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by faragon 9y ago
TL;DR: clickbait article.
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by faragon 9y ago
TL;DR: microservices is yet another religion.
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by faragon 9y ago
In my opinion, china GDP is under-valuated (despite government growth figure cooking). So, I guess that debt will not be a problem. What could be a problem is private debt, driving to fusion of similar companies, and public bail-out of bank
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by faragon 9y ago
TL;DR: don't use Facebook for messaging, nor as disk backup for photos.
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by faragon 9y ago
I have Git repositories much larger than 300GB, for binary data. The title should be "the largest Git repo for source code", in my opinion. BTW, it is a nice thing Windows development being moved to Git SCM. What's Linus opin
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by faragon 9y ago
I know UAE since its beginning. My point was about desktop integration, e.g. using clipboard between Linux desktop applications and Amiga applications, window resizing using host window manager, etc.
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by faragon 9y ago
Sure, was for saving time. In my opinion, that article could be more elaborated.
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by faragon 9y ago
TL;DR: D is faster than Python.
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by faragon 9y ago
IMO, util someone does some kind of "qemu+wine"-like for running Amiga applications and disk images as normal Linux desktop applications, the periodic "new Amiga hardware" will never end :-)
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by faragon 9y ago
TL;DR: Just avoid traveling to the USA. P.S. I love the USA, don't get me wrong. I hope some day the madness on the borders gets less paranoid.
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by faragon 9y ago
Very cool, to load .dll, so tests/builds/packaging can be run in Linux. There is also the possibility of signing .exe/.dll on Linux. AFAIK, the remaining stuff is to sign .msi files.
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by faragon 9y ago
799 USD for 4GB RAM, 128GB of flash, and an "Intel Core m3"? Come on. I understand that the Intel CPU is almost 300 USD per unit, and that pushes the price. I hope that Snapdragon SoCs running Windows 10 with emulation for x86 st
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by faragon 9y ago
Current Windows logo in the tablet is ugly. The old with colors was nicer, in my opinion.
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by faragon 9y ago
Government is under democratic control. A private company, is not.
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by faragon 9y ago
The one concluding that would be a judge, of course.
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by faragon 9y ago
In the same way as you define the mafia: a business based on making profit from extortion.
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by faragon 9y ago
Let's make patent trolling a crime, so an organization/company doing/preparing that crime could be stopped.
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by faragon 9y ago
Patent trolls should be prosecuted by the FBI, before they can even start harassing anyone, in my opinion.
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by faragon 9y ago
Pirate countermeasure: store encrypted files and decrypt "on the fly".
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by faragon 9y ago
If you're salaried, and get too sick to work, that would be covered. I.e. you're not going to be kicked out of the country like it could happen in the USA. Think of Spain like soft-socialism capitalism (pretty much like most count
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by faragon 9y ago
If you work legally (EU Shengen area, or having a work visa) with salary, for a company, you have full public health coverage for you and your family, just like every Spanish citizen (Spanish citizens have public universal health-care cover
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by faragon 9y ago
Those 378 euros are not just for health care, but also for retirement.
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by faragon 9y ago
Also, universal medical coverage in Spain covers you and all your family members, without additional cost. E.g. if you're married and having 4 kids, all 6 people would be 100% covered by the public health insurance. E.g. If you have a
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by faragon 9y ago
Catalan is not going to be a problem. Most people in Barcelona has Spanish as mother tongue. Catalan is more popular in the countryside. The Catalan nationalism is everywhere in the public sphere (public administration, public schools, traf
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by faragon 9y ago
Yes, right. Contractors/freelancers, despite having universal health-care coverage like salaried people, don't have paid holidays. Anyway, you can make lots of money as contractor working in Madrid or Barcelona (six figure income,
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by faragon 9y ago
You can work in English in most tech companies in Madrid and Barcelona. In fact, if some company discard you because of that, it would be a good thing for you. I know people working for more than 10 years in Madrid and Barcelona with just E
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by faragon 9y ago
Open a GitHub account and publish.
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by faragon 9y ago
Ok, it doesn't work int the Apple ][ because of timming, but could it work connected to an Atari 2600?
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by faragon 9y ago
E.g. MS-DOS 3.20 is slower to boot on a 8086 CPU + floppy disk than e.g. booting Ubuntu or Windows 10 on modern hardware.
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by faragon 9y ago
Short answer: shared resource synchronization. Long answer: You have many devices connected yo many different buses, some of those buses having shared resources allowing bus mastering and Direct Memory Access, and those devices can fail in

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