batty_alex

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by batty_alex 8y ago
> Calculating only the cost is useful information. > It points out that there is a very large cost which is an opportunity for optimization. Two things, one: why does everything need to be perfectly optimized? And two: You're ass
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Here's what I remember from the history of it all: The Saturn was Sega's best-selling console outside of Japan. It did terribly in America, mostly because they screwed-over retailers and developers with a surprise early release. S
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This is brilliant and is true across so many industries outside of software. I don't think there's anything "wrong" with it, but it seems like we get fewer choices every year and that doesn't feel like progress. Who
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Thanks for pointing this out, the wording from OP's post was a bit confusing to me. This was my retort, that it's not black-and-white that poor decisions were made and someone is now a missed paycheck away from living on the stree
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> That kind of stress is related to bad-decision taking and reduced life expectancy. I can't tell if you're really meaning to say that people down on their luck are there because they deserve it. It's just not that black-a
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> It's more difficult to start a business in an established field, as licensing laws have come to cover so much more of the landscape. In my experience, it's been a problem with banks and small business loans being hard to obta
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> You don't need to live in some company's digital ecosystem. I don't. I own my own photos, and Apple are not getting any facial recognition features out of them. Workers, patients, and customers don't get this choice
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I just cut out the middleman and use their Rider IDE. It doesn't seem to bring my whole PC to grinding halt and is built on top of ReSharper. It's worth a try if you haven't checked it out already.
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> we might have different definitions of what photoshop-related is, but I often use pixlr.com to cut faces out of photos and put them on other things. This is a tiny fraction of what Photoshop does. Even back in the mid-2000s, when I was
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> Enjoy life, nobody signed any contract with the universe that they'll be the "inventor" and "great artist" and so on. On top of that, many of those we consider great did so in retrospect or late in life. I say,
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> The SSPL is not an open source license. It seems like it is to me, it's just extremely protective of the source code owner's rights. > "Thou shall not compete with MongoDB." Sounds to me like, "thou shall n
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It seems to work okay for Nintendo: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/support/oss/ In fact, I remember looking on my SNES and NES classics at a laundry list of open source libraries used for those mini consoles. "Fr
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Nevertheless, the crossover between the needs of legalish and what we perceive as the legal field is remarkable. As someone who spent five years as a software developer in the legal industry, this whole article comes off as a lot
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While you're likely correct that FORTRAN, COBOL, C, Visual Basic, C++, Perl, ColdFusion, Java, Javascript, and Python, were sub-optimal choices, they're just tools whose popularity boils down to current programming pop culture. Th
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As someone who has worked with teams from Israel, I'd like to hear more about this if you have good sources. In my experience, it's been the opposite. They like to play office politics, focus on keeping work off their plate, and t
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Consider this perspective: that's protecting the freedoms of the people that are hurt by that kind of hate speech.
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You forgot my favorite one: 6. Too easy to accidentally reinvent Lisp via xml. I thought it was funny the first time I ran into an instance of it happening, which quickly turned into horror. Not only was the logic split, but it meant mental
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Yes, you had a Dad that could teach you how to invest at a young age. Also, you had a Dad that had extra money to invest.
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These things could also be achieved with government spending into things like: better unemployment guarantees, grants for entrepreneurs, or low-interest no-nonsense business loans. How does basic income solve the problem? If the income just
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This comment seriously makes me question what you think lower-class is or is like. The comment comes off as tone-deaf. Neither of them are "self-made", they both had crazy access to electronics that hardly anyone else did at the t
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First, How does this have anything to do with the alt-right? That's just a distraction from your argument that we shouldn't criticize the actions of Google because they give away some research. Google, and others, have turned open
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There's history to suggest that alcohol was used as currency to pay workers in ancient times [1]. Alcohol has been with us for the long haul and has been available to our ancestors in large quantities for most of our history. It's
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You're playing apologist here and attempting to swat away responsibility in your final sentence. The article discusses death threats, harassment, and threats of violence. Your argument is that maybe they aren't deliberately doing
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With cider, mead, and wine you want to watch out for back-sweetening. Since many consumers prefer a sweeter product, the finished product will have additional fruit juice, honey, or other sweeteners after suppressing additional fermentation
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Well, he says "custom engine" in the article but, he used XNA. When people hear "built an engine" they tend to assume the person spent years building it from-scratch. XNA is hardly from-scratch. I think, in this case, th
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It's defined in the article. Around 4-5 standard drinks a day for Men or 3 for Women. Which is quite a bit of drinking.
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The title is terribly inaccurate. The study specifically mentions chronic heavy drinking and alcohol use disorders as the problem, not alcohol itself.