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by nirvana 14y ago
TLDR: You do almost the same thing in the USA, only it is automated. We have the patriot act which requires collecting a lot of info-- the US has centralized databases (namely credit reports) that allow easy authentication of people. Outs
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by nirvana 14y ago
Unquestionably, Apple has the top people on their development tools. It is a far superior platform for development, and this goes all the way back to the NeXT days. Further, its astounding the amount of fear mongering I've seen from securi
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by nirvana 14y ago
The Mac had viruses in the late 1980s. I know they existed as early as 1987, and as late as 1989, from first hand experience. Do you think that the Mac was a major force in the 1980s, but has been safe in obscurity since then? Apple has bee
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by nirvana 14y ago
> As someone who works in the IT security industry, I absolutely agree with this statement. The former claim is impeached by the latter. > it sometimes take Apple months to merely test it and ship it out. This is a dishonest charact
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by nirvana 14y ago
False, and has been false for at least 4 years. This vulnerability was unexpected and resolved in the next release of the OS, which allowed this memory to be kept encrypted.
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by nirvana 14y ago
While Microsoft was just starting to develop C#, Apple already had buffer overflow detection (of some type) in Objective-C. Objective-C has long had a garbage collected version and memory management even before then was superior to most lan
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by nirvana 14y ago
Microsoft has real security problems- rampant viruses and trojans, and a major business on that platform is selling after market security products (probably why Microsoft has never closed these holes.) Apple killed the virus problem of the
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by nirvana 14y ago
I think the point you bring up about comparing the ops/sec between Riak and Redis is very interesting in multiple ways: 1. Riak has an in memory database mode (its one of the backends you might choose and you can run multiple backends simul
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by nirvana 14y ago
In your case, it is the applications. Final Cut Pro X still has some instability, and photoshop is crap.
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by nirvana 14y ago
1.5TB of spinning rust in my macbook pro, no observations of this problem. Did see something like it when I was using an SSD that was about to fail.
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by nirvana 14y ago
She's not crazy, but she is running Adobe software on a machine without sufficient RAM. Adobe installs gods own cache of really crappy stuff that starts up at boot and who knows what kind of kexts they shove in there to make your machine
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by nirvana 14y ago
I bet the odds are damn good that neither of them ARE polluting the OS Cache. That they are is just speculation from someone whose taken his experience and projected it onto everybody. Since he's a person who mucks around with random system
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by nirvana 14y ago
MacBook Pro, 8GB, leave it running for weeks: No performance problems at all. People say "Get and SSD", well, I've had 2 SSDs and 4 SSD failures (one drive failed three times, the other once and its replacement is still going.) So, I'm all
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by nirvana 14y ago
Changing directory is instant for me. (no SSD here, all spinning rust.) Tab completion is instant too. Run Time Machine every hour, never made a change to the spotlight config.
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by nirvana 14y ago
This claimed problem is not adequately described-- because I don't see it. Therefore there is something else going on here. I have 8 GB of memory on my Macbook Pro, and I've never seen anything like the problems described in this article.
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by nirvana 14y ago
That's a fair perspective. And really, you could go all the way back to the founding of the federal reserve as the beginning of the nationalization of banking. But I was specifically referring to the Obama administrations "reforms" that p
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by nirvana 14y ago
Yes, Startup School.
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by nirvana 14y ago
I think your inability to make good financial investments is directly linked to your hard leftism and your desire to punish people who do. Unfortunately, the policies you advocate are the cause of poverty in this society... and when they do
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by nirvana 14y ago
There's a persistent myth that needs to be put down: It doesn't get at all harder to learn new technologies when you get older. In fact, it gets a whole lot easier. There's an old saying "You can't teach an old dog new tricks", and this is
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by nirvana 14y ago
> Yoru comment shows why older people have difficult getting jobs. You make several assumptions about him that don't seem supported, but worse why make this personal? > It took you a day to understand how a listview work while a goo
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by nirvana 14y ago
He seems to have missed making the point in the title. Why would software engineers work for english majors? He thinks that a 20 something english major is a better manager for a software engineer than a 40 something software engineer? Pl
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by nirvana 14y ago
People have gotten rich doing all of those. For instance, the head of the Red Cross makes a lot of money. So do the leaders at United Way. Further, many of these organizations arguably don't improve society. For instance, the Red Cross m
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by nirvana 14y ago
This is why I said "Virtually". Seriously, think about what you've just said. Do you realize that you didn't even make a claim, you simply imply that these are somehow not beneficial to society as if it were a fact? Don't you realize that y
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by nirvana 14y ago
There's a false dichotomy in a lot of these discussions. There isn't a contradiction between helping society and making money. Virtually every legal way I know of making money helps society. The money you make comes from somewhere- genera
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by nirvana 14y ago
Frankly, I'm surprised (but I shouldn't be) that so many people are desperate for an alternative to Erlang. Going so far as to try to pretend that libraries bolted on to other languages give you the same thing at lower cost. This is imposs
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by nirvana 14y ago
This one particular benefit is not available in any other language, unless you start with a relatively low level language like C and recreate it. Multi-threading is doable in any number of languages, but the problems inherent with it are wh
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by nirvana 14y ago
Yes, libertarianism does lead to the rapid advancement of a society from third world conditions to first world conditions, including a rapid and significant improvement in the standard of living for the poorest people in the society, and in
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by nirvana 14y ago
You're wrong. All I was communicating was that libertarianism is a minority of ideologies and thus since most people (including libertarians) tend to down vote comments that support ideologies they disagree with, libertarianism is often un
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by nirvana 14y ago
How the spectrum's cousin is in your pocket today: (shortened version, of course) The spectrum was produced by Sinclair. Sinclair was a partnership of the eccentric Sir. Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry. During a bit of financial trouble Cliv
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by nirvana 14y ago
My first purchased computer was a ZX81. My second was a US variant of the ZX Spectrum called the Timex Sinclair TS-2068. Yep, back then the home computer market seemed so wide open, even watch companies were making them! https://en.wikip

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