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by hacker_9 8y ago
But who is writing the widget? If it's a programmer, then why is he using this tool when most of this stuff is one liners in code anyway? And if it's a non-programmer, he now can't do something that he may have still been abl
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by hacker_9 8y ago
Definitely scary, but what happens if enemy states create this technology before us? That's why we need a defence sector that does, in fact, build these tools. If both sides have the technology then a stalemate is reached. Look at nucl
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by hacker_9 8y ago
It's a bit annoying when half the questions are basically 'how does Facebook work?'. Tech is still magic to most of the people asking the questions.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Maybe they haven't accepted it yet. Though their blog posts were always few and far apart.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Thoughts on why this project was dumped by investors: I think the problem they really had from the beginning was they were pressuring themselves to innovate in an industry that is already decades old. You can't raise $2 mil and not fee
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by hacker_9 9y ago
It's a valid point, simply because browser UI kits are outdated, memory hogs, and have a ton of legacy cruft. I've recently been using Windows Forms with C# again and am amazed at the ease of use, if only they had made styling eas
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by hacker_9 9y ago
How to be productive in two steps: 1. Use the right tool for the job - pen and paper when the idea is new in order to nail it down, then code later once all the obvious pitfalls have been ironed out on paper first. It's amazing how goi
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Yeah it's all trade offs, the OP mentions he works until 8pm at the end of the article; I wonder what social life that leaves for after work exactly? Also if he doesn't get his work done, he skips his fitness (ju jitsu) training a
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Electron isn't a good benchmark here because every app spawns it's own Chrome renderer process. In the case of Kai, I'd imagine they'd only need to spawn a single instance, and just add/remove view handles as needed
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Why not just append `thread.sleep(random() % 1000)' to your calculations if you are worried about timing attacks?
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Mind body connection is real, who knew.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
In my opinion death is simply explained by the human body not having reached it's final form yet. We are constantly evolving, but evolution has been concentrating on short term survival for a millenia. It's only recently, in evol
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Depends on the business of course. Try getting interviewed by competent developers, they'll quickly find the holes.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Anonymous botnet hits the Winter Olympics website, so blame the Russians? What a garbage article.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Counterpoints: AI is easy to fool, you think people write completely true statements in all their twitter messages? Most of it is just spam. And do you honestly think that we are going to let 1000s of self driving cars drive around by thems
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by hacker_9 9y ago
"things that didn't work before will now" Just the words I want to hear when I upgrade my programming language by one minor version.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
I think the problem they really had from the beginning was they were pressuring themselves to innovate in an industry that is already decades old. You can't raise $2 mil and not feel the pressure to perform, and sadly this is not how i
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by hacker_9 9y ago
It's an over simplification of the brain, supported by the fact that those that damage their speech centers on one side still end up being able to talk again, as other parts of their brain take on the task instead.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Thats because the 'why' is more powerful; from it you can infer the 'what' and 'how'.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
To be honest the spec is such a convoluted mess of hacks and patches, I'm amazed it's stuck to at all. At work we actually stopped bothering supporting all browsers for our product because of the endless compatibility issues, and
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by hacker_9 9y ago
There is also another point of view; the reason we have a concept of 'good looking' human faces to begin with is because, at some point, the human brain has to distinguish between looking at another ally (human) or a possible pred
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by hacker_9 9y ago
That is in the past, it was a single project from 5 years ago, and I think the companies involved were investigated by the FSA. Nowadays NHS is pushing software initiatives more and more, see here: https://www.england.nhs.uk&#x2F
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by hacker_9 9y ago
This: https://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/online-services/Pages/gp-servi... And yes there isn't a single database, but if you transfer to a different GP they will transfer your records from your old GP, and th
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Wow, the UK is really embracing technology. You can do so much electronically though the Gov.uk website already, and you can even access your NHS medical record via a phone app. Being able to consume banking data via an API will no doubt op
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by hacker_9 9y ago
One major difference is that Kotlin can tell you about nullability problems from simply analysing the method body, without going any further down the execution tree. this is a lot more reliable, and fast enough for real time IDE error repor
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by hacker_9 9y ago
For the confused (like I was): "They did not create an entity that actually possesses "negative mass". They created configurations of energy states within a material that CAN BE CHARACTERIZED as a quasiparticle; there is no
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Most of what you wrote is mis-information, for example it is written in the Repeal Bill [1] that all existing EU legislation will be copied across into domestic UK law to ensure a smooth transition on the day after Brexit. Trade wise, there
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by hacker_9 9y ago
This is why you write plans; you find the pain points that will occur and figure those out before committing yourself to an idea. Often I find any wild ideas I have are mostly killed off in the planning stage, but this generally also leads
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Correct, hindsight is 20/20.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
I don't know why these terms are thrown out like they're useless, as they pretty much explain most people's way of thinking. If you give up you have a fixed mindset, where you simply think you weren't born to be good eno

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