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by sqeaky 9y ago
> To those knee-jerk rejecting the argument based on the Breitbart domain Breitbart has destroyed their credibility, or more accurately never gained any, through constant lying and intellectual dishonesty (this is when the letter of some
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Still sounds like an interesting problem. Perhaps a set of AI filters could be built, and Netlix or Pandora style whichever one a person agrees with more often is selected and more results from it are presented to them. Or perhaps a Convolu
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Why is "stupid" for businesses to attempt to coerce employees to quit rather than to fire them? Evil, or assholish sure, but I don't think its stupid. If they had layoffs they would have to deal with unemployment payments. Th
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Wasn't that sort of the point or using arrays instead of pointers? There is less dereferencing to get to the data, so you need to dereference fewer pointers. I would like to see more empirical measurement in articles like this. There h
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Picking a world record is not a fair representation. How many typical new cars would it take to get to that? How many typical old cars?
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I was answering in the general sense about what was wrong with DRM not anything specifically about Netflix, I even prefaced my comment with "It hasn't happened with Netflix on any large scale, yet". But why can't I use t
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I have had to work with willfully incompetent people who could not be fired. I will not do it again. I have been contracting the past decade and it lets me fire the company when I am done. Neither nor the company have any illusions this is
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Is it more monstrous do do a bad thing then lie about it or to do a bad thing and own up to it, including the criticism? Can we even say firing slackers is bad?
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by sqeaky 9y ago
The point where things break because of it. It hasn't happened with Netflix on any large scale, yet. But it has happened in the past. There are videos games that are single player and can't be played without an active connection b
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I think he meant hollywood could withhold license to big name movies.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I wasn't claiming it and I even qualified my statement. I am not sure what more I could to make it clear that no languages have actually been replaced, while retaining a nuanced message that many people see replacements depending on th
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Thank you for being reasonable, that is not very common. You were never rude and we are all... off sometimes. and sorry I forgot the link, I am writing a note to myself on real dead tree so I can forget it easily.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
> You've added nothing to this discussion and have wasted people's time. What is your response doing?
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Align incentives... That is a powerfully simple way to think about, I am going to mull that thought of. But yes, at least superficially, it puts customer and vendor on the same track. I wonder if there are ways it could be abused? Of course
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by sqeaky 9y ago
> That's their problem, not mine. You shouldn't be using old web browsers and outdated systems on the web. That makes you vulnerable. You wouldn't host a page if you didn't want to share its content, doesn't fail
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by sqeaky 9y ago
What about serving uncompressed content over https? What about serving up an error page when the user's browser odesn't have compressor you support? What about paying attention to web standards? What about people who are stuck wit
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Depending on who you ask Java did replace everything. Consider the Tiobe Index [1]. Java Beats out everything, including C and C+++ when added together. All three are growing, but not nearly as fast as everything else is growing to the poin
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by sqeaky 9y ago
It doesn't seem to me that the is trying to paint microsoft as a victim. IT even says they are partially) to blame because of their poor security design. The article suggested that most software should be delivered as a service, so tha
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by sqeaky 9y ago
As a group it doesn't work for any but the largest issues, look at SOPA. But many individuals do what they can. Consider the increase in encryption use.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Last night I tried a web assembly demo of Ogre3d, an open source 3d rendering engine. It worked in Chrome and Firefox. (I will put the link here after work, it is sitting in my personal email) Whatever you are reading about the spec is not
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Why do so many on HN feel the need to structure their responses like this: > Something Rude. Real argument, which is stronger with first sentence removed. You may be right (or wrong, I don't know) but opening with rudeness or insult
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I think you have a different framing of the problem most people excited about WASM have. It is not about talking directly to the hardware, just getting speed gain like you are. So this component idea seems to be coming from out of the blue
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Dealing with unhappy minimum wage workers seems to be the default to me as well. My theater experience sounds like yours. As for minimum wage cashiers, I would rather use the self checkout. Most cashiers can't be bothered to puts thing
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by sqeaky 9y ago
You are missing a great deal of suffering in the middle. Decent hard working people can start dying long before the robots must shut down.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Because yelp is horrible. You argument is much stronger as "Why trust the waiter over meaningful online reviews?" That argument is much stronger and I can only attack in niche markets like very high end restaurants.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I disagree with you on almost every, but so much of it is soft and nebulous so lets you are correct for most of your comment. I just want to pick on tiny part: > Talking to a single person whose opinion I trust Why should we trust the pe
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by sqeaky 9y ago
What you are describing would be great for chain restaurants like Chile's or Olive Garden, but for something sufficiently high end the people involved really matter. If you shift your view up a few notches there are many places where r
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by sqeaky 9y ago
> We buy systems we have no clue how work. Well that doesn't seem like a good starting for any but the smallest ventures. National governments have a special interest in safety and security. Fixing this, even in a piecemeal way is s
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by sqeaky 9y ago
For people outside the United States, switching away from microsoft really is a matter of national security (It kind of is inside the US too, but that is a different argument). If leaders of a nation allow their civil servants to be so lazy
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I am surprised to hear that you say that the difference between office 2000 and 2016 is not so big. I find that sharing files between them is huge pain and that the UI is totally different. Have you considered LibreOffice, it is at least as

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