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by thu2111 6y ago
What fixed that is sandboxing. It's not really clear how much app stores do. And in fairness to Google, their malware scanning system is not tied to their app store. Stuff installed outside the store gets scanned too.
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There is no spec, as far as I can tell. That's why the article says different implementations disagree on the max size of the error message. As for large errors, there are plenty of cases where they can be useful. Not every RPC is cros
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My statements aren't in contradiction: there are absolutely people in the UK who are not enamoured of the NHS and it's not that hard to find them. They are probably not in a majority at the moment, but a well run political campaig
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Where did you get that idea? I worked for a US/UK company with its engineering HQ in London until recently and was earning drastically more than that. Now, I was an early stage employee and doing unique work for the firm. That position
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They did. They blocked shipments from a factory in Italy. But this is a bad idea for all sorts of reasons: 1. No actual contract violation appears to be occurring. See my other comments. 2. Supply chains for vaccines are long and complex. T
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Except goods exports are down 40% You're thinking of a few weeks in January. By February cross-border traffic was nearly back to normal (about 90% of similar traffic a year earlier but that's with lockdown, which surely reduces
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Although EU/France keeps claiming AZ are breaking the rules, they have produced no evidence this is true. Last time they tried to claim this they released a heavily redacted PDF of the contract signed with AZ but the redacting was botc
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So the proximate issue appears to be lack of government approval for a new factory in the Netherlands. The contract issue has been done to death: the contracts the EU signed talk about best efforts. They don't actually seem to contain
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I think you may be over-exaggerating the difficulty of doing this. Companies both insource and outsource things pretty frequently. For example it's common for tech firms to insource catering. Building restaurants is not a core competen
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Eric Schmidt wrote lex. He was an engineering executive at Sun. His background is absolutely as a software engineer. People seem to be missing the point of the article. It's all about ways of thinking. It isn't literally saying th
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A support contract for $100 !!! Wow, I thought I'd heard it all but that one is new. Even cheap consultants I know won't sell you only $100 worth of time.
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With JS the reason isn't really all that good - it's because it's expensive and difficult to make JavaScript and browser engines thread safe (or any dynamic scripting language). If it's hard to make the language genuinel
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Exceptions were designed with the explicit goal of brushing potentially unrecoverable exceptional errors under the rug That's what I meant by poorly reasoned arguments. Do you really think the designers of C++, Java, C#, Delphi etc a
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Right, Microsoft don't talk about COM anymore. I haven't kept up much with Windows programming so lost track at some point of what their current-gen tech is and how it works. WinRT isn't just COM is it. It's custom langu
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by thu2111 6y ago
Slots isn't a messaging system in the way Objective-C or Smalltalk define it. Slots are what GTK calls signals, if I recall correctly, and are more often called event handlers. They're ways to register a set of callbacks on a sing
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by thu2111 6y ago
It's pretty clearly not bad, given how many successful languages use it. Java, C#, C++, Kotlin. Windows, macOS, KDE, GNOME. They're all mainstream OO and for good reasons. Fragile ABI is basically a C++ problem. Java has had a sta
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by thu2111 6y ago
Kotlin extension methods can't be grouped and abstracted over like traits can. And moreover they are not virtual methods. Virtual methods are useful for all sorts of reasons. In Kotlin extension methods are best used as a nice way to a
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by thu2111 6y ago
Result/Either types are fashionable but strictly worse than exceptions, in my view. Even checked exceptions should be improved rather than junked. Really, error types are only a small step above what C uses. That approach was tossed in
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by thu2111 6y ago
Using coroutines on a UI thread is a recipe for horrible bugs. I've done it, I wouldn't do it again unless I had to (i.e. all JS in the browser is forced to work this way so there it's pointless to resist). The right approach
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Why would the GPL get involved? Copyright is flexible because by default you don't have any rights to use someone else's creative works. They can attach whatever requirements they like to it. Here, they've said you can use it
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Bizarre. I don't know how much of a distraction "I hired a hot girl and then fell in love with her" was, but to me tweeting 40-60 times per day says more about a lack of focus (e.g. 56 times on 30th November 2020 where that t
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by thu2111 6y ago
Did RethinkDB ever actually attempt to get people to pay for it? The massive, gaping hole at the heart of this analysis is "maybe we failed because we gave our product away for free as open source"?
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But most companies could do things their suppliers do, because companies always have the option of hiring people with those skills and developing those competencies in house. E.g. Google moved from running their software in commercial datac
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MongoDB Atlas's business model seems very, very odd to me. The prices for hosted Mongo are so high that I really find myself asking who is paying for this and what the target market is. In particular I wonder how they can possibly be l
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56% in favor. 15% actively against. Majority support even by members of the party that was most against it. When Cameron first called the referendum Remain was in the lead. When topics are debated thoroughly in the public sphere and serio
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The US is hardly some low regulation capitalist utopia. The US regulatory code is enormous. Plenty of self-proclaimed "Europeans" think it is, but in my experience they often know relatively little about the issues in question and
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Yes, but his point is that when you write a server (any server), you still have to consider non-browser connections on top of browser connections, thus any security policy that handles the former can subsume the latter.
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They mean a script outside the browser.
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This is definitely a part of the problem. Docs require a target audience but the brutal reality of writing for people in computing is that there is no bar and you can't assume anything at all about your readers, but if you dumb things
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Poor reading speeds and skills are a huge problem. I've wirken with even supposedly senior developers who will not read the user guide for some complex piece of software before trying to use it or even worse, mouthing off about how i

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