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by pnako 7y ago
No bullying in this video. Bullying is targeting an individual repeatedly and for petty reasons. Gates telling what I assume are senior managers to shove bad ideas is not bullying; that's how management is supposed to work.
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by pnako 7y ago
Yes. I was contesting your point about the world making Australia transition. Right now they're buying more of it. Now, you can try to run on a platform of banning those exports, but it's a tough sell because it affects the revenu
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by pnako 7y ago
It depends what you mean by better. Obviously, real-time trading systems are going to be optimized to reduce latency, since it directly correlates with profits. One way to do that is to completely bypass certain abstraction layers, use poll
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by pnako 7y ago
The world will stop buying Australian coal? China is still building plenty of coal power plants.
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by pnako 7y ago
Australia is about 1% of global CO2 emissions. I'm not arguing for being careless, of course, but either way it's not going to change much.
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by pnako 7y ago
Indigenous Australians used to start big fires, so it's quite possible they've seen a few bad ones too.
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by pnako 7y ago
In the cloud no one can hear you violate the GPL.
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by pnako 7y ago
So if I understand correctly, you end up with some sort of binary, that you can run on top of some system that abstracts away the hardware and manages resources, correct?
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by pnako 7y ago
Which one of his passports did they keep though?
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by pnako 7y ago
This tweet in particular is hilarious: https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/11658589377003110...
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by pnako 7y ago
Stealing is taking someone else's property without due permission. That applies to intellectual property, it doesn't have to be physical. Now you can use the stupid libertarian argument that you're just "moving bits arou
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by pnako 7y ago
I'm starting to wonder if there is market to do "technology laundering", use things like PostgreSQL, SQLite, standard Unix tools, put it under some cloud marketing and charge a x10 premium. Or perhaps not only there is market
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by pnako 7y ago
Nitpicking a bit, but a format that is still used ~90% of the time is not obsolete. Not optimal (anymore) is what you meant, I think.
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by pnako 7y ago
It's increasingly a single platform called Chromium.
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by pnako 7y ago
i.e. "maybe do it anywhere else than in Python"
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by pnako 7y ago
I'm a casual Python programmer (just bit of scripting) and I had no particular misconception about the GIL; I don't care because I write single-threaded cookie cutter scripts. Your example I think is demonstrating the opposite of
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by pnako 7y ago
I've seen state-of-the-art low-latency trading software written in C# or Java. You should not be doing any memory allocation in the critical path anyway, so garbage collection is hardly a relevant factor.
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by pnako 7y ago
It looks like a bunch of teenagers jumping someone. They don't look or behave like professional security agents. The bad chokehold one of them was attempting is actually banned from many police forces.
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by pnako 7y ago
There is an open source clone of Paint.net called Pinta, based on the original source code of Paint.net. It's not actively developed anymore, though.
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by pnako 7y ago
The game industry has a completely different way of working compared to other tech fields. Most of their practices seem old fashioned, or anti-patterns, etc. if you look at them from an outside point of view. But they're trying to do s
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by pnako 7y ago
It's a very effective form of distributed / peer to peer lock in. Even if you individually (yourself or your company) would be willing to move to some decent alternative (they do exist), you will still be exchanging files with peo
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by pnako 7y ago
In Europe we have Coca Cola, Pepsi, Facebook and Google without having half of their staff working and living there. This is the traditional way of doing business: we put stuff on big ships and send them in other countries. You're argu
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by pnako 7y ago
The best way to export talent is to export the product of talent. That's what Germans do when they export their cars. They don't send German graduates all over the world; they build cars in Germany and export them. India can do th
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by pnako 7y ago
I think you're attacking a straw man here. Chinese and Indian people can certainly compete with European people, and they do it everyday. But they can do it from China and India.
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by pnako 7y ago
Why not let those people live in their countries with their families, friends, cultures and traditions, and simply import the amazing software they're going to write? The idea that the we need to concentrate the best people in a few ci
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by pnako 7y ago
> If Airbus wants to hire 300 software engineers, good luck finding them in reasonable time periods in Germany or France. Are you serious? Countries with traditions of engineering going back centuries, with some of the best schools in th
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by pnako 7y ago
How much data do your "data pipeline apps" process with Kafka, Kubernetes and probably other K-named things?
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by pnako 7y ago
British government: "Please think of the children!" Also British government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit... Pardon me for not trusting them too much.
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by pnako 7y ago
Time will tell. At the moment I'm not convinced. Rust is a marginal improvement which is not worth the trade-offs in terms of immaturity, lack of libraries, books, standardization, etc. It might end up just like D. Or it might actually
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by pnako 7y ago
To start with, it would be called a tweet and not an essay.

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