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by capdeck 7y ago
> What once was old is new again. Does this also mean it is a "step down"? Because it looks like it is. Aren't we supposed to be better off than we used to - with all the efficiencies of market economy and technological pr
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by capdeck 7y ago
Is there a point though, when badly written code becomes so hard to maintain and improve, that people would just avoid doing that altogether? The reason "badly written" works for Open Source is that if code is useful - there will
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by capdeck 7y ago
Next step in ad blocking is using local trained AI to figure out what is an ad and what is not based on the content that it shows (regardless of origin). May be more of a challenge with trackers as they don't to show ads per se, but ma
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by capdeck 7y ago
Sounds a lot like "register for a chance to win..."
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by capdeck 7y ago
Hmmm... : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_apartment
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by capdeck 7y ago
> increasingly more Millenials [0] support censorship and surveillance Not so much support, I'd say - but rather indifferent or "gotten used to it" to the point that it doesn't seem to be a problem in their view. It i
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by capdeck 7y ago
We have squandered our privacy rights by using "free" services and software. Now getting those back will be an uphill battle.
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by capdeck 7y ago
I used to work in a company that had part of the process written in Lisp and it was in true production. Once the (fp) guy left the company everyone else had to support that code. What a nightmare that was. No one wanted to touch it with a t
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by capdeck 7y ago
docker... for a compiled console game that only needs ncurses - what am I missing?
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by capdeck 7y ago
Gig economy and driving an Uber are good examples. The latter doesn't even recognize you as an employee -- hence no rights.
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by capdeck 7y ago
Everything can be justified by national security. You can't try and block something with "an end-less series of law suites" if the defending party doesn't even need to provide any kind of proof. "Why are we MTiMing
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by capdeck 7y ago
In absolute agreement here. Even though mutt's shortcuts are hardwired into my brain, I always check the new-comers out - especially ones written in a language that compiles to binary. There is something lost in this world of shady doc
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by capdeck 7y ago
Nope. That's a 7 mile "shortcut" for 100m bridge. It really takes time to feel the pain of all the foot guns in C. Just read Jim Blandy's awesome "Why Rust" summary instead https://www.oreilly.com&#x
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by capdeck 7y ago
Or even git(lab/hub)? if too lazy to set up your own.
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by capdeck 7y ago
I recently landed in a small airport late at night and tried to get a (non-uber) cab... Yes, Uber is a monopoly.
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by capdeck 7y ago
> But here's the kicker - those same teams are unlikely to use Rust anyway. Absolutely disagree. Those are exactly the teams that will choose Rust over C++. It is well known that many shy away from writing plugins for node or python
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by capdeck 7y ago
Yes and no. Yes, Rust requires more "mental cycles" to think upfront about the design, even of a simple tool. But, as they say, nothing is more permanent than temporary. A tool that you write as a one off, before long, ends up run
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by capdeck 7y ago
You are mixing "fancy tools for mature language" with core capabilities of another (that will enable even better fancy refactoring tools in future - tools that can make more complex refactoring tasks fully automated). If anything,
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by capdeck 8y ago
Main reason is for you to only use cloud storage and services. Google doesn't make money if you own your music and play it at will from an sd card. Google makes money if you have to shell out $10 a month to play the same music again. R
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by capdeck 8y ago
... and just add that to the shopping cart (don't make an actual purchase) so I can review and click order next time I am buying stuff. May be there was such an option - don't know - never used the buttons.
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by capdeck 8y ago
NPM is using Rust on the backend
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by capdeck 8y ago
> 2, 3, and 4 are made by private companies. Not government. But government pays them to develop the code. For many such companies government is the only customer (whom else are you going to sell the traffic light software to?).
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by capdeck 8y ago
Why eat an appetizer, main course and dessert separately? Just put them in the blender and gulp in the goo... Also because entropy.
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by capdeck 8y ago
From the article: > Ms. Grupp, 66, said she wasn’t rich, and was disturbed by the letter. “I kind of resent it,” she said. “I don’t think they need the money.” The hospital last year reported nearly $48 million in net income and paid its
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by capdeck 8y ago
PEBKAC classic. But I have to second the keyboard sentiment. I can't rely on it to be decent on anything but lenovo these days, may be not even... I have HP probook where you can replace the keyboard easily. When I got the machine with
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by capdeck 8y ago
Not much, actually. But you have to keep in mind that adding anything extra to something that is going to be massively produced cuts into margins quite noticeably. Mass manufacturing is a relentless exercise of cutting corners and this is n
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by capdeck 8y ago
This is a very valid point. While I don't have all the answers, but it seems like if a person is pulling an honest 40 hour week they should afford at the very least a real minimum standard of living, regardless of what that person does
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by capdeck 8y ago
Wanted to second that the author mentions C as being "simpler" alternative -- doesn't make much sense as it is quite a "footgun" it itself. I'd much rather search for missing indents in Python than debug segfa
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by capdeck 8y ago
When technical means will stop working they will issue the laws that make e2e devices without backdoors illegal or not easily obtainable. Not completely apples-to-apples comparison, but look at all the iPhones and androids where you can&#x2
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by capdeck 8y ago
> The thing is, the ads have to be in good taste. That will never be the case, except may be for some isolated incidents. As far as ads are concerned from NYT's perspective -- we are not the customers (we are the product), adverti

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