madiathomas

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by madiathomas 7y ago
How on Earth will facebook fact-check each and every advert on their platform. This is becoming ridiculous. We are expecting too much from facebook. Soon they will need to employ million people in order to police their social networks like
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Yes. That's what I meant. Sorry for the confusion.
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Sorry. I thought it can also be used for an "insignificant person". I will avoid Latin terms next time.
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Maybe he isn't talking about becoming a dollar billionaire at an early age at any community. Maybe he is talking top in the context of that community. If he was born in a remote village of a third world country, maybe he was going to r
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by madiathomas 7y ago
I feel there must be a filter on Hacker News that allows us to hide all content behind paywalls. Or to block content from a certain domain from appearing on our feed. That will stop us from complaining. I don't live in the US and I am
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Me: "I am selling this product that does X very well" Prospect: "Does it do Y and Z?. If it can do Y and Z, I will buy it" Y and Z is different for each and every client. That's how products becomes bloated. It is d
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by madiathomas 7y ago
All groups of people found in South Africa were involved in building the infrastructure that I am using and paying for. Beside, that shouldn't even matter because it was state's resources which were used. Even now, it is state res
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Surveillance is nothing new in South Africa. It is not even a secret. We have a regulation with a name that fully disclose that your communications can be intercepted. It is called RICA, which is short for Regulation of Interception of Comm
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by madiathomas 7y ago
In the past, only privileged few used to have access to electricity in Southern Africa. Now almost everyone has access to electricity within two decades of ending of apartheid/colonisation. Having access to electricity is no longer a l
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Thanks for the debate. I will try learning Lisp and see how it goes. Time for me to go to bed. It is 21h30 this side of the world -> South Africa.
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by madiathomas 7y ago
> Java was originally developed by SUN together with its platform. That's incorrect. Java programming language is part of the platform. > Microsoft then mostly abandoned Java and is no longer relevant in the Java world. Another i
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by madiathomas 7y ago
> You didn't know where many of the features of the Java runtime come from or where they originated from. You are making a mistake of talking about tools when we are discussing programming languages. I have seen most people make tha
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Curly braces, for loops, while loops, if statements, case statements, variable declaration and initialisation etc. All those things were carbon copied from C/C++, not Lisp. The features you mentioned aren't part of the Java langua
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Then we should relegate LISP to an academic programming language and stop pretending that it is a major player when all the data proves the contrary. LISP failed for half a century because it isn't the best tool for the job, not becaus
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by madiathomas 7y ago
They talk about what they are interested in on a daily basis. You don't even need to ask them. They will tell you. There are millions of development tools in this world. No-one has time to learn all the tools. Even if they want to. I d
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Out of those 100s of Developers that I know, none is interested in learning LISP. Not even as a hobby. Experienced Developers have already chosen their tools and they focus on improving on those skills.
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Thank you. I went through the article and comments. It will be easier for me going forward because I will know that LISP is hyped because of HN's history. I didn't understand why an obscure language has so many fans here but close
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by madiathomas 7y ago
I understand the PG part but I don't agree with the experienced Programmers part. I know hundreds of experienced Programmers and zero of them are using LISP. I am one of them. They are using C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Pyt
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Each time I see a LISP related article on Hacker News, I always ask myself why LISP is so popular only on HN. This is the only website where I hear about LISP. Is LISP popular on HN because it brings advantages to the table or is it popular
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by madiathomas 7y ago
That's the beauty of it. I am left with real friends, not those who were hanging around me because I used to throw cool parties.
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by madiathomas 7y ago
I eliminated TV 4 years ago and noticed these benefits: - Finished 3 years qualification in record time - Doubled my salary - Managed to complete 3 profitable side projects - Improved my software development skills tenfold - and more... In
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by madiathomas 7y ago
For Google, there is no money to be made when people know how to enter URL in a browser's address bar. Money is on users searching for a company using a name each time they want to visit a company website. That way Google can bombard u
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by madiathomas 7y ago
A blanket banning of autoplay will be the only solution then. While at it, they must ban autoplaying of suggested videos. Autoplaying of suggested videos is the video site equivalent of autoscrolling.
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Banning autoplay altogether will be the only solution to the problem. Then an opt-in setting can be baked into browsers to allow certain sites to use audio/video features. That way all sites will be treated the same. News sites can alw
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Not sure what is the benefit of that video that follows you. If I wanted to watch the video, I was going stop scrolling and watch it. In most cases, those videos don't even allow you to pause them. They disable the pause button.
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by madiathomas 7y ago
I don't like sites with autoplay. I only expect autoplay when the page I am about to visit is in a video site like YouTube. I hate it when I am reading a news article and a video autoplays. Autoscrolling also can be irritating. If I cl
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Yes. I meant Windows Server 2016. Thanks for the correction.
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Compiled code is faster than interpreted code. C#.NET is a compiled lamguage and doesn't need to be interpreted at runtime. Making is faster than interpreted languages like PHP, Rails, Python etc. These days, some interpreted languages
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Windows 10 was designed for desktops, not as a server software. Windows Server 2003/2008/2012/2014/2019 etc is for servers and they don't subscribe to Windows 10 rolling release. They have their release and support
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by madiathomas 7y ago
That was my first reaction when I saw this comment. Why should everything be in Linux? Also considering that SO does the job and does it very well.

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