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by slededit 8y ago
Losing work product is a far more common occurence, and while it can be turned into a moral argument that people really should just backup their stuff - The truth is they don't and the stress of a looming deadline is exactly the scenar
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Some of those architectures really need to be allowed to die. VAX was discontinued in 2000 and was on life support since 1992 when it was superseded by the Alpha. If it were free it wouldn't matter, but as you say its held up progress
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The iPhone is primarily a consumption device. People generally don't have their iPhones crash losing months of work due to the client in a few days.
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Malloc already includes a length and most arrays are heap based. I wish it could be exposed in a nice way. Of course it would have to support sub allocators or it wouldn't be C.
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It has just a bit more structure than a file. An object has some data and some verbs or actions that can be performed on it. The problem with files is that signaling has to happen in band or with hacks like ioctls. Or like in plan 9 throug
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Selective availability is no longer available on newer satellites. I assume they can still shut off the stream though.
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NT's everything is an object is a much more rational design. OS X is based off similar concepts except in the kernel thanks to NextStep.
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Renting store bought DVDs is legal. There was a big court case about it in the 90s.
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While most of what he says is random and unreliable; His words on trade have been consistent and had follow through. I'd put the chances of it happening at close to 100% unless China capitulates or Congress blocks him.
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I assumed you wanted analysis connecting the report to Uber. The actual data is publicly available on the BLS website. I'm all for greater contract worker protections. People seem to think this is some value judgement on that issue. th
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The fact your asking better analysis from me shows the failure of our news infrastructure. I myself was very surprised by this information. Data that contradicts our preconceived notions should be talked about loudly. So far most of the ana
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The report was actually awaited on with great fanfare. When it didn't confirm preconceived notions it seems to have been buried. I only heard the actual results from an obscure show on Harvard Business Radio. To me this exemplifies eve
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https://work.qz.com/1296208/gig-economy-data-from-the-bls-th...
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Uber drivers are contract workers (except in NY I guess). Yes they are included. A month ago we didn't have post Uber data. Now we do.
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The "gig economy" perpetuates a false narrative that traditional jobs are being replaced with contractors. The numbers simply don't bear that out. It's tangential to whether or not contract worker protections should be e
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The number of contract workers is actually down since 2005. The BLS just released updated numbers recently. The "gig" economy is a made up story.
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I hope you updated all that to D2D. I was always deeply offended you forced office to move with Universal but had the gall to link GDI in and keep using it for your own stuff :).
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For anyone that wants to understand this, listen to some old broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow on the internet archive. https://archive.org/details/SeeItNow1951 He has an opinion and he shares it. But he will let the othe
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He can't say it publicly but the code behind the console is crap. Not just from a modern perspective looking back, the original devs hated it too. The book Show Stopper! Has some colorful words about it. And since it's so core to
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Times have changed. We no longer say "communist china" in every news article for example. Since 2008 the west has lost its legitimacy as the one true way, and we've been sliding since then. It doesn't help we've
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His later work on functional programming was more or less a failure even by his own words: Backus: But it was ultimately unsuccessful because it couldn’t take in all the peripheral stuff that you had. Booch: Your functional programming work
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1. Forgetting is the brains coping mechanism for too much data. Its an integral part of learning. If you feel your forgetting algorithm is misfiring consider trying to leave bookmarks for yourself you can look up later. 2. You're r
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Its a lesson everyone needs to learn at some point: Save code should always be explicit. Yes its annoying, and yes you have to manually update it. But unlike all of your other data structures - durable data doesn't just get blown awa
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Generally its the managers responsibility to ensure they are working on what is important. That's literally their entire job. An employee capable of convincing themselves whatever they work on is important is a net benefit to the man
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> If an engineer isn't producing something worthwhile, he's not a good engineer, certainly not "one of my best engineers". Not my experience. I've seen amazing engineers happily convince themselves whatever the
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Monopolists have always made the world better initially. Its how they got to be dominant in the first place. In the case of Rockefeller he truly thought he was doing God's work - before him lamp oil was expensive and unsafe. More of
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Fraud detection needs to be balanced against the massive amounts of bad will being generated. It seems like anti-fraud has taken over. If Google keeps this up they aren't going to have many real customers to "protect".
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I'm happy it worked for you, but I consider us victims of a society that arbitrarily enforces waking hours. There's no reason a programmer can't work noon to 8 if that works better with their sleep schedule. Ditto for most
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9-5 is an arbitrary restriction on a typical office job. The majority of us no longer perform shift work on the factory floor which was the original impetus for this societal norm. You are recounting society as it exists today which is abn
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Its crazy in this day and age its considered OK to call perfectly healthy people "maladapted" because they don't conform to societies view of a normal sleep schedule. Treating people this way causes real damage to actual hum

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