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by laurent92 6y ago
Their mistake was probably to hit “Send” by mistake 1 day too early in their PR machine.
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by laurent92 6y ago
And if you used it, it would pour coffee right through your computer speakers! Magik!
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by laurent92 6y ago
I wish we just had non-nullable types...
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by laurent92 6y ago
“Java is a big DSL to transform XML into stacktraces” — so was the joke at the time when domain-specific languages were the hype. This, and the FizzBuzz, Enterprise Edition: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/Fi
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by laurent92 6y ago
Our political conditions are also driven by extroverts. Our promotions are also driven by extroverts. Our insurance for the house, and the value we add as programmers, extroverts organize the world and take their share. I consider being ext
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by laurent92 6y ago
Yes. Starting from the bottom, we might in the process discover that 90%-99% of cell components are cruft/inefficient, and discover how to make cells 10 or 100 times smaller. Imagine being able to inject neurons in the brain that are 1
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by laurent92 6y ago
That’s a good point, they are learning from him how to do marketing without passing as a boomer: A bit of ecologic transition, and a joke. Add a meme and we’re complete. It is very 2020ies. Doing this in 2030 will make you pass as a milleni
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by laurent92 6y ago
> check history Classic. But historically, advances in wages and advantages tightly follow the economic curve: Employers increase wages when skills and economic development gets better. Not correlated with unionization, even when the uni
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by laurent92 6y ago
What about 2 minutes during the first hour after a change, 30 minutes during 2 days, 3 hrs after that?
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by laurent92 6y ago
I makes me realize how much we live in a eco-catastrophy: - Every few days, such a ship lands in Europe and all 122km of goods are dispatched to everyone’s houses (122km is the length of its containers), half of it probably being styrofoam,
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by laurent92 6y ago
> I’m paying 1% revenue for OSS So I’m already paying, as you sure have read. > but as long as it’s not everyone, it doesn’t make the developers filthy rich You asked for suggestions, it is right there. Ask people to pay for access to
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by laurent92 6y ago
> I’d pay for a Linux version in a heartbeat We should enter a world where people pay for open-source. OSS has been fine, but they never had the correct resources for marketing and UX. The should be a paywall for access to repos, even if
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by laurent92 6y ago
...and this is part of the success of Tesla. Car dealers are literally driving traffic away from them. They are about as popular as taxi drivers before Uber. Psychological tricks are a predatory social behavior, not only to the buyer, but a
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by laurent92 6y ago
But then you need to implement token revocation, by the host, the user or the client, and find a cryptographically-secure way to generate the key.
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by laurent92 6y ago
But then, my customer has an interest in making me go out of business.
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by laurent92 6y ago
Just for everyone to have a picture, uranium doesn’t take much room because it is quite heavy: 19.1g/cm3, denser than lead (11.3) but slightly less than gold (19.3) and plutonium (19.8).
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by laurent92 6y ago
I personally believe Java wouldn’t have been successful 5 years earlier, during the time when everyone was encrypting their code. It was an inacceptable trade-off before Internet. After internet, most software is partly online anyway.
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by laurent92 6y ago
Maintenance is a really good point, but we haven’t found a way to monetize it. If I gave my software as OSS to paid customers, I’d immediately lose most of my other sales and give my little implementation secrets to my competitors. I’d like
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by laurent92 6y ago
Good point. I guess they’d have to dredge the canal afterwards. I’m curious what the solution will be, but I’m most disappointed about the lack of photos, videos, reports about what is broken (it’s taking in water ; did it have an electrica
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by laurent92 6y ago
You make a good point: He’s discussing how pleasant it is to have fact-based facts. All the other facts are politicized, and require reverse-minding, and it’s tiring. But the cognitive dissonance is entirely created by having people denying
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by laurent92 6y ago
Yes, and if the average user really needs it from time to time, they can use + several times.
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by laurent92 6y ago
> Many see Gates, Dorsey, Ellison, etc as CEOs with certain traits, like nerdy, charming, well-spoken, funny/outspoken/brash, etc, but I don't think they assume they are evil. I’m really from the other side of the world, t
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by laurent92 6y ago
Something like this? Is this why they’ve asked all other ships to back up? https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1699656-world-war-iii
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by laurent92 6y ago
When in doubt, C4. But it wouldn’t even help: It is shallow and there isn’t enough water to fill such a hole.
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by laurent92 6y ago
How far could it go? Could it go political about Egypt’s management of the crisis?
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> isn’t considered privileged information Not only that, but Bloomberg terminals have the ship locations in real time because it impacts trading a lot: Petrol, ore, cereals, etc.
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Do they have deadlines for delivery and late fees? I’ve heard a quarter of the worldwide cargo capacity will be delayed by this event, this could rise very fast.
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by laurent92 6y ago
Yes. Unloading is a science, also, if you want to avoid capsizing. And the risk is increased because they don’t know on which sand the boat rests (it may be balanced at some point just by one bank + the pressure of the flow of water) and th
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by laurent92 6y ago
> or a congressional hearing Interesting: He was never summoned by Congress. All the other technical directors have been: Zuckerberg, Gates, Dorsey, even Larry Ellison from Oracle. Maybe having the upper hand in being well-understood and
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by laurent92 6y ago
Isn’t the vulnerability fixed in 1.1.1j, not 1.1.1d? And “j” is still in the “testing” repo.

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