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901.
by repolfx 8y ago
It does explain, but unfortunately the justification itself is light: > "despite numerous independent studies that show companies with women on their board are more profitable and productive" The scourge of biased 'socia
902.
by repolfx 8y ago
He didn't say that though, and it wasn't a complex sentence. Logically speaking it's the other way around. People who are for this law are sexists (they want discrimination on the basis of sex) and the people against it are t
903.
by repolfx 8y ago
How is it different to a decent comment system? Isn't HN in a sense, a (semi) decentralised information verification system? I often find comments under the story that show how a story is false, omitting important info or is otherwise
904.
by repolfx 8y ago
A lot of information is verifiable, it's just people don't do it. You're right that it's often because they want to believe. Read any story that involves Russia and spend a few minutes doing fact checking. Or check back
905.
by repolfx 8y ago
Yes, I've seen that problem before when working with journalists on stories. The journalist themselves understood the issue was somewhat grey, and the editor mangled what they produced to be much more biased. I don't think it&#x27
906.
by repolfx 8y ago
Well, in the UK TV news is supposed to be politically unbiased and neutral by law. It's not and the stations all have quite strong biases, it's not so obviously about specific parties but rather specific issues that journalists ha
907.
by repolfx 8y ago
What makes Facebook "addictive mental candy" other than you not personally liking it? I know lots of people who feel they get and have got tremendous practical benefit from Facebook. It isn't "addictive" unless you
908.
by repolfx 8y ago
Really? Where can I read about this? What I recall is that Jobs tasked Apple to create a phone and had a bake-off between the iPod guy (Tony something) and Federighi, and the iPod side of the firm created a device with a click wheel, Federi
909.
by repolfx 8y ago
They aren't only misrepresenting Reges in these essays. Some of the things these women finger as "holding them back" are actually (fairly predictable) problems with their own behaviour. I see no rational argument for why men
910.
by repolfx 8y ago
Yes but my point is (and I do think their branding is dumb here), there's no difference between Oracle JDK and OpenJDK anymore except the name. Simple rule: if it has "Oracle" in the front now, you have to pay to use it in pr
911.
by repolfx 8y ago
What happens when a company steps up and says, "we now offer commercial support for Golang"? Do you suddenly apply the same rationale because someone might download their commercial version of Go by accident?
912.
by repolfx 8y ago
Oracle JDK has never been "packagable" in that way. Some people did it anyway or they hard-coded cookies into scripts and things, but those scripts and packages are all for fixed versions anyway. Linux distros do it right and ship
913.
by repolfx 8y ago
Lots of people are so confused by all this. From Java 11 onwards the "Oracle JVM" is exactly the same as the "OpenJDK JVM". The only difference is that one has the Oracle name on it and if you buy it, has long term comme
914.
by repolfx 8y ago
Sure, but if you look carefully most static analysis engines are developed by industry not academia because they're collections of heuristics that tend to work in practice rather than lots of clever-as-possible sounding theory. But Hoa
915.
by repolfx 8y ago
They have been communicating the changes in how OpenJDK and Oracle JDK work for a year now, through many public talks, announcements, blog posts and so on. Moreover the changes are good for the community. OpenJDK is now the reference impl
916.
by repolfx 8y ago
Unsafe wasn't removed, just a few methods on it.
917.
by repolfx 8y ago
The situation is confusing but not that confusing. Java 8 has commercial features that are locked by default. You can unlock them by passing a command line flag that looks like -XX:+UnlockCommercialFeatures, so pretty hard to miss. If you u
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by repolfx 8y ago
You'd have to update the URL anyway because the v8 JDK hasn't changed, from what I remember. So those scripts wouldn't be affected.
919.
by repolfx 8y ago
Hmmm. At most you're mad because the bright yellow warning box that tells you specifically to re-read the license because it changed is not clear enough for you, even though apparently being sure about exactly that is your job. I&#
920.
by repolfx 8y ago
Not as far as I'm aware. A few firms do compete in the market for job candidates by adopting unusual languages that correlate well with passionate / mathematically inclined developers, but it's not really about the tech itsel
921.
by repolfx 8y ago
I think the corporate world is still learning how to do effective research. Too many companies think that doing research means replicating a tiny university within their own walls. I'm not saying industry always gets it more right than
922.
by repolfx 8y ago
Yes, in a sense. But the reason they're expensive is they don't work very well and prove only trivial things. Try using any imperative language with integrated proof predicates like Dafny, Whiley, etc. You'll immediately noti
923.
by repolfx 8y ago
Resource allocation is a zero sum game. If taxes are being levied to pay for a vast intellectual class living in ivory towers, that's less funding available to pay for industrial research. Academia love to claim that practical applicat
924.
by repolfx 8y ago
Like I said, you have to be careful with recent GDP figures because Q1 is always revised upwards - there's some repetitive statistical flaw in the way the ONS calculates these things, it's always the same problem. It's possib
925.
by repolfx 8y ago
I used to believe that was true, but recently I read that even in the hardware space formal methods have limited application - like software, they're usually used only on very specific sub-parts like MESI protocols. But it's not t
926.
by repolfx 8y ago
Hmm. The paper argues that a predicted software crisis caused by unreliability didn't materialise, and software became tremendously more reliable, despite industry essentially ignoring decades of research into formal methods and proof
927.
by repolfx 8y ago
You lost thousands of pounds already? How did you manage that? The UK economy has grown strongly since the vote. If you look at the GDP data you'll see there's hardly any difference in the last few years: https://tradin
928.
by repolfx 8y ago
Maybe. But that's supposition today.
929.
by repolfx 8y ago
rleigh isn't arguing that the Euro makes it easier to migrate, which is what you seem to be getting at. He's arguing that, essentially, countries like Italy, Spain, Greece etc cannot reform their cultures and without the Euro woul
930.
by repolfx 8y ago
The pound hasn't collapsed, that's why. Look at a graph of GBPUSD. The pound spent all of 2017 increasing in value, and you'll see that by the start of 2018 the pound had erased the entire drop that followed the EU referendu

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