enitihas

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   by enitihas 6y ago

   The problem remains in any other system though. In Communism, the winners would be the politburo members instead of bigco executives.
2. 212.▲
   by enitihas 6y ago

   5-10 years is insanely long for a startup. Few startups even survive 10 years.
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   by enitihas 6y ago

   So you don't support any big company? Which company is supporting unionisation? Hell, most big tech companies don't even employ non professional workers directly, instead as a contractor. So which is the noble big company you sup
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   by enitihas 6y ago

   Isn't that just writing to disk every n seconds? Even if n is 1, data will be lost.
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   by enitihas 6y ago

   Crafting Interpreters is a good book, free to read online. For papers you can read "The implementation of Lua 5"
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   by enitihas 6y ago

   Google needs good PR fare more than Azure though. Azure is doing very well, much better than GCP.
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   by enitihas 6y ago

   You can simply use unsafe as an escape hatch
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   by enitihas 6y ago

   I don't use redis, but the code quality is so high and it helped me understand how to write good looking C APIs which are also performant. Congratulations on the release.
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   by enitihas 6y ago

   In this case, they will be far more happy with the popularity associated with Zoom using them, much more than whatever money zoom will pay them. This gives their marketing/sales folks far more material than the money from Zoom can buy
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    The earth doesn't care the arbitrary division of it in countries, and any per country stats. Countries are irrelevant from the earth's perspective. Countries are an abstract concept. So saying that a smaller country means more lic
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    Per capita is what matters, absolute numbers don't make any sense. People consume resources per capita. Saying that if China was 10 different countries those countries would have 10x lower emission targets doesn't make sense. The
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    People somehow hope that Apple can create an iPhone every 5/10 years, a product whole sales dwarf the revenues of Microsoft+Google taken entirely probably over the last 10 years. Yeah, not gonna happen. The iPhone is the most profitabl
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    On the contrary, you have the British Prime Minister using it because it is too easy to use. I doubt it would have been the preference of British Intelligence that the PM use Zoom.
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    Does one need exposure to direct sunlight, or sunlight coming via glass windows works?
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    Every single bank in India offers the exact same free payment service (UPI based, which these big co apps are also using, identical in functionality), and that is free just like other bank based free payments. So even if all the bigcos leav
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    How does that leave citizens worse off? Removing charges from payment makes that comission go to citizens, small businesses and away from the pocket of big corporations. The fact that big business can't make money by charging for payme
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    Maybe someone can make an entirely offline app doing this, to allow you to WhatsApp your contacts?
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    And that page still doesn't list GTalk, the precursor for hangouts.
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    Which company employees aren't afraid of what legal might think?
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    > if you think its nonsense get your logic circuits checked. If you need to attack people to get your point across, it means your argument holds no weight. You don't do lockdowns based on how some far away city is doing. Germany did
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    You are comparing totally non sense timelines. Five days after NYC, but so many cases before NYC.
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    Absolutely this. My hometown, whole hometown, home to 55k people, got sealed on just one single case. National highway is blocked. All previous passes invalidated. New passes were issued to ensure delivery of groceries. In a town where no c
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    What NoSQL? According to their blog they use SQL server.
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    You can just use map.forEach and avoid the types in the next two lines too.
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    Are there any studies on the impact and benefits of tea vs coffee?
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    You just got your wish in the form of Viewstamped Replication.
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    Is there any open source widely used implementation of multi paxos, because single paxos doesn't seem useful by itself.
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    HN has San Francisco specific stuff with nothing in title indicating that sometimes, leave alone the US. I think most people just assume it is about US anyways.
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    Not British, but from what I read, don't the British people trust the NHS even more than government and police, and so any pushback against an NHS recommended app or approach might be minor.
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    by enitihas 6y ago

    Thanks, didn't notice that at first.