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Ask HN: What happened to IBM?
1 points by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago|2 comments
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
That might not be totally true. The US govt likes to sneak secret things into comm satellites. For example gps satellites also contain hardware to detect nuclear detonations and track missile launches. Just speculation, but there could easi
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
Because rockets explode all the time and it's not really dangerous unless people are involved. Rockets are routinely exploded on purpose during testing.
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
There's a lot of speculation around the design and a third lightly reported COPV explosion that happened unexpectedly during testing. The strut failure is what SpaceX reported but it could have also been a COPV explosion. Two confirmed
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
Does anyone else feel like the COPV problem was not truly solved? This is the second mission loss caused by the same exploding COPV's. They need to be redesigned and SpaceX is twiddling around the issue to avoid the r&d cost. If I
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
Does being situational make the language more efficient to speak? You don't need nearly as many words when the meaning is tied to context. I've always been curious about east Asian languages and culture since they're relative
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
They actively prevent developers from building their own app stores and competing with apple's own apps. Bell telephone had a similar monopoly. They owned the phone lines and wouldn't allow any non-approved equipment connected. Yo
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
I'll admit the last part was just using a good opportunity to diss Oracle. The longer the keyword the less name collisions there will be in general, using a single character is absolute worst case if you want to avoid breaking code
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
Hahahaha Edit: I'm a Java guy too, don't get why some people get so butthurt over things :) At least it's not JavaScript with infinity,null,undefined, and NaN. Oh and null!=null which is hilarious
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This is also true of Spanish and Portuguese but they are still considered different languages. If two people speaking different dailects couldn't understand each other they are surely different languages
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
So the fact that you no longer own the car is not enough to release you from liability from it? Typical "may cause cancer in the state of California" style regulations. Glad I don't live there anymore
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
Well explained. Does the similar pronunciation and many homophones cause any issues when spoken?
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
Can you explain the reasoning behind typing in pinyin to see the output in traditional characters? To a native English speaker this sounds silly and pointless. Is it something that's mostly tradition or is there advantage to typing thi
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
The sheer amount of Java code written is nearly unfathomable. Maybe 3 million developers each churning out 20000 lines a year. That's about 60 billion lines of Java code per year. There could easily be over a trillion lines of Java out
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
For a language I find as reasonably designed as Java, this is stupid. Add a new key"word", don't deprecate a whole fucking character in a language that's been around for twenty years. It pains me to consider the horrific
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
The monopoly is that phones have become so important for daily life that being able to install software on them is nearly a requirement for normal living. It's like having two car manufacturers and they both recommend "approved&qu
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
This is at the TCP/http layer not app logic. Your machine and the servers you're connected to don't have the right settings for dialup. Turn up retries on TCP. Increase timeouts on the servers. Etc...
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
From my experience looking for jobs, only spend your own time learning the newest stuff. If companies need legacy skills they will train you because job listing for COBOL don't attract as many applicants :)
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
Essentially because they're easy to grok. Take js for example. No interfaces, basic OO system, no access modifiers or static typing, no multithreading, no pointers Etc... A lot of concepts can be handwaved when you're using a lang
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
EJB is a giant clusterfuck stay away unless you absolutely have to learn it
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
Most languages of the world are written primarily in Latin characters. The only language these characters were designed for is long dead. The reason for switching to Latin characters has nothing to do with phonetics and everything to do wit
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
Yeah it works pretty much the same. If your clients aren't geographically dispersed replace anycast with DNS round robin or use both like most huge sites do. Also there's three layers :) dns->ipvs->httpproxy->app servers.
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
Instead of fixing the horrible JPEG encoding can you please add support for webp? It's quite a bit smaller and well supported with polyfills since it's just a single vp8 frame
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
Awesome overview! The author threw a hilarious quip in at the end too: Target: the processor-specific parts of the backends live here. There are lots of TableGen files. As far as I can tell, you create a new LLVM backend by cloning the one
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
Use both medium absorbs a lot of SEO that Google would otherwise send straight to you
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
Ehhhh I feel like the researchers took 5000 variables and threw them at the wall to see what sticks. Living near busy roads is usually cheaper... And I doubt people with dementia are locking down C level positions
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
We need to trace when the issue is happening. College enrollment teaches us a lot more than job statistics where most people have made up their minds 10+ years ago. The enrollment statistics represent people making up their minds right afte
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
Gender warfare? Go back to the 60's. Women outnumber men in college significantly and are graduating with much better grades. The biggest difference is college major which has a huge influence on lifetime earnings. It's not like
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
It's not anything near 20% from what I've seen. I've worked at fairly random companies and went to a pretty large school and women are consistently outnumbered at least 10-1 everywhere. Even at Google and Facebook a lot of th
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by nrjdhsbsid 10y ago
Lack of diversity could mean anything and grouping people by gender and skin color doesn't always make sense. Borderline racism territory, but the Jewish are well known for going into the financial sector. This has been happening for h

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