dwills

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by dwills 9y ago
A missing piece of information is that trehalose is a rather new additive. It was very expensive to manufacture until about 20 years ago when a new cheaper process to make it was found. And voilà, because it appears safe and is somewhat u
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by dwills 10y ago
Yes.
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by dwills 10y ago
Grade level schools, adopted in the USA in the middle of the 19th century, essentially dumb down those who are a bit more advanced at an early age. It takes a few grades to destroy the good work of parents preparing their preschoolers, but
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by dwills 10y ago
The Swift support on Linux is the bare minimum required to say "Swift supports Linux". I seriously doubt that Swift will ever be any more "portable" than Objective-C. That is, Swift, like Objective-C, is portable in th
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by dwills 10y ago
No you are not the only programmer who thinks that languages are going in the wrong direction. For example, the lambda operator of Java 8. All it does is hide the (very useful) name of the method being called. I'm forever having to
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by dwills 10y ago
Another take on the Tesla financial story: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-26/tesla-earnings-smas...
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by dwills 10y ago
Another false headline. "serverless"? Nope. A redis server must be running.
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by dwills 10y ago
The headline is false. Far down in the article, find this nuggest: "The profit landscape is less sunny. Operating income for Walmart’s United States stores was down 6 percent in the most recent quarter, reflecting higher labor costs a