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by cwp 13y ago
Yes, it would be great if everything always just worked, and libraries always had your desired behavior as the default. Google should implement that right away.
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by cwp 13y ago
The observation that Satya's division is doing well is an argument against him?
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by cwp 13y ago
The GP isn't arguing that Dell/HP are hurting because they lost their biggest customers. It argues that they're at risk of losing many customers in the future, because enterprise IT departments will emulate Facebook and Googl
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by cwp 13y ago
Survive on $20,000
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by cwp 13y ago
It has a jQuery-mostly-compatible node wrapper built-in, which is why it doesn't need jQuery.
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by cwp 13y ago
Well, if you need more precision than singles provide, then yeah, use doubles. The question was, "why use doubles when singles are okay ?"
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by cwp 13y ago
Again, that's not cash on the barrel head. That's a rumor. Was it $3 billion in Facebook stock? Was it $1 billion plus a performance bonus? Would Snapchat continue to operate independently, or was it a huge acquihire? We know what
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by cwp 13y ago
Not only that, but nobody forked over billions for Snapchat. The company took investment at a price that suggests we can extrapolate a total valuation in the billions, but nothing like that amount of money has actually changed hands. Lenovo
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by cwp 13y ago
So you book two one-way tickets? AFAICT, that's usually not cheaper.
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by cwp 13y ago
On the contrary, it encourages it. The point of this sort of statement is not persuade or clarify, but to muddy the waters and confuse the public. All he has to do is get the statement out there, and people that aren't paying close att
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by cwp 13y ago
Yes, that is the tradeoff. Submitting to federal justice would be the moral high-ground, and a tactic of classical civil-disobedience. Doing that, however, would effectively silence him; it would be up to others to make arguments on his beh
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by cwp 13y ago
I think maybe he means "public interest."
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by cwp 13y ago
You can't have it both ways. Either the president is bound by the letter of the constitution, or its spirit. If by the letter, he has the power to issue a pardon. If by the spirit, he need not use "every means available" to p
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by cwp 13y ago
It's more historical fiction than science-fiction.
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by cwp 13y ago
Yes. I'd rather have "better than Wikipedia" than "Wikipedia for free." If browsing Wikipedia is too expensive, let's work on lowering data rates for all content, rather than giving Wikipedia special privileges
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by cwp 13y ago
This idea may have technical merit, but I'll never know. They lost me the third time they used the word "disrupt". Apparently it just means "be awesome".
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by cwp 13y ago
Did the robber barons kidnap people from Africa, ship them across the sea in chains and force them to work by whipping them if they didn't? No. Still, have you ever heard the song "Sixteen Tons?"[1] You might recognize the li
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by cwp 13y ago
Walking around with a phone strapped to your wrist would be awkward.
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by cwp 13y ago
I have no idea what went on behind the scenes, but you could just as well say that Newscorp borrowed Walt and Kara's personalities until they didn't need them anymore, after which they redirect to a new URL and continue on their o
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by cwp 13y ago
Tasks are Rust's unit of concurrency. There are two models for scheduling tasks. 1:1 means that each task runs in it's own operating system thread, and the OS is responsible for scheduling. M:N means that M tasks run on N threads
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by cwp 13y ago
Ok, it seems pretty reasonable, when you consider how easy it is to obtain five dollars.
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by cwp 13y ago
That's why I think this is an east-vs-west thing. Orwell focuses pretty narrowly on the problem of Nazi aggression. They're killing Jews and attacking other countries. So we go to war and 6 years later, the problem is solved. Exce
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by cwp 13y ago
I can't help but think this is an east-vs-west thing. Ghandi calling on the Jews to resist the Holocaust through non-violence sounds "silly" to western ears. Orwell argues that non-violence only worked in India because the Br
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by cwp 13y ago
That's even harder than banning BitCoin.
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by cwp 13y ago
He doesn't even have the trappings of the Governor of Oklahoma.
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by cwp 13y ago
Good point. The interesting thing is that Google has gone about the introduction of Dart in a scrupulously open way. They publicized the language early on it's design and implementation, they open sourced their implementation immediate
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by cwp 13y ago
If you had to title an article that you want people to read, what would you do then?
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by cwp 13y ago
Actually, the title doesn't make that claim either. It just mentions "incompetents think they're awesome," without claiming that they're more confident than competent people. If you have to boil the paper down to
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by cwp 13y ago
That's just a matter of resolution. Canada Post never did deliver to say, the inbox on your desk, you always had to go to the mailbox to pick up your mail. What the GP means is that Canada Post serves all areas of the country. If you
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by cwp 13y ago
Yes, exactly. They have 10% of the shares but they might end up with more than 10% of the proceeds of a sale , if the sale price is less than $2B. That has an impact on the value of the remaining shares.

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