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by smegel 9y ago
Believe it or not there is still a quarterly publication dedicated to the apple ii https://juiced.gs
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by smegel 9y ago
I don't imagine "going out of business" is a preferred outcome for a billion dollar business to avoid refunding presales for a failed product. But your right, unsecured creditors are screwed in a bankruptcy.
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by smegel 9y ago
Don't you get your money back if a presale fails to deliver? Crowdfunding is a donation that might yield a reward if it succeeds.
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by smegel 9y ago
Some languages represent unicode strings as objects quite separate to their binary encoding, e.g. Python.
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by smegel 9y ago
Weird to talk so much about branch prediction for branchless code.
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by smegel 9y ago
1) the sentence is true. 2) why should I or anyone else trust a company called Cliqz to do anything?
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by smegel 9y ago
But what's more trustworthy than a third-party you've never heard of called "Cliqz"? /s
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by smegel 9y ago
> The surfing activities of those users who receive a Firefox version with Cliqz are sent to the Cliqz servers; including the URLs of the pages they visit. Yeah thanks but no thanks.
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by smegel 9y ago
I'm amazed that for almost every "special interest" post here on HN there are at least a couple of people who know exactly what it's about.
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by smegel 9y ago
Agile wasn't supposed to solve big problems of software development, like how efficiency scales down as you add more developers or why it's hard to predict how long it will take to deliver X. Agile is about understanding why these
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by smegel 9y ago
> 05 Individuals must have the ability to shape the Internet and their own experiences on it. Try and stop HTML5 video from autoplaying. Try walking the talk for once.
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by smegel 9y ago
Isn't leave paid out anyway when you quit?
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by smegel 9y ago
Can't have one without the other.
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by smegel 9y ago
It's crazy really. Showing extreme thinness is probably not healthy, but that is not what this is about. All these photoshopped images show fit, but not anorexic bodies. Encouraging healthy diets and exercise to achieve bodies like tha
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by smegel 9y ago
There are just laws that protect and maintain civil society and there are unjust laws used to oppress minorities. Who does this referendum hurt? Who is damaged by it? Where is the victim? Voting is at the heart of democracy, and laws that p
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by smegel 9y ago
Pretty sad to see this happening in a western country, in the EU no less.
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by smegel 9y ago
> The M4 carbine is the standard-issue rifle fielded since the mid-1990s and used across the military as a replacement for the M16. I never knew it was a replacement. I thought it was just mainly for close quarters/urban combat.
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by smegel 9y ago
Well, technically RHEL7 runs httpd-2.4.6-67, which is RedHat's 67th patched version of 2.4.6. They backport a lot of stuff from later versions, don't see why they could not have done this (they haven't, I checked).
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by smegel 9y ago
What is your own stack written in?
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by smegel 9y ago
Of course he would rationalize it as being a boon to democracy if Facebook ever gets into China. Which is a complete joke as we now see.
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by smegel 9y ago
Well I'm sure every bad decision ever made had some kind of rationale that made sense to someone at the time.
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by smegel 9y ago
I can see the value in having programmable buttons...but why they put that bar there instead of little OLED screens on all the Function keys amazes me.
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by smegel 9y ago
What's your problem? It's a factual statement not flamebait. The fact you might disagree changes nothing.
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by smegel 9y ago
Do system calls put their return value on the calling threads stack or in a register?
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by smegel 9y ago
> What the long-term effects will be: China's ruling class further cement their power at the cost of China's innovation and future growth. Yeah blocking a foreign competitor is going to be terrible for innovative Chinese startu
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by smegel 9y ago
That looks good. Python has long needed something like this.
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by smegel 9y ago
He should not program either. Python has an idiomatic way to control attribute access - descriptors. Mashing Java getter/setter methods into Python is so, so unpythonic.
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by smegel 9y ago
Does it have any positive impact on startup time for simple programs if you are not loading large chunks of the JVM?
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by smegel 9y ago
It gives me some idea, yes :)
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by smegel 9y ago
How important is this to understand in practice for a Scala programmer?

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