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by mathw 9y ago
Because it was no longer worth throwing money after. Instead they're working to make sure Microsoft technologies - their accounts, their email, their Office products etc. - work well on iOS and Android devices. They're also workin
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by mathw 9y ago
Welcome to open source, where people work on what benefits them. If Microsoft are the only people seriously interested in maintaining the ability to run Node on ChakraCore as well as V8, of course the team of people working on the necessary
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by mathw 9y ago
I don't actually understand this. Are they referring to the agreements for contributing to GitLab itself, or for contributing to things hosted on GitLab, which surely have nothing to do with the hosting at all?
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by mathw 9y ago
In the case I think you're thinking of, the corruption was pre-existing.
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by mathw 9y ago
Yes I always thought tuples were the archetypal product type, which is why in some ML dialects they're notated as "Type1 * Type2". Rust most certainly has them, as does Haskell. Records/structs of course are just the sam
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by mathw 9y ago
What! That's utterly bizarre. How did anybody ever think that might be a good idea? Actually the whole of printing is still a pain, my printer (on wifi, because it has wifi but no ethernet despite being plenty big enough for an etherne
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by mathw 9y ago
They're trained to look ahead, anticipate and adapt to the road conditions, judging when they need the siren and when they don't. This is important in built-up areas, because there's no gain in waking up people at 2am when yo
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by mathw 9y ago
Last week's episode of the BBC Radio 4 series "The Kitchen Cabinet" talked about food around Bonfire Night, with the food historian on the panel discussing how the food's always been melded a lot with the food of Hallowe
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by mathw 9y ago
A Catholic friend of mine really does not like what Pope Francis is doing. Really, really does not like it. I haven't asked him for details, because we have to work together in a music group and if we fall out the chances are the whole
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by mathw 9y ago
If you look at the history of the Tesco Clubcard (one of the early ones to appear in the UK), the data they mined from their new ability to tie purchasing trends to customers more than made up for the cost of the rewards being offered to ge
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by mathw 9y ago
It's actually quite exciting science, because it means the nature of the difference between matter and antimatter could be something really unknown that is yet to be discovered. They're running out of candidates to test... Super i
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by mathw 9y ago
Incredibly lazy headline, actually. The article doesn't say anything of the sort. No physicist is going to say "oh the universe shouldn't exist" because it very obviously does - what they'll say is "we have eli
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by mathw 9y ago
Only in a few areas.
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by mathw 9y ago
Whitespace IS meaningful, to the programmer. Having the compiler understand that is great, because it means I no longer have to express my block structure twice. It's one of the few things I regret about Rust's decisions, that the
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by mathw 9y ago
Yes! Although what we don't have is any certainty that the enhanced face actually looks like the killer.
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by mathw 9y ago
The "encapsulation" example is an interesting one, because it sits right in the fundamental difference between a Rust reference and a Java one, and the lifecycle considerations of a garbage-collected language vs one where lifecycl
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by mathw 9y ago
It's a useful lesson in that Rust's correctness relies on certain notions of borrowing dependencies which don't necessarily match what you assume. Especially that the lifecycle dependency across a function call is essentially
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by mathw 9y ago
I have mixed feelings about the language itself, and some of its tooling (GOPATH just makes no sense to me whatsoever, and I've not spent enough time hacking Go projects to understand why it wouldn't be better to just have somethi
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by mathw 9y ago
Significance in the job market has never correlated well with how excited people get about things. Hacker News is about stuff we're interested in, which is not necessarily stuff we get employed to do.
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by mathw 9y ago
And that disaster situation is going to happen regardless of what language they happen to be working in.
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by mathw 9y ago
I don't think the number of Stack Overflow questions is a good indication. Given the difference in age and Scala's use of features unfamiliar to many programmers I'd expect it to generate more questions from (for example) peo
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by mathw 9y ago
Mmm. I had no idea either. I was surprised to see how old the linked article is! I'm not a sysadmin, but I use Linux every day. Just can't keep up anymore...
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by mathw 9y ago
Ultimately a rather scary confirmation of the idea that some sort of at least semi-diplomatic relationship is essential between all states if we want to move towards a peaceful world rather than a continually hostile one.
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by mathw 9y ago
Point 1 is mostly down to history I suspect. The big Adobe stuff is in C++ because they started writing them when C++ was The Thing. Probably quite cutting-edge then (not that it doesn't have some cutting-edge features now of course, t
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by mathw 9y ago
But would they actually stick with it this time? Google need to decide what the heck their smartphone hardware strategy actually is.
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by mathw 9y ago
Even if they didn't abort, recent developments in Turkey have moved them significantly further away from meeting requirements for entry .
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by mathw 9y ago
Aren't individualism and religion opposing philosophies? Most religions demand conformity.
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by mathw 9y ago
It's normal where I am in the UK to ask someone "What oss do you run on your computer?" We also understand "oh ess" of course, but I think most of us are too lazy to say it. So I guess the conclusion we can draw is
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by mathw 9y ago
It's all quite baffling, because they could instead of invested some of those megabillions in extending their reach into low-carbon energy sources, embracing the new world and continuing to exist.
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by mathw 9y ago
This is what I've found having started working at a consultancy this year. I'm not sure it's for me.

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