lucozade

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by lucozade 9y ago
Purchasing the rights to a stock photo is fairly straightforward. You can just Google it. What you may want to invest more time in is researching if your plan to use someone else's photo will maximise your employability. My guess (thou
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by lucozade 9y ago
Does it matter? If they code up their target workload and get near linear scaling with collection on 5000% or 12000% it's still a win. The important question is whether or not they can get the scaling with some setting.
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by lucozade 9y ago
It's the default setting that didn't cope well. The final setting seemed to get pretty decent performance. And if you only have one knob then the rabbit hole is pretty shallow. The question not answered (as it wasn't asked) i
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by lucozade 9y ago
Funny what different people get from these things. I was most impressed that he managed to get very close to perfect scalability by twiddling the one knob on offer. Java GC customisation is an art. This analysis was entirely mechanical. If
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by lucozade 9y ago
It's not just over-stating it, it's demonstrably wrong. All you need to disprove it is to ask someone else's Echo to answer a question. What I presume it's actually doing is responding to the keyword, Alexa in this case,
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by lucozade 9y ago
> As official phones they're not used I mean lobby for the ban on the sale of Apple products in Germany. As in, make it illegal to sell Apple products. And if you really want to put the cat amongst the pigeons, make it illegal to bu
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by lucozade 9y ago
> If politicians are using the complexity as a tool I've no reason to believe that's the case. They are using the tax system as a tool for other purposes that , as a consequence, means it's complex. The act of applying rul
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by lucozade 9y ago
As the "editor-in-chief of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s leading daily", why not do something? I don't mean complain, that's already happening, I mean actually do something. For example, ban all Apple products from
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by lucozade 9y ago
> Maybe governments should simplify their own tax rules I can't see that happening. Tax policy is used by most governments as a fine grained tool for all forms of signalling. Not just economic either: alcohol, tobacco, fuel, renewab
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by lucozade 9y ago
They could. Or they could just do Google Secretary (because they think it's better) and let competitors try Google Search under a different brand. Pretty much what's happened really. Turns out not that many people want Google Sea
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by lucozade 9y ago
Not sure about earnest but I'd be very surprised if it wasn't sincere. As to Prof Tanenbaum's style, if I'm feeling a teeny bit uncharitable, I'd say this is perfectly in keeping. Since the infamous exchange between
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by lucozade 9y ago
Poor wording on my part. I've made it a little clearer. Thanks
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by lucozade 9y ago
> the problem with hydrogen fission It's actually fusion they're talking about here, not fission. > rather containing it ... You're referring to using fusion as an energy source. Here they're just talking about the
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by lucozade 9y ago
> Where does one draw the line? Traditionally where there are clear military uses that one doesn't want to make available to an enemy. > would you rather suppress your findings and allow say, North Korea to be the first to develo
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by lucozade 9y ago
> Yep, you could basically accomplish the same thing with Git Not entirely sure that "Git and a bit" is likely to be sufficient but, yes, there are some intersections. The idea isn't new at all. The belief that practical s
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by lucozade 9y ago
Having a globally ordered, immutable, common ledger is a really useful thing in banking. Particularly in the inter-bank space where a vast quantity of data is shoveled around and everyone keeps partial, flawed copies. Any given piece of dat
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by lucozade 9y ago
They don't have to compete on pay though. But they do need to pay enough to stop the poor buggers feeling like paupers in an expensive city. Much more importantly, though, is that there need to be genuine and clear opportunities for ca
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by lucozade 9y ago
That none of the alternatives particularly appeal.
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by lucozade 9y ago
On reading this post, it may well be that culture fit is quite a good description. At least from the POV that you're selecting from a small cadre of (almost exclusively) male masters grads.
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by lucozade 9y ago
As a complete guess, I think a clue to what might be missing is in the like/dislike pairings analysis at the end of the article. It wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of the (dis)likes are relative to something else. So, for example, the vi
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by lucozade 9y ago
Don't feel sorry for him for his use of the JVM. Seems he's quite the fan as it sits quite neatly with his views on code dynamism. He's less supportive of the CLR runtime, calling it an example of static thinking, though he d
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by lucozade 9y ago
Not sure it was really about either. It's really about what experiences led him to make the decisions he made both in deciding a new language was needed and what attributes the language should have. Clearly the decisions were coloured
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by lucozade 9y ago
This guy was a professional C++ programmer for a couple of decades so he probably came across generics. I think it's possible you didn't catch the parts where he talks about what he wants from his data structures. There were 2 key
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by lucozade 9y ago
Suppose you have a type hierarchy where a Tabby is a type of Cat that is a type of Animal. Now, say you have a function that takes a Cat as an argument and returns a Cat. What types can you use instead of the Cats and still remain type safe
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by lucozade 9y ago
It's not entirely clear from your comment which gender(s) you were stereotyping. Could you elaborate?
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by lucozade 9y ago
Why not? They use it today with the current coinbase. Why wouldn’t they use it tomorrow? Some will stop using it, sure. And they probably have enough coin to affect the price short term. But I’d argue that the majority of usage is now not f
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by lucozade 9y ago
More specifically, the majority of individuals who control mining. I’d be interested to know how many people would actually need to agree a fork that, say, didn’t halve the coinbase. Also, of those, how many would give priority to the philo
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by lucozade 9y ago
A simple model is better than no model when it makes useful predictions over a well defined domain. The main problem with most models of market economics is that they only work when nothing interesting is happening. Probably the best, as in
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by lucozade 9y ago
Limit the audience for end user applications, possibly. If this were generally true then C wouldn't be used in numerical applications which is clearly not the case. I think this is the wrong way to look at it. Where C still has advanta
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by lucozade 9y ago
This is the UK. Capitalism has done a haphazard job of keeping the poor down. In fact, it's been highly selective at keeping the poor down. Specifically, it's done an effective job on poor white, poor black men of Caribbean descen

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