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by rualca 5y ago
> a company is maxing their sells, don't you think they will raise the price? I said nothing about price. It is irrelevant. I shopped for a product and that particular company had exactly what I want, and they offer it in a way that
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by rualca 5y ago
> The price would regulate itself by offer/demand balance and you would still be able to buy it if you can afford it. No, not really. I shopped around. I picked the best for me. I want to buy from that company but it is already at y
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by rualca 5y ago
> What would be worse in that situation? It would be by far worse to not have Amazon, or dump their market share to shady chinese competitors like ali express.
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by rualca 5y ago
> Secondly, that isn’t what sellers want. Many sellers use Amazon to fulfill their orders. Amazon is far more than just a “market stall”. This. Amazon is basically a huge logistics network. Their business is not selling you products, whe
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by rualca 5y ago
> We should not allow a company to have a share over around 10% of any market. If a company was already at said 10% limit and you wanted to buy something out of them because to you their offer is by far so much better than any of the alt
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by rualca 5y ago
> (...) shared_ptr, which I believe is not a construct that should be in C++ or any other language. What's your rationale for that assertion?
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by rualca 5y ago
> (...) dynamic linking burdens distro maintainers with hundreds of additional packages which need to be individually tracked, tested and updated. To me this assertion makes no sense at all, because the whole point of a distro is to bund
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by rualca 5y ago
> But it doesn't matter at all when a new release introduces a bug that breaks my app. I fail to see the relevance of your case. Semantic versioning and shared libraries is a solution to the problem of shipping bugfixes by updating
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by rualca 5y ago
> You solve two unrelated problems (tracking library dependencies and security patching) with one complex interdependent solution (...) Linking to a library is not what I would describe as "complex", or have any meaningful chal
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by rualca 5y ago
> Like I complain about in a comment below, the cost of shared libraries is that an upgrade is all-or-nothing. It really isn't. At all. For example, let's take a notoriously egregious example of C++, which doesn't really h
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by rualca 5y ago
> (...) while the "couple of libraries that nobody else used. Literally nobody" should obviously be statically linked. I disagree. The main value proposition of shared libraries is being able to upgrade them without requiring t
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by rualca 5y ago
Please tell me you forgot to add a sarcasm tag.
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by rualca 5y ago
Spatial resolutions higher than 50cm has been a thing for civilian earth observation companies for a couple of decades. There are civilian companies who even provide products with a 25 cm spatial resolution for about a decade now. In fact,
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by rualca 5y ago
> I just use package.json scripts as entrypoints to custom JS scripts. Call me naive but I always thought that was the standard way to use the script support for package.json. One-liners could go directly in package.json, but from thereo
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by rualca 5y ago
> Or even just frequent backups. A coworker of mine used to copy the entire on-disk repository including the .git directory before doing anything slightly unusual in git. To recover from commit screwups, it should be enough to just expor
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by rualca 5y ago
> Sure, then you have option 3: Put a "setup-git.sh" script in your repo, and have the README tell users to run that to set things up. This is pretty good advice. If projects expect onboarders to run one-time scripts to install
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by rualca 5y ago
> If you want central authority, isn't it the job of CI? You can't fault a tool for not providing a centralized authority when it's very central design principle is being decentralized.
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by rualca 6y ago
Java's punishing startup times is not a red herring, and I'm dumbfounded someone in a forum like HN makes such a claim. Even in serverless applications like AWS Lambda, python and javascript enjoy execution times that are an order
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by rualca 6y ago
I use mostly UML. Component diagrams and deployment diagrams for the general overview, architecture and operations-wise. Communication diagrams for some workflows. Sequence diagrams to show how operations are executed. For onboarding, somet
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by rualca 6y ago
> You’re quoting random opinions that don’t pertain to what we were debating. I've quoted the Kerala COVID task force representative discussing details of India's covid ongoing massive COVID outbreak. I'm not going to cont
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by rualca 6y ago
> Your own BBC link only talks about cases increasing only in a few states at that time. From the article: > Mr Menon says the only reasonable conclusion is that surveillance in these states is stronger and that a similar rise in othe
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by rualca 6y ago
> (...) The timeline you’re referring to is aligned with what I said - that India was regarded to have managed the pandemic well just a month or two ago. Please don't try to gaslight. I've refuted your baseless assertion that e
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by rualca 6y ago
> Feels very empty when there are so many current humanitarian crises (...) I really don't understand this sort of goalpost-moving. This formal recognition of the Armenian genocide, which goes against the interests of a major NATO a
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by rualca 6y ago
> It turns out that whatever limitations there are to that approach hardly matter in practice (...) How do you know if you do not learn about parsers? Do you see where I am going with this? It's absurd to claim that parsers are not
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by rualca 6y ago
> Outdoor transmission is incredibly rare. No, not really. Transmission rates while outdoors are only low if you comply with requirements such as ensuring you always stay at least 2 meters away from everyone and don't interact with
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by rualca 6y ago
> Only a month or two ago, India was in a great position with respect to COVID and was regarded as having successfully managed the pandemic. No, not really. The surge in covid-19 cases has been ongoing since late Feb/early March 202
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by rualca 6y ago
> It realy isn't. Also, it's the most trivial part of parsing a programming language (in a compiler). No,not really. I mean, think about it for a second: while you cannot get a compiler out of the door withot a parser, you can
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by rualca 6y ago
> Wirth already settled that question (of both structuring the language and performance) with recursive descent over thirty years ago. "Recursive descent" is a whole class of parsing algorithms. Claiming that recursive descent
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by rualca 6y ago
> Additionally, the vast majority of compiler books and resources spend too much time on the easiest part of compiling: parsing. I disagree. Parsing is the single most important feature of building a programming language. It influences h
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by rualca 6y ago
> A lot of them will magically go away, is the thing. No, they really don't. Someone's schizophrenia doesn't magically vanish if you get your own two-bedroom apartment, nor does your heroin addiction magically vanish if yo

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