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by peoplewindow 8y ago
It's better to ban nothing when it comes to speech. Any restrictions at all rapidly escalate into enormous restrictions, hypocrisy and logical contradictions. Actually by now, I automatically assume anyone who uses the phrase "hat
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
You're using a file format designed three decades ago to make arguments about what we should be doing today. XLS as a format sucks because: a) It was undocumented for most of its life b) Undocumented even inside Microsoft because it co
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
When I interviewed at Google it was 2006 and they had a reputation for rejecting nearly everyone. I was still a student! So I rocked up to the interviews calm as calm could be because I didn't believe for even a second that I'd ac
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
I'm not on the Graal team but I can take a crack at an answer - it's because as languages get more dynamic, static ahead of time compilation becomes less and less effective and can even be counterproductive. To compile a Ruby prog
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
Very likely flagged because it paints the EU in a bad light. I've noticed that criticism of the EU or anything data protection related very frequently gets flagged or downvoted.
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
Hardly. ICANN is not an EU organisation. The idea that GDPR is a global law is a new thing. Also, The letter also has harsh words for ICANN's proposed interim solution, criticizing its vagueness Of all the people to criticize others
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
Or maybe you live in a situation where $74 USD is a meaningful barrier to accessing a market. Like what situation? To build an app at all he requires at least one computer, which is guaranteed to cost more than $99. He didn't blink a
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
By pushing things into the language, what I mean is that for example C# has stack allocation and the JIT is a very straight line compiler (for many years it was basically a C++ compiler, opts wise). The Java guys refused to add this complex
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Nice! This sort of direction is definitely the way managed runtimes are going and should go, long term. Here's a quick comparison vs Graal, which is the same thing but for the HotSpot JVM. Java 9+ has Java-side interfaces for extending
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
So replace "Cambridge Analytics" with "ads". The vast majority of people do not consider advertising unethical. Nor do they consider social networks to be unethical. I always struggle to figure out what classical rules o
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Yeah, but what drives that perception? It doesn't seem to be rooted in any coherent theory of ethics. After all, users happily agreed to their data being used, they weren't forced to sign up to social networks en-masse, they weren
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
it doesn't look great if those accomplishments end up having a negative impact on society You're assuming all employers (a) believe in and (b) care about Cambridge Analytica. That likely isn't the case. It requires quite a
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Money is necessary. IP rights are a general and flexible tool to funnel money into research. AV1 is basically funded by Google as a quasi-charitable endeavor, as far as I can tell. Whilst there may be several apparent funders like Mozilla
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Whether you like the Catalonian politicians or not is irrelevant to my point. There are really only three questions that matter: 1) Are they violent? 2) Are they supported by the local population? 3) Are they willing to work with the nation
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
In what sense? I'm not American, by the way. UK took part in the Iraq war. France took part in the Libya campaign. These are the only two European countries with any sort of military. The rest just let the rest of the world act as thei
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
This doesn't seem like a very good analysis. For one, it makes sweeping generalisations about the economy. It is not true that employers always have market power and employees don't. There are lots of areas where it's inverte
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
That assumes all employees are equal which in any non-factory-churn-operation company is not going to be true.
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Kotlin specifically has a "native mode" where it doesn't use the JVM and ships its own small runtime with a ref-counting cycle detecting gc, C interop and not much else. The binaries aren't 100 bytes but I suppose with m
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
From the beep readme: By default beep is not installed with the suid bit set, because that would just be zany. On the other hand, if you do make it suid root, all your problems with beep bailing on ioctl calls will magically vanish, which
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Given the sardonic and amusing way the rest of the page is written, my guess is that's a part of the joke.
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Summary: don't use .eu domains for anything. If your country elects to leave the EU or possibly just gets into a spat with it, you will have to abandon your domain name and thus all accumulated pagerank, external links, email addresses
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Communist dictators throughout history have been highly education engineers. I don't think you can say engineering degree = peace.
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
It's amazing how Google can't get a grip on its own workforce. And this is yet another trash article written to try and manipulate the readers: But discussions have become more hostile and abusive since an engineer on internal fo
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
attracting too many of them is a great way to make no one else want to come to your platform Perhaps that's a feature and not a bug. After all, judging by the last US election such people are in a slight minority anyway. And why is Y
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
By definition, if you achieve monopoly lockin you can charge whatever price you like. There are people who can't afford / would rather not pay for Windows but find they have to anyway, due to some business critical app they need.
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Apple's business model doesn't lend itself to getting a monopoly lock on any business they're in. Their primary products are application platforms. How on earth do you reason that their business models don't lend thems
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
I worked at Google during that period. It's not quite as simple as "Python > C++" although yes, for sure, you're going to produce new UI features at a far faster rate working in a high level language like Python than
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
But your argument is also applicable to judges. There's nothing in legal training that makes people magically superior to "normies", incapable of error and so on. Meanwhile someone forced to do jury duty is gonna spend the ti
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
What makes you think a jury is by definition "angry and easily manipulable"? This says a lot more about your view of humanity and yourself than it does jury trials.
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Money is not the same thing as power, although power usually makes money abundant. Billionaires have in many ways much less power than even a relatively minor government official or regulator. Zuckerberg learned this the hard way when he sp

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