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by sseth 7y ago
At the time of walking away they had 33% of the Chinese search market - so it is hard to see how they did not have skin in the game - to lose all access to the largest market in the world forever. And not only for search, but also youtube,
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by sseth 7y ago
I thought they were dense in the reals, but disconnected as between any two rationals there will always be an irrational number.
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by sseth 7y ago
The terminology comes from a proposal for C++ which has been under discussion for a long time.
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by sseth 7y ago
Because it is standard, in these discussions, for someone to quote Rob Pike to say that golang was designed for the lowest common denominator of developers. Personally, I like go a lot for writing services and console applications.
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by sseth 7y ago
Did they consider it minor even AFTER the first crash? I think even if you accept that such a glitch was overlooked prior to the Indonesian crash, it is hard to see the justification for continuing to withhold this and other information rel
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by sseth 7y ago
As a start, for keeping details from pilots even after the first crash. For example, after the first crash, Boeing did not disclose that MCAS keeps repeating at 5 second intervals. Surely this was relevant information for pilots in life and
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by sseth 7y ago
There are cases in court filed in relation to both crashes. And there are various official investigations, including an FBI investigation.
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by sseth 7y ago
Sorry - I should have been clear. I am from India - and the ISPs here are quite bad. I have no idea about the USA ISPs.
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by sseth 7y ago
Because what you get is often faster, more accurate and more resilient compared to the junk DNS run by most ISPs. And because most site visits start with a Google search anyway. And finally, because I am comfortable with their privacy state
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by sseth 7y ago
They must have been pulling your leg. I have lived in India all my life, and the fraction of people who think overpopulation is not a problem, or who think it is a good thing, is vanishingly small. Note that the current rate of 2.3 has been
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by sseth 7y ago
The reason is that TFR is not the average number of children per woman over her lifetime. Instead, it is calculated by measuring the average number of children born to women at a specific age (e.g. 15, 16..49). Adding all of these up result
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by sseth 7y ago
Per wikipedia, what you are describing is the Net Reproduction Rate. TFR is not calculated that way. Instead, it takes women in the child bearing age group (say 15-44 or 15-49), and adds up the age specific fertility rates to calculate the
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by sseth 8y ago
I do not see anyone condemning the last 30 years of FAA, just the more recent work. Would it not be appropriate to criticize a significant fall from their earlier high standards? And yes the numbers are not the only relevant issue. It is th
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by sseth 8y ago
Agreed. After the Lion Air crash, Boeing basically asserted the plane was perfectly safe, and that the pilots should have followed the runaway trim process - this means turning off the electric motor which moves the trim, and having the pil
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by sseth 8y ago
However since Boeing is a multi-billion dollar corporation perfectly capable of defending itself, I think it is best if HN readers focus on defending the dead pilots who unfortunately are not in the same position. I am pretty sure any mista
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by sseth 8y ago
It's good to know the history here. For most of 50s and 60s we were roughly equidistant between US and USSR. It was the crass support for Pakistan's Ayub Khan by Nixon and Kissinger before the Bangladesh war in 1971, which forced
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by sseth 8y ago
I remember too. Wonderful books at throwaway prices. I remember Ya Perelman's books on physics. Also a wonderful book just on limits which helped me understand the concept in a way which no other maths book could. And we also used to h
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by sseth 8y ago
Since this is a huge field, you would be better off focusing first of all on one type of development. For example : - Web Development - Data Engineering - Mobile Development Web development is probably the easiest to get started with so let
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by sseth 8y ago
I found several. See https://github.com/janet-lang/janet/tree/master/examples for some.
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by sseth 8y ago
> Good organizations value good ideas, irrespective of who thought of them. Ideas with only upside and no downsides may be trivially executed. The problems come with ideas where costs are certain and up-front, while benefits are medium-t
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by sseth 8y ago
Newton's theory of Gravitation stood for almost 230 years before being superseded by GR. During this time it was proven right over and over. And in fact in many ways what happens with great theories is not that they are proven wrong, b
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by sseth 8y ago
Or it may be that Chrome OS runs on fuchsia, and the 2nd linux kernel runs side by side for Crostini. But even if it did, this is at least a couple of years away, I think.
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by sseth 8y ago
I worked (a long time ago) on Burroughs mainframes which did bounds checking of arrays (and in fact even type checking), because the whole machine was build around ALGOL. I am not sure whether the experience from these machines was negative
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by sseth 8y ago
My understanding is that the google tapping was done in UK using British intelligence services, thus bypassing the legal constraints.
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by sseth 8y ago
Github ranking by open pull request to me feels the best approach if what you are interested in is trends of language adoption. Measuring total corpus would be measuring past popularity and may miss trends. Search metrics on the other hand
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by sseth 8y ago
It's true that they may serve their intended purpose. But only by exposing innocent people to needless risk. Isn't there a better way to achieve the intended purpose? For example, could the same not be achieved by passing a law al
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by sseth 8y ago
You may want to check this list and decide for yourself what it was about : https://www.theverge.com/2013/11/22/5135626/scroogled-micros... I should add that i have not seen Google itself run such attack
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by sseth 8y ago
From 2012 to 2014, Microsoft (under Ballmer) had launched a program called "Scroogled" - an attempt to in effect destroy the google brand. The budget? 1 billion dollars. It was run like a presidential election campaign, with Mark
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by sseth 8y ago
The author talks about high throughput achieved via batching. But he has not mentioned latency implications of batching, or perhaps I missed that in the article. Wouldn't batching lead to an increase in transaction latency, even if we
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by sseth 8y ago
TrueTime is not a timestamp, but a time with a spread which reflects the maximum difference in time between two data centers. If i understand correctly, if the size of this increases too much, this brings down the number of transactions per

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