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by kpil 11y ago
I live outside US. I don't get it; What stops San Jose from drawing income tax, or increase it if they already do? Propery and business tax is almost neglible around here in northern Europe, compared to income tax and vat.
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by kpil 11y ago
I am convinced that 'smart' is something else entirely. There is an awful lot of brainpower dedicated to skills like walking into a party where you know noone, meeting with annoyed customers, or even polite conversation, etc.
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by kpil 11y ago
I'm one of those. If it makes you happier to know, it does not exactly make my day to go through blindingly obvious alternatives with people that clearly are capable of inferring them all. But sure, I see your point, and experience it
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by kpil 11y ago
Yes. Stopping from 90000km/s in 100ms (more or less earth radius) might prove to be a bit hard :-)
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by kpil 11y ago
Exactly how do the deceleration work... ? Hoping someone put a really big haystack on mars?
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by kpil 11y ago
At the time, the Finns seemed to be rather proud of the "management by perkele" culture. Also, the traditional industrial product development cycle (requirement specifications document driven waterfall) does not produce good desig
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by kpil 11y ago
R together with javascript is the worst languagues I know that I still have to use. This can remove 50% of that list. I will check out this right now!
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by kpil 11y ago
Pretty much everyone?
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by kpil 11y ago
There are some products that can generate c++ from vms basic and implements a vms-like runtime on linux...
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by kpil 11y ago
Vms basic, most likely. Main problem is not the lack of frameworks, it's a whole different culture of how to test... Unfortunately, for the banks, they've not managed to maintain their withering infrastructure for a lot of reasons
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by kpil 11y ago
Although not 'real' code, almost anything from The Wizard Book is either nice, elegant or sometimes a minor epiphany for a C-damaged mind... Probably not that efficient in terms of raw CPU grunt though...
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by kpil 11y ago
A lot of research and development of semiconductors that can handle the extremely high voltage (250+ kV) required to keep the losses down. I think ABB (One of the market leaders and early pioneers when they were named ASEA) initially tried
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by kpil 11y ago
Hahaha!!! Oh the luxury. Back in my day we didn't even have concept of spacetime :-)
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by kpil 11y ago
Meanwhile, I've been using an Sony Xperia Z tablet for a couple of years. It's starting to get old, but Sony have updated it to Lollipop which I think is fair enough. In my mind, it's a better experience than any of the iPads
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by kpil 11y ago
I think one reason is there are larger cultural differences, which is also reflected in government efficiency, corruption, and work ethics. In particular, the northern 'ex protestant' nations are hesitant to piss away money on th
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by kpil 11y ago
Oth if someone popped out of a n-dimensional quantumdoor here in my kitchen, I'd say they 'teleported' which probably would be technically wrong :-)
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by kpil 11y ago
Pft, 2000 lines :-) What you do is that you: A) Realize that there might be years of hidden bugs, but also fixes to complex problems, speedups, kludges, weird changes to requirements, etc, hiding in the code, so even really creative unit-te
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by kpil 11y ago
I think the denial is the important lession here. Plenty of people knew it didn't fly, and it couldn't have been that hard to fix it if you really wanted to do it, if you were prepared to drop p2p. But still it was a hard descisi
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by kpil 11y ago
I guess that treating factory workers as "code monkeys" is also wrong :-) I'd like to work in a flat(ish) meritocracy. Maybe I have to start my own company...
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by kpil 11y ago
This was actually "debugging the program", as the running program is the manufacturing process, and the coding and development is the engineering and design. Still, software systems are both more fragile and can easily be more co
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by kpil 11y ago
But I don't get it? If i go to forbes.com and my computer is p0wned by some shit that they or their partners delivered, why are they not liable for damages? Isn't this a class action suit waiting to happen, or is it not applicable
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by kpil 11y ago
The opinion that the climate change is causing the conflict in Syria is quite speculative bordering to total whack concpiratory theory. The weather might be a extremely tiny part in the events, but the whole situation is the result of polit
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by kpil 11y ago
In a way I do. I drink water that comes from a lake that about 1 million people poops into... On the other hand, it's a big lake. I'm lucky in one way to live in Sweden where there is virtually unlimited fresh water (except in a f
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by kpil 11y ago
What does the partial horizontal line indicate in Tufte's example?
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by kpil 11y ago
The selling point is that it looks good to non-professionals and people that should know better. There is a really small class of problems that it actually has some use. In reality, it makes easy problems easy, and everything else complica
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by kpil 11y ago
I think java is a rather good learning language. There is almost no magic, which is good when learning new stuff. The actual computer is sort of still there. The IDEs are free and good. The environment and APIs are really stable so 10 year
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by kpil 11y ago
OK. I almost stopped reading when I got to "VBA, 2012" and presumably a few more years of work experience before that. But OK. If you are actually saying: "Hey - it seems to be a bit complex, maybe we should ask a professiona
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by kpil 11y ago
2) We are smart enough to make it, there are no evolutionary selectors for smarter people. Quite the opposite. Technically, we could probably breed a smarter race if we really wanted to, with all associated bits suitably enlarged in quite a
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by kpil 11y ago
Sure. With a significant effort you can almost be as good as a native application, except not quite. The benefits you mentioned is not exclusive to web apps. There are no inherent benefits, except perhaps licence management, which benefits
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by kpil 11y ago
I never really understood why anyone would like to run anything that requires long sessions of work - in a browser? A CAD program seems like the antithesis of a good case for a web app. The GUI can never be quite as good, always quirky menu

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