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by dahauns 9y ago
To be polemic: So, what, we shouldn't even try? Of course there's a limit to precision in a forum discussion, but yes, definitions are damn important in this context and it's perfectly possible to at least trying to aim at a
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by dahauns 9y ago
But see, that's the point of my last sentence. You're going for axioms - there's just no room for wordsmithing. When you leave the essential terms of your statement without a clear definition, the axiom is meaningless. EDIT:
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by dahauns 9y ago
> "We can learn truths about the universe through observation of matter and reason." I'd strongly disagree that this is the general premise - many scientists would already cut you off at "We can learn truths". An
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by dahauns 9y ago
I guess this is because in German law the central concept here is not the contract, but the Rechtsgeschäft, which is a broader term: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rechtsgesch%C3%A4ft
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by dahauns 9y ago
My apologies, I was indeed wrong.
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From an enterprise POV, I experience the opposite. We haven't rolled out W10 in production yet, but just looking at the test/key user machines who have it, Windows updates have become markedly worse. A real lottery regarding relia
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by dahauns 9y ago
>So if they try and add all the weird corner case niche features, it’ll be the standard unopinionated bloatware that most software is. While I agree with the sentiment behind the argument, these days the pendulum is swinging far too mu
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by dahauns 9y ago
>consider the case where they simply voided the UK's opt out of new human rights related legislation Erm...you are aware that this case has nothing to do with the ECJ, but with the ECHR, which isn't even an institution of the E
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by dahauns 9y ago
Indeed, this is something I've wondered myself, since in my experience even 100g does make a big difference in a tablet. But I've come to the conclusion - it's hard to really pinpoint the "cost of repairability". Ta
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Two models I'd like to add to this as examples that this is actually possible with all form factors: First the The HP Elite X2, a Surface Pro-class tablet. Quite analogous to the EliteBook - sadly the RAM is soldered (IIRC one of their
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by dahauns 9y ago
>The problem with this approach is I definitely do not need someone else making the decision of what is "optimal" for me. And that's the crux. The whole feature (in its original incarnation) rested on the false assumption
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Considering current GPU prices and the fact that a RX580 is included, it's actually a steal. :) (No wonder it's unavailable...)
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>and then I found that the only reason Quantum was introduced was to allow this Looking Glass plugin to collect telemetry from the whole of the browser window, not just the pages being rendered. What. I'd really love to know how you
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by dahauns 9y ago
I know - and that's where wanted to get at: I'd argue that, esp. in regard to their cooperation with SMBs and the benefits for the latter, nowadays it's the sheer concentration of R&D expertise (resulting in better risk m
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by dahauns 9y ago
Sorry, read my edit. IMO it's an incredibly reductionist view that it's only worth something to the industry if someone can make (most of?) money via patents from it. And another edit: One could argue that's a side effect fro
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by dahauns 9y ago
I don't need to, I'm fully aware of the differences between Fraunhofer and the others (basically PPP, applied sciences etc.). I simply posit that (software) patents actually aren't needed for that. Or to be more specific: ec
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by dahauns 9y ago
As I've stated above: Fraunhofer is predominantly government funded.
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>which finance themselves from patent licenses. Patent licenses are only a tiny fraction of their finances. https://www.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/zv/de/publikationen/Ja... 2016 they made 134 mill
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by dahauns 9y ago
Huh? I'm not sure where you're getting at.
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Agh, yes. I already regret putting Java in that list with its wonky implementation. :) But it certainly works with others, e.g. something like this: public class SortedList<T> : ICollection<T>,IEnumerable<T> where T
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by dahauns 9y ago
And end with a diploma for the now young adult.
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by dahauns 9y ago
Urgh. Why do stuff like this on a newly designed language? I mean, that sounds like javascript from ten years ago, and I didn't think anyone would like to go back there.
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by dahauns 9y ago
Dunno about python (but then again it's a dynamic language...), and it's been an endless discussion for c++ AFAIK. Other than that it's actually rather common in statically typed languages (except Go ;P). From the top of my h
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by dahauns 9y ago
a) Opel is owned by PSA. b) That's simply not true. Automotive supply chains indeed are quite global nowadays, in this regard you could say there's simply no <insert nation here> car anymore, for any given country/regio
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by dahauns 9y ago
Why going back a few hundred years? Even a few decades ago the idea of patenting mathematics was still mostly considered absurd. Imagine a world where people like e.g. Dijkstra and Lamport patented all their concurrency algorithms. Hoare p
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by dahauns 9y ago
But how is that a problem of SPAs in general? This sounds more like a problem of using Firebase for prototyping.
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QQ, Yandex or GMX are niche? You're suffering from a severe case of US-centrism.
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by dahauns 9y ago
> (Oh, and there's also Sony's bizarre insistence on proprietary formats, like MiniDISC and MemoryStick -- that didn't help them, either.) The Memory Stick was bizarre, no doubt about it. Minidisc (and with it, ATRAC), how
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by dahauns 9y ago
Where did I say that they never do that? It's just an observation based on experience (two decades in different companies of all sizes btw.) about the most blatant cases of this kind: the constraint was just set based on that rule of
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by dahauns 9y ago
Your last sentence can't be emphasized enough. It's funny that while I fully agree with your whole post, I still lost count of the times a unique constraint that needed to be removed made for much more of a headache than if it had

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