the_grue

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by the_grue 8y ago
Actually, it had colonial powers to contend with, but more importantly, internal factions. The fact that instead of disintegrating into multiple warring entities, it united and grew to become the powerful USA, speaks volumes to the strength
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by the_grue 8y ago
Right now it seems China's success is only temporary, owing a lot to undervaluation of its currency and to the low cost of labor. It cannot stay in this place forever - sooner or later the growth will stop, the cost of labor will go up
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by the_grue 8y ago
Is it a coincidence that USA was the largest economy on Earth? I don't think so. On the contrary, I think it became the most powerful country on Earth due to the free competition of talent and ideas, which is impossible without free sp
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by the_grue 8y ago
How precisely does the fact that these countries exist 'require' complying with local legislation? Google is free to host their servers in other countries, which are free from censorship laws. It's not like Google needs to be
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by the_grue 8y ago
Same here :/
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Immune recognition of somatic mutations leading to complete regression in cancer(nature.com)
3 points by the_grue 8y ago|0 comments
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by the_grue 8y ago
Do you happen to remember what was the crazy guy's nationality?
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by the_grue 8y ago
That can change.
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by the_grue 8y ago
You are drawing conclusions based on arbitrary facts. GCJ has always been going against the grain both politically and technologically, no wonder it ended up where it did. There are strong efforts and weak efforts. The fact that many projec
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by the_grue 8y ago
> or you can buy RHEL Or use CentOS. Oh wait, that's exactly what tens or hundreds of thousands of small businesses did and keep doing even today. Besides, that's not even a good comparison - Red Hat Linux was and is mainly abo
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by the_grue 8y ago
> For starters none of those projects has parity with Java's JIT and GC implementations. Aren't you forgetting about Linux, Firefox and Mesa graphics library to name a few? You seem to imply that all open source is amateur&#x27
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by the_grue 8y ago
This is not about enterprise support. It's about security fixes and bugfixes. If you're a business, you will have to pay for these fixes or roll with their 6-months release cycle. Selling security fixes is quite unprecedented for
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by the_grue 8y ago
I don't see how OpenJDK is different from other big open source community-managed projects. If Oracle is not willing to maintain an up-to-date version of the JDK, there are a lot of businesses big and small, as well as individuals, who
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by the_grue 8y ago
Yes, 2017 was a typo, thank you. 2014 is 8 years after 2006.
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by the_grue 8y ago
Okay, replying to myself after a couple of quick Google searches. The situation is quite complex. A big part of the industry seems to be stuck at Java 8 right now due to several reasons. One of them is the momentum Java 8 gained when it was
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by the_grue 8y ago
I'm confused. Is this a cost-cutting move intended to push the industry towards Java 9? If a business is able to switch to Java SE 9, will they still be eligible to receive free upgrades?
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by the_grue 8y ago
Yeah, I tried that, but the simple examples didn't do enough for my purposes, I had to take it further and was never able to get too far.
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by the_grue 8y ago
I tried to learn Dagger for a recent project in a similar setting (Dagger+Android+Kotlin). Spent some 8 hours, couldn't make it work and gave up. I suppose, as with most systems, one needs to build up a list of recipes for solving comm
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Google, Amazon drawn into Telegram ban as Russia blocks millions of IP addresses(zdnet.com)
3 points by the_grue 8y ago|0 comments
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by the_grue 9y ago
That sounds like a natural fit for Rust's lifetime-tracking mechanism. The compiler can automatically drop all initialized objects upon exception. In fact, I'm reasonably sure it does just that for panic handling.
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by the_grue 9y ago
As soon as we hand history over to a good-willing person, even if they are a great artist, the matters quickly get foggy. This particular attempt at simplification of history has at least one significant flaw. It picked a plot line of diffe
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by the_grue 9y ago
Not necessarily. It can point to different distribution of priorities between sexes. E.g. if women prefer to dedicate their energy to family and house, while men prefer to work more, it makes sense that men would earn more. If we quit assum
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by the_grue 9y ago
If even PhD's can't be expected to adhere to basic standards of intellectual honesty and critical thinking, then how can we ever expect the general society to grow up and realize the value of these things? How can we, the enlighte
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by the_grue 9y ago
Exactly. The word "peers" in the title implies comparison between people with a similar background (education, industry, etc). But it seems the actual study just compares the average salary of all single, young, childless women vs
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by the_grue 9y ago
> It's an unpopular opinion, but I believe the pedestrian caused this situation by putting themselves in a dangerous situation Interesting! What reasons do you have to think this is an unpopular opinion? To me, it sounds like an obv
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by the_grue 9y ago
They are already maintaining FF 52 LTS (actually, in Mozilla terminology it's called ESR) They should've calculated this in advance and made FF 56 LTS. They could still do it now if they wanted...
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by the_grue 9y ago
Well, he's upset. After all, when you support a project for years, you convince your friends to switch, participate in the community, maybe write some extensions, and then it removes one of the main reasons you have ever been using it,
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by the_grue 9y ago
I don't have an example handy, but when FF 57 was first released, I actually took the effort to check what are the prospects of extensions I use in future FF versions. I found at least one extension which required a feature that FF dev
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by the_grue 9y ago
For me it's EdgeWise, Session Manager, DownThemAll, Status-4-Evar.
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by the_grue 9y ago
After I gave up on Classic Theme Restorer, 4 most useful addons remain: EdgeWise, Session Manager, DownThemAll, Status-4-Evar.

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