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by pif 4y ago
Sorry, I don't get it: what did he gain by shaving 6 seconds out of the last 17? Please, help me understand!
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by pif 4y ago
And dogmas, too!
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by pif 4y ago
Yeah, it started like C++ for wannabee programmers, but during the last years it has being becoming a more and more useful tool for professional developers.
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by pif 4y ago
Consumers are voters. Ever tried to push a political program based on import taxes in order to protect the local economy? Ever tried to convince your factory comrades that Chinese people have the right to clean air and strong unions, just a
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by pif 4y ago
> Putting in 60 dollars in a USB hub is some privileged behavior. If we want to take manufacturing back to the West, just having a USB hub must be considered a privilege. Low-wage jobs will come back to the West when we will change our
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by pif 4y ago
> People buy cheap because they can't afford to buy expensive. Not really: people bought cheap because they couldn't afford to buy expensive, and then they lost their job, and now they can't even afford cheap. When we st
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by pif 4y ago
You are wrong in pointing your finger to the business: we the buyers are to blame! We don't buy "good", we don't buy "local", we don't buy "our farmers are fairly compensated", we don't buy
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by pif 4y ago
> Relational engines - SQL only, no direct api. This one has always baffled me, too!
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by pif 4y ago
> I always found it very difficult to work at a high level of abstraction in C++. That's the opposite of my experience. The ability to abstract is exactly what I miss since working with C#, with much useful stuff removed to please i
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by pif 4y ago
I'm not sure if I understand your comment. What do you mean with "productivity information"? And why access should be so important?
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by pif 4y ago
> we cannot filter anymore by querying only one table I'd not want to work in a team where that is actually considered an issue.
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by pif 4y ago
> Yes, unintended side effects. Yes, expensive. Yes, not guaranteed to work. That's what's on the table. I think I see your point, but you are missing the elephant in the room. And you are not alone in missing it, so don'
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by pif 4y ago
Reduction of Carbon Emissions is also a sure way to show down the economy. And slowing down the economy is not acceptable: people want to get rid of global warming in order to live better; if the price to pay is to live worse, it's not
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by pif 4y ago
> You won't get people to agree to make their life worse for the sake of the environment, This. The sooner we understand this, the sooner it will be possible to have useful propositions. > no matter how much activists keep tryi
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by pif 4y ago
> A limitation of our analysis is, however, that the sample size of the individual studies was generally small [...] Thus, our results can be taken as an encouraging interim finding but should be corroborated by other, long-term studies.
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by pif 4y ago
You are not alone in this confusion. I though "homeopathy" meant "medicine based on herbs" for a few decades, and I'm sure we are not alone, and this may explain why so many people buy products that are based on a m
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by pif 4y ago
> Why do people think it is a good thing to have this enforced by law is beyond me. I'm sorry that we need a law to instil some common sense into some managers' thick skulls. But I'm happy that EU is showing that in, a san
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by pif 4y ago
> the EU using its influence to exert control over things that don't matter at all. If it doesn't matter at all, why is Apple still stubbornly refusing to adapt?
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by pif 4y ago
> All it does is stifle future work on connectors And that's exactly the point! Stop pretending you are special and use the same connector as anybody else. If you really, really need a new connector: 1. propose a new standard; 2. ma
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by pif 4y ago
Believing that money can change geology, and physics and chemistry laws, is idiotic at best.
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by pif 4y ago
Warning: no author is Italian. Which means that nobody knows what they are talking about. ;-)
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by pif 4y ago
It would be interesting to know the preferences of your potential customers that are not yet your customers!
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by pif 4y ago
Type safety at compile time to begin with.
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by pif 4y ago
Chess was born with an unknown, yet well defined, maximum lifetime. Lack of any random element implies that the number of scenarios is finite; huge, very huge, but finite. When matches were played by mail (mail as in postal service, not ema
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by pif 4y ago
> DB people love shoving all sorts of application logic I agree that application logic goes into the application, but data integrity is NOT application logic.
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by pif 4y ago
> I prefer to assemble data on the front end as much as possible because it allows my REST API calls to be granular It's clear you have never work with a lot of data. > The real reason people use joins is because they want to pac
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by pif 4y ago
I agree with your colleague, and I insist on pushing my car everywhere because I fear gas as it is flammable. In other words, the world is full of idiots; and any time I start forgetting about it, I read something like your post and I get a
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by pif 4y ago
In the end, it's very simple and intuitive. 1- If you need arithmetic, use signed; if you need a bitmask, use signed. C is not assembly, and bit shift is no multiplication nor division. 2- Make sure you stay within bound, as in: don&#x
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by pif 4y ago
Part of the problem is that the wrong people are complaining. Using Google as an example, the author has no right to push anything to a gmail inbox. Google has no contract with the author to accept mail from him. What Google is doing, it&#x
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by pif 4y ago
> I'm sure SF has a ton of regulations around building housing. Which only affect those builders who keep wanting to build in San Francisco. Just go and build somewhere else, that's the entire point of San Francisco regulation!

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