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by grabcocque 9y ago
I don't think Cheney properly understands the concept of "simplicity" fully. A language is not simple because it meets some arbitrary measure of smallness. A language is simple if it decomplects unrelated concerns. Which go d
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by grabcocque 9y ago
I’m always wary of posthumously published books. I mean, the author didn’t publish them for a reason. Normally that reason is because they were bad. Also, I tried to read the Silmarillion once. THAT was a struggle. Christopher Tolkien calls
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Keep up the good work, people of Wisconsin. ;)
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by grabcocque 9y ago
We all benefit when AMD is a player. And this player is fighting HARD right now. Me gusta.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
It's been eighteen months guys, time to rewrite all our front end code from scratch!
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by grabcocque 9y ago
He's running.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
I'm pointing out, that which is 100% factually correct, that he was accused of rape and fled from justice. This is a matter of public record. He skipped bail, costing his supporters £60K in surety. For skipping bail he's now wante
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Well we don't know if he's innocent or guilty, because he skipped bail and fled justice. But he'll always be the man who spent a decade hiding in an attic to avoid a rape charge.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Yes, rape. Putting "rape" in scare quotes because you're a misogynist doesn't make rape stop being serious. Just FYI.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
John Pilger actually puts "rape investigation" in inverted commas. This is misogynist fuckwittery of the first order. Assange is FREE TO LEAVE THE CUPBOARD HE'S HIDING IN TO ESCAPE A RAPE CHARGE WHENEVER HE LIKES. This is lit
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by grabcocque 9y ago
IANAL, but fleeing from an arrest warrant is very definitely illegal in the UK.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Assange had a very personal vendetta with Hillary Clinton, the Kremlin were merely another weapon.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
The UK police will arrest him for obstruction of justice the moment he tries to leave the wardrobe he's hiding in. He'd probably be convicted, which carries a maximum sentence of [EDIT] 1 year in prison.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
It looks like there's been a very conscious effort to strike a midpoint between Java's familiar clunkiness and Scala's hipster experimental side. I think that's a good thing, you end up with a language that feels pragmat
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by grabcocque 9y ago
I think it's important to separate the GPLv2 which is still vital and alive, and the GPL v3 which is now generally regarded to have been a failure.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Yeah, I think that's just for TV. Ain't no way Teller's getting fooled by any fresh-off-the-cruise-liner cabaret magician.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Teller is possibly one of the greatest living historians of magic. Once got a chance to speak to him at the bar of the Oxford Union once, and he has an absolutely encyclopedic knowledge of almost every trick, turn, swindle, deception, racke
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by grabcocque 9y ago
The author is making it seem like Google is doing something sinister here. But Google submitted the QUIC drafts and it's being developed in the open under the aegis of the IETF. https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/quic
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by grabcocque 9y ago
A linked list is almost certainly not what you want either. They're so deeply cache-unfriendly that their appearance in kernel code should be viewed as suspect.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
SRE: because DevOps isn't buzzwordy enough these days.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
$120m from investors none of whom were aware you don't need a $400 machine to squeeze the juice from fruit? How do people with so little sense get so much money?
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by grabcocque 9y ago
One thing the author didn't mention is, in this case, whatever the intentions behind Munoz's dismal bit of bureaucratese, it most certainly did not deflect blame or attention. In fact, the response was so ham-fistedly out of touch
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by grabcocque 9y ago
1) Smart people who have great ideas 2) A business model that has no need of those ideas 3) Management who have absolutely no idea how to capitalise on those ideas outside of a core business? ... That's Google. Google are Xerox.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
'There is no evidence of malicious intervention' Becomes "OMG BREXIT WAS HACKED!!!" in the hands of a BBC clickbaiter. Nice work.
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by grabcocque 10y ago
Spotify has lost 20% market share in 2 years, in the same time pushing their annual losses to $200m. Growing your losses whilst losing market share is not an enormously attractive value proposition to investors.
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by grabcocque 10y ago
Headline is clickbait. He's talking about the majority, headline implies any.
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by grabcocque 10y ago
Why use JQuery when you can do it in a way that's more ugly, more verbose, less portable, more likely to break?
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by grabcocque 10y ago
Hear hear. The curl devs were totally irresponsible, and worse, outright intellectually dishonest to pretend memory safety wasn't a serious problem for them or anyone else.
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by grabcocque 10y ago
This the sort of thing Einstein might have believed when was going through his quantum mechanics denialist phase. Suffice to say the universe proved him, and fans of the quote, very wrong.
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by grabcocque 10y ago
This is a good post. I hope this was a good comment.

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