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by nawitus 9y ago
You need power for acceleration, not torque. (But I agree that modern diesel cars accelerate fast enough).
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by nawitus 9y ago
Not true in Finland.
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by nawitus 9y ago
It should be plausible to design a scientific study on how much a car centric culture is causing overweightness.
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by nawitus 9y ago
That is "coding fast". Coding fast doesn't mean literally churning out a lot of code and pull requests.
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by nawitus 9y ago
What city?
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by nawitus 9y ago
One thing I dislike about wire transfers in Finland (and I would assume similar regulation applies in EU) is that banks will ask the purpose of transactions over certain amount, or the origin of cash when depositing it. I want to use my mon
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by nawitus 9y ago
A blockchain certainly change that. If a bank does something for non-technological reasons, it's possible that a blockchain does something else.
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by nawitus 9y ago
>JS fans said the same thing years ago, claimed that it didn't need classe Well, I didn't make that argument. ES6 is not almost a different language. It provided many good features, though. >JS was and is a horribly designed
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by nawitus 9y ago
> python was and still is a good choice - twisted was used to create async services before ajax was a word. Async was not part of the core language when Node.js was first released. Even today the library ecosystem of Python is fragmented
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by nawitus 9y ago
Modern JavaScript is not a very badly designed programming language. It's a good, productive programming language. Most of the quirks can be disabled with a linter, and optionally a lot safety can be brought in with typing (using e.g.
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by nawitus 9y ago
>no native type hinting True, but you can use TypeScript, which I expect is more advanced than PHP's typing. >no native filter map reduce on hash table What do you mean by that? There is Object.keys/Object.values/Object
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by nawitus 9y ago
"The question is: why are they investing in technology that is in inevitable decline vs. investing in the technology that will inevitably win?" It can be profitable to invest in declining technology. Mazda almost by definition thi
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by nawitus 9y ago
Using a single anecdote is not good evidence for this policy.
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by nawitus 9y ago
"If you want to increase your compensation over time, continue to put yourself in a position where you can deliver the most value." This assumes an efficient market. In the real world, however, value of a software engineer's
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by nawitus 9y ago
Unions don't really increase salaries at countries where unions are popular with software engineers (e.g. Finland).
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by nawitus 9y ago
"But if you're building an app that honestly is only going to serve 10 people, or 100---or 1000---do you really want to incur higher development and maintenance costs just for the sake of pushing the user-experience envelope?&quot
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by nawitus 9y ago
I believe bitcoin forks have the right to use the word bitcoin. In fact, I think it's a good practice.
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by nawitus 9y ago
What is the definition of a "hostile" hardfork?
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by nawitus 9y ago
I suppose npm rebuild would work.
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by nawitus 9y ago
The upside is creating a better brand for the company. It's a small upside to be honest.
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by nawitus 9y ago
"First, humans are still necessary - to build the factories, to operate them, to act as security guards - and the cost of those humans is still lower." A lot of this work will be automated in the coming decades to the point where
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by nawitus 9y ago
In other countries there are laws which force the cable owner to rent the last mile to any ISP.
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by nawitus 9y ago
What if the ISPs block VPN?
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by nawitus 9y ago
They can vote by moving to another place?
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by nawitus 9y ago
As long as people are migrating, people are voting with their wallets that a city "crumbling under poor infrastructure" etc. is better than whatever place they're migrating from.
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by nawitus 9y ago
JSX is also neither HTML nor JavaScript.
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by nawitus 9y ago
"Template language... You can call it 'separation of concerns' all you want, but just let me generate templates using the language I already know, JSX is great" Not everyone knows JSX, so while that argument applies to y
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by nawitus 9y ago
Is that a direct quote?
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by nawitus 9y ago
Why can't I see the "install and run studies" option? Is it because I'm using Finnish language Firefox?
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by nawitus 9y ago
docker pull sath89/oracle-12c? In sane countries licenses don't have magic powers. I'm allowed to publish a benchmark no matter what Oracle things.

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