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by repolfx 7y ago
How is it a strawman? It's not even a hypothetical, has everyone forgotten already the constant dramas from the era in which Steve Jobs insisted iPhone apps would be banned if they weren't of "very good quality" or whate
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by repolfx 7y ago
Very, very likely it's still secretly pegged. CHF:EUR is extremely stable although not much that was driving its appreciation fundamentally changed .
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by repolfx 7y ago
Namely they like to print money So does the EU though. This doesn't seem like an especially great plus point for the Euro, given the QE (money printing) on a truly vast scale carried out by Mario "whatever it takes to save the e
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by repolfx 7y ago
They can inflate their currencies just by printing more of it. Currently that sort of quantitive easing is restricted to the specific country that does it. A future African Union would make the EU look like a pillar of stability in comparis
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by repolfx 7y ago
Did you get explicit feedback stating those reasons? Usually when a job candidate is not selected they aren't given any information about why.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Do they get along just fine? My experience of quite a lot of jobs has been that people, even managers, struggle to articulate what exactly they do, let alone what is required to do it well. If you can't clearly articulate that it'
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by repolfx 7y ago
No, that's not how online ads work or why Google makes money. Recall that AdWords is a money tree because online advertising by and large does not work but targeted search ads - emphasis on targeted - do. But targeted to what? They o
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by repolfx 7y ago
What's wrong with "fanning the flames of anti-journalist sentiment" exactly? If journalists aren't meeting the basic requirements society has of them, shouldn't there correctly be such sentiment? How else would jour
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by repolfx 7y ago
I think a lot of these people go to Haskell direct from scripting language backgrounds, and thus have little experience of static type systems before that. You can see the same thing with Go: it's very apparent a lot of programmers pra
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by repolfx 7y ago
They don't usually. You can put the key in DNS and then use regular DNS names.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Firstly, the theory in question is so vague it's hard to say what they are really claiming. But secondly and more importantly, even if what you say is true, the theory is still total nonsense! Where is the evidence for any of this? W
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by repolfx 7y ago
I really hate this stuff. The article starts out with a paragraph of complete nonsense: "When you ask experts how bots influence politics—that is, what specifically these bits of computer code that purport to be human can accomplish d
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by repolfx 7y ago
You're not answering the question, you're just asserting someone will figure the answer out later and this is totally fine, even though it may not be fine for the person who thought they were doing things right and then suddenly d
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by repolfx 7y ago
I took a quick look at the structure of the WRK and ReactOS, as the MS developer suggested. I can see what he means. The first thing we observe is that the directory structure is basically identical. Yes, NT kernel subsystems are identified
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by repolfx 7y ago
Yes, I know, Tim Sweeney has also got an interest in PL theory. Nonetheless, that was in 2013, it's now 2019, video games are still written in C++ and not any FP language. FP has been "the future" for as long as I've bee
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by repolfx 7y ago
That's easy. All Java threads regularly pass through "safe points" where the runtime can choose to suspend them. Think about garbage collection - the runtime must be able to reliably and regularly pause threads so their stack
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by repolfx 7y ago
Almost all of Kotlin's coroutines support is also in a library. The stuff that comes from the compiler is really the smallest possible slice, required because there is syntax for it.
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by repolfx 7y ago
You can do that via reflection and other tactics, yes. You'd better do it with an interface and a cast, as of course "fromString" may not exist. I also wouldn't use this pattern but, it is possible, and Kotlin is an OOP
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by repolfx 7y ago
Software engineering is clearly engineering. The main difference is simply that in the software world, engineers often report directly to people who aren't engineers. This basically never happens in other fields - e.g. all buildings, t
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by repolfx 7y ago
The domain is different, indeed. Refuelling a nuclear aircraft carrier may be a complex operation but it's one for which the plan was already developed quite some time ago. To compare to software development is missing the point. Build
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by repolfx 7y ago
OOP contains in-place mutable state because mutating state is extremely important in basically all computer systems . FP has become fashionable in recent years and now it's gone to people's heads. But some difficult facts about c
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by repolfx 7y ago
Fragile base classes only affect C++. That's not inherent to OOP. Java solved it completely. Inheritance gets ragged on a lot these days, but frankly I see it all the time in most mature, production codebases and it's usually used
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by repolfx 7y ago
You can do that sort of thing in Kotlin, which is an OOP (well, multi-paradigm) language: inline fun <reified T> String.fromString(): T { return when { T::class == String::class -> this T::clas
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by repolfx 7y ago
The Haskell community is full of terrible culture, things like badly designed libraries that assume the type signatures are the same thing as documentation, or ridiculous constructs designed to seem clever or work around the various straitj
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by repolfx 7y ago
Game engines tend to model real life and they are usually very OOP.
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by repolfx 7y ago
For (4) do you know of where else to look? Is there a board with a Pi-like price that does support trusted boot, or some sort of TPM-like remote attestation?
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by repolfx 7y ago
Yes I know. But Max Hastings is a former editor.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Maybe I should have said "cannot be done reliably". Even a very inaccurate and bad estimation process will yield correct estimates at least occasionally - stopped clocks and all that. But estimate-driven budget allocation is hardl
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by repolfx 7y ago
The issue is simply that accurate estimation cannot be done for complex projects, yet people who aren't engineers and especially politicians cannot psychologically accept this, so insist on setting fixed size budgets (which then inev
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by repolfx 7y ago
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