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by dnomad 8y ago
There's certainly no need to write custom operating systems. China already happily customizes Android and Linux extensively across a wide range of devices. You can see this today just by walking down the street where there are street l
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by dnomad 8y ago
Like most things you read in NY Times it's about 5-10 years too late. It's been widely known for a while that China imports huge amounts of microchips and this creates enormous dependence on the West while also posing as a signifi
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by dnomad 8y ago
This doesn't really solve the ambiguity. You can do the same in Java (and people often do): if (getClass() != other.getClass()) return false; This does guarantee that equality is symmetric but it's also troublesome.
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by dnomad 8y ago
The entire frame is bogus. Starting with Socrates, westerners like Kant believe that cognition (computation) is a solitary endeavor. Thus humans are "vulnerable" to group-think and it's up to the philosopher to "break fr
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by dnomad 8y ago
The real problem is that equality is an operator that creates a relation between two objects. Equality is not and should never be decided by one object -- both objects must "agree". An object A in itself cannot say for sure
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by dnomad 8y ago
> Where do you think wealth comes from? In this case it's very clear where wealth comes from: Bezos and the rest of the Amazon shareholders are severely underpaying these workers in violation of China's labor laws. Did you read
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by dnomad 8y ago
I was mostly joking... I understand how dependent types work and don't think those researching it are of "ill repute." It's worth pointing out though what is the real flaw with union types and dependent types: syntax mig
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by dnomad 8y ago
This sort of thing happens all the time. Hackers routinely attack web sites and change wallet addresses [1]. They setup fake Twitter accounts, fake web sites, muck up exchanges with fake listings, and in some cases even hold fake investor m
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by dnomad 8y ago
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_(software)#Notable_breakag... , [2] https://www.csoonline.com/article/3214624/security/malicious... , [3] https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by dnomad 8y ago
Watching the Javascript poorly reinvent the wheel has been very disappointing. Very simple mistakes like immutable, never changing build releases that Java developers understood 15 years ago are become recent front page news in this communi
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by dnomad 8y ago
> A simple experiment you can do yourself is take the lists of Forbes 400 riches over time I'm not sure what you imagine this proves. Social mobility is something that has been well studied in America. It is well-known that social m
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by dnomad 8y ago
> The data is that the rich don't stay rich This is, of course, yet another lie that must be told to justify what is a deeply evil system. Dig a little deeper [1] and you'll find capital concentrations are extremely enduring, p
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by dnomad 8y ago
> Someone else becoming richer does not require me to become poorer. Oh but it does. Systemic inequality engenders winner-take-all dynamics. We see this very clearly in the data: as capital becomes more concentrated the rich grab more an
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by dnomad 8y ago
Ah, I see, simply being headquartered in China is enough to make them an arm of the Chinese government. That's some powerful projection. I mean, unlike the case with Huawei, there is extensive hard evidence of American telecom compan
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by dnomad 8y ago
Huawei does not have "strong ties to the Chinese government." There is absolutely no concrete evidence that Huawei of such a relationship. Please stop spreading propaganda.
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by dnomad 8y ago
This isn't really the "open core" model if the core is not actually open. GP would like to contribute these features themselves to the open core but GitLab likely would not allow it.
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The incentives are really not aligned here. Over time it's likely more features will be removed from or never added to CE. Gitlab provides only a very basic plugin system [1] so that nobody else can provide these basic features into CE
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by dnomad 8y ago
The article is profoundly dishonest. They've built their whole company on open source code provided by the "closed source company" Github. Here's the truth that so many seem to be in denial about: it is "closed sour
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by dnomad 8y ago
Exactly. A big concern for enterprise customers (that often drove them to Atlassian over Github) was the fear that Github was "just a startup" and might disappear at any moment and the lack of integration with existing enterprise
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by dnomad 8y ago
Your confused if you think just because one benefits from charitable actions that somehow invalidates them. And IBM's contribution was, frankly, marketing. It does not compare to the volumes of high quality technology that the companie
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by dnomad 8y ago
Indeed the most extraordinary story of the last ten years is how Google, Oracle, Redhat, Microsoft and Facebook have funded open-source software to tune of billions. This is likely the greatest act of charity the planet has ever known. And
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by dnomad 8y ago
> Github is running on $350m of VC funding. Gitlab is also running on a bunch of VC money. > In response to my question 'can you call a 10yo company that still isn't profitable, a "business"?' Gitlab also like
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by dnomad 8y ago
Honestly the whole thing is like a bizarro Java world. Everything is significantly worse than the comparative technologies, some of which are 20+ years old. package.json is worse than pom.xml, build.ts is a bizarro build.gradle, and the vm
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It's not clear that a forum administrator would need to do anything under the GDPR except respond to emails with the standard template: "The forum does not collect or process any personal data." Technically, I suspect, this w
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by dnomad 8y ago
Sorry, but it's a bit rich when people who literally won the lottery call for hard work. The reality is you got lucky. There were probably many people who worked harder than you and saved more than you who will never enjoy anything
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There's demand but there is no supply. No serious company is going to crowdfund away actual equity. Only the very worst companies are going to go out on the street and beg randos for capital hence ICOs. The reality is that the public w
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> It then makes sense to question if the gap might re-emerge if similar methods were applied to all students, does it not? No, it doesn't make any sense. What do you think actually causes the gap? Is it some magical force inherent i
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by dnomad 8y ago
You're asserting without any evidence that every student Y who "doesn't care about school" would not respond to the protocols described in this paper? This is an extraordinary claim and probably wrong. It needs to verifi
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> That is quite a bit more than high-quality schooling. I'm not familiar with any legal or otherwise definition that constrains what services a school can and cannot provide. There are in fact high-quality boarding schools in Europe
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Yeah, there's a perfect storm that happens on the frontend. (1) Users are more empowered and expected to continually change requirements all the time. (2) The underlying technology is broken. Specifically, there is no component model

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