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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
You'd want the data before the purchases were made in order to influence the purchases (e.g. medicine...).
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
> Let's start gathering statistics on how many times people open their refrigerator, or use the toilet, or take a shower. Just think of the targeted advertising opportunities based on toilet usage statistics!
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
"44.5 billion minutes spent by users in the Microsoft Edge browser across Windows 10 devices" I wonder how much of that was spent downloading Firefox or Chrome? "30% more Bing search queries per Windows 10 device versus previ
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Proposal to delay Java 9 to 2017(mail.openjdk.java.net)
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
Not having to buy an Apple device which is unaffordable for many...
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
It reminds me of the Java community when Sun stopped adding significant features for years after 2004. Every feature which wasn't added was widely considered by most Java developers as being in the name of protecting us from ourselves.
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
Am I the only one who has never heard of him?
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
> "2.2 stone" is 13.97 Kg. I really dislike how the UK uses half metric system and half imperial. Such a mess. Do all stones in the UK weigh 6.35kg?
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
Go
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
They do make great pies :)
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
Go, Swift and Rust come to mind. Some alternative JVM languages aren't doing too badly either.
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
> JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Ruby are all in the top 5 spots on GitHub. All of which are established languages created in the 90's. It takes time for languages which are rapidly gaining mindshare to gain marketshare on GitHub.
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
It seems like a reasonable argument that there has been a dramatic rise in the number and popularity statically typed languages which feature type inference: Go, Rust, C# (to a limited extent), Scala, Swift etc. They combine the performance
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
1. Not having to declare a pointless wrapper class. 2. Tuples support pattern matching. 3. For simple cases the return type is clearer, no need to dig up another class declartion to figure out what the field types are.
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
Structural typing is actually very useful when you need it occasionally, which is one of the reasons I've largely ignored Kotlin so far. The jury is still out on that one.
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
But then you're using Lombok...
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
There's more likely thinking: "why sponsor a competing browser when we have Chrome nagging everyone to sign into Google"
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
I don't think "Microsoft", "90's" and "victim" really go well together unless you're talking about Netscape as the victim.
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
True. I've seen multiple teams putting a lot of effort into removing Lombok from their codebases after all the trouble it caused.
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
Yes, good point :)
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
Ouch! Do they have any facility that I can use to back-up/archive my email externally?
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
Organizations which force people to use IE deserve whatever is coming to them.
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
Why not just download Firefox if you have an old version of Windows? Any particular reason why anyone would prefer IE 7/8 for personal use?
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
That, and I'd be disappointed that my email account would vanish, along with years worth of mail.
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
This sounds like a 'dog ate my homework' level of logic explanation.
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
There are at least two tweets. The first one to congratulate, followed by the "clear up" tweet. I assume parent is referring to both, not just the first in isolation. Either way, a vertical landing is pretty neat.
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
CNN has it too, it's annoying.
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
This looks pretty neat. I personally hate working with JavaScript directly.
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
That's a bold prediction to be making.
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by jinst8gmi 11y ago
Anecdotal counter-example: my dog likes jumping into garbage cans but isn't very smart.

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