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by jkot 11y ago
I think this would create problem with monopoly. If city would own and rent out cars, the price would inflate and technology would stagnate. Something like city licensed taxi services.
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by jkot 11y ago
It used to be much worse, there was no incremental compilation etc... It was about 10-600x slower compared to Javac 6 years ago I got overclocked watercooled CPU just for Scalac.
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by jkot 11y ago
Sounds like a Javascript framework or Lighttpd.
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by jkot 11y ago
I think we should judge it by its budget. The same thing we admire on SpaceX and other companies. Wiki says total cost was $4.2 billion over its lifetime (including development, assembly and orbital operation)
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by jkot 11y ago
C and Assembly days are not gone. It is quite well paid and widely used language. Perhaps just change environment?
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by jkot 11y ago
Internal battery is only 2,800mAh :-(
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by jkot 11y ago
Taxes. You might have to pay extra to convert assets into cash.
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by jkot 11y ago
My CPU spins at 60% almost constantly due to type of work I do. I quadrupled my battery life by swapping batteries.
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by jkot 11y ago
Why is that so shocking? About 15% of prisoners are there for debt.
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by jkot 11y ago
One of authors of groovy works on kotlin.
431.
by jkot 11y ago
My impression is there are many types of hammer and chisels, but pneumatic drill was not yet invented. And adding workers is not going to fix the core problem.
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by jkot 11y ago
And Java has async network IO. Single threaded example from article would be fairly simple to implement with Grizzly or Netty.
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by jkot 11y ago
> In 2015, the federal government spent over $1 trillion via tax breaks and the majority of that money went to social welfare programs. > Q: So because I have an employer-sponsored 401K and health care plan, take the home mortgage
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by jkot 11y ago
Surprisingly good article.
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by jkot 11y ago
> Life is too short to spend my days fighting through thickets of XML tags to try to get something configured, or installing something that seems to be constructed from hundreds or thousands of files. > I will say that the exceptio
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by jkot 11y ago
It should have [2014]. There are already three milestones out and updated schedule: http://www.scala-lang.org/news/2016-schedule/
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by jkot 11y ago
I am surprised nobody mentioned why it crashed. Technical flaws could be expected on prototype aircraft. And Soyuz mostly worked fine without major redesign for several years. Sojuz program was postponed, while soviets worked on Voschod. In
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by jkot 11y ago
My guess is that easy & reliable micro-payment system emerges.
439.
by jkot 11y ago
This is just disgusting child abuse. Way too many children after this 'treatment' commit suicide.
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by jkot 11y ago
Is it possible there are no rich people in midwest? How many billionaires live there?
441.
by jkot 11y ago
Some Dell laptops (new XPS 13) already support this. Place exe file with firmware into UEFI boot partition, and choose it at boot time.
442.
by jkot 11y ago
> she pulled into the Town & Country Family Restaurant to take the edge off her appetite .... After much consideration, she ordered the prime rib special and an iced tea — expensive at $21.36, I guess that is really bad for US.
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by jkot 11y ago
Also free service has limit, so older messages will be eventually lost.
444.
by jkot 11y ago
Such a waste of money!
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by jkot 11y ago
I live in Europe, we have similar problems but not at this level. I will just add one quote from Greece: > New bill lowered fine from 400 euros to 50 euros, as long as offender presents vehicle at KTEO for inspection within 10 days of v
446.
by jkot 11y ago
That is implied, otherwise first 'head transplant' would be done centuries ago by some dr Frankenstein.
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by jkot 11y ago
My choice is Kotlin. Java8 is a bit strange, and does not have many features: type inference, named and default arguments... Scala is too heavy and sometimes complex. Kotlin is best of both worlds, highly expressive, good compatibility and
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by jkot 11y ago
Rising cost is fueled by student loans. Problem could be easily avoided, if there would be upper limit on state guaranteed loans, perhaps $50,000?
449.
by jkot 11y ago
> Sugar causes cavity This is bit of smoke screen and obscures the real problem. Sugar alters metabolism, and in larger quantities is practically poisonous.
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by jkot 11y ago
US had something similar, Isaac Asimov started writing sci-fi, after he was not accepted to medical university.

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