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by iofj 11y ago
Just because you can't gain efficiency by changing the speed of the plane, with no other changes allowed, doesn't mean you have no options : 1) reduce weight (fuselage, engine, wings, have the passengers diet first, ...) 2) increa
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by iofj 11y ago
I think the political problem that nuclear poses is very much part of the nuclear energy problem and should be considered a valid part of the discussion.
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by iofj 11y ago
For legacy code a converter might be the better option. E.g. http://www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com/Product_Details/CPl... Yes, it's not perfect but at least debugger, instrumentation, ... will work against the
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by iofj 11y ago
I disagree strongly. You should keep into account that Go is a very young language, and hasn't had to deal with historical baggage. It's still the hot new thing, and that just won't last. 1) Concurrency model : there are plen
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by iofj 11y ago
How about: Using win32 means your application works without any problem and any third-party dlls or weird installs on anything from win2k to windows10 and winRT (any non-arm version). Making a single .exe that works across all of them isn&#
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by iofj 11y ago
I think you mean there no singularity for a falling observer. Given that time slows down, it is not a certainty that you'll fall through the event horizon. There are two viewpoints: For an outside observer: the black hole will evaporat
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by iofj 11y ago
When working at a helpdesk company managing IVR services, one quicly learns : LIFO minimizes latency and resource usage FIFO maximizes latency and resource usage What you want to serve, as a queue manager, is the largest amount of requests
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by iofj 11y ago
Well when the banks lost the ability to invest due to QE, first in the US, then in Europe, the money to pay for providing bank accounts had to come from somewhere else. Frankly, this is explicit government policy. Hell, QE is so ridiculous.
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by iofj 11y ago
The comment above ("Rudism") appears to be exactly that.
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by iofj 11y ago
Let's pre-emptively define a .ghp file format !
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by iofj 11y ago
1) play.golang.org is a popular feature of Go. Why not have better versions ? (e.g. an IPython/Jupyter kernel) 2) Golang depends on code generation for a lot of it's features. Executing generated code immediately could be helpful.
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by iofj 11y ago
Sure but turning 200 pages looking for a specific illustration or caption in 2-3 seconds is something I very often do with physical books and is pretty useful for reference works.
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by iofj 11y ago
Seconded. Although I still think Turbo C and Borland Pascal 7 win out, but it's not like I'm using those anymore. I miss the demo days.
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by iofj 11y ago
Not really, but our benevolent God has ordained that, especially if it becomes abandonware, versions without license check will be available on plenty of internet sites.
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by iofj 11y ago
It still has all the other disadvantages of remote services, like consistency problems (everybody always assumes that RPC calls are as reliable as 2 phase commit, and they're not), more and more complex code that's harder to chang
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by iofj 11y ago
The alternative is the misery of completely unsupported subsistence farming.
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by iofj 11y ago
> That is the same situation which was sold to the voters of California in 1979 for Prop 13 and now we have underfunded schools, fire departments, and police departments And these 2 are related ... how ? California is broke, which is wha
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by iofj 11y ago
And if you believe that this is what protects managers from getting fired, you don't have enough experience. Managers have all sorts of ridiculous beliefs, but the root cause of management incompetence is this: that managers believe t
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by iofj 11y ago
> like good fire protection lulling you into the belief that fire never happens. so lets splash around in gasoline, because freedom and conspiracies by big firefighters. Really made me think of the Zoolander movie : https://ww
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by iofj 11y ago
The idea is to run most of the networking stack in user space. This means that context switches aren't required on a per-packet basis anymore. The idea is not that you do your own packet processing in every app (although big gains can
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by iofj 11y ago
Whilst I agree with you. I would like to point out that babies being born with no legs (generally with appendages missing) is in fact known to be one of the great screwups of pharmacology (though anyone reporting it today would undoubtedly
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by iofj 11y ago
Historically, I believe it would be much more accurate to say that opportunity creates civil wars. People start wars because they think they can win. Incidentally, in most of those Chinese conflicts (4 out of 5 I believe), they were right.
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by iofj 11y ago
In every programmer's experience, security can have a disproportionate amount of influence. For instance, they are unwilling to do any real development, yet have the authority to demand their stuff be used. There is no reason any authe
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by iofj 11y ago
There has to be a vaguely reasonable claim that you did so as part of your employment. For instance, you pirate work-related software. Or your manager asks you (I've seen that happen).
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by iofj 11y ago
https://xkcd.com/378/
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by iofj 11y ago
Depends what you mean by "illegal", there are over two dozen main kinds of illegal. As a massive simplification anything not found in the "criminal law" or "employment law" books your employer covers while you&
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by iofj 11y ago
I love having streams of coding open while working. It makes me type faster (I think). Sound is off though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y71lli8MS8s
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by iofj 11y ago
1) CERN also did a grown-up negotiation to have the person work for them, and therefore carry out his function as the legal entity "CERN", not as himself. Any action he did in his function, is legally executed by CERN, not by the
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by iofj 11y ago
IANAL, but I feel obliged to point out that the company, not the employee, carries the responsibility for respecting copyright and contracts it signed. After all, the student has no way to know what those contracts are, has not legally agre
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by iofj 11y ago
The thing I don't get about these articles is their author's complaints. They're complaining people ... don't kill themselves. But obviously they themselves don't suicide either. So as I see it, they may have 2 inte

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