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by scoutt 6y ago
I spent some time in Singapore. A thing I noticed is that if you stay long enough after dinner, you can see a lot of buses loading people in the city alleys and then slowly moving out from the city. When I asked I was told that these are mo
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by scoutt 6y ago
Let's says it's the half after taxes: 1.25M. Spending 3424 a day for 365 days should get you there. You have to realize it's our fault to not understand these poor people.
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by scoutt 6y ago
Absolutely. I build Android images (AOSP/kernel/lk customization) and at the beginning I was using Eclipse over a shared network folder (I have dedicated remote hardware to host and build these monstrous images), but everything
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by scoutt 6y ago
Can two windows overlap? Or are they just opened full-screen or inside a tile side-by-side? If not, then I don't like that very much. For example the calculator: I don't want it to take 1/3 or 1/4 of the screen. It'
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by scoutt 6y ago
I wonder what would happen if the author shows this article to PayPal (if not done already), showing that also Facebook confirmed the scam and Google taking down the app.
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by scoutt 6y ago
I love it! Thank you.
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by scoutt 6y ago
"...perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away..." - Antoine de Saint Exupéry Also "Perfect is the enemy of good" - Voltaire Not a li
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by scoutt 6y ago
It's nice but one cannot always teach people to be smarter. You can distribute knowledge, but that's a different thing.
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by scoutt 6y ago
I mostly agree, but one disappointment with the 1984 movie I remember were the Sardaukar suits. Seemed rushed and not fear-inducing as they should be.
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by scoutt 6y ago
I another 15 or 20 years you might want to see the content again. I hope you saved it somewhere.
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by scoutt 6y ago
> because apparently a computer system couldn’t handle the complexity of the physics of space travel IIRC there is a reason for that: most computer systems were destroyed and their use, banned.
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by scoutt 6y ago
I think the snippet is part of the example code for Mutex. Here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/struct.Mutex.html After "It is sometimes necessary to manually drop the mutex..."
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by scoutt 6y ago
I love the intention and the motivation behind the reasons they choose to define new syntax, but in what syntax regards, I tend to prefer less, not more. To me, things aren't clearer by adding more text or context. "...perfection
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by scoutt 6y ago
> Rust looks like C I program in C for a living, and no, Rust doesn't look like C. In fact, one of the things that keeps me away from learning Rust is that it is so complicated in terms of syntax. Today I was reading this HN entry (
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by scoutt 6y ago
> OOP doesn't have formal foundations For a person trying to decide if they should learn OOP or not, I believe the above statement (along with the entire comment) is exactly what parent comment is talking about. A "noob's&
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by scoutt 6y ago
I guess If I were to develop an app (free but with ads) for the browser then I would be worried about ads blockers, that doesn't work if my app is a native app.
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by scoutt 6y ago
> We want our driver a bit smarter than that; it should first check whether it's possible to write the bytes directly. In other words, we want to ensure that every 1 in our intended write is also a 1 in the target space. Is this sta
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by scoutt 6y ago
The more I think about it, the more I think the search engine problem has no (currently known) solution. The options are: 1) Word-based crawling/indexing: quickly abused by spammers. 2) IA/ML-based: I think this is the current mod
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by scoutt 6y ago
> everyone will instantly do it With the current state of software development, I'd wait at least a year, like when a new Windows version comes out (or less in case of iPhone iOS). I don't like to beta-test with my HW; I wouldn
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by scoutt 6y ago
> Why can't a chat platform be a product? It can be a product, but I guess it will have the same fate as Web Browsers. Who buys a browser product nowadays? Web-browsing is a feature. > team communication package A.k.a chat progra
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by scoutt 6y ago
I completely agree with you, but I wanted to say they shouldn't have been so cocky back in 2016, just to go from "Slack is here to stay" to "mommy I am losing market share".
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by scoutt 6y ago
Of course IANAL, but I wonder if that letter can be used in court. "We ... know you’ll be a worthy competitor." Yeah, until we sue you...
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by scoutt 6y ago
I think that to succeed in your business you should poll on management, because I think every developer on earth would roll eyes (and probably hate you) when proposed insistently * into participating on giving such feedback by some wanky m
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by scoutt 6y ago
My mood would definitely drop if I have to answer questions about my mood while I am coding. I see this tool as more corporate-jerkery oriented instead of helping to be more productive. And I can't stop thinking this HN entry was kin
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by scoutt 6y ago
If you made the claim then the burden of proof is on you. The thing I was talking about is that I can automatically win the fight by asking you to provide a link. Edit to add: a link that I know for sure you won't be able (or will be
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by scoutt 6y ago
> providing links ... when called out People got so used to seeing links up to the point a fight might end in a "URL request": you have to sustain your claims by bringing a link to the discussion, and if you fail to do so, yo
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by scoutt 6y ago
Are 1/3 of children showing symptoms? That's terrible. Edit: Sorry. I misintepreted parent comment.
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by scoutt 6y ago
Correct. I wanted to say "pass an integer over HTTP (SOAP, for example)". An XML to pass some value, all over HTTP, ~20 years ago.
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by scoutt 6y ago
It can't search for exact strings. Double quotes don't work.
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by scoutt 6y ago
You might see the Homer Simpson Car[0] and call it evolution too. But what I see is a mess, described as a sequence of hacks and bad decisions, just like HTML (and web stuff) today. [0] https://www.wired.com/2014/07&#x2

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