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by desdiv 11y ago
>my IDE takes up 500 MB and my web browser over a GB. >So if by his possibly rosy calculations, a basic 3GB heap is still pausing 7 ms. How did you arrive at 3GB? Heap spaces of different processes don't add up, you know?
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by desdiv 11y ago
North Korea was caught cheating twice, and is the only country to have been caught cheating at the IMOs so far, so I would take their ranking with a grain of salt. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_International
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by desdiv 11y ago
Could you please elaborate on where the suckiness lies? Was it particular devices, or particular phone manufacturers? Or was it something wrong with the Android BLE APIs?
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by desdiv 11y ago
Only if he's the top search result for "SEO consultant".
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by desdiv 11y ago
From page 40: >Thing I won't do again... >Write a VM in C/C++ >-Java plenty fast now What is he trying to say here? Is he saying that he would use Java to write a VM? Wouldn't there be two layers of GC then? Or is he
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by desdiv 11y ago
Applying the principle of charity[0], I interpreted "foreigner" in this context as: >Foreigner may refer to: Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a citizen or permanent resident of that country.[1] If someone earns RMB
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by desdiv 11y ago
http://www.australianwindandsolar.com/wind-turbines This is the first google result. There are many others like it as well.
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by desdiv 11y ago
On their indiegogo page the estimated delivery date is October 2014, but their latest blog post says October 2015 . I'm guessing the actual date is never.
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by desdiv 11y ago
Hear, hear. Scala recently removed it altogether: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-5205 Other languages (Python 3, Ruby) are moving to the 0o syntax.
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by desdiv 11y ago
You left zero contact information and you have no profile. At least tell us the company name.
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by desdiv 11y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words#Post-Chaplinsky Basically the fighting words doctrine from Chaplinsky has been steadily narrowed over the years.
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by desdiv 11y ago
Are they considered independent contractors or do you pay them through a Chinese subsidiary? I'm looking into issue currently and all the bureaucracy (on both sides) is driving me mad.
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by desdiv 11y ago
It wasn't from a spy. It was the coded Japanese radio messages. The "Midway needs water" message was intentionally broadcasted in clear text. [0] http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/9
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by desdiv 11y ago
According to their 2014 annual report[0], optical media made up for only 7% of their revenue. [0] http://www.yuden.co.jp/ut/ir/files/news/54376eba6d579.pdf
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by desdiv 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
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by desdiv 11y ago
>...I could have been herding goats there, maybe as part of some a green eco-initiative project... Truth is stranger than fiction: http://googleblog.blogspot.sg/2009/05/mowing-with-goats.html
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by desdiv 11y ago
"Android has many problems and is far from perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our users in, to prevent them from leaving us."
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by desdiv 11y ago
>I toyed with implementing Swift on the JVM (which is very doable by the way). It's already been done :D https://leverich.github.io/swiftislikescala/
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by desdiv 11y ago
>To avoid clashing with policies, Uber claims that its People's Uber is a non-profit platform aimed at benefiting drivers and encouraging carpooling. The "we're not a taxi company" line is already pushing the limits a
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by desdiv 11y ago
iANAL, but isn't this another case of tax inversion[0]? Singapore does not tax profits generated outside of its borders (unless repatriated). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_inversion
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by desdiv 11y ago
It is in public domain. >The tune was first published in 1893 in the book Song Stories for the Kindergarten. The melody has since passed into the public domain, and is safe to hum in public without permission.
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by desdiv 11y ago
In case anyone else is wondering why doesn't the Go compiler have error ignore flags for scripting/prototyping purposes: http://weekly.golang.org/doc/faq#unused_variables_and_import...
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by desdiv 11y ago
>APIs themselves aren't copyrightable, as we saw in Google's recent lawsuit. The most recent ruling said that APIs, by themselves, are copyrightable[0]. The case is back to the district court now to determine whether the whol
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by desdiv 11y ago
Lower consumption != lower standard of living. My life would be much better if I didn't have to consume a few cups of gasoline just to be able to get to work.
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by desdiv 11y ago
At the time UCS-2 was the best thing they could choose from. Remember, Java predates UTF-8.
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by desdiv 11y ago
I think this is their code: GNOME client: https://github.com/max3903/SFLphone KDE client: https://github.com/Elv13/sflphone-kde Sounds like they recently relocated from their old homepage at ht
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by desdiv 11y ago
I think what jane_is_here was trying to say is this: Malta is essentially selling EU-wide* permanent residency permits and is making mad money out of it. Greece is in dire need of money, and is also entitled to the issuing of EU-wide perman
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by desdiv 11y ago
That brings a whole new meaning to "money laundering".
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by desdiv 11y ago
Here's a quote from Wisconsin's Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights[0]: If a law enforcement officer is under investigation and is subjected to interrogation for any reason which could lead to disciplinary action, demot
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by desdiv 12y ago
I didn't assume you were talking about nuclear warfare. Sorry for not being clear. I was point out how difficult it is to wipe out ~7 billion people, even with extremely advanced technology. Nuclear winter is just a convenient benchmar

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