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by chipdart 2y ago
> For this project and its day-to-day maintenance, unequivocally. Insisting on personal assertions does not pass as a justification, particularly one based on such specious reasoning. > One of Richard's philosophies is "free
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> The data remains standard JSON and so standard JSON parsers wouldn’t be affected (...) No, not really. The blog post talks about storing JSON data in a column-oriented database. The blog post talks about importing data from JSON docs i
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> Can someone briefly explain how or if adding data types to JSON - a standardized grammar - leaves something that still qualifies as JSON? I had to scroll way down the article, passing over tons of what feel like astroturfing comments a
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> CMake is an out-of-tree tool, which is something the project tries to avoid at all costs for portability and maintainability reasons. Is this relevant though? Portability is not dictated by whether you vend a tool within your project t
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> I _really_ have to dispute the idea that unit tests score the maximum on maintainability. The fact that they are _so_ tightly tied to lower-level code makes your code _miserable_ to maintain. I disagree to the point I argue the exact o
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> Not sure how exactly React became so standard, but I'd assume it was a combination of the backing of Facebook and the frustration with performance and developer UX of Angular, which was most popular at that time. I believe React b
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> One address per human wouldn't be enough (...) What leads you to believe that? I alone use more than one device at a time, and my household alone has over twice the number of devices permanently online than residents. If you happe
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> The portability of a Paperwhite combined with the note-taking ability of a Scribe… there’s probably a market for that. There are already erasable notebooks that allow you to scan your notes and send the document to a storage of your ch
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> I get the joke, but color has been present in books (...) That's like saying confortable cars have been present since their inception, and then present as a example a royal coach. True, you technically had colors in books. Just li
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> The entire I/O streams (where std::cout comes from) feature is garbage, if this was an independent development there is no way that WG21 would have taken it, the reason it's in C++ 98 and thus still here today is that it&#x27
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by chipdart 2y ago
> The moors conquered and the Catholics took it back. This take only makes sense if you argue the Romans took it back, which would only be a valid claim from the perspective of the Roman Catholic Church, not war lords from the Iberian Pe
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> How does a Jew discovering the Americas benefit the Spanish regime when the Spanish Catholic monarchy precisely kicked all Jews and Muslims from the peninsula with their ill-named "reconquista"? The question is not whether Co
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> formed the Diocese of Hispania That was an administrative region that existed only for slightly over a century. The caliphate of Cordoba existed for longer than that.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Spain wasn't, but for some savages, empty land for the muslim armies to take. I think you're missing the point. OP's point was that "Spain did not exist as a nation anytime prior to that." The truth of the matt
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From the article: > “Unfortunately, from a scientific point of view, we can’t really evaluate what was in the documentary because they offered no data from the analysis whatsoever,” Antonio Alonso, a geneticist and former director of Spa
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> Providing these €49 tickets requires an annual subsidy of around €3bn, on top of already substantial subsidies for the rail industry. I'm perplexed by the way you omitted the fact that these subsidies cover bus services, both loca
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Where in the world, how the hell did you get the idea that stealing free code isn't stealing? What is your personal definition of "free code" and "stealing free code"? From your post, either you got one of them
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> So housing affordability in the major cities remains poor. The youth therefore get squeezed out and emigrate, leaving an increasing tax burden problem paying for all the benefits given to the increasingly aging population. At a risk of
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> How are you going to run on X11 systems if (...) I'm not sure you understood the question I asked.
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> Even though the same marshalling is present, you get to write everything still in one language, the cross-language part is hidden from you. The hard part of writing a desktop application is the GUI code, and how to implement user flows
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> It's probably way more complicated than that. I once saw a small team of FANG engineers, that included two well seasoned senior engineers, revive a project left unmaintained for two years after the owning team was disbanded. That
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> Sure there is, if you let an outside expert read the source code for a week. It's mesmerizing how random anonymous people online always have all the answers to the most challenging technical problems conceivable by Man, and they a
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> “Sorry, we can’t ‘sell’ our cars anymore. The law says we have to call them a ‘lease’ and that’ll be be $X,XXX/year” Wouldn't that be enough reason to take your business elsewhere?
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I have a question to the crowd. If you really like Go and you're already willing to adopt a solution based in making IPC calls to separate processes just to put together a GUI... ...why not write your GUI app in something production-re
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Yea.. that sounds like a non-starter for use. I'd also wager that a FLOSS binding to a non-FLOSS framework with steep licensing fees would also kill this option for most.
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> Spreadsheets, browsers, databases. I think you're mixing up stuff that's unrelated to your concern. The concerns you're expressing only apply to operations and financial transactions. That's not handled by spreadshe
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> (...) making decisions based on which peer is going to give you a better exchange rate. Neither does a money data type.
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> I don't think that's correct, absent some no-true-scotsman gymnastics. Yeah, I think OP's claim is not valid. Even .NET provides System.Decimal, which by design and explicitly mentions financial calculations. Taken from
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> I think calling it a conspiracy theory is a bit of a stretch. It's the textbook definition of a conspiracy theory, isn't it? I mean, a group conspiring to not awarding the most prestigious prize in science to someone who dese
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> The cases where you want platform-specific integer width (that is not something like size_t/uintptr_t) is extremely niche (...) I think you got it backwards. There are platform-specific ints because different processors have diffe

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