions around running any type of VM. It's enforced somewhat arbitrarily, but it lets Apple yank any VM or app-hosting type thing on their whim. It was origina
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by api 12y ago
I'm on the 8056c2e21cae4b10 network. Edit: not sure it matters... I think it finds various paths. I just created one: ZDc6YWRkcmVzczI0OnVkcDovLzEwLjE4MS4xNC4yMjk6NjA2MDI6aWQzNjo5NDBh NTVmYS1jOTM0LTRkYTItOTBjNS02NTVlY2QyZWQwYjY0Om5hbWUx
13806.
by api 12y ago
I like http://gogs.io/ better. Trivial to install and works great.
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by api 12y ago
"Welcome to hell. Here's your 15 year old MSC code base to port to OS X." You couldn't pay me enough... not because I wouldn't want a fat salary, but because I literally do not think I could actually bring myself to
13808.
by api 12y ago
... and Linux, for that matter. They could pwn the IDE space.
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by api 12y ago
The last part of your post is overly negative. Small town life can be much, much better than that... though there are numerous poor rural areas where your description would fit. The first part is spot on. I'd say it applies to most or
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by api 12y ago
I find a lot of candidates with tons of college experience and theoretical knowledge, but no grease under the fingernails... no practical experience building real systems.
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by api 12y ago
LA is an interesting city in so many ways, but it reminds me of an old smoker with emphasema... except instead of phlegm it's coughing up cars... drowning in cars. At least that's the mental image it gives me.
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by api 12y ago
Hadoop is insane. The elephant is fitting. Is it really the best choice, or has someone done something cleaner in golang or c++11?
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by api 12y ago
You really just described most of the world, not just Europe. The Bay Area is among a small number of bright spots where people actually do things.
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by api 12y ago
70s system software is really showing its age. Containers are just a hack to make its complexity sometimes easier to manage.
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by api 12y ago
He's absolutely right about risk and reward, but he's also not seeing the whole picture. Ideally inequality shouldn't matter. Poverty should matter, but why should it matter if someone has billions of bucks? But our world is
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by api 12y ago
There are about seven billion people, and they all like different things. There's no overproduction.
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by api 12y ago
There are other monetization strategies. A popular one is to offer something for free and then use it to conduct mass surveillance and sell your customers to advertisers and governments.
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by api 12y ago
"Create less and have a real job." Wow. I see lots of this kind of sentiment when I bring this up, but yours deserves credit for being exceptionally honest.
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by api 12y ago
That's a good idea, but I don't see it happening. Perverse incentives abound on every side. Everyone wants this tilted their way. We had a very good system in the age of printed and recorded media. Not perfect, but good. We just h
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by api 12y ago
Doesn't he have an office at MIT in the Gates building? In any case, it doesn't impact what I said. His gig is nice if you can get it, but I don't think the FSF can afford to pay everyone who works on GNU code.
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by api 12y ago
This is getting meta and no longer directly responsive to the article, which I don't wholly disagree with. A tractor and a book are different situations. Books are hard to copy, while files are easy to copy. Writers have to get paid, a
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by api 12y ago
I don't mind hip expensive restaurants, coffee shops, etc. But I don't see those as the sum of all things.
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by api 12y ago
Is gentrification good? Like a great many things, dose matters. Some gentrification is good, but take it too far and you get SF where even high earning professionals are priced out the minute they consider having children. The result is a w
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by api 12y ago
Brilliant little unknown film. First time I've seen it mentioned, ever.
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by api 12y ago
Good. Children today are insanely over supervised. You can't individuate in the presence of an authority figure.
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by api 12y ago
Crypto? You can know who your peer is with a single packet if you've already exchanged keys, and other cleverness is also possible.
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by api 12y ago
Sort of "meta," but I am getting the feeling that the whole "mobile is the future everything else is dead make everything for phones!" era is going the way of "web/cloud is the future everything else is dead wr
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by api 12y ago
One thought I had about MS as a development machine a while back: If you want your Unix toolchains for development, you could still have them. The Surface Pro is powerful enough to run Linux in Vagrant or another virtualization engine. So y
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by api 12y ago
Sure. Cheap superconductors would also be a "black swan" for energy markets. They could enable trans-oceanic power lines for example, which would allow solar in Africa to power Manhattan at night. You could create a planetary powe
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by api 12y ago
If we do get cheap scalable energy storage, it's pretty much game over (in the long run) for everything but solar and wind. We are basically drenched in free energy, but we can't store it cheaply enough. If that's fixed, we&#

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