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by dasmoth 13y ago
This. Every time I see attempts to use Twitter et al. as a "platform", I end up thinking how much better something NNTP-like would fill the role, if only it still had significant penetration.
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by dasmoth 13y ago
I think there might actually be a bit of a scope for some public-side web development that interfaces (indirectly!) with the avionics. Some other launch providers do animations based on vehicle telemetry once the vehicle is out of range.
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by dasmoth 13y ago
That's very different from Javascript (and from the untyped-language mainstream) but is it really "horrible"? The type-checker will give a very clear warning if it catches you putting a non-bool in a conditional context. And
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by dasmoth 13y ago
There's a build of Chromium with a pretty-well-integrated dartvm (Dartium) in every dart-sdk download. I don't know if/when this will show up in mainstream Chrome builds, but technically it's been possible for a while no
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by dasmoth 13y ago
If you're living without a garbage collector, avoiding that pointer return is potentially quite a big deal. "Just use a GC" is a viable answer to this in many circumstances, but probably not all.
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by dasmoth 13y ago
You seem to be assuming that people want to have most/all of their "personal" time after working hours. Couldn't you just as well argue for working hours to be 11-7?
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by dasmoth 13y ago
That still leaves a 100% marginal "tax" rate. It's better than >100%, but still seems less than ideal. Trying to fix that quickly gets you into Basic Income territory.
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by dasmoth 13y ago
What fraction of "conventional" public transport costs are labour? I think (if it gets built!) we'll see very few humans operating or maintaining the hyperloop.
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by dasmoth 13y ago
Does this matter if the engineers and/or the company learn something from the failed project? We under-value sincere-but-failed projects.
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by dasmoth 13y ago
For native applications (whether desktop or mobile), building interfaces from a consistent set of components is usually considered a good thing. Why should every web application look different? If it was up to me, the browser default styles
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by dasmoth 13y ago
On the other hand, "text-decoration: blink" (which has also been killed in Firefox) is standard CSS (although the standard does go on to kind-of suggest not implementing it...) http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2&#x2F
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by dasmoth 13y ago
I suspect some of the adverse reactions are because of the focus on the 'jr'. Shouldn't all members of a software development team have a primary (work) objective of delivering the project?
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by dasmoth 13y ago
It depends whether there's a viable route to promotion that doesn't quickly lead into management territory.
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by dasmoth 13y ago
It's certainly pretty common in the UK. Seems much less linguistically dubious than "gastropub". (Why do "suburbanites" seem to get so much stick nowadays?)
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by dasmoth 13y ago
Some of the bot-herders probably just want to eat there themselves. After all, the author wrote his bot because he wanted a table.
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by dasmoth 13y ago
Still awaiting the Haswell upgrade, which seems to be important for the OP.
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by dasmoth 13y ago
To me, this is one of the reasons why it's good for people to do independent re-implementations. Academia doesn't value these highly enough. Recomputation and reproduction are both valuable
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by dasmoth 13y ago
I hope "Recomputability" emerges as a distinct term. At least in the biological sciences, I'm seeing the term "reproducibility" used a lot where the meaning is much closer to "recomputability", i.e. "
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by dasmoth 13y ago
Doesn't that just encourage those who do have a range of technologies at least somewhat under their belt to tweak their skill-weights on each application to bring it closer to a presumed "perfect skill vector" for that job? (
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by dasmoth 13y ago
One problem with rail is that there are established companies (often with highly-unionized workforces) that build them. And, at least in some juristictions, lots and lots of rules and safety standards, some of them dating back a long time.
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by dasmoth 13y ago
I'm fairly sure it was B.
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by dasmoth 13y ago
Hinkley Point B is an AGR (or, more specifically, two AGRs). Hinkley Point A was an earlier Magnox station. It's one of the leading sites for new-build nuclear in the UK, and if Hinkley Point C does happen, it'll be a PWR. Rig
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by dasmoth 13y ago
That could be addressed by having an optional meatbags-only flag when creating tasks.
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by dasmoth 13y ago
I thought the discussion here was basic/universal income. Isn't the idea that the person paid $11k ends up receiving $10k + $11k - %tax. Otherwise you end up with 100% marginal tax rates, like in traditional benefit regimes.
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by dasmoth 13y ago
Doesn't that make it very hard for the private sector to recruit low-end employees?
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by dasmoth 13y ago
Now that's a great idea. Is it possible to route around enough of the SEC-or-local-equivalent regulations to make it viable?
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by dasmoth 13y ago
Believe it or not, Proton (UR-500) was originally developed as a large ICBM. Hypergolic fuels are a much more attractive choice for ICBMs than kerolox because it's possible to leave the rocket fueled for extended periods of time (pote
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by dasmoth 13y ago
I don't think performance numbers have been a good way to distinguish between mid-range and high-end for a while now. Especially for users who are looking for a single machine that covers a range of uses including games . ECC memory
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by dasmoth 13y ago
That's definitely how this looks. If it turns out that there are actually a range of machines, with GPU options other than Firepro, this could still end up as a very compelling mid-to-high-end personal desktop.
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by dasmoth 13y ago
Depends what you're looking for GPU-wise (which is also one of the frustrations of the iMac range). Also, slower CPUs and memory limited to 16Gb. In many respects, the new Mac Pro is exactly the all-round machine (development, scienti

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