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by mhneu 10y ago
The company knows what the outcome is already: 99% of developers sign. So why should the company change?
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If you are interested in collective action to combat clauses like this, follow Maciej Cejlowski.
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When they say compatibility they largely mean C API compatibility. PyPy doesn't even try for this, and yet it's key for any real world adoption. Building on top of PyPy wouldn't have helped with C API compatibility. I really
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by mhneu 10y ago
Not really the same - Unladen Swallow gave up because llvm JIT was immature. Pyston gave up because Dropbox is moving to Go. That's a bad sign.
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by mhneu 10y ago
You are right, the difficulties are in Python's design. See the Pyston blog "Why is Python slow". http://blog.kevmod.com/2016/07/why-is-python-slow/ That said, the Pyston guys knew what the pr
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It is really bad news for Python that Dropbox is mostly done with them. (Announcement says most new code is in Go, so further Pyston development couldn't be justified). PyPy is not feasible for most workloads. Pyston was making incre
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Smart workers. America's economy benefits from bringing some of the best brains in the world here. If America screws that up, other countries will be happy to accept smart workers and students.
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This is exactly right. Trump and his White House know it's important to control the media.
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Criticism of Franzman who called Arendt a white supremacist: https://engageonline.wordpress.com/2016/06/16/7958/amp/ Also, Trump's order applies to green card holders. This is a major and worr
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by mhneu 10y ago
If the Trump administration wasn't making people think about authoritarianism with the totality of their actions and words, yes it might not be. https://storify.com/AndrewHickey/lusztig-arendt-and-trump
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by mhneu 10y ago
While many Trump stories should be flagged, some are important for society and for HN to discuss. This is one of those important stories. Americans can not stick their heads in the sand about these anti-muslim actions. Please do not delete
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by mhneu 10y ago
The reason people are upset is because banning Muslims from many countries, when a chief political advisor and propagandist [1] Bannon has called for a white-only US, is what authoritarians do. Hannah Arendt in her work on 1930s Germany des
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Awareness is constructive. Hearing views from abroad is constructive. There are voices here from tech workers in Scandinavia that I couldn't find in traditional news outlets. HN is poorer if it focuses on tech only and not on how soc
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Article is flagged? Trump is trying to manipulate the media to suppress discussion of bad things he does. His trolls have succeeded in suppressing this discussion on HN. A win for Trump and bad for the rest of us.
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The real danger is that Trump's Muslim hating is not a statement of fact but a declaration of intent. Arendt wrote about this on 1930s Germany. https://storify.com/AndrewHickey/lusztig-arendt-and-trump
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by mhneu 10y ago
We're talking about America persecuting people, not other countries. Don't be trying to divert the conversation.
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Bannon and the rest of the conservative media trade on implication, so we should get better at recognizing implication. Do you see all the ad network ads that show Michelle Obama with a taken-out-of context angry face? The reason the right
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That kind of segregation within nations is a recipe for wars and conflict. It didn't work out well for the Nazis and the neo-Nazis wanting the same thing also seems like a bad idea.
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Why are you trying to change the subject away from immigration policy? I could also talk about how the president is trying to subvert the media to sell his immigration policies, but that would not be relevant in this thread. If you want t
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by mhneu 10y ago
You're replying to a poster who is trying to divert discussion. Please don't engage, because the post is not trying to have a discussion, it's trying to divert the rest of us from talking about the current administration. Yo
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A Nixon administration official has claimed the War On Drugs was conceived by Nixon's White House to persecute Nixon's politial opponents-- blacks and liberals. --- The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that,
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I had a similar experience from a working class, 2nd income quartile household, with little contact with big cities or big universities. SAT prep? Tutors? Private school? Scoring well on AP tests? These are unknown. But as you say what
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by mhneu 10y ago
A great article addressing a difficult idea. The article slightly overgeneralizes for simplicity. One omission is that the author doesn't mention the "data table" concept when he talks about SQL tables. Data frames in R or
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The spreadsheet model is the SQL table model. You should separate spreadsheet computation (which for these languages is written in the language) from the spreadsheet data. Spreadsheets slightly generalize the SQL table by allowing cells to
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by mhneu 10y ago
Don't forget the whole "when the president does it that means that it is not illegal". One of the most guano-crazy things he ever said. Sounds like you already know this, but the current president-elect just said the same t
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Is he paying $50 more for not participating, or getting a $50 discount for participating? This is just semantics. In either case, it costs money to not participate. Marketers like to frame things as the latter, as behavioral economics te
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Housing doesn't take care of itself. Cities built on the American car-centric model work fine until they reach a certain size and then traffic chokes them and quality of life for everyone goes down. Atlanta, a southern city, is a goo
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Ugh. Zoning rules on minimum setback are so frustrating. Setback beyond a wide sidewalk just decreases density for no greater societal benefit.
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No, the wealth gap is not explained by real estate. The problem is that the 0.01% -- households worth more than ~$100M -- have received almost all the wealth gains since 1980. That's not just real estate -- it has to do with globaliza
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It's not just housing policy that's gone wrong, it's transit policy. We haven't built good public transit in our cities, and now that cars are filling all available roads, even houses far away from cities are too expens

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