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by narag 4y ago
Clearly this didnt happen... No, there's a Windows app store that nobody wants to use, obviously. Delphi was never a threat to Microsoft. Microsoft clearly saw Delphi as a threat: they proceeded to hire as much talent from Borland
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by narag 4y ago
There's different degrees of "native"... There are different kinds of native: native code and native widgets play at different levels. XUL implementations, when I last checked long ago, were native code written in C++ mos
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by narag 4y ago
The Android phone application --I think it's by Google-- alerts of most suspected spam, or you can mark it afterwards and block. I still receive one call every other week, pick up and keep quiet, waiting for the caller to speak. Most t
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by narag 4y ago
It seems it's a play with soft-ware hard-ware, implying electric and civil engineering.
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by narag 4y ago
Scratch gets a lot of hate with semi-experienced programmers (the kind to browse this sub) because of its simplicity... "This sub"? Semi-experienced? Nice way to start a conversation. OK, I'll bite. My first contact with Sc
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by narag 4y ago
Probably the reason is more political and cultural than economic. FWIW, the origin of "third world" is political, being the NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries the first and second. The poverty implication came later. Is a visa nee
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by narag 4y ago
If I had to answer a hundred questions before, I wouldn't have done anything in my fscking life. Actually most of the valuable things I've done, I did because I didn't think twice. Jokes aside... or maybe no jokes, but alas,
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by narag 4y ago
Sorry for the delay, very busy lately. In case you're still there and interested in the answers: So .net was a deliberate ruse to trick Borland into delivering a sub-par product? Not exactly, they wanted to create a walled garden, mo
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by narag 4y ago
Show, don't tell.
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by narag 4y ago
They had no control over other vendors' programming tools. Borland Delphi used a more difficult language, but generated compiled, autocontained faster binaries, had a better out of the box library, similar third party components market
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by narag 4y ago
OK, you bet for the latter. But: They also didn't seem to care much about being fully compatible... That sounds deliberate. Edit, to clarify: I doubt they didn't anticipate the frustration and the hit on the mindshare. From Ball
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by narag 4y ago
I don't think Microsoft failed to see that most VB programmers wanted to keep VB as it was. Microsoft killed VB with a clear purpose: controlling more tightly as much as Windows development as possible, copying the Java model with .NET
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by narag 4y ago
"fake gravity via rotation" cities in space would be cheaper, have fewer catastrophic failure modes, and be easy (relatively) to construct in far more desirable locations. It would be better to place the rotating cities inside C
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by narag 4y ago
Often when they say ethics they mean politics, their politics specifically. For me, democracy is a system where persons can vote for their interests. Different persons have different interests and that's good. You must compromise with
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by narag 4y ago
I had the same car model for a couple of years, in red. Mine did have reverse, but the engine used to heat the same as your script and then generated a dense cloud of white smoke. This is the coolest thing I've seen this week.
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by narag 4y ago
I was a member of Razor back in the day. I vaguely remember an intrincate big ascii logo, always wondered what 1911 meant.
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by narag 4y ago
Add to that: known discoveries combined, multiplying their leverage.
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by narag 4y ago
On the contrary, the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information... How does he know that? And how does he know the bot isn't like that? Human mind needs a long time
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by narag 4y ago
But did you cut the deficit? I believed the last ephemeral PM had to resign after cutting taxes and, at the same time, growing the budget had dire consequences. Even here in the mainland, the ECB is being forced to stop printing money at th
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by narag 4y ago
(From a few Mm) I remember them saying that EU was a big-government ballast, so reducing expenses and bureaucracy they could have a much agile and vibrant economy. But is that what they did?
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by narag 4y ago
I enjoyed very much this blog series and the video: https://steveblank.com/secret-history/ Unfortunately some people tends to cherry pick their favourite details. In my country there's a politician that says that
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by narag 4y ago
However, my argument is that even this overarching perception itself is not necessarily singular. We agree completely on that. I love when I catch some falling object on the fly and it feels instantaneous, asynchronous, as if someone else
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by narag 4y ago
Oh, the classic we're going to create Europe's SV in ___ you know.
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by narag 4y ago
Most people I know believe in things that aren't real, whether it be crystals, chakras, essential oils, random mythologies about random things. You're using known pseudo-science, magic examples. Do you want to have real fun? Try
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by narag 4y ago
It is intelligent enough to learn how to operate a car... You are identifying "subconscious" as in "I did it without minding it" with "subconscious" as a structured personality inside your mind with autonomou
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by narag 4y ago
This is only true if you equate "self" with "body", which is a fairly narrow assertion that breaks down quickly when confronted with the complex reality of human experience (e.g. dissociation [0]). Are you suggesting t
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by narag 4y ago
The name doesn't matter, but it is a fact that there are processes that we don't control that are very intelligent in our brain. Let me point that "we don't control" and "in your brain" is a contradictio
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by narag 4y ago
Part of me thinks it’s a result of shifting conversations about real, known X-risk... I don't believe that "conversations" are going to solve any problem or pose any problem to them . More like these fears are popular beca
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by narag 4y ago
He edited the comment and linked relevant tweets. I would add this one: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1630640058507116553 I had no idea about this drama either, so I didn't understand what Elon was talk
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by narag 4y ago
I have experience as a user, implementation is way over my head. Depending on the minimum host supported, you could only use lightweight threads or write a scheduler. IIRC, JVM started using its own thread implementation and later used the

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