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by cwyers 8y ago
That's still just one runtime needing support at a time. OS upgrades happen in waves, and at a cadence you don't choose. Hosted server products, you choose when to update the server stack and you can stop supporting older versions
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by cwyers 8y ago
So, I agree you want to see evidence of what's on the resume. But why isn't an actual work project of some sort better than whiteboard coding exercises?
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That doesn't solve the problem of what to do when a community's standards are beyond the pale.
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Sure, but now GitHub can see what domain all the DDoS traffic went through, see who paid for it, and now you've practically giftwrapped a confession.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Beats it by how much? Computers today are basically an accretion disc of suboptimal decisions made for the sake of backwards compatibility. You would have to demonstrate a huge leap in performance to wipe the slate clean.
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by cwyers 8y ago
The Windows NT kernel has better hardware support and Microsoft is showing that they can run a full Linux userland on top of it. What do they gain from shipping Linux for the desktop?
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by cwyers 8y ago
Independent of what? There is no living outside of things. Everybody has to live somewhere, they have to eat, they have to get medical care when they get sick, they have friends, they have family. It's impossible to just show up to thi
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by cwyers 8y ago
I think he means "the original DOOM, not the recent reboot of it" not "break out the floppy disk drives." It's five bucks on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2280/Ultimate_Doom&#x2
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by cwyers 8y ago
The reference manual is what was linked to to explain terms that a resource aimed at people who know Python but not Perl 6 used.
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by cwyers 8y ago
So, I sort of took that away from it, but there's stuff in the gist page like: > The default gist method in Mu re-dispatches to the perl method for defined invocants, and returns the type name in parenthesis for type object invocant
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by cwyers 8y ago
There's also a Python version of this[1], which starts with a discussion about Perl 6's equivalent of print, which is put. This makes no sense to me whatsoever, as print is both a much easier way to say it and _what was used in Pe
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by cwyers 8y ago
I mean, I don't know that I'm afraid of it, in the sense that it's clearly already been here for a few years now. Microsoft is one of the wealthiest companies on Earth and decided they didn't have the resources to compet
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by cwyers 8y ago
Given that it's Chromium (and thus effort to get things running should be minimal), and most Electron app writers aren't pushing Chromium to the bleeding edge, why wouldn't they test on the one that ships with the desktop OS
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The trouble comes if they're not the same DLLs. Chromium updates often enough that there's lots of different versions you can bundle.
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I don't know, I am typing this post on Edge, and HTML rendering is way down on my list of complaints about it. Is switching to Chromium going to fix the lack of a "Paste As Plain Text" option, for instance? (Not the biggest i
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by cwyers 8y ago
I mean, yes, being reliant on Steam is a large risk. But until you can convince your customers to diversify their purchasing, what are you going to do? Steam's dominance of the PC gaming market has been challenged by some big hitters i
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by cwyers 8y ago
There is certainly cross-pollination between the two, and practitioners these days often adopt both. But the snide "machine learning is just statistics practiced by people who don't know what they're doing" comments you
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I mean, the author certainly used random forests, seeing as he invented them: https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/07/07_brei...
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by cwyers 8y ago
Machine Learning is not just statistics. David Donoho spells out the history of the whole thing in his 50 Years Of Data Science: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/18.337/2015/docs/50YearsDataSc... The clearest st
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by cwyers 8y ago
And that is an _entirely unreasonable expectation_ even for large, established companies. Vlasic Pickles and Levi Jeans are both large brands that are parts of larger conglomerates, and they both got pushed around by Wal-Mart: https:/
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by cwyers 8y ago
The majority of businesses, even really big businesses, do this. Very few businesses control their own sales channel, and the ones that do are generally smaller than the ones that don't. Apple doesn't control their main sales chan
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by cwyers 8y ago
Why do we keep getting this FUD on HN? Oracle is charging for updates to an unsupported version of Java that will be three versions behind by the time they start charging. That is not the same as "Oracle will charge for Java." Ora
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by cwyers 8y ago
Yeah, the antivirus recommendation sticks out like a sore thumb, and makes me wonder if anyone with a good background in security vetted the rest of it.
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If you could only get Team Fortress 2 hats or whatever with Bitcoin, that's one thing. People have been exchanging it for USD. Since it doesn't have any intrinsic value (it's not like a concert ticket or gold) outside of a me
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by cwyers 8y ago
Yes, well, I can understand why mobile was hard on AOL. I have a harder time understanding why the maker of the most popular mobile platform couldn't get their messaging story straight.
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by cwyers 8y ago
There was a point a few years ago when most of my IMing was on Google. Now it's largely moved to Facebook and WhatsApp. So, maybe this is the right decision, but Google had what feels to me like a decisive market lead at one point that
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by cwyers 8y ago
Yes, how is it that a company that's been around as long that's a market leader or second place in a large number of market segments can be so valuable? Truly, it's mysterious.
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by cwyers 8y ago
I think the author misunderstands the difference between his use of C++ and Google's use, where Google wants to treat thousands of developers are largely exchangeable over billions of lines of code.
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Nobody's _conflating_ Google and Verily. Verily is owned by a holding company that was formed for the express purpose of allowing Google's profits to subsidize projects that Google's founders want to pursue.
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> It's legally a subsidiary and must have 'co mingled' accounting. Which is the point. They have much more in common than being simply owned by the same owners. They're a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet. And when

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