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by genwin 14y ago
In Go I do poor man's debugging, print statements. Knowing the exact line number of an error is most of what I want for debugging. On errors Go shows the stack with line numbers. An IDE might be icing on the cake but there are usually disad
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by genwin 14y ago
I've been offline for a few days. I don't do PF if only because it's common there that things are rarely really answered. If there's a problem with this simple thought experiment then a statement from it could be quoted and shown what's wro
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by genwin 14y ago
> Because spacetime is curved, and the curvature limits the size of a local inertial frame straddling the horizon. True but irrelevant. The thought experiment needs only an arbitrarily small time interval as measured in X to make its ca
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by genwin 14y ago
> What material have you covered? The material sufficient for this discussion. I know the material well enough to point out contradictions in your thinking. > If that's true, the the diagram that's shown cannot portray a steady stat
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by genwin 14y ago
> The problem is already going to crush your kids. Yes, whether or not they work on an assembly line. The kids can't possibly pay all they'll be demanded to pay, but the consequences of that will be great as well. There may well be a
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by genwin 14y ago
> The horizon is an outgoing lightlike surface; with respect to Frame X (or to any inertial frame that straddles the horizon), it's moving radially outward at the speed of light. It's not a plane stationary in space. "Lightlike surface"
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by genwin 14y ago
As I interpreted it, it's a diagram of a lab falling through a horizon, as viewed by someone at rest with respect to the lab. The horizon would be a plane traversing the lab; thus the horizon is drawn correctly. The singularity would be in
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by genwin 14y ago
But the political pressure from the wealthy overrides the pressure from the average person. Hence taxes go up as wages fall in response to labor automation.
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by genwin 14y ago
Should we just take your word for that?
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by genwin 14y ago
Peer review may exist for a reason but there's no evidence it helps to advance science. There is evidence however that peer review has blocked valid works. It may be throwing the babies out with the bath water.
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by genwin 14y ago
Care to elaborate? I saw no such issue.
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by genwin 14y ago
As labor is automated there will be increasing downward pressure on my kid's wages and job prospects. Harder work will be required to pay the taxes that are increased to make up for the falling wages.
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by genwin 14y ago
How long ago did you upload them? With burnout presumably people are trying less apps.
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by genwin 14y ago
Maybe a few centuries from now our major societies will no longer rely on population growth. The consequences of this unsustainable approach won't be pretty. My kid will be expected to financially support at least two retirees via Social Se
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by genwin 14y ago
When only 1K apps have more than 50K users, it makes one wonder how many app-only startups will survive in the long run. Unless it's for business it seems that even 50K users on all three major platforms wouldn't support even one employee.
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by genwin 14y ago
HN doesn't use XMLHttpRequest. View source to see that.
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by genwin 14y ago
Might be? How much more evidence would be needed? The planet can probably sustain less than a billion people long term at a first-world standard of living.
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by genwin 14y ago
Likely it's coincidental. The firm probably just hired whomever they thought could best do the job, largely ignoring the degrees. Maybe the people with a computer engineering background demonstrated better software development skills or apt
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by genwin 14y ago
As long as it's not tax deductible, I'm fine with that.
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by genwin 14y ago
Only $100 trillion after interest payments. Let's bump up to 70-hour work weeks and get crackin' on this system, for the children.
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by genwin 14y ago
If you care about the future of civilization, it might be best to avoid supporting the borrowing of even more $trillions for a tiny chance at preventing a killer asteroid that likely won't happen before the next ice age destroys most of the
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The truth about free APIs (2007)(glinden.blogspot.com)
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by genwin 14y ago
Switzerland is about the size of West Virginia.
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by genwin 14y ago
Agreed. Crazy judge. Imagine you buy a new laptop and then get served by a dozen patent trolls requiring your presence in courts in a dozen different states.
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by genwin 14y ago
My thoughts too! On #2, budget travel I absolutely cannot do without. Also: 4. Avoid paying retail. Use Goodwill, craigslist etc.
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by genwin 14y ago
The release of Go 1.0 is up there. It's a phenomenal language.
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by genwin 14y ago
Zero, I just skipped one yesterday, which would've been on my own time after work. It's good when a company lets their employees attend them, assuming it's not too pricey. They are of little importance to me as I think for me they are an in
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by genwin 14y ago
If you can start startups and bolt, or any other freelance work and still pay the bills, do that for sure. People settle down mostly to pay the bills. Social stuff you can get at meetups nowadays, for a wide range of topics, in a more casua
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by genwin 14y ago
It might be just as fast in Java; I don't know. My only point is that theoretically being able to serve 78 million requests in a 10 hour day, most within 5 ms (server processing only) and each a unique gzipped page based on the user's past
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by genwin 14y ago
If the code was simple I wouldn't be too impressed either. But a lot of processing goes into determining each of the 30 links to show the user. There's read locking and a sort on a ~1K-element slice in there too. The test was done on the se

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