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by vturner 7y ago
"these countries"? I've seen schools in the US with 15 mb/s My mothers, Xfinity, has a low tier, 25mb/s.
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by vturner 7y ago
"Java interoperability will be available on all platforms" I wonder if we will see a resurrection of the long gone Scala on CLR?
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by vturner 7y ago
How does this work for someone selling on Ebay (or any other auction site)? Is that classified as something else because I don't recall sales tax being collected for eBay purchases.
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by vturner 7y ago
We aren't at the point of coercion the British government was at. The state of Arkansas isn't deploying its National Guard to enforce the "Great Value brand purchase Act." ;)
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by vturner 7y ago
The rise of the various open source solutions is relieving but I don't feel confident recommending them yet over say TypeScript. I wish Oracle would see the opportunity here to win back some space of user apps where Java had mindshare
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by vturner 7y ago
Have an undergraduate in physics and masters in applied math. It's odd how development and the occasional bit of analysis is not too fulfilling. Maybe it's the lack of intellectual challenge?
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by vturner 7y ago
They have a long road to walk on privacy with Windows. Isn't 10 a privacy minefield?
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by vturner 7y ago
Not sure reading HN is "restful" ;)
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by vturner 7y ago
There's a flip side to the common use case of documentation... How do you solve the uncommon use case when all the docs it seems are showing "how easy it is to do xyz." A month ago, I started on a new web front end. It was se
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by vturner 8y ago
Curious about the salaries for the top four paying technology languages. Three of the four for US are functional focused languages, and for global all four are functional focused. As someone learning Scala, this is both encouraging and inte
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by vturner 8y ago
The trouble is "we," the developers aren't the tech industry making the decisions. The managers, who once were full time developers, are making the decisions. I can say hey let's use this stable, mature tool, but which c
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by vturner 8y ago
Let's just say getting DoD contracts isn't a simple process of showing you have a good idea and tech skills. There is a lot of who knows who, and is not entirely bad I think. We are building our security here, we need to be confid
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by vturner 8y ago
I think we have Apple to thank for that. JavaFX was compelling but alas all rich platforms were sufficiently moot when they killed Flash on mobile and locked iOS down.
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by vturner 8y ago
Everything old is new again
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by vturner 8y ago
Suspected something strong arming us was in the works when Google silently disabled the setting for complete always private browsing. I have this set on both Firefox and Chrome, no history, data, nothing remembered on my work computer. One
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by vturner 8y ago
I miss the XP interface as well. Its cartoonish look buttons, animations, sounds brought a certain sense of play or joy to working on those computers I don't get now with OSX or Win 7. Or maybe I was a wide eyed teen ager first explori
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by vturner 8y ago
"... police are generally able to get users to hand over their passwords, experts say." The NSA and CIA may have the tools but that little statement speaks the gap between what our agencies can do and what theirs can do legally.
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by vturner 8y ago
In a framework of deregulation, there is no 180 here. He is simply following through on general smaller government principles. When we removed net neutrality, the fear was the monopolies will rule us all! Well, how do those monopolies stay
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by vturner 8y ago
Remember when Adobe AIR was going to come to Android? That would have been an amazing write once run anywhere experience.
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by vturner 8y ago
Thanks for the differentiation. I guess when I've read "WASM" will be native code I expect it to be as in "C" or "C++" native. Not native to a VM
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by vturner 8y ago
If I'm not mistaken, in those plots lower is better. Only WASM on FF has a clear lead?
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by vturner 8y ago
When Steve Jobs and company effectively killed "RIAs" I remember Adobe pivoting and promising a software to do what they previously had but output HTML5/CSS/JSS instead of Flash. It looks like it is still alive in the fo
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by vturner 8y ago
WASM itself isn't Java, Flash, or Silverlight, but isnt it another step in the ongoing multiyear process of replicating the features of those technologies in a way that they tried to accomplish: compile to one format and run it on mult
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by vturner 8y ago
Me too...started reading some stock investing/trading books. What lingo and complexities.
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by vturner 8y ago
Yes, why hasn't this arisen naturally? Are the potential profits too low to collect the meager income of many low-wage Americans and then redistribute the gains over time?
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by vturner 8y ago
Why doesn't the stock market act as a balancing system to low wages? Lowering wages implies higher efficiency thus resulting in higher profits which ultimately end up in "investors" pockets. Why are these "investors&quot
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by vturner 8y ago
Too bad you're being downvoted, despite the chorus of anger over the Trump tariff actions, what we have is not free trade by any stretch of the imagination and it is long over due for some course correction.
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by vturner 8y ago
That bugs me the swipe though...sometimes it will show part of the map and I tap the map expecting to see it full screen. No, it just erases, goes to a blank search.
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by vturner 8y ago
I've experienced similar behavior. For awhile it seemed it would find a "new route" and give me x seconds to say no or else it would default to the new route. It seems the behavior switched to the default being no to the new
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by vturner 8y ago
Also becoming curious in quantum computing again (the current wave in classical software development is depressing IMHO so looking for an alternative for the futre). I read a good portion of Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists as an

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