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by fab13n 14y ago
There's another issue: it seems likely that a minority of people will be in charge of most of the productive work. It's great to cut grunt work into a couple of hours a week if we can, but we probably want to keep talented robot designers o
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Exactly, and that's what taxes are supposed to be for: finance useful activities which aren't handled adequately by the free market. But before moving some workforce to those jobs, we first need to acknowledge this workforce as available, i
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We geeks are working at increasing the rest of the world's productivity. And we're doing great! This means that less people are needed to produce the same wealth, and that more and more people have nothing left to contribute, because we imp
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by fab13n 14y ago
No, quite the contrary: coroutines only yield explicitly, due to a call to coroutine.yield(). They let you control your scheduling deterministically (although multitasking is far from being their only use)
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The debug lib lets you hook behaviors on line changes, entering a function and leaving it, but nothing for single bytecodes iirc. The debug lib, allowing to take control of the whole program, is disabled in most sandboxed environments inclu
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Neither better nor worth by itself, honestly. The reason why it sucks is that integration with C is one of Lua's key selling points: peeking a convention different from C's is a gratuitous pain. It won't be fixed, because it would break exi
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Roberto did a keynote at the Lua workshop '12, where he detailled what keeps the Lua team busy. A video of it exists somewhere on the web. Half of it was about how to integrate IEEE doubles and 64 bits ints soundly in the language. There ar
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> Except there are women attending these conferences. The "joker" vents out his frustration, fed by a male daily work environment, in a gender-mixed conference. The result is event more detrimental than when such attitudes are displayed
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[this is a tentative explanation, no judgment, neither justification nor condemnation] My impression, as a male who's evolved in several macho environments including high tech, is that the grossest sexist jokes are about males' frustration
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There's a fairly effective rule of thumb: classes--or more accurately objects--are a way to cleanly encapsulate state. If you rely on a mutating state, you probably want an object/class. If not, a function is often better. Now you can bundl
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by fab13n 14y ago
In this context, where MS-Word is a de facto standard for various administration, "broken" means "not behaving like MS-Word". Which is perhaps the only test which MS-Word passes with flying colors.
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> I'm the product of a Western-European system. > [...] > I worry greatly about my daughter's future. I guess she has the same European citizenship as you? The smartest thing to do (although ethically debatable) is to go back to
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by fab13n 14y ago
If they lost, that patent has probably been invalidated. At the very least, its applicability has been downplayed.
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With a twist: in this variant, patent trolls risk their money if they lose, hence only enforce patents they truly believe in.
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If the story is true, this guy ought to be promoted their chief outsourcing officer right now.
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Free.fr has been trying for years to force big content providers, and especially Google, to participate in ISPs' infrastructure costs. This move is most likely a way to dry up AdSense revenue, hoping that Google will cave in. Free.fr, and b
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> [being sycophantic and treacherous] is not what I'm advocating. Indeed; I was just outlining a third option, between dumb submission and preparedness for job hopping. > No one is indispensable. No one. Replace "being indispensable
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> By rescuing orgs like that, you run the real risk of being relegated to perpetual clean up guy You're right, it's a serious risk and you have to address it. Again, being a good, "straight A student" who does what he's told when and wh
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I think they should: * either lower the entry price and limit the features of the free version if they need to be profitable now, getting more paying customers with a lower ARPU; * or lower the entry price a lot, lose money and increase bot
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> software is not a meritocracy [...] The politics are vicious [...] why that idiot is calling technical shots [...]? Because he played the game, and you didn't. Dilbert-style ass-licking and treachery is one way to play the game; being
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> I'm a little bummed. I thought [...] they would be around for a while. Supposing that they don't butcher the migration, what Snapjoy service do you love, which wouldn't benefit from a close integration with Dropbox? My only beef with
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Real-time rendering is done pretty fast and nicely by whizzytex (sudo apt-get install whizzytex), if you don't need the collaborative features and are comfortable with emacs. This being said, doing it in a web client sounds like no small t
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It would be about amending an appalling disgrace; not upon Turing, but upon Great Britain.
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I guess the point is to make DMCA claims more annoying to file, or at least to automate. I'd also hope that in true HN spirit, this is intended to be portable, so that if enough web sites replicated this policy, it would seriously handicap
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Musk has replaced Jobs in the public mind as the Ultimate Genius Entrepreneur. And he's going to ruthlessly use it to inspire people up to Mars. Actually, the Musk/Jobs comparison makes me think of the Famous Jobs/Sculley quote ("Do you wan
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The bidet becomes increasingly rare, although there's an obvious reason why: it takes real estate. In india, they have a dedicated cup and tub near the floor. A godsend for the many visitors catching turista: you can only sustain so much dr
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> I don't think anybody expects him to kidnap employees Nobodies does. But some would expect that he still has a couple of old pals in the business, who might: * either give him illegal access to information which should have required a
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CoffeeScript hides the most hideous warts of JavaScript. It's worth it because although messy as Hell, JS has an amazing ecosystem, most importantly/obvioulsy the ability to run in a client's browser. If I get it right, MoonScript aims at d
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...and pigs can fly, if you throw them fast enough. This is just an encoding of a Turing-complete language into another, I don't see what's been demonstrated here.
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No it doesn't. You reload DRM-stripped books on the device, as if it had never been bought from Amazon. Don't forget that DRMs aren't here to save Amazon from piracy. Today and for the next couple of years, what they really care about is se

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