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by sgift 7y ago
You could always limit it to companies that can show the money which would have been used if there was a limited decline in business. Separate the ones who did indeed behave responsible and were caught by this extraordinary event from those
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by sgift 7y ago
It was a bad rule back then, it is even worse now and it didn't even stand the test of time at Fog Creek (or Glitch, looks like they have renamed themselves), where they had to do it for FogBugz to finally leave Wasabi behind. I could
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by sgift 7y ago
I'm not sure it really is a key aspect, maybe it is a risk. With such a small time difference you can continue - for the most part - as you did before. But there's always the question if what you did before was really a good idea
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by sgift 7y ago
Article 25: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A...
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by sgift 7y ago
What do you mean? The post doesn't contain anything about rust.
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by sgift 7y ago
Things can be legal in specific situations even if it's illegal in others. It's up to courts to decide on that.
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by sgift 7y ago
That's a myth. It teaches you to write code which is easily unit testable. That may be a better architecture than the one you would have used, but often it's just a different architecture, sometimes even markedly worse. I have s
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by sgift 7y ago
I hope that this will be wildly accepted and not end like many other good things with "you know, our code currently 'works' .. why would we invest so much effort to make the compiler happy?"
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by sgift 7y ago
And the data from the US obviously aren't questionable. Yeah, sure ...
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by sgift 7y ago
Aside from what people said about screen readers (which at least makes it a bit better than tables) this is still a bad layout. Here[1] is a revised edition of a book I read in 2006 about this topic how people often just replace all table e
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by sgift 7y ago
> Shorter load times is an attractive argument, Visible shorter loading times are not the main effect. Cernys talk was enlightening. A big part of level design is making sure that the player doesn't move so fast that the hardware ca
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by sgift 7y ago
The majority owner of the company said it is the case and the German government said they are discussing counter measures. This tweet is damage control and tries to use a bit of weasel wording to make it look better: There never was a forma
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by sgift 7y ago
> Noone is even trying to make decisions for Europe... Of course people are. The EU commission works on it, countries talk to each other. Is there a fully coordinated EU response yet? No. Is there cooperation? Yes.
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by sgift 7y ago
The headline is fine. Reading it in the spirit of "the museum is defrauding people and we found out about it" is extremely uncharitable and nitpicky.
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by sgift 7y ago
Yes, it does. Otherwise professional liability insurance wouldn't be a thing.
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by sgift 7y ago
Same with Google Glass. Failed as a consumer product, but companies used it and Google has now relaunched it as a product aimed at business users: https://www.google.com/glass/start/
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by sgift 7y ago
The various results for "atheists removed from AA" or "atheists kicked out of AA" on Google tell me AA works with the personal god version, not the others ones.
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by sgift 7y ago
There's also a big difference between "x works very bad for the untrained population, but let's pretend it doesn't, because my worldview demands some media conspiracy" and "x works well".
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by sgift 7y ago
No cashless needed: Print money -> rise inflation higher than interest -> interest rate negative
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by sgift 7y ago
> I get that it's difficult to work out if the domain is going to be used for a legit purpose, but surely that's easier to do at the point of registration than it is to police afterwards? How could it be easier? I could always
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by sgift 7y ago
If you don't care about the else case you can use if let: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/flow_control/if_le...
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by sgift 7y ago
You seem to forget all the cases in Java where you didn't expect null to happen, but for some reason something was null and you get a NPE. Sure, if you check all values for null already the difference to now is not very big, but no o
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by sgift 7y ago
> Also, US doctors usually prefer to not get cancer treatment when interviewed, since they know "how the sausage is made." I would like to ask for a source please. Maybe they don't want cancer treatment in very special cir
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by sgift 7y ago
Because people loosing their livelihood is a 'first world problem' and not one of a series of important problems? Or because it's in Germany and not somewhere more 'relevant'? I try to find a charitable reading of y
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by sgift 7y ago
> But microservices are an example of simpler systems. Each microservice does far less than the whole monolith does. You can read all the code in ~15 minutes. Microservice usually means distributed system. A distributed system is more co
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by sgift 7y ago
Perfect example for survivorship bias. To live in a retirement community you have to have money. So, when you work in a retirement community you see retired people who have money. What you don't see are all the people who made the same
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by sgift 7y ago
> but Java garbage collections at this size can often take 10 seconds or more to complete on modern hardware. For heaps of this size you can use Shenandoah GC and you get pauses well below 100ms. Your post is a perfect example of the typ
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by sgift 7y ago
> Regarding the fact that the public deserves to know, I disagree. The public can act completely irrationally against its own interests under FUD (I guess we have some recent examples from the UK and the US), and in a lot of cases, they
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by sgift 7y ago
> (...) but at some point you may find that your application has grown and your SQL server is running into IOPS and CPU limits that are difficult to fix. It's not unique to SQL/databases that at some point your user base may ou
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by sgift 7y ago
Google, Facebook, ... every time we talk about these things the US position seems to be Germans are privacy nuts. It shouldn't be surprising that we think people in the US don't see privacy invasions as a serious problem / ac

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