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by simula67 9y ago
We may need segregation based on gender at the work place
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IMO, when discussion shifts to the squabbling over semantics, it has degenerated. The free market question is whether the market can force producers to provide consumers with good quality information > The requirement for consumers havin
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Or open source drivers
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> According to the change-of-control term, 9.1 in the agreement, Mozilla has the right to leave the partnership if — under its sole discretion and in a certain time period — it did not deem the new partner acceptable. And if it did that,
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by simula67 9y ago
> Reality is heavily biased to the left, or at least certainly the USA's version of the left (which is really more centralist). From what I can see, it is not. > It should tell you something when institutions inhabited by some of
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by simula67 9y ago
I think Go has mandatory garbage collection. I think you can turn it off, but you can't manually manage memory. Manually managing memory is important when you are writing real-time software like operating systems. You don't want t
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by simula67 9y ago
The term 'You are the product' carries heavier connotation than 'just the mind'. Also in the case of Google it serves a brief span of your attention to advertisers. They are not engaged in selling minds, wholesale or in
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by simula67 9y ago
You are not the product, your attention is the product. Companines like Google are not engaged in human trafficking. Similar problems can be seen in management : thinking of human beings as resources. Human beings are not resources, their
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by simula67 9y ago
Wishing my friends Happy Birthday on Facebook, with Birthday Buddy : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/birthday-buddy/cil...
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> There is yet another example of "Worse is Better" in how Linux had PCMCIA support several years before FreeBSD/NetBSD. However, if you ejected a PCMCiA card in a Linux system, there was a chance (in practice it worked o
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Why is this getting down voted ?
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> For instance share buybacks, dividends, mergers and acquisitions, companies can pay back capital Where will the money for all of this come from ? Why the comparison to real estate ? Is your argument that assets held by Amazon will appr
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Curb the Use of Overseas Tax Havens(nytimes.com)
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by simula67 10y ago
I flagged this story and comments like this is why. If you want to argue the pros and cons of a government policy, do so. Reading accusations of astroturfing etc is not intellectually gratifying.
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These type of comments are useless to anyone who does not already agree with you. Point out how. Include examples and data
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I have worked at organizations that followed TBD and git-flow. TBD is much better for software that is delivered to the end user as a package ( not as a SaaS ), ones that does not require a staging branch > Why are the alternatives infer
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> it will maintain profitability in 2017 before interest, taxes and amortization Because those aren't real expenses ?
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I used to use Firefox, but now I use Chrome. This means I can't use DownThemAll. I can't use Tab Wheel Scroll. On Windows I use an AutoHotkey script to simulate Tab Wheel Scroll. On Linux, it seems to work somehow. On Mac I have l
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> Entering your password everytime OS farts You can add the NOPASSWD option to your sudoers file. Something like this : ldev ALL=(ALL:ALL)NOPASSWD: ALL to /etc/sudoers > Even installing nodejs required to type sudo You can a
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> The message I would take from those statistics is that needing a fresh download of Pypy is less common among 3.x users than among 2.7 users, who apparently needed to reinstall from the web at least a few times a day during 2016. Occam&
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by simula67 10y ago
Brin has said that Google's OSes could converge over time : https://www.cnet.com/news/brin-googles-oses-likely-to-conver... These maybe the beginning stages of that convergence. Maybe they are attempting a device
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There is a separate project for testing Linux : https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp
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Here is Sergey Brin's response to some of this : https://youtu.be/zIx5F0vbjB4?t=230
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This suggestion is a good one, but I have a better proposal. The problem here is that Microsoft is free to cherry pick the best innovation that is coming out of the open source community while the reverse not being true. If Linux reinvents
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My working theory about this is that the industry is driven by resume-driven development. Recruiters filter resumes with a keyword based search : 'Do you have React experience ?', 'What about docker ?', 'Do you do R
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This is not just affecting people without bank accounts. ATMs are unapproachable even now because of the insane queues. Some places require you to pay merchant charges for using credit cards. Transactions < 100 Rs cannot be paid for with
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I think this is one case where humility goes wrong. The Perl philosophy is to enable the end user ( the programmer ) to find his own way to solve problems. This has some advantages, like being able to pick up programming on one's own t
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Why is this concern not valid for China or Russia ?
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I have been a Linux user for a long time ( ArchLinux with Xfce ). Recently, I switched jobs and my employer issued me with a Mac. I am having the same problem : the fucking OS . Why do I need to press multiple buttons to see how many appl
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I can't tell if the Windows versions affected are still supported. It would be only hypocritical if Google has refused to patch a vulnerability in their supported OS before 7 days after it was privately disclosed with them. Android sup

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