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by iofj 11y ago
Yep I would agree that breaking updates are a risk. In the case of a cloud service though, I'd bet the contract would specify a minimum maintenance duration very clearly spelled out, and that's going to be a few years, no more. Op
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by iofj 11y ago
Having worked on "smart" hardware, this can't be done. For the reason of regulation. Essentially, the law demands that no matter what you do with the software, the product won't malfunction (not just "not explode&qu
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by iofj 11y ago
Aside from a good lesson in "how to fuck up financial engineering" (give in to your shareholders every demand, without ever once mentioning that that's exactly why your share price dropped by a factor of 35-40% since the last
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by iofj 11y ago
To see the answer to your specific question you need to look and compare these graphs: 1) https://ycharts.com/indicators/sp_500_eps (note: slowly rising, if you ignore seasonality) 2) https://ycharts.com&#x2
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by iofj 11y ago
Yes you can. From [1]: While U.S. tax law is currently making it unattractive for Apple to spend its foreign earnings on buybacks, that pile of overseas capital (now above $200 billion) is effectively guaranteeing bonds that raise cheap cap
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by iofj 11y ago
I wonder if the same applies for icloud backups of your iPhone/iPad/MacBook. Does anyone know ?
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by iofj 11y ago
From the video it appears that a WIMP interface tethered to open surfaces, like a wall, is up & running.
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by iofj 11y ago
I don't see how you can read that in those texts. Also, I'm sure facebook would be open to fix that given the tools to do so (maybe http proxy). Plus I find it extremely hard to believe a government is concerned about it's ci
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by iofj 11y ago
Really ? > Two sources with direct knowledge of discussions between Facebook and the Egyptian government said Free Basics was blocked because the company would not allow the government to circumvent the service's security to conduct
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by iofj 11y ago
In case anyone wonders : yes. Left-pad left-pads a string. That's all it does. Not to worry though : it's now going to be implemented as a linux kernel syscall: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/31/1
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by iofj 11y ago
Good point. Even in the west infrastructure could be improved massively with easy and immediate economic benefits. I regularly see the infrastructure in France and the UK, and frankly, both countries certainly could use an upgrade of their
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by iofj 11y ago
When you calculate what position this actually buys the banks, assuming Spotify doesn't go bust, this loan has a 30% interest rate for the first year. So if you calculate it out, it means the bank demanded to have their money back (at
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by iofj 11y ago
This is true, and may be a market failure, but the basic problem is independant of that problem : Companies largely don't see opportunities for improvement of the economy anymore. The hoarding of cash is a symptom of this, not a cause.
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by iofj 11y ago
I have never worked at a place were that wasn't the case for higher management. In some places that was 90% of what management did (ie. 100% of what was visible to reports plus more that wasn't even directly visible), in some plac
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by iofj 11y ago
Marcus Aurelius is a funny guy. A caesar "teaching" people to be humble, stoic and productive ... but of course that sounds really thin coming from literally the richest guy of his time on the planet. Granted, he certainly was one
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by iofj 11y ago
The point is not to tell you that you should never have unit tests. They can be useful (though rarely). I'm not suggesting that if you write a new datastructure that you shouldn't have a few tests that only really exercise one or
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by iofj 11y ago
This is brilliant advice. This whole unit test madness needs to stop. This post advocates: 1) unit test everything 2) complain you can't change anything without breaking a lot 3) complain that the program doesn't work even when th
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by iofj 11y ago
The article's basic assumptions are wrong. Money is flowing out of private investment, so they just assume it's flowing into index funds. However ... Index funds doesn't seem to be where it's going. SPY lost 15% or more
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by iofj 11y ago
That's a strawman. Nobody intelligent is claiming that. The claim is that the ones that follow this jihad ideology and islamic supremacism are too many to reasonably expect to control without starting a civil war. They are a quite larg
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by iofj 11y ago
Muslims took to the streets yesterday. To prevent the arrest of the terrorist: http://www.brusselnieuws.be/nl/nieuws/jongeren-gooiden-stene... And then this happens. What are we supposed to think ?
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by iofj 11y ago
Maybe we ought to settle this argument by looking at a completely neutral source: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=islam%2C%20terror%2C... Draw your own conclusion. Plus I don't think you really want to mak
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by iofj 11y ago
When the planner of the Paris attacks was arrested yesterday, immediately ~200 muslims assembled and attacked the police and the press. How much more direct can an expression of support for terrorism get ? When the police arrest a terrorist
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by iofj 11y ago
Almost all Euro govts have >100% of their country's total revenue in debt. If prices were to go down, they're completely screwed. If prices go down because you starve the government's income ... that's incredibly bad
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by iofj 11y ago
I'm curious about this statement : is that as opposed to cloud apps ? Wouldn't you need to build high-availability into your apps whether they're running in the cloud or on dedicated ? If you mean that you can have a load bal
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by iofj 11y ago
You misunderstand. I merely posit that the UN is useless and has zero influence over whether or not a major war will be forthcoming. I think that most UN staffers share this opinion. They are there because of connections, and they are there
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by iofj 11y ago
Well some can, and do. However the ad business has long since become a race to the bottom. Refusing customer demands is not a way to "win" a race to the bottom.
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by iofj 11y ago
This issue really feels like an endgame in chess in a game between good players. 1) publishers can't just switch to serving images with their text and ads, because advertisers do not trust publishers, and this would enable them to chea
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by iofj 11y ago
And for 20 years you could say the League of Nations succeeded. Like the LN, the UN has become increasingly ineffective over time. In 1948 and onwards the various human rights were established and high profile cases were won. The position o
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by iofj 11y ago
Go has both error codes, and exceptions (panic/recover). Basic errors implicitly panic, such as null pointer exceptions, arithmetic errors, ... So in Go you have the worst of both worlds. Constant error handling code everywhere, AND yo
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by iofj 11y ago
> Think of the UN as a mechnism for de facto powers to resolve conflicts and come to agreements peacefully; that's the UN's purpose, to prevent another major war. The League of Nations had that as it's primary function [1]

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