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by pbourke 6y ago
> virtually no one who earnestly engages with the thinkers in question would come away thinking that. I “earnestly engaged” with it by doing a humanities degree 20 years ago when this stuff was taking root. The only field that seems resi
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by pbourke 6y ago
> The ironic thing is that if one were to string together a bunch of technical terms, they sound exactly as obscurantist to the outsider. In other fields the obscurity is a side effect. In the humanities it’s the point, to try to make th
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by pbourke 6y ago
Is it possible to study mainframe programming independently?
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by pbourke 6y ago
It’s not the language but the ecosystem that’s a barrier to entry. Do you have a z series in your garage to hack around with?
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by pbourke 6y ago
> no one should spend his life picking up shitty code left by his elders decades ago. Would you say that to a civil engineer who works on infrastructure maintenance? Computing is critical infrastructure in many areas of government and bu
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by pbourke 6y ago
> If their interests on Facebook (what they like, follow, etc) were mostly cat videos, Facebook wouldn't be recommending extremist groups. The whole point of recommendation algorithms is to find missing edges in the graph, so it can
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by pbourke 6y ago
> They do this weird thing where there are multiple counters scattered throughout the store, manned with helpful ladies to answer questions and ring out purchases, except they're always unmanned, except one That’s a classic departme
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by pbourke 6y ago
When you measure the failure rates of Java projects against the failure rates of Clojure projects, you’re not measuring the failure rates of a language, but rather the general failure rate of software in industry vs the failure rate for a (
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by pbourke 6y ago
Yes, the former CEO of AccuWeather was appointed but not confirmed to lead NOAA. He was not a scientist and had spent years attempting to undermine the agency from the outside. He also, in keeping with tradition for Trump appointees, was in
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by pbourke 6y ago
Even politically it’s just ... weird. Most of the top content on Facebook each month is sympathetic to the current administration. Facebook has arguably played the most ball with them in comparison to other tech companies.
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by pbourke 6y ago
> The monetisation of your data in exchange for adverts can be seen as the cost of the platforms. It will be interesting to see the government prove this for Facebook while ignoring the 800lb gorillas of Google/Doubleclick or Amazon
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by pbourke 6y ago
This case seems like a really stupid way to try to do some consumer protection versus writing laws that do it directly. I’m still confused as to which “market” is harmed: advertisers? Facebook users? other social networks? If the market is
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by pbourke 6y ago
The OMS is a pretty crucial part of an e-commerce system. I’d outsource a great many other things before that.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Dan’s writing is really informative. I also really admire the way that he uses Twitter. I’ll often see a recent tweet from him that is part of a long running topic thread that he appends to when he has something new to say.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Discussions on HN are more interesting when the partisan temperature is turned down.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Give me a break. Some of the world’s most stable democracies have both a high level of taxation and a significant social benefit system. In America, in 2017, there was a group who decided that they could “vote themselves largesse from the p
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by pbourke 6y ago
> I bet you, a company that picks a tool stack and develops several similar projects over several years will become better at it. At the end of your several years, your stack will be “outdated,” so you will need to exercise discipline to
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by pbourke 6y ago
Thanks for replying. This is a great approach and seems really well suited for the target audience.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Poignant pedantry - the thing that is not what it’s named for is a giant publicity stunt or someone appropriates it into a giant publicity stunt. The latter would be the most on-brand turn of events for 2020.
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by pbourke 6y ago
The deal is offered when you decide which device you’d like to buy.
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by pbourke 6y ago
To summarize: up till now, Java Threads have been 1:1 with OS threads. They’re limited to a few thousand per JVM. This project moves to an M:N threading model but retains the Thread API. It allows for millions of threads per JVM and async&#
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by pbourke 6y ago
Looks like Ardour is open source. How do you make money?
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by pbourke 6y ago
let's say someone offered you a deal: for a 30% tax, your device would be X% more secure and you'd have Y% fewer troubles with upgrades and dodgy software. Would you take it? I would. I'm happy to have my house in Apple'
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by pbourke 6y ago
Except that modulo very specialized software, those apps exist or they are consumable as web apps from nearly any OS.
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Apple has valuation which is measured in dollars. Sweden has GDP which is measured in dollars per year. The units are different, so the numbers aren't comparable. Of course. I was referring to Sweden's national wealth[1], whi
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by pbourke 6y ago
Slack is valued higher than Kroger, which runs 2,700+ grocery stores in the United Stages. Apple and Sweden have about the same valuation right now. Apple is worth 30% more than Saudi Arabia.
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by pbourke 6y ago
In Canada you can’t (or you couldn’t - not sure if it’s changed in the last decade) call yourself an engineer unless you’re a Professional Engineer.
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by pbourke 6y ago
I help out with my wife’s online shop and have noticed the same thing. Personally, if I don’t see an obvious co-branding for Stripe or another trusted service I will usually pick PayPal over a naked credit card field. Who knows what the hec
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by pbourke 6y ago
It would be interesting to see “after” photos of the site now that it’s been removed.
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by pbourke 6y ago
And often scrolling with auto load, so you never really know how far you are from the bottom of the list.

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