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by thomasz 7y ago
That's very much true for tools like Visual Studio, but not for the runtime itself.
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by thomasz 7y ago
It is way, way, way easier to ensure that you follow a commercial license.
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by thomasz 7y ago
Neither chrome nor android have a revenue stream. Both are long time strategic hedges meant to protect the ad revenue from gmail, search and maps.
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by thomasz 7y ago
Google has a significant fraction of the best and brightest developers of our generation on payroll. It’s not surprising that they create innovative technology. It’s just that they really suck at creating products . After gmail and maps th
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by thomasz 7y ago
NZ has a very small population and absolutely no systemic importance. It’s not remotely comparable to the US.
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by thomasz 7y ago
Those milieus who care most about the environment consistently turn out to have the highest environmental footprint. The point isn't that these people are hypocrites. Maybe they are (who, besides a cynic, isn't to some degree?), m
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by thomasz 7y ago
You cannot shop yourself out of a societal problem. The tragedy of the commons guarantees that.
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by thomasz 7y ago
The parody accounts are pretty obvious. The really disturbing stuff comes from the real ones.
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by thomasz 7y ago
This is a problem with template metaprogramming, not with generics. Code using generics isn’t less obvious than code using only specialized types. On the contrary: You work with strong typing instead of using interface {} everywhere.
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by thomasz 7y ago
In other languages, you can easily define constraints on generic types. It’s not rocket science, but actively ignoring any advancement since the 70s means that you have to reinvent the wheel constantly.
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by thomasz 7y ago
Uber is a company that provides a highly useful service. Bitcoin is just a decentralized long con.
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by thomasz 7y ago
Spiel mal nicht die beleidigte Leberwurst. Spend a little time abroad, and you will notice the same things. Furthermore, the poor woman lives in Berlin, a city where being a rude asshole is being romanticized as an endearing local tradition
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by thomasz 7y ago
Using semantic html like nav, list, header and so forth is basically free.
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Unfortunately, that’s not really a remotely safe option here.
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by thomasz 7y ago
Getting anywhere outside the immediate vicinity of your home with small children is incredibly exhausting without a car, even in cities with somewhat decent public transit systems
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by thomasz 7y ago
She was ambushed from grizzly bear hiding six feet from her path. If that happens, you are dead, no matter what.
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by thomasz 7y ago
You seem to think that this is ironic, but I fail to see how you came to that conclusion.
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by thomasz 7y ago
Reddit was written in lisp, they switched to python only after having initial success.
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by thomasz 7y ago
It's not that complicated to understand: While Google and Mozilla are competitors, Mozilla and Linux are not. Linux just gets less priority because it's quite frankly irrelevant as a Desktop OS.
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by thomasz 7y ago
If you look closely, you’ll find that this data has exactly the same problems. Japan has 0.0% homelessness, because they are only counting people sleeping on the street. The millions of people living in trailer parks would likely be counted
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by thomasz 7y ago
Thats my point. There is an abundance of compassion, but a dearth of effective social security. The welfare states or Europe are a form of institutionalized compassion, but they are eroding fast.
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by thomasz 7y ago
Heartlessness isn’t a factor here. At least individually I’d say that people over here are way more indifferent towards the homeless. There is very little enthusiasm in terms of volunteering and such.
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by thomasz 7y ago
That list is a great example on how you have to treat wikipedia with a healthy dose of scepticism. It's original research of the worst case: A list of figures from different decades(!), extracted from random news sites, without any tra
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by thomasz 7y ago
Other countries, those with a somewhat decent social safety net, do not have such a big problem with homelessness. Particularly not with homeless people making public libraries unusable for the general public.
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by thomasz 8y ago
> Aldi is really quite bizarre, in a way the article tries to capture. For all their rock-bottom prices on store brand goods, whose quality ranges from pretty good to never-again mediocre, they stock the store with a rotating selection o
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by thomasz 8y ago
As always with these kind of things, you should consider explanations which do not require sweeping assumptions about national mentalities. I'm no sociologist, but I'm pretty sure that differences in policing priorities play a big
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by thomasz 8y ago
Those were not normative statements.
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by thomasz 8y ago
I’ve seen very similar viral images on Starcraft forums in the late 90s.
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by thomasz 8y ago
Piling on charges over charges for the same deed is something that doesn't happen outside the US, AFAIK. If you kill somebody and steal a car to drive his body into the desert to bury it, you won't get charged for theft, "Wit
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by thomasz 8y ago
In a society where most of the people are barely able to read, an advanced degree isn't worth that much compared to a highly industrialized society.

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