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by pmilot 9y ago
> Real education superpowers are those with top UNIVERSITIES which in turn produce economic gains/growth/etc. Why is your metric considered more apt than the article's? Good student performance consistently correlates with
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by pmilot 9y ago
This is good news, but it doesn't tell the whole story. What's important to remember is that each Canadian province has its own education system, so mileage may greatly vary depending on where you live in Canada. In Québec, where
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by pmilot 9y ago
In the fourth paragraph, Dr. Adam Russell (the interviewee) is quoted as saying: "I wouldn’t characterize it [as a bullshit detector], and I think it’s important not to". Then the author titles his article "DARPA WANTS TO BUI
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by pmilot 9y ago
Theoretically, yes, but WSL is still beta and performance (especially filesystem I/O) is mediocre at best. They'll get there eventually!
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by pmilot 9y ago
That's an unfair judgement toward the C development community as a whole. There are legitimate use cases for C. If you're writing low-level, bare-metal programs then there is no other portable programming language that offers bett
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by pmilot 10y ago
My wife works as a teacher at one of the largest schoolboards in Québec, and she can tell you that the solution "hire good people, pay them the going rate and tell them to do the job to the best of their ability" doesn't work
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by pmilot 10y ago
Welcome to The Cloud, where you basically void all rights for long-term support of any product.
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by pmilot 10y ago
It may sound farfetched to you, but I assure you that some people who read Hacker News regularly don't actually use Linux on a day-to-day basis.
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by pmilot 10y ago
> What does Haskell have to show for, besides badly documented libraries and compiler implementations? Off the top of my head, the Darcs revision control system, the awesome Pandoc tool ( http://pandoc.org/ ), and the Xmon
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by pmilot 10y ago
Even when talking about driver updates, the argument is nonsensical. Android updates already require a full reboot of the device at the end of the update process, so new drivers can (and are) already be loaded into the kernel. The update pr
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by pmilot 10y ago
You may be looking for React PHP ( http://reactphp.org ). No relation to the JS library. It is an asynchronous event loop implementation, and there is a native HTTP stack built on top of it.
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by pmilot 10y ago
Surprisingly, a lot of people in this thread hesitate to recommend Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century". I'm not sure why this book is somehow surrounded with overblown controversy. I think it is an exc
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by pmilot 11y ago
Sadly, there has been comparatively few developments in keyboard hardware and input schemes since the 60s.
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by pmilot 11y ago
The article explains an alternative authentication scheme, it has no bearing on how session is managed after authentication took place. That's a fancy way of saying "same as before": some sites will stop session when the brow
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by pmilot 11y ago
To be fair, people also think "rest and relaxation" is amazing, and we probably need to capture some of the value of this technology via a for-profit company as well.
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by pmilot 11y ago
Is it just me or the idea of trusting a random IP as your authoritative DNS server sounds like a phenomenally bad idea in terms of security? At least, when you pay for a service like UnblockUS, there's a contract and a certain underst
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by pmilot 11y ago
That is a great move no matter how you look at it. I applaud the Slack team for this! The very fact that this is newsworthy says a lot about the lack of diversity in our industry. As a society we should try to find more ways to encourage w
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by pmilot 11y ago
Maybe it's just because I don't frequent social networks all that much, but I've never been exposed to this sort of depiction of Edward Snowden. The only coverage I've come across of him focused solely on what he did or
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by pmilot 11y ago
This. I don't know what happened (that trend was already well underway before Ballmer stepped down) but lately they've been acting like kids suffering from ADHD. Developers want stability. They had a good thing going with .NET whi
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by pmilot 11y ago
I'm not familiar with the way syntax highlighting and code indentation logic in text editors is implemented, but using regular expressions to try and parse a CFG like the Go programming language seems like a phenomenally bad idea. Mayb
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by pmilot 11y ago
Considering these laws are enacted in order to protect private businesses from unfair practice, it makes perfect sense to me. Of course, whether this particular law is really about fair business practices vs. protecting a monopoly is an e
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by pmilot 11y ago
Right! Longhorn; totally forgot about that and WinFS. Talk about a failed endeavour... WinRT however is definitely not a replacement for Win32. It's way too sandboxy (last time I checked, you couldn't even pull up a list of fonts
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by pmilot 11y ago
I think the difference here is that C# (and the .NET platform) was never meant to completely replace C/C++ Win32 development; it was a higher-level solution for a certain class of Windows applications. I might be wrong, but I thought S
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by pmilot 11y ago
"Wave" might be too strong a word, but I've seen three or four posts on HN in the last few days that were pretty critical of Github's closed source nature and insufficient transparency. I'm not sure why offering a f
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by pmilot 11y ago
Yes, that's sort of the point I'm (badly) trying to get across. I think the product speaks for itself. That said, I may have misinterpreted the tone of the article.
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by pmilot 11y ago
This attempt by the Gitlab folks to ride the Github dissatisfaction wave seems a little low-brow. Why respond to a letter that's not addressed to you? I would have preferred them to simply post an honest "Why you should migrate fr
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by pmilot 11y ago
Compilation speed is a very good argument for Go, yeah. That often seems disregarded in a lot of these sorts of comparisons, but it's a really important factor since it directly affects the level of complexity your language can have.
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by pmilot 11y ago
I like this article and I agree with most of what was said there. Against that type of point-by-point criticism, fans of a language will usually use the argument: "but that language was not designed for that!". Then the question b
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by pmilot 11y ago
I agree that these are two very important skills, but I have yet to see a "Learn to code" endeavour that actually focuses on teaching these skills. Usually, these are more focused on I/O and making the machine output interest
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by pmilot 11y ago
I agree. I feel like there are plenty of other choices to pick from for a beginner's first programming language other than Python. Perhaps SmallBasic ( http://smallbasic.com/ )?

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