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by mhaymo 11y ago
Sounds like you're saying the problem is poverty. That is also what PG is saying. If you want to increase the opportunities for the population as a whole, attacking the income of the rich is not obviously a good solution.
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by mhaymo 11y ago
> First, Google and Apple have nothing to do with personal wealth, they are corporations. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, he made it far more productive, and he was personally paid to do so. If his personal wealth was capped he may no
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by mhaymo 11y ago
So the focus on "inequality" is a focus on large wealth at the expense of thinking about poverty, to the degree that you call 6-figure earners "people at the bottom". I'm still not convinced that a "supermajo
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by mhaymo 11y ago
> a supermajority of novel innovation comes from people at the bottom becoming rich, not the rich getting richer. Citation needed? As PG points out, most startup founders are not poor. They take the risk of innovating not because they ar
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by mhaymo 11y ago
No they can't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff If you have an example of an individual who committed large-scale fraud and got away "scot free", I'd like to see it.
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by mhaymo 11y ago
It would not surprise me if a single password is enough for an attacker to guess the rest in this scheme. It is common enough to be predictable, and even if it weren't, all your passwords are at most 2 characters different from each ot
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by mhaymo 11y ago
Those are streams on views on the map. My complaint is that a reader seeing "maps don't support streams" with no further explanation is unlikely to get the correct idea, and may infer that something like map.entrySet().st
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by mhaymo 11y ago
> maps don't support streams This is very misleading. There is not a #stream method on Map because Map supports three different streams: map.keySet().stream() map.values().stream() map.entrySet().stream()
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by mhaymo 11y ago
> you didn't mention the case of an optional that contains null That's not possible in Java. `Optional.ofNullable(null)` returns `Optional.empty()`, and `Optional.of(null)` throws a NullPointerException.
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by mhaymo 11y ago
To my mind the whole point of DevOps is to make the developers "get it" by making them feel the pain when they get things wrong. Developers make decisions about the system every day, so it pays for them to understand how it is mai
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by mhaymo 11y ago
The road is a limited common resource, and it's difficult to directly charge drivers per their usage of it, so the local government uses other forms of regulation.
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by mhaymo 11y ago
That requires storing an extra two fields per String (int length, offset;), which is costly. Users who need constant-time substrings can simply implement their own class `Subsequence extends CharSequence` with a constructor taking a CharSeq
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by mhaymo 11y ago
They'd go for the cheaper option until someone is actually injured by that place, then they'd abandon it immediately. This seems like a fine system.
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by mhaymo 11y ago
Does your RDBMS's built-in caching not handle this pretty well? Just up the cache size, e.g. in PostgreSQL changing effective_cache_size https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Serv...
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by mhaymo 12y ago
Then they'll be able to back up their claims.
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by mhaymo 12y ago
I find just reading the abstract of a paper is usually enough to debunk the nonsense claims people are claiming it proves.
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by mhaymo 12y ago
We don't expect criminals to consent to being prosecuted. Those parallels really don't make a lot of sense.
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by mhaymo 12y ago
Line 21 here implements Writer for IOResult<T> where T also implements Writer: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/libstd/old...
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by mhaymo 12y ago
Except static typing does matter. http://evanfarrer.blogspot.ca/2012/06/unit-testing-isnt-enou...
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by mhaymo 12y ago
Netflix told Engadget that there has been "no change" in the way it handles VPNs: http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/03/netflix-clamps-down-on-vp... Possibly this is just a bug that people have misunde
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by mhaymo 12y ago
Can anyone knowledgeable tell us how this compares to Java's parallel streams?
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by mhaymo 12y ago
According to this ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4776112/is-it-possible-to... ), it's not possible to build a bittorrent client in javascript.
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by mhaymo 12y ago
No they don't, Haskell is anywhere from 2-6x slower at the same problems. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...
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by mhaymo 12y ago
Is Result not just a specialised Either? In what way is Either inferior?
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by mhaymo 12y ago
There absolutely were death threats in the months leading to the Scottish referendum. http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/463823/SCOTLAND-AT-WAR-Deat...
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by mhaymo 12y ago
Unfortunately I don't think higher-kinded types are planned for Rust 1.0. See the rfc: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/324 and this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by mhaymo 12y ago
That's assuming that poor people attend university at the same rate as wealthy people, which is not and will never be true, even if fees are abolished, as poor people can't afford to postpone full-time work for 4 years.
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by mhaymo 12y ago
The same can be said of almost anything that young adults do. Entering the working world is certainly a maturing experience, and I don't necessarily believe that 4 years of higher education is better in that than 4 years of labour.
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by mhaymo 12y ago
The difference between cameras and watches is you can carry a smartphone and a DSLR. Unless you're going to start wearing two watches, you'll be giving up all the utility of a smartwatch for your wealth-indicator, which yes many
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by mhaymo 12y ago
KeePass is just an encrypted database stored on your machine. If it's compromised, your machine is compromised, so you're screwed either way. Meanwhile, if any of many online services you use are compromised (and some inevitably w

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