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by raquo 8y ago
The difference is that OpenJDK N will stop receiving security fixes the moment OpenJDK (N+1) is released. LTS releases are only LTS for Oracle JDK. So no, OpenJDK by itself is not suitable for production use. To put a Java app in production
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by raquo 8y ago
Healthcare in my limited experience is generally great for life threatening problems. But other, more mundane problems are not solved as well. Try finding a family doctor (GP) in Vancouver, none of them accept new patients. So a lot of peop
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by raquo 8y ago
Even if you launch a startup you have the odds heavily stacked against you making money. That's just the nature of such variable return endeavours and has nothing to do with OSS. In my sibling comments I explained more about disagreein
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by raquo 8y ago
What obligation? That's forced labor. Why should someone be forced to walk away from a project that became popular if there is an option to monetize it to support its growth?
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by raquo 8y ago
Me neither, but telling others that they will have a bad time trying to do the same is either confusing or disingenuous depending on how charitable you want to be. His second comment seems to indicate having regrets in going that way presum
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by raquo 8y ago
> There's nothing wrong with open source as long as you are honest to yourself regarding the intentions. My takeaway from your bullet points is more specific – that you shouldn't bother with open source unless you want to advan
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by raquo 8y ago
If you want to tell everyone else that they should be in OSS just for advancing the state of the art, you might want to reconcile that with SheetJS earning money from non-OSS extensions and consulting services, because that discrepancy cert
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by raquo 8y ago
There's https://easylist.to – might want to start a new list in this format or look for existing ones on github.
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by raquo 8y ago
About the same as I felt about popup ads when it was a thing. Eventually these will be reliably filtered by ad blockers I guess. In more philosophical terms, how am I supposed to feel about profit-optimizing websites that I don't want
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by raquo 8y ago
I can stand behind ideological refusal to travel to the US because of this, but in practical terms for an individual traveller a 0.007% chance is does not qualify as "somewhat frequently".
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by raquo 8y ago
That only works when almost everyone agrees on things you want to ostracize people over. However, unfortunately there are so many idiots that this pretty much only works to divide a society into ideological camps with few negative consequen
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by raquo 8y ago
I'm not sure how that would work in Scala.js without redesigning the library to have an async API, at which point it's not really the same library anyway. The author said that sync API was a major feature of this lib.
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by raquo 8y ago
This has a blocking API which is a no go in single threaded Javascript, so my guess is no
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by raquo 8y ago
His basic argument hinges on incorrect division of devs into Java/OOP crowd and Haskell/FP crowd. There are plenty of Scala users who don't fit these stereotypes though. I personally very much appreciate the unique mix of OOP
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by raquo 8y ago
Amazon are complicit because they sell third party inventory while marketing it as "sold by and shipped from Amazon.com". That's deliberate deception.
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by raquo 8y ago
Not necessarily. The least affordable housing markets tend to be bigger cities. Growing the cities further will not necessarily make housing in those cities more affordable. There's a positive feedback loop between cities being bigger
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by raquo 8y ago
Publishers are not merely "information transfer". They are largely content creators. Whether that content is music or news or something else, it costs money to produce. Using that content without paying for it (with ad impressions
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by raquo 8y ago
I don't see what the technical capabilities have to do with the morality of the issue. You might just as well modify a downloadable binary to neutralize license checking code to avoid paying for the software. Does the fact that you can
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by raquo 8y ago
> the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or a processor not established in the Union should be subject to this Regulation where the processing activities are related to offering goods or ser
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by raquo 8y ago
OTOH - Scope outside of Europe – e.g. if a completely foreign entity that offers a Spanish or French translation of its service could potentially be covered by GDPR, even if they're not marketing to EU markets specifically. Too bad for
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by raquo 8y ago
The "special" part is that it prescribes very specific things in very ambiguous terms. You have to change what you're doing to be compliant, but you don't know how. And for some aspects, no one knows how. And GDPR actu
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by raquo 8y ago
The problem of multiple ambiguities in GDPR hasn't really been addressed here. Also, must be nice to live in a country where the regulator is as benevolent and reasonable as is described in this article. I think it's ok for foreig
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by raquo 8y ago
You can get very far by just containing unsafety. In this example, you shouldn't need to sprinkle `new CardID` calls throughout your whole application. You will only use them when deserializing values from a typeless source (e.g. AJA
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by raquo 8y ago
Because you can still have a "backend" hosted on the user's computer, it just doesn't have to be node.js, could be something more efficient or powerful or whatever is needed.
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by raquo 8y ago
Maybe not-really-ISPs should be made ineligible for certain privileges / rights given to real ISPs. Like not-really-doctors can't do everything that real doctors can (grasping for a better analogy).
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by raquo 8y ago
What hasn't worked: thinking in terms of monads / applicatives / functors / other FP / category theory concepts. I know what those are, but this is just not how I see the world, and forcing myself to think about cod
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by raquo 8y ago
So? Big aircraft cost a lot of money and bring in a lot of money. Projects incur significant cost overruns in literally every industry.
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by raquo 8y ago
That argument doesn't really hold water when applied to aircraft manufacturing. Commercial jets are not indistinguishable commodities, there is a ton of variation in design and mission ideologies (control systems, materials, hub-and-sp
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by raquo 8y ago
I'm just waiting for an electron based web browser.
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by raquo 8y ago
Scala.js is a great, stable, mature tool. Scala is a sharp sword, but it fits your criteria quite well. I'm certainly enjoying Scala.js very much.

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