personZ

9 ms·

31.
by personZ 12y ago
The budget figure is probably BS. All military figures are BS. North Korea has 1,000,000 active member troops. Canada has 68,000 active member troops. North Korea has more of everything than Canada, including aircraft, boats, and even nuc
32.
by personZ 12y ago
This is a pandering article where someone acts outraged to pander to an audience. Firstly, "cyberterrorism" has forever been defined as attacks on computer resources, not attacks on people. If a nation state crippled a business
33.
by personZ 12y ago
To suggest otherwise is to imply that US oil companies were deliberately holding back on potential profits by not pumping at full production prior to 2011 Most wells don't run at full capacity, and absolutely alter draw speeds to max
34.
by personZ 12y ago
As unbelievable as many on here seem to find this, North Korea was making threats regarding this movie many months ago. Long before this hack. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28014069 North Korea was bizarrely sensi
35.
by personZ 12y ago
No, it's just a third world country, with limited means. The military budget of North Korea is estimated to be around $10 billion USD. It has a million active troops, 6,600 tanks, 700 MLRS, 460 fighters, and so on. The country is per
36.
by personZ 12y ago
And America businesses are believing NK is willing to go to war by attacking Americans on America soil because of a movie? North Korea has repeatedly threatened nuclear war over the most banal thing. Of course it is usually treated rather
37.
by personZ 12y ago
It's interesting how so many on HN are making such pronouncements, and if they've made them once, their commitment to that line just gets more and more aggressive with each comment. But seriously, on the matter of motivations -- y
38.
by personZ 12y ago
Your incantation of the logical fallacy is how it often appears in what could best be described as ignorant conversations. The appeal to authority fallacy is if I measured the acidity in a lake over a long term period, and then presented my
39.
by personZ 12y ago
I hope to one day see a thread with no misplaced logical fallacies.
40.
by personZ 12y ago
then use it but keep quiet and stop promoting it Remarkably there has been close to zero promotion of Go on Hacker News. Occasionally various incremental update things appear on the front page, just as there are updates on C# 5, the next
41.
by personZ 12y ago
I don't think anyone's threatened by Go. Yet your final sentence says exactly the opposite, indirectly. As if Go is some sort of scourge that these gallant guardians of language must fight. Further, if you assess the simplicity
42.
by personZ 12y ago
Nothing ironic about it. There are very vocal, very passionate people who pile the hate on Go in every single discussion regarding it. The list can usually be summarized as "ways that Go is not Haskell". Which is strange, because
43.
by personZ 12y ago
Given that he has been talking about how much Go sucks for almost the entirety of its existence, I highly doubt they've ever developed in Go. It became something to be an advocate against, not a tool in the belt.
44.
by personZ 12y ago
I moved on This caught my eye because I recall you being someone who has vigorously criticized Go in every single Go discussion . A quick search and I can find lengthy critiques from you going back four years . It very much seems like y
45.
by personZ 12y ago
Rust is a much better designed language which solves real problems Yet remarkably people are solving real problems with Go. Despite all of these dire predictions and pontifications on here by so many mortally offended by Go's existen
46.
by personZ 12y ago
This is exactly it. There are a lot of people who have argued passionately about this (the same crew of commentators appear with the same complaints in every single Go discussion), and now they are so deep in their advocacy that they feel t
47.
by personZ 12y ago
Quite the opposite: It's eliminating lock- out , which is where Intel was in an ARM-only mobile world. Intel has the most advanced fabs in the world, and the limits of their own devices has primarily been their concern about competing
48.
by personZ 12y ago
To reiterate, given that I apparently failed to communicate this well- -The mobile space was essentially locked down by ARM. All of the OS', tools, and apps targeted ARM. -Intel was on the outside looking in, so they starting giving aw
49.
by personZ 12y ago
It isn't better, it isn't cheaper (once subsidies expire), and it doesn't have the diversity of dozens of different SoCs to choose from. Are you actually basing this assessment on actual facts? Further, as to diversity, Qua
50.
by personZ 12y ago
Once Intel stops wrapping a $50 bill around every Android tablet chip they sell, why would device makers or consumers choose Intel-powered tablets over anything else? Why wouldn't they is the real question. Previously they wouldn&#
51.
by personZ 12y ago
"Essentially no revenue for Mobile and Communications" While technically correct, this misses the fact that Intel has been making some huge inroads into mobile (particularly tablets). This isn't reflected in revenue because I
52.
by personZ 12y ago
Tangentially related - https://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2014/06/28/database-perfor...
53.
by personZ 12y ago
You could construe that he would be instructing his employees to act illegally if he was a UK CIO. I don't think you could construe that at all. While everyone is making great hay about his statement, the truth is that every organi
54.
by personZ 12y ago
This is an absurd extrapolation. By this definition we can say that literally everything is "a lot to do with race". Is that useful?
55.
by personZ 12y ago
There was a time, not too long ago, when Uber was held high here on HN and most tech sites: Uber represented the democratic, egalitarian alternative to the evil taxi empire. Out with the old king... As an aside, quite some time ago I canvas
56.
by personZ 12y ago
The context of this discussion is the "rebirth" of Detroit, not race riots or the 1950s. If Detroit's rebirth is a high-skill, high-tech industry, the exclusion of many Detroit residents has everything to do with skills and e
57.
by personZ 12y ago
It's a lot about race You just made it about race, but really it's talent pool and demographics and education/skill levels. If a software group moves to downtown Detroit, it seems destructive to hold that as a negative , a
58.
by personZ 12y ago
Exactly how the conversation would go if it ever happened to me. Look at the entire business model of Silicon Valley -- the vast majority of hires are fresh graduates. Party because of ageism, but also because fresh graduates are the ones
59.
by personZ 12y ago
It's a simple data format and needs no new feature. XSLT was developed entirely independently of XML. XML Schemas were developed entirely independently of XML. XML itself is absurd simple. It is the epitome of simple. But you build a
60.
by personZ 12y ago
It's a glorious time in software development when people who make and use trivial web apps think that their domain dominates, and that their superficial knowledge reigns supreme.

More ›