daemin

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601.
by daemin 7y ago
What does vinegar + bleach do exactly? It sounds like something I don't want to try at home.
602.
by daemin 7y ago
Yes, but really is it any different to what every build system does by inventing its own DSL or making a new DSL in some other language? Ant did it in XML, Premake uses Lua, CMake has its own, etc
603.
by daemin 7y ago
A VAT, GST, or sales tax always affects only the final consumer, where as a revenue tax would dig into every stage whenever goods or services are moved between companies. There is nothing inherently wrong about taxing the revenue at each st
604.
by daemin 7y ago
Initially I too thought this was a bad idea, but if you think about it and set the tax rate really low - like a handful of percent, say 1% or 2%, not more than 5% - it might actually work. Because even if the corporate tax rate is 30%, but
605.
by daemin 8y ago
So instead of a GUI library what about a HTTP or a network library as part of the standard? Surely handling TCP and UDP connections is an order of magnitude easier to implement and maintain.
606.
by daemin 8y ago
They're standard for the OS but not a standard for the programming language library. Granted AWT wasn't great but you could still make a GUI with it straight out of the box. It allowed you to make windows and buttons and start exp
607.
by daemin 8y ago
There's an argument to be made for having basic so-called leaf modules in the standard library. That is it makes it far simpler to get a basic installation of C++ and start doing cool things with it. Experienced developers or people th
608.
by daemin 8y ago
I believe "move fast and break things" is a quote often attributed to Facebook. In this case the automatic importing feature might have been something broken, or something working correctly with an excuse that it was "broken&
609.
by daemin 8y ago
So it goes to show how many people in the world don't commute to work in the same way or don't even use up their 1.7L "allocation" of oil.
610.
by daemin 8y ago
Granted it would have been nice to have a mining tax in collecting money for Australian social expenses. However if they would introduce such a tax now then it might encourage new mining developments and let them be sped through the environ
611.
by daemin 8y ago
The only big companies that seem to be able to diversify their income somewhat are Microsoft and Amazon. Microsoft makes its money from various products and services, and Amazon now makes a lot of money from AWS let alone its online shoppi
612.
by daemin 8y ago
Probably not, because liability for non-credit accounts is up to the customer, not the bank. If people give up access credentials then they only have themselves to blame.
613.
by daemin 8y ago
Which is amusing / horrifying because Australia already has good ways to transfer money between bank accounts. BSB/Acct# for normal transfers and BPay for bills.
614.
by daemin 8y ago
This is why it should not have been a simple majority public vote. Either leave it for the politicians which or make it a two thirds majority (so if a civil war breaks out the side that lost the vote has to defeat 2x people).
615.
by daemin 8y ago
Yes, GIF, MPEG, Arithmetic Coding, all have been patented or parts that comprise them have been patented.
616.
by daemin 8y ago
Can you just delete the fake account and create a new one on your email address? I had to do that when someone created a samsung account in my name and I couldn't change the country/language of it.
617.
by daemin 8y ago
I think as long as you have a system for versioning the source code you are working on you will be fine. It's just that it will be a little more manual a process to perform (hence you might do it less often), but if it's a stable
618.
by daemin 8y ago
But as the old adage goes, 100% of 0 is still 0. The hope with releasing the game like this would be to bring in new players and a new form of revenue. I would also imagine that existing players might want to buy this version as well.
619.
by daemin 8y ago
One way you could play is embrace the imperfect, know that not everything has to be optimal, and learn to adjust to the circumstances. I find myself wanting to build perfect things so I speak from experience in needing to let things go and
620.
by daemin 8y ago
C++ does give you the power to lay your data members how you would like. But in this case you've just said that you want those three members to be laid out sequentially in memory. If you want to use column storage because you need to a
621.
by daemin 8y ago
I think it's easier to keep the tipping culture because everyone in the USA is already used to having extra random fees added to the sticker price of things. In places where the tax and all other costs are already factored into the pri
622.
by daemin 8y ago
And therein lies the problem the original poster was referring to: no way to create a WhatsApp account without a phone number.
623.
by daemin 8y ago
This reminds me of the French Revolution. Originally started by the wealthy middle class, soon more disaffected people joined and then heads rolled.
624.
by daemin 8y ago
It's nice but it doesn't support sending subtitles to the Chromecast device.
625.
by daemin 8y ago
You can do that with content, you just partition the workspace/view of the monorepo to what each person needs rather than checking the entire thing out git style.
626.
by daemin 8y ago
If you spend your time maintaining and improving a low level library then having a monorepo is much better than having a polyrepo. Primarily because as you make changes to the library you can update everyone else's code that uses it ra
627.
by daemin 8y ago
Arguably this is where the Billionaires and others that have "made it" should be spending their wealth. Trying to fund these social and environmental projects.
628.
by daemin 8y ago
Why not offer it for them to buy as well? If you're making this sort of software for one country or organisation then you're effectively a weapons trafficker so you might as well sell to all sides and reap in the profits.
629.
by daemin 8y ago
This reminds me of a story that a lecturer told us at University. That at one point they distributed computations to the drive controllers of the connected (fridge sized) disk drives because they could do so much processing while waiting fo
630.
by daemin 8y ago
Australians can be arrested and prosecuted for violating Australian law while outside of Australia. So even if something is not illegal in another country and you do it, you can still be charged under Australian law when you return, or in s

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