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by dullgiulio 7y ago
I am not sure it is a good idea to trust the server to decide what is more important. I can easily imagine ads taking higher priority than actual content, just look at the pop-ups that interrupt reading. Browsers and protocol should start c
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by dullgiulio 7y ago
They cannot inflate the numbers. There is a (free) card system. When boarding the bus you have to validate the ticket. The ticket system is handled by a separate company, not by the bus companies.
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by dullgiulio 7y ago
Also (correct me if I am wrong), there is no legal trace that the bail money was not from Assange own funds. In other words, if he did surrender according to terms, the money would have gone back to Assange who would have returned it to the
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Free Public Transport in Estonia(economist.com)
166 points by dullgiulio 7y ago|169 comments
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by dullgiulio 7y ago
In regards to memory fragmentation, you probably think of GC with compaction. Not all GCs are like that, but that is a plus for GCs if use the heap a lot and need cache friendliness.
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by dullgiulio 7y ago
We have been waiting for the "sufficiently smart compiler" for around 4 decades now. If it's so easy to write one, where are they?
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by dullgiulio 7y ago
Your example is a time without a date, which of course does not need a timezone. Any use of the word time above actually meant datetime.
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by dullgiulio 7y ago
I cannot but disagree: there is no such a thing as time without a timezone. It is just an undefined time. The "local" timezone could be anything and could change any time. Not recording it is just data loss. Java Instant is a time
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by dullgiulio 7y ago
Not giving a microphone to someone is not the same as censoring them.
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by dullgiulio 7y ago
That's right. The key data structure is the rope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)
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by dullgiulio 7y ago
Not my experience. Or, if anything, bluetooth on Ubuntu works much better than on my Windows laptop (Lenovo).
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by dullgiulio 7y ago
I never understood this. DI is for deciding program behavior. That should be a user choice. I don't understand how final users are supposed to (1) write XML files instead of providing simple human readable CLI flags, (2) know the progr
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by dullgiulio 7y ago
In the short term they do, but if the benefits are based on VC, they just cannot last forever.
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by dullgiulio 7y ago
Well, the extremely generic interface of Plan9 (plaintext files) can make you use any language. It is the extreme difference with a OS which is in itself one language.
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Estonian Startup Has Become a Thorn in Uber’s Side(nytimes.com)
5 points by dullgiulio 7y ago|0 comments
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by dullgiulio 7y ago
Double citizenships are actually allowed in some cases (dual citizenship from birth, honorary bestowment, etc.) Many grey passport holders are also offered Russian citizenship (with which they could still legally live in Estonia), but they
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by dullgiulio 7y ago
The reason why many "stateless citizens" don't get their EU citizen right is that as EU citizens they have to pay a visa to visit neighbouring Russia, with the grey passport they have they don't have to (Russia treats th
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by dullgiulio 8y ago
Ugh, did the author expect Go to make his code magically real-time? That's pretty difficult, GC or not. Also, time.Sleep in a test wouldn't pass code review. A better approach is to timestamp incoming lines and merge them based on
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by dullgiulio 8y ago
It also implies saving passwords without hashing... Not good.
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by dullgiulio 8y ago
There is no such a thing as incompetence, just people in the wrong position without the proper guidance. (I'm an engineering manager, I would get the blame for such situations, not my employees.)
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by dullgiulio 8y ago
I imagine that before we have a technical solution that works well enough to be used, natural language (guided by the technological limits) will have dropped such rule in ordinary use.
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by dullgiulio 8y ago
But the parent's point remains: a Java NPE and a panic because of unwrap are really equivalent. Not really unsafe in the C sense, but equally bad as unhandled crashes.
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by dullgiulio 8y ago
They change the duration of the day, not the minute.
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by dullgiulio 8y ago
Umh, this article is dubious. 1. If your WAF can be fooled by adding a X-Forwarded-For header, trouble ahead. 2. If your security strategy is about mitigating attacks where the payload matches some regular expressions, trouble ahead. Machin
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by dullgiulio 8y ago
Oh no, that's not the case at all. The joke (comedian-led) government of Italy is just misnaming unemployment benefits. They have a very foggy plan (and no ability to actually execute it), but it would include plenty of people trying t
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by dullgiulio 8y ago
Yes, exactly this. You have to choose the hand that feeds. If you start a platform around paying customers you make it one way, if you start it around getting as many users as you can and then monetize the popularity, then you are selling y
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by dullgiulio 8y ago
Why "still"? Even if the chances of a failure of both engines is almost zero, it has happened that there are losses of fuel. The ram-air turbine allows the pilots to have some instrumentation. That's super useful, for example
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by dullgiulio 8y ago
Gmail smart completion is more akin to a template, like giving you an empty class or an empty main function. Its utility (at least in my experience) hasn't gone much farther. The example you link (from Zsh, not fish) is a fancy looking
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by dullgiulio 8y ago
Why is Guava infamous?
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by dullgiulio 8y ago
Almost, you are mixing up homepage posts. You are talking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18958679 .

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