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by jussij 4y ago
So what damage has been done to Elon by him not buying Twitter? Now if Elon wins might be able to claim costs, but they would be minimal by comparison to the original $44B deal.
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by jussij 4y ago
Technically, while these acts may well be deemed illegal in that country, throughout the World Cup authorities will be turning a blind eye to these indiscretions. The whole Qatar bid has already been tainted with accusations of FIFA corrupt
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by jussij 4y ago
But for most system you don't want performance to get worse. You want to make performance get better. The ping is just being used to measure of the foundations of the system and the OP is pointing out don't expect to see a 'h
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by jussij 4y ago
The phrase "goes downhill" means things only get worse. The OP is suggesting that since the ping is already slow, a function that does something is going to be much worse.
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by jussij 4y ago
Not always. Consider this 'test.cpp' example: #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> struct a_struct { char a[1]; char b[2]; a_struct() { strcpy(a, "");
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by jussij 4y ago
The "" will define a null terminated char array to represent the string. But as it string contains no text it's a char array that only requires one byte (i.e. it contains nothing but the null termination character). Now the f
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by jussij 4y ago
> I've had plenty of people crush the theory portion of the interview and be poor performers on the job (slow coding, low volume output) I think the reason for that observation relates to why these interview tests are generally a wa
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by jussij 4y ago
That describes most software design and development to a T. The reality is you'll hardly ever get the design right the first time around.
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by jussij 5y ago
In the early 80's Australia also had the Microbee: https://physicsmuseum.uq.edu.au/microbee-computer
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by jussij 5y ago
> The old UI is still present in some dialogs That might be fine for the operating system. But Windows native applications come in many flavors including Win32, WinForms, WPF and UWP. Then you have the Electron applications like VSCode.
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by jussij 5y ago
> OH BOY, does it take a while to unravel and understand that decoupled OOP wet dream. If you are referring to ASP.NET then I think you might be describing DI and IoC more than OOP in general. The evolution of ASP.NET has definitely be o
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by jussij 5y ago
So if this is the case (and I don't doubt what you are saying) then that means Russia has decided to turn it's functioning market into something that is no longer a market. Only because we now have a situation where any foreigner
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by jussij 5y ago
I would have though a simple HTML web response suggesting "The market is currently closed until tomorrow." would have worked well as their current server response. I'm generally curious as to what's going on here, only b
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by jussij 5y ago
A "security" is something that has a notional value. You can buy and sell the different types of securities on an exchange. So it's synonymous to an asset (i.e. something of value that you are prepared to buy or sell). The ex
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Ask HN: Moscow Exchange
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by jussij 5y ago
Here in Australia the ABC raised doubts about the F-35 back in 2013. Here's their analysis of that aircraft: https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/reach-for-the-sky/4526982 In particular they ask is fairly obvious
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by jussij 5y ago
Just take a look at the last 25+ years of GUI development. In all that time, as computers have got blindingly fast, the one and only constant is the guarantee GUIs continue to get get slower.
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by jussij 5y ago
Does this mean Microsoft have re-written Notepad to use something like Electron? As the original Notepad was written in Win32 app, doesn't that also signed the death sentence for Win32 on Windows?
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by jussij 5y ago
That is not how quotation marks are designed to work. The words offered up as a quote are meant to represent the views of the person being quoted. In this instance that is clearly not the case. This is a perfect example of how quotes can be
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by jussij 5y ago
The concept of governments and societies enforcing vaccination is nothing new. For example a child going to school in most development countries will need to be vaccinated against Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Whooping Cough. And the world on
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by jussij 5y ago
This problem was created because the UK government kick out the European drivers as part of their Brexit plan. That make this current problem rather more difficult as the UK government can't just start importing foreign truck drivers t
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by jussij 5y ago
The difference is the UK government is being disingenuous, if not outright deceitful. There may well be driver shortages in Europe, but it doesn't compare to the 'critical driver shortages' facing the UK. And it is clear thes
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by jussij 5y ago
> and complaints about UK and Brexit. I don't see a 'complaint about Brexit' in his response. In fact, being a German citizen I'm sure he didn't even get a vote on the subject.
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by jussij 5y ago
Firstly I was only pointing out your assertion that the USSR was a good model of socialism is wrong. As to being 'competitive in free markets', I would suggest that is more of a measure of capitalism than socialism. Socialism is a
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by jussij 5y ago
The USSR was a communists country. There is a world of difference between Social Democratic (i.e. socialism) countries like Finland, Sweden, Norway for example and the USSR. The hint is right there in the title, democratic. The USSR never h
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by jussij 5y ago
I also suspect regions like the EU will force Tesla to comply with a standard plug, not unlike how the EU is currently in the process of forcing Apple to standardize on it's iPhone charger connector.
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by jussij 5y ago
Microsoft was created by high school friends, Bill Gates and Paul Allen. At the time Bill Gates was at Harvard and Paul Allen was a programmer at Honeywell. Once Microsoft was created Gates dropped out of Harvard. So I'm not sure the c
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by jussij 5y ago
Unfortunately money has always spoken louder than morals and given enough money almost anything can be justified.
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by jussij 5y ago
When big companies, institutes and political parties use the word 'proactive' it generally means find a way to limit the damage and then find a way to hide the problem.
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by jussij 5y ago
Back in 2009 while on tour in Pakistan, the bus holding the touring Sri Lankan cricket team was ambushed by a gunman and sprayed with bullets in a targeted attack. Fortunately, while some of the players where injured in the attack, no one w

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