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by nearbuy 8y ago
I think the article is pointing out that C# offers many of the benefits of low level languages like C/C++, including some control over memory layout, passing by ref, calling conventions with P/invoke, and soon, SIMD intrinsics.
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by nearbuy 8y ago
I think Chrome's design appeal is obvious just from looking at a screenshot of Chrome and Firefox in 2008: https://imgur.com/a/uyBcxI0 . Firefox and Edge eventually adopted Chrome's design choices to have more
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Yeah, that's pretty much it.
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Why is hunting better than being vegan?
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There's an important difference between asking "Is it ok..." (to abort/take property/whatever else) and asking "Is it theft...". In essence, the argument is using our negative feelings about "theft&qu
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This sounds more like wordplay than an argument. It's trying to establish that the word "theft" means any forced surrender of property including tax. But it never establishes why "theft" is bad under this definition
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> The sole purpose of democracies is to make people's problems their fault. Why is this good? I would say the goal is to reduce problems. > Most systemic issues we see today have a root cause in people giving up their ability to
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by nearbuy 8y ago
He has also pledged to give 95% of his wealth to charity, so most of that net worth increase should end up going to charity eventually.
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For one, it would be a terrible choice for a charity dedicated to helping the poorest of the world. People in democracies tend to vote for their own interests. The U.S. spends about 1% of their budget on foreign aid. Yet in polls, most Amer
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I think part of why I didn't enjoy The Lean Startup was because I read it too late. By the time I read it, MVPs, "fail fast", and "make something users want" had been the motto of startups for years, and the points
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I found The Lean Startup relied heavily on anecdotes. The article gives it 5 stars, despite this being one of their main complaints about other books. To give one example, the book talks about how in their 3d virtual chat game, IMVU, as a s
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by nearbuy 8y ago
1. That's not an argument that it's unhealthy. That's an argument that it's risky. "We haven't proved it's healthy" isn't the same as "it's unhealthy". 2. Some people have been on
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I think the website for Yale University School of Art deserves a mention. http://art.yale.edu/
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Yes, I suppose that's more accurate. For some reason, your phrasing hasn't yet caught on with the general public.
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The term can be pretty broad. In terms of what's used in practice, it's generally elected representatives or parties. China's a pretty interesting counter-example. I don't know very much about their government unfortunat
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I replied to a similar comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18927767 To reiterate, my main objection to asserting "democracy is the best" is that it discourages thought about other possibilities. I don&#x
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I don't have anything specific in mind, and obviously it's virtually impossible to just "try out" different systems in an established country. My objection to refrains along the lines of "democracy is the best syste
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It has to do with formants. It's briefly explained in this video, which also demonstrates changing a female voice to male: https://youtu.be/nPAINeIGxMc .
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I often hear the refrain that, "democracy is the worst form of government except for all the other forms that have been tried". But how many forms have actually been tried? As far as I know, every country is either a democracy or
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Yes, just like with the pass/fail courses at my university, students would want to pass. Also like those pass/fail courses, most students would put the minimum effort required to pass. If you're proposing a system where each
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1. Grades are a strong motivator for many students. 2. Grades help you gauge how well you did, which can be useful for self-improvement. 3. Grades in early years can help train you to gain the study habits to get good grades in later years.
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This seems like a pretty extreme viewpoint.
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All punishment results in emotional injury. That's what punishment means...
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There was actually a post about this a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18845205
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by nearbuy 8y ago
I'm not saying UE4 isn't good, but I have a pretty long list of complaints. First, their class reference documentation is very poor. The majority of classes and functions have either no description, or a description that basically
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Package sizes are pretty big. I think an empty project packages to about 60 MB.
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In addition, as someone used to working on small teams, specialization seems inefficient. If you only have 3 developers, it doesn't make much sense to have one backend, one frontend, and one dev-ops. Are you always going to have exactl
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by nearbuy 8y ago
With a hard fork, you change the code the miners are using so that blocks on the opposing fork are considered invalid. In a 51% attack, the malicious actor creates new blocks that look equally valid. The two lineages aren't labelled ET
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I don't follow. Even if the current group of miners decided older blocks are irrevocable, if there was a prolonged 51% attack, it would mean the majority of miners would be saying, "Hey, those confirmed blocks... that's not w
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That doesn't seem dumb at all. Making BCD the default would mean floats use 17% more space for the same precision. That might seem like a small loss, but it's also for an incredibly small gain. Programmers would still have to be a

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