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by nbevans 11y ago
F# is already spoiling Swift's feathers. And F# has first class support in Xamarin.
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by nbevans 11y ago
Bye Mandrill.
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by nbevans 11y ago
?
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by nbevans 11y ago
That is the same as Windows. Where are you getting your information?
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by nbevans 11y ago
I wasn't slighting Dijkstra but merely commenting on the era of the time. You can for example see how primitive things were back then by describing "mutable state" as "dynamic" and "immutable" as "sta
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by nbevans 11y ago
Are you seriously suggesting Windows doesn't know the concept of UTC time? And secondly suggesting that fiddling with timezone offsets is an expensive conversion?
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by nbevans 11y ago
Dijkstra was from a different era from when mutable state wasn't frowned upon. Note to self: This may not go down well here but I'm willing to take the flack.
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by nbevans 11y ago
Not enough reason in my opinion. The thing is all the people in my CS101 that couldn't fluently grasp recursion generally didn't do very well and I don't think many of them ended up working in software jobs. Recursion, good c
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by nbevans 11y ago
I was thinking about this the other day too. Recursion in CS101 is taught in such a bizarre way. At least it was back when I was in CS101. It was almost as though CS tries to discourage its usage simply because "most minds cannot under
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by nbevans 11y ago
It doesn't need to be an attack. Simply a case where two files happen to hash down to the same bytes.
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by nbevans 11y ago
How are hash conflicts/collisions handled?
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by nbevans 11y ago
Western CA's and ISPs are just as "state encumbered" as Chinese ones. We just turn a blind eye, for some reason. It would be so easy for NSA/GCHQ to recruit or place an "agent" inside of any Western CA or ISP t
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by nbevans 11y ago
Nope. It's some crapware that IBM bundles.
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by nbevans 11y ago
This pattern is called "I/O completion ports" or more generally "overlapped I/O" in Windows and has been there since the very first version of Windows NT.
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by nbevans 11y ago
Indeed. In other, perhaps less "SV" companies, I've seen it happen where the CEO wants to bring in an associate as perhaps the COO, CTO, CFO or some other high level position. Obviously such a person won't just leave the
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by nbevans 11y ago
What protects the stock from being diluted since presumably it has no or insufficient voting rights?
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by nbevans 11y ago
Their website wants me to do a Captcha just to see page 1. They appear to be amateurs quite frankly. If you can't setup Cloudflare for a retail website then what else can't you setup?
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by nbevans 11y ago
I think I saw the same documentary. They are only ghost cities for so long. Then the government "seeds" the city by moving some public sector offices there (which in China could mean 100,000+ workers). That alone is enough to kick
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by nbevans 11y ago
And I'm okay with this. He talking to ISIS fighters over the internet. He was naive to think that MI6 wouldn't want to know precisely what he has been up to. I'm sure he is innocent and I'm sure MI6 aren't intereste
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by nbevans 11y ago
Seems to be with your standard of posting. I gave up with you. No point trying to teach a leftie where they are going wrong. The PDF by the way uses words like "cost saving" and "efficiency" quite liberally.
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by nbevans 11y ago
Leftie.
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by nbevans 11y ago
The NHS is ring fenced from the cost saving measures. So yeah, please go on ;)
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by nbevans 11y ago
Have a read of this: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/manifesto2015/Conservativ...
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by nbevans 11y ago
@geographomics Give an example of a public service where service levels has declined, as clearly you have some in mind? The only obvious one I can think of is welfare, which of course involves handing physical cash to the claimants. The onl
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by nbevans 11y ago
No it isn't? And "scare quotes", good lord. I put it in quotes because these people aren't interested in following the standard asylum seeking procedures. They want to go around them. Which means they aren't actuall
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by nbevans 11y ago
Could be yep. Hence "shining beacon".
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by nbevans 11y ago
So we've gone from "outright austerity" to just "reducing the level of service". That's okay by me and by the UK public that secured the current government an overwhelming majority in the recent election. Those
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by nbevans 11y ago
Please quote where my objection was :) Observation, reasoning != objection. But yes, for the record, I do object and the current UK government objects to it. Which is why we haven't opened up the flood gates like Germany, stupidly, did
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by nbevans 11y ago
See Greece as an example of what a governmental policy of austerity looks like in Europe. The UK government has a policy of saving costs where possible and improving efficiency of public services.
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by nbevans 11y ago
I call it "cost savings" and "efficiency gains".

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