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>Good grammar? "Real programmers" is a colloquialism, [...] This is clear if we ask, 'what's the opposite of a real programmer?' - perhaps an imaginary programmer? No, that's not the misinterpretation that
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>In my opinion, Direct X was what killed it most. OpenGL was well supported on the Voodoo cards and Microsoft was determined to kill anyone using OpenGL I don't know the details myself but as a FYI... this famous answer covering t
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>Why do you think robots would not be able to do those tasks? The manufacturing of the robots themselves also requires input from unpleasant jobs. The raw materials like steel, plastics, batteries, etc to make the robot. Example of n
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The original submitted link was a youtube video that's been deleted for some reason. Probably a better link is the blog post because the author updated it with the new replacement video a few minutes ago as of this comment (around 09:1
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>What do people think that this push to get knowledge workers working back in the office mostly revolves around? Well, the ugly topic that most workers really don't want to discuss is that management at Google/Meta/Apple
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>Are you sure that they will dramatically increase infrastructure costs? [...] Their infrastructure costs might actually decrease because the clouds will have to compete for their business. Maybe theoretically possible but I have doubt
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>audiobooks, it's too easy to become too "performance-oriented" when reading something. Meaning that ticking the box "achievement unlocked, read another book" becomes more important than what you really get out
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>, just to draw a clear line between "compression" and "intelligence" Not disagreeing with you but your sentence reminded of research looking at the link between "compression" and "intelligence"
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>, but that they chose companies that were struggling or undervalued, brought them into the fold and multiplied their value. Fyi... That's the opposite of Warren Buffet's preferred approach. He's made it known that he&#
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>, but I think you need a fun problem to solve. Pick a toy app and work on it. I think you've read the op's question too fast and not fully empathized with his situation. He already found a problem when he wrote, "I ha
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>I use go but general patterns are welcome. The basic high-level pattern for self-healing is a process that "watches" the status of other processes and restarts failed ones: - a "coordinator" process that acts as a
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>Maybe people mean something else by counter-culture, but here are examples from my life [...] I'm not sure if I am agreeing and disagreeing with the OP. Your examples of counter culture are alternative lifestyles . The author (K
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>It's funny to write "IBM (IBM)" and "SAP (SAP)". It's because in the original text, the text in (parentheses) was the stock ticker symbol that linked to its chart performance: https://www.cnn.c
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>There's no doubt exercise is essential here. In the isolated context of losing weight , it doesn't seem like exercise is essential. Or to state in less absolute terms, exercise has less influence than diet choices for pur
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A reddit thread made the front page with a similar example of surprise "Economic Recovery Fee" added onto the restaurant bill: https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/10gowkx/...
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>I still don’t actually use our DVDs and Blu-rays all that often. But every time I see them lining the shelves, I feel a bit of comfort. Because when I do need them, they’ll be there. The importance of that type of redundancy depends o
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>The 10X meme is both too extreme, by implying that Fabrice Bellard could kick out simple crud tasks at 10X the speed I do, and not extreme enough, I understand your point and I think it just reinforces the fact that the "10&quot
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>You are perhaps placed very well to create an outsourcing company that serves the interests of Africans extremely well with entitlements, leave, healthcare, retirement, education and training [...] , and how much further your company g
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>Google invented yet another programming language, [...] just to gain access to features that are probably coming down the pipe in C++ in due time anyway. That's the opposite of what Google perceives. There is no timetable for a
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>Why are you worried about how safe printing to terminal is? The "type-safe" means "type-checked" by the compiler for correctness to help prevent bugs. It doesn't mean "safety-as-in-not-dangerous&quot
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>I have taught these kind of undergraduate subjects and, in the context of a course, the Fourier transform never struck me as something very complicated. It's great that it was "never complicated" for you. In contrast,
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>The literals off, no, and n, in various capitalizations (but not any capitalization!), are all false in yaml 1.1, while on, yes, and y are true. Fyi... I looked at PyYAML source code and the parser code omitted single-character &#x27
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>I don't know what Flexport is Don't know the exact origin of the name but maybe an easy way to remember it is "FLEXible transPORT". To massively oversimplify it for the sake of being short: - ship a small package w
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>(though the corn thing was a bit much) so much as that it's probably wrong. I was trying to convey that a farmer can't get a loan from the CME to finance his seeds/fertilizer/etc and use his corn crops as collatera
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>CME isn't just "corn commodities"; Yes, I understand that and I wasn't dismissing CME as a simple platform. I used to work across the street from the CME and saw the traders walking around in their yellow jackets
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>Coinbase is a weird company, because it's got such an obvious comparable: CME Group. CME Group has about 3500 employees, [...] Firstly, I don't see how Coinbase needs as many people as CME. Coinbase isn't a direct com
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>Blockbuster [...] their size - perhaps achieved from a growth strategy - did not protect them. It’s possible that their size, and the blandness that was necessary to get there - actually made them more vulnerable. Again, you misunder
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>YouTube could have been profitable by charging for their services. Like Vimeo. Fyi, Vimeo was a money-losing business when IAC bought it 2006 and is still unprofitable after IAC spun it out as a public company in May 2021. So it'
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>Netflix, Blockbuster, Motorola and Nokia all pursued growth strategies, yet the latter three (at least) ultimately failed to maintain their lead in consumer facing markets. So how does that explain the need for perpetual growth? You&#
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>There are several counterexamples to this idea, [...] where no competitors show up to eat their lunch. Yes, I understand that and already provided several counterexamples. (Local restaurants and legacy railroads.) >The poster chi

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