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by arinlen 4y ago
> Do you have any idea of the SIZE of some States and distances between HOMES, not just towns? Is that even a serious argument? Public transportation networks are designed to serve urban areas, with specific solutions catered to specif
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> (...) but all else being equal, exposed steel is better (...) No, it's way worse. The outermost concrete layer serves multiple purposes, including corrosion protection and fire resistance. Exposed rebar can and will start corrod
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> lol somehow I doubt companies are gaining much social clout for changing their default branch names... No one is expecting, or seeking, major wins by being mindful of the pervasive nature of non-inclusive language. But it's such
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> Musk has been described by his former partner as someone who lives "below the poverty line" - do you know musk better than his ex-girlfriend? How many people living below the poverty line do you know who happen to live in a
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> Of course, springing this on already remote workers is problematic. Tesla is no stranger to low employee retention. In the short term they will have an exodus but perhaps in the longer term they'll have a workforce more aligned t
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I feel compelled to mention that Zotero [1] has been around for ages, has clients for most platforms, it's as FLOSS as it gets[2], and you are free to self-host if that's something you'd like. [1] https://www.zoter
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> The put-down to me was where it said: "it's very easy to...", but failed to explain it beyond a few words. What do you mean by "failed to explain it beyond a few words"? OP stated in no uncertain terms that t
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> (...) no matter how much better you are than the default, for some subset of users you will never be good enough (...) What if it is really not good enough? Should everyone just accept someone's claims that they addressed a prob
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> Until GitHub requires government-issued photo ID in addition to MFA, I don't think you are going to properly discourage bad or criminal actors. This suggestion sounds like a way to create new and far bigger problems without doin
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> IMO: we had good enough nuclear weapons 50 years ago to (...) The money pouring into research disproves this. In fact, it makes no sense at all to clam that our collective understanding of a phenomenon is already satisfactory and all
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> I hope developers with decent skills move on on Hook style api (...) What's your opinion on Hook-style APIs?
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> Not really, because I didn't make that claim, so you'll have to ask someone who makes that claim. Well, you actually did. You claimed, and I quote, "being right isn’t an excuse to forgo social expectations" I&#x27
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> Android is C/C++ It really isn't, and frankly this sort of comment makes it quite clear how uninformed you need to be to make this sort of claim. I mean, even the Android NDK specifies quite clearly in its own description t
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> I know that HN believes it’s immune to this, but being right isn’t an excuse to forgo social expectations Could you please offer some insight on why trying to pass off technically wrong claims in a technical forum should be immune to
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> (...) to come in and put-down someone's Show HN project. There was no put-down. There was a very informative and insightful post explaining that a) unlike the original claim, the project does not use a virtual DOM, b) the techni
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> Well it's pretty clear 10 years ago than Java would have been a disaster, imagine all the controle planes + pods + side cars etc ... running on the JVM, you would have needed 20x more memory. I'm not sure if you are aware,
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> (..) when nuclear labs get >1000 petaflop super computers (..) Would you prefer the research being performed based on empirical testing instead of running simulations?
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So being the 3rd most popular framework in the world now passes off as dead? https://qreuz.com/insights/market-share-of-top-javascript-fr...
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> And then again, project leads aren't immune to hype either, a new, popular language will be used more, simply through being hip and attractive. Resume-driven development does sound like a key factor, even in the decision by Go a
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> The amount of Go projects in Cloud Native Foundation shows otherwise. That says nothing at all, actually. Beyond the transparent appeal to authority, why would anyone take decisions seriously when they are made without any technical
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> (...) and one of the items besides things like running and meditating once a day is "my parents are millionaires" . Also known as the Elon Musk school of bootstrapping. Step 1: have an emerald mine.
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> Kubernetes moved when some Go advocates joined the team and pushed for a rewrite Frankly, that hardly says anything about the technical merits of that switch. In fact, it reads like a poorly-though tautology.
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> If that were enough Angular would be more popular than it is. What are you talking about? Angular is already one of the two major frontend frameworks, the other one being Facebook-backed React. A couple of years ago Angular was the u
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> - After Docker and Kubernetes explosion, all Cloud Native Foundation projects start using the same language, thus adoption This take sounds highly unrealistic. No one in their right mind would ever say "well Docker/Kubernet
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> I think its ok that we have innovation at legal front as well. And innovation requires exploration, choosing road not taken... Chosing to release software under a non-FLOSS, proprietary license is hardly innovative, and I'm afra
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> I'm not hip to how much new stuff is backport-able, so this may preclude Ubuntu 20.04, for instance. You lose the "LTS" part if you compile your own kernel, if you manage to make it functional at all. I'm not sure
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> However, if you are a 'user' in the sense of a company wanting to make software to sell as a service (...) That does not meet the definition of "user", does it? In addition, if that was the motivation behind that
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> We do not choose AGPL so we would not harm our users. This is a first. If anything, it seems clear that a FLOSS license such as AGPL achieves exactly the opposite: is highly protective of the users' best interests, both in the s
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> There are too many APIs that still want raw pointers. Irrelevant. C++'s smart pointers deal with ownership and life cycle management. You can still pass raw pointers to objects managed by a smart pointers. The only exception is
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> If I have to use a subset of a language to avoid shooting my feet, why not just use a language without footguns? Because it has absolutely nothing to do with footguns. The main factors in picking subsets, beyond personal tastes on co

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