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by srssays 10y ago
There's a slight difference between being "not perfect" and having a torture camp and a president who says the US doesn't torture enough people (!). When the US preaches about human rights it devalues the concept. That m
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by srssays 10y ago
Congratulations! You exemplify the term "pathological customer"!
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by srssays 10y ago
IDEs are very very easy to parallelise, since most of the hard work is done in background tasks, which can run simultaneously. Compilation also parallelises very nicely.
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by srssays 10y ago
Java has problems on OS X and Linux. It is not truly cross-platform like Electron is.
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by srssays 10y ago
The two are not mutually exclusive. If the marketplace is competitive, then ISPs are incentivised to both offer freebies and to make their services affordable. The problems with the United States are the large area to cover, combined wi
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by srssays 10y ago
Assuming a bitrate of 10Mbps and a solid 7 hours of sleep per night, you'd have to spend 43% of your waking hours watching TV to hit the cap.
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by srssays 10y ago
Is 'diversity' selfish? Perhaps women/teenage girls aren't interested in becoming programmers, because they don't find it to be an interesting or fulfilling career.
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by srssays 10y ago
Think you have that the wrong way around! Taking on more passengers than there are seats is not safe. If it's an isolated incident, then that's 3/10. If it's an actual policy of the airline then holy shit! 11/10
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by srssays 10y ago
> You can obviously re-write a Python 2 program to be a Python 3 program, so both of those languages are Turing complete. This is true, but the converse isn't true. e.g. Python and brainfuck are both turing complete, but Python has
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by srssays 10y ago
Not entirely. For text fields and buttons, clicking them will usually work even if their window is in the background. But clicking them will also focus the background window. If you don't want to focus the background window -- or you w
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by srssays 10y ago
And if nobody else does? Pay their whole salary? Even AutoCAD isn't that expensive.
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by srssays 10y ago
Ambitious in this context seems to mean materialistic.
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by srssays 10y ago
I think the point they were trying to make is that all JS is almost always used with a run loop. Whereas Ruby and Python are often used without a run loop.
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by srssays 10y ago
A particular convention has been adopted by nearly all distros, the Python project and the Python community. That convention is better than Arch's, because it is backwards-compatible with the large body of Python 2 code that exists. Ar
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by srssays 10y ago
Presumably bitcoin mining is generally done in places that have hydro-powered electricity (cheaper)?
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by srssays 10y ago
There's a good reason to change back. There is now convention in place, and Arch's approach is obsolete.
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by srssays 10y ago
You can't just redefine a word that a person has already defined (albeit implicitly), in order to make them wrong. That's not how being right on the internet works. If you want to be right on the internet, you have to define the w
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by srssays 10y ago
I'm sorry that you are being downvoted, it seems nobody on HN has any reading comprehension.
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by srssays 10y ago
That definition is circular. Of course research-level mathematics is done in academia, but there is a much larger field of applied mathematics that is done in industry.
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by srssays 10y ago
But none of the packages they use will be up-to-date. e.g. Django dropped support for 2.6 years ago and will drop support for 2.7 soon.
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by srssays 10y ago
And people pay money for that?
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by srssays 10y ago
It meant something when Apple's Pro laptops had SD card readers.
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by srssays 10y ago
Unless you are using Arch, the packages in the system package manager are often several months old. This is somewhat of a regression to anyone used to homebrew where packages are updated promptly. The Linux 'solution' to this prob
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by srssays 10y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/uptimeporn/top/?sort=top&t=all
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by srssays 10y ago
The Amish though, they should definitely be sent back to Germany where they belong.
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by srssays 10y ago
Theresa May wants to close the UK off to foreigners. It's just her , but as a popular PM she has a lot of domestic power -- more than Trump. She can make laws. You're right that the old power structures are still intact and if th
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by srssays 10y ago
Before Rust it was Haskell, before Haskell it was Erlang, and before Erlang it was Lisp.
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by srssays 10y ago
Everybody understands that UBI is a solution to meeting "basic" needs, the contentious part is the "universal". I don't need basic income. If I received free money that I don't need, I might decide to double my
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by srssays 10y ago
I don't agree with the premise. It's hospital-acquired pneumonia that is the greatest concern and the biggest incubator for resistance. There's really no need for GPs to withhold antibiotics from at-risk groups to take at hom
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by srssays 10y ago
Sorry, but the economy exists to get returns on capital. Employment is a happy side-effect. If, in the far future, there are greater returns from employing robots than humans, then those humans who need to work will starve.

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