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by hencq 10y ago
> Uh, isn't that "move" enforcement of the results of multilateral negotiation (the EU and its rules)? Well in that case, shouldn't it actually be Ireland that got fined instead of retroactively taxing Apple?
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by hencq 10y ago
When I learned Norwegian, my teacher used to joke that all of Scandinavia spoke Norwegian. It's just that the Swedes were pronouncing things wrong and the Danish couldn't spell it correctly.
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by hencq 10y ago
I'm definitely not an expert on this, but how the article describes it is you basically implement an AST with "execute" methods on its nodes. So that's just an interpreter that happens to use the Truffle framework to imp
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by hencq 10y ago
You're not compiling to Java though. You're writing an AST walking interpreter, so you should be able to implement continuations and TCO just fine.
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by hencq 10y ago
Well at least it would help you avoid warm-up for the interpreter/compiler itself, so it might help a bit.
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by hencq 10y ago
That Remain pulled ahead is somewhat irrelevant though. That seems to be mostly due to London reporting in, which was always expected to vote Remain. What's relevant (for this model at least) is whether the results are higher or lower
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by hencq 10y ago
The University of East Anglia have a live blog as well that updates their predictions based on statistical model [0] by Dr Chris Hanretty. Predictions are based on how results differ from the prior model. The model is explained in more deta
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by hencq 10y ago
Agreed. They wouldn't even need to be overtaken. It seems that a lot of the valuation is based on the premise that this is a global winner takes all market. If it turns out that's not true and there is in fact space for multiple c
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by hencq 10y ago
What makes you think that a company would plateau after 1 year of profitability?
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Sticking Two Elevators in One Shaft Is Totally Safe–And a Great Idea(wired.com)
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by hencq 10y ago
There's Typed Racket [1] and for Clojure there's core.typed [2]which do pretty much that. For Clojure there's also Schema [3], which is a bit lighter weight (it's not a full type system), but still gets you some of the b
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by hencq 10y ago
Yeah, another example that comes to mind is Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plants, where the efficiency of power generation is actually lower, but the heat that's normally wasted is made useful.
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by hencq 11y ago
It's not just Germany by the way. I think this applies in most of Europe where patriotism is closely linked with nationalism because of our history. For example, in the UK showing an English flag is immediately associated with the BNP.
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by hencq 11y ago
Actually the way the Innovator's Dilemma" uses the word disruption is very specific and doesn't match your explanation or the article's for that matter. Christensen doesn't use disruption to mean "making someth
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by hencq 11y ago
I found this interesting because ride-sharing is often characterized as a winner-takes-all market. Most of the insanely high valuations seem to be based on that as well. Juno seems to think there's opportunity to enter this market quit
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Juno wants to woo Uber drivers with a more ethical ride-sharing app(theverge.com)
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by hencq 11y ago
Lyft's alternative to UberPool is called Lyft Line. Pretty sure they actually launched that (a bit) before Uber as well.
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by hencq 11y ago
I really liked the video last month about webrender, which really looked like the future of rendering web content. It sounds like this Houdini stuff would not work so well with a webrender type infrastructure? That would be a real shame and
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by hencq 11y ago
I actually left a copy of Four Days With Dr Deming [1] lying around in our office, which is not by him, but follows one of his seminars quite closely. I hoped it would inspire my manager to take a peek, but so far I don't think it&#x27
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by hencq 11y ago
Thanks for sharing those links. I'll definitely look into them in more detail. At a cursory glance I'm not sure that the data necessarily contradicts 1024core's statement. A disturbingly high number of respondents cites havin
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by hencq 11y ago
I went to the comments to mention Zen and was glad it was already the top comment. I was lucky enough to get introduced to it early in college as it really got me thinking about quality. I should probably re-read it again to see if my think
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by hencq 11y ago
One of my professors in college stated (perhaps wishfully) that one day we'll look back at today as a time where employees had the strange habit of coming into work in the morning and first thing they did was remove their brain and lea
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by hencq 11y ago
Yeah, it's sad that it's apparently impossible to have a serious discussion around this topic without getting vilified. It seems that a lot of people like to pat themselves on the back for how compassionate they are because they a
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by hencq 11y ago
This article was great, as well as the video and Chris's response. It reminded me of 2 problems I've encountered time and time again that I'd love (for someone) to solve. 1. Often presentations, reports, etc. rely on calculat
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by hencq 11y ago
> Aside: out of curiosity it would have been interesting to see how a Thompson NFA[1] would have dealt with this. It wouldn't have dealt with it right? NFAs and DFAs are equivalent and them being actually regular means they can&#x27
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by hencq 11y ago
They can. At will means they don't have to provide a reason. It gets complex though when the fired employee claims he was actually fired for illegal reasons. E.g. they might claim they were fired because of their age, because they were
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by hencq 11y ago
Here's a little more info on how and why Go does it: http://research.swtch.com/interfaces
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by hencq 11y ago
The number of native speakers for English might be smaller, but I think crucially it's spoken in a lot of different countries already, especially if you take English as a second language into account. This is anecdotal, but in my exper
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by hencq 11y ago
Of course the City is a tax haven itself as well, but yes, there probably is a lot of pressure/lobbying power to leave things as is.
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by hencq 11y ago
With the direction this seems to be moving in with ever bigger turbos on smaller engines, I wonder how long it will take before we simply remove the piston engine altogether and just switch to (turbine) generators. It seems this would work

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