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by louthy 3y ago
And so now, how do we tell if you're the person that we should listen to? You're making your point with complete confidence (as is the parent comment)? References people. Especially when it comes to anything related to subjects
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by louthy 3y ago
> This leads to bribery and kickback Which is illegal in most countries. Police the illegality (you probably need a well funded police force for that) and the corruption will reduce significantly. It’s true that not all corruption can b
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by louthy 3y ago
> Philosophically, if those services deteriorate beyond repair and are riff with corruption/nepotism, the people have the right to object, by any means necessary. Is that a taxation problem or a corruption problem? Fix the corruptio
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by louthy 3y ago
Philosophically, I like public roads, hospitals, schools, policing, rubbish collection, etc.
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by louthy 3y ago
Of course it isn’t. If a law is idiotic then breaking it can either be an act of rebellion or just outright contempt
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by louthy 3y ago
Is being productive immediately better than a constant loss of productivity due to manual boilerplate writing? It seems to me to be the wrong trade
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by louthy 3y ago
If that’s true it’s insane that they didn’t try to solve the code explosion problem. Perhaps even a Google-specific DSL that captures their common patterns behind an abstract syntax. Creating a new general purpose language with such a limi
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by louthy 3y ago
But other Chromium based browsers do that too: Brave etc.
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by louthy 3y ago
> can't put out fire with more fire But can you put out a fire with Firefox?
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by louthy 3y ago
Which is a shame 'cos the RISC PC was an absolute beast of a machine for the time.
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by louthy 3y ago
> That doesn't make me wrong. Yeah, it does. Just like racism and sexism, being ageist is wrong. You should really re-asses how you look at the world, because your current view stinks. > Is it ageism to say I'd rather have
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by louthy 3y ago
> The new CEO concerns me. I didn't know who the founder was but I always had the impression it was a lone hacker. They passed the baton. Now it's some old Web 1.0 guy who was the CEO of eFax in the 90's. This sounds like
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by louthy 3y ago
When I first signed up for Kagi, I found myself just searching for fun. I hadn’t had that feeling in forever (well apart from when Google was first launched) Very happy customer here.
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by louthy 3y ago
I read it. Probably lots of other people did too. Presumably the people who don’t think computer science begins and ends with JavaScript
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by louthy 3y ago
Maybe he doesn’t care if people stop reading and he’d prefer to use the language he’s most comfortable with? It’s his blog after all, not yours. Additionally, perhaps he’s making the point that a language with an expressive type system make
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by louthy 3y ago
> People care about the US Dollar because of the backing of the United States and its economy. Really? Or is it that oil is purchased in dollars? There's no other reason to find it useful over say the Euro (for example).
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by louthy 3y ago
Who said anything about termination? The original point was about composition. The guarantees of the component parts are the same as the composition. It's neither clear that f or g will terminate, and it's the same for f . g If t
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by louthy 3y ago
That isn’t true. If f and g are pure then the composition holds the same guarantees as the component parts
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by louthy 3y ago
If it gets out of hand, make sure you know the new number for the security services: 0118999881999119725 ...3 And yes, I have that memorised!
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by louthy 3y ago
Pointing out hypocrisy is not against the guidelines. I might well ask you to do the same, as your comment is obviously flame inciting.
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by louthy 3y ago
You sound victimised.
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by louthy 3y ago
> It’s a page-description format and therefore only represents the marks on a page, not document structure Maybe they should have called it ‘Page Description Format’ then? Instead of ‘Portable Document Format’
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by louthy 3y ago
You can choose to interpret my comment as being about corporations if you like; however, I was talking about individual engineers. It is perfectly feasible for a professional oath/code-of-ethics to work, as it does in other industries
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by louthy 3y ago
> The for profit industry has been very happy to integrate the fruits of the FOSS labor. Of course they are. They get free labour and their profits are therefore higher. which is the entire purpose of any corporation, to maximise profi
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by louthy 3y ago
Businesses don't do free. It is not what they exist for: The 'Stallman movement' isn't compatible with the the tech-company, the employed software-engineer, etc. I think what the OP is getting at is that the for-profit
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by louthy 3y ago
No, I am not, I am suggesting your comment about something being good because it's natural is a logical fallacy
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by louthy 3y ago
Ricin [1] appears naturally in the castor oil plant. I wouldn't eat it just because it's "from nature". Who knows if Steviol is completely benign or not? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricin
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by louthy 3y ago
Or, ‘The 6 Deadly Sins and Myriad Minor Mistakes’
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> While it was not possible to complete a full Cost Benefit Analysis for this PIR (due to the limitations on the data available at this time and provided by industry), potential monetised benefits were also analysed including an illustra
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by louthy 3y ago
Whilst the core message of your comment I agree with, unit tests are not the only way to achieve this; but there's often blanket statements made about 100% code coverage, and all that nonsense - which really just fetishizes unit testin

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