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by ralfn 12y ago
>So, we are left with the lack of generics and the lack of expressivity. I'm not deep enough in the weeds to be able to argue pro/con for generics intelligently right now, so I will concede that as a concern that has been raise
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by ralfn 12y ago
CSS animations are not faster perse, but they are compatible with less browsers and any programmatic animation (where the actual animation is configured based on dynamic inputs) would only get more complicated than just keeping everything i
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by ralfn 12y ago
A long time ago i also wrote a maze generator. It's helpfull to understand the algebra of (fully accessible) mazes: 1. Every wall may intersect with some other wall at most once. (this includes the outer wall) With the above rule in mi
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by ralfn 12y ago
The mandatory garbage collection by default in Go would be a good example of a trade-off they make differently. A rust programmer must be aware of the complexity of memory management. Although they are not forced to use all of it it, the st
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by ralfn 12y ago
I think some people refer to "Systems language" as a language you would write services and back-end code in, like Java, rather than than a language you would use to write a kernel driver or a render engine, like C. It confused me
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by ralfn 12y ago
I live in a 1st world country (northern-europe) and nobody i know owns a credit card. Everybody considers them expensive, unsafe and just plain evil. You pay with money you have and you pay a fixed price per month for the service -- no tran
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by ralfn 12y ago
I doubt Safari would be foolish enough to not just redirect to google based on your DNS server telling them the domain does not exist. That would mean locally configured domains wouldn't work. Check your DNS settings please, before mak
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by ralfn 12y ago
It wasn't about his personal belief. He actively donated. He picked a side in what is still an ongoing globalized war for human rights. Secondly, freedom of speech does not entail freedom of societal consequences of speech. It just mea
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by ralfn 12y ago
I don't blame them, but the sector is much bigger than just the identity-players.
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by ralfn 12y ago
I'm going to drown in downvotes likely, because this will go against popular opinion. But i have to speak out about this nonsense: most adserving scripts aren't violating your privacy! People keep confusing the adserving/reta
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by ralfn 13y ago
- Google Web Designer is a desktop application and you can't run it on linux. - Google Web Designer is free to use, this costs money structurally. - This offers integrated hosting, Google Web Designer does not. So, for creative types,
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by ralfn 13y ago
When it becomes impossible to distinguish computer intelligence from human intelligence, do we really want to stop the computers from commenting? If a computer algorithm can create a more informed relevant comment than a person, maybe i wou
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by ralfn 13y ago
No! You are likely confusing it with best-first-search. A* is an implementation of best-first-search, not breadth-first-search. Breadth-first-search does not prune a search space; it just sorts the search space based on depth. It also assum
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by ralfn 13y ago
Let's assume, she is an ambitious person that will work for whoever is paying her. Wouldn't it make more sense, that they hired her because they want her to lobby against the NSA? Who would be better qualified to get some results
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by ralfn 13y ago
Wait .. are war-criminals now an oppressed minority? Not that i'm convinced she is a war-criminal, but it's not an easily refutable position, is it?. On the other hand. It stands to reason Dropbox wants a well connected politician
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by ralfn 13y ago
>If you can convince me that your service will reliably mail me on incidents no matter what catastrophe happens to your data center You do realize that it would take years to even establish a significant baseline against a simple VPS on
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by ralfn 13y ago
>You do realize that 600 dollars a year is next to nothing for a business? I get that. But at that price point, there are similar solutions available with much more coverage and features. This isn't actually competing with DataDog,
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by ralfn 13y ago
Doesn't it do push notifications on iOS?
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by ralfn 13y ago
Nice branding. Most monitoring tools are overly complicated, both in their features as well the use-cases they try to cover. I like the clear focus of this; the product itself doesn't require one to invest a lot of time, which is a goo
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by ralfn 13y ago
>By your definition, the right to own firearms is also a human right as defined by the US constitution. Similarly, in the United States there is a human right to free speech Yes. At the very least, those are rights, that supercede your d
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by ralfn 13y ago
>2008 it may have been a serious political question in California and the United States as a whole Mozilla operates in a much larger space though. Holland says hi! >That's why saying it's "obviously wrong" or &quo
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by ralfn 13y ago
They are popular in old cities in Holland. It's not so much that people prefer riding a bike in Holland to riding a car in Australia, with its _wide roads_. They prefer a 5 minute bike ride to a 30 minute hellish experience equal in co
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by ralfn 13y ago
>I had a bike impounded twice for parking it in a wrong place around the Zuid station I'm pretty sure there are signs everywhere in Zuid station that should place your bike in the freely provided bike parking lots. If they would all
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by ralfn 13y ago
As a dutch person, i want to correct some of the arguments made. Bikes are popular in _old cities_, and _with kids_, but adults living in suburbia will drive and use a car for everything, just like an american in sururbia would. In old citi
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by ralfn 13y ago
Its an inferior filesystem (a data layout convention, nothing more) that Android supports to be compatible with windows systems. Imagine BMW patenting the shape of the hole you use to fuel your car, and then sending invoices to every fuel s
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by ralfn 13y ago
The cash is still doing that. Its not like its profitable. But it could have been, Ballmer just does the same dumb thing over and over again. He attacks a competitor and tries to poison the profitability in a market, with no plan or intent
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by ralfn 13y ago
They bought Kinect. And if Office is the cash cow, why are its limitations then defined by other Microsofts interest? Apple and iOS isnt really comparable because the integration between the two is possible only because they are both from t
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by ralfn 13y ago
It is not arbituary, but it is mostly subjective. For example, here in Holland, an appearantly unjust country, you can not fire someone without cause after they've worked a steady year for you, in most but not all cases. This rule is the re
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by ralfn 13y ago
Come on. Is your exchange, that resulted in a ban, not very typical for an IRC? I get that you feel insulted. You should. And you can call me names if you want to. But on bugzilla you are representing a project, an organisation and a missio
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by ralfn 13y ago
>However, we live in an imperfect world and the career disruptions that can ensue from a devotion to TCH reduce people's quality of life in no uncertain terms. THC does not, in the majority of cases, reduce somebody's quality of life. M

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