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by thomasz 6y ago
IMHO it's tooling. The industry has spend decades to help you to deal with the kind of mess OO tends to produce. The tooling isn't anywhere close when you have to deal with a mess of functions returning functions that return funct
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by thomasz 6y ago
> By that logic every company in the valley could be heavily influenced to shutdown products for different people if it as any connection to a VC (which is pretty much every company). Well, yes...?
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by thomasz 6y ago
It needs regulation. There is no way a functioning market is going to grow out of the current ecosystem.
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by thomasz 6y ago
It's really breathtaking. They take an astonishing amount of your revenue. And they do not even try.
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by thomasz 6y ago
It's rather old school style. C# has had local type inference for ages.
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by thomasz 6y ago
Yes, they do. There is obviously some guesswork involved, but after several seroprevalence studies, these arguments can be laid to rest. There is no giant iceberg of undetected cases, we’re still in the beginning of the pandemic, and IFR i
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by thomasz 6y ago
Off course it’s possible to have a measurable impact. It’s obviously working for Vietnam, but I’m doubtful that the same measures would be sufficient for countries where the old and obese make up not less than five percent but more than a
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by thomasz 6y ago
We just do not have the means to detect transmission that happens outside of households and private parties. Data from countries that have working contact tracing procedures suggest that bars restaurants, gyms and so forth are indeed impo
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by thomasz 6y ago
Er should avoid meaningless terms like “lokdown light” and just say that we closed bars and restaurants and told people not to meet in private, which was largely ignored.
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by thomasz 6y ago
The key is age and obesity.
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by thomasz 6y ago
Look at the demographics of these countries and compare them to the United States and Europe. Throw in less detailed reporting and less transparency. We’re dealing with a virus that overwhelmingly affects old, obese people. A country like V
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by thomasz 6y ago
Which is still rather fast. Starting an IDE like Visual Studio on my desktop takes longer.
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by thomasz 6y ago
Which results in way more deaths.
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by thomasz 6y ago
Our healthcare systems are designed to handle a bad flu season. COVID is different in so far as it's far more deadly, and that it puts a higher burden on the health care systems because the average time spent in an ICU is way longer.
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by thomasz 6y ago
There is no correlation between lines of code and performance. Longer code is often faster, while short, succinct code is often slower.
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by thomasz 6y ago
You publish under AGPL for free and also under a commercial license for people who do not want to abide to the conditions of the AGPL. See servicestack.net as an example. It seems to work for some people.
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by thomasz 6y ago
Owned one. It was a damn good phone, had a great UI that remains unsurpassed to this day, but it clearly came at least two years too late to gain the critical mass needed for a thriving ecosystem.
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by thomasz 6y ago
I seriously do not understand the moral indignation. It the business does not feel like the influencer will generate enough sales, it can simply refuse or ignore the request. Others might appreciate the chance to get in front of many eyebal
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by thomasz 6y ago
This is a reminder to get away from google services. It’s just not worth it. Give a few bucks Each month to a company where you are the customer and not the product.
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by thomasz 6y ago
Windows is light years ahead in this department compared to any alternative. It's a hard problem.
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by thomasz 6y ago
Being able to significantly alter public perception and influence the political process is one of the most important advantages of scale.
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by thomasz 6y ago
Im not familiar with the tax system in the us, but progressive, direct taxation is indeed progressive. Usually this is offset by The regressive effects of indirect taxation, fees for public services, education, fines and so forth.
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by thomasz 6y ago
They paid everyone under the sun to bundle chrome with their installers, they are pushing chrome through every one of their properties, and last but not least they deliberately introduce incompatibilities.
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by thomasz 6y ago
When you consider the context of Mozilla’s lgbt politics it becomes crystal clear that this isn’t just harmless internet slang.
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by thomasz 6y ago
This was a dogwhistle, not unselfconscious use of a loaded term.
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by thomasz 6y ago
Can't scroll past the initial video in Firefox either. Seriously, don't fuck with scrolling.
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by thomasz 6y ago
Political and social discourse in Germany is less partisan, less hysterical and less aggressive compared to the US. By whole orders of magnitude.
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by thomasz 6y ago
Enough people sunk their whole live savings and then some into this. They are less happy than you are.
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by thomasz 6y ago
Michael Parenti? No. He makes it pretty clear that he supports independence but not the restoration of the medieval social order.
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by thomasz 6y ago
The window between an overwhelmed health care system and a suppressed epidemic is extremely thin. We simply cannot dial in exactly the right reproduction number to get this over with in a reasonable time frame without overloading the availa

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