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by w0utert 13y ago
From personal experience I can attest that the answer 'so you can see the machine is full of water when it stops mid-cycle' is the right one. I've had my washing machine break down while full of water, and if I hadn't kn
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That's a bit of disingenuous strawman comment. No matter what you think about the price of coffee and toast in SF, you'd have to be blind, in denial, or suffer from amnesia if you think valuations of stocks in general and tech sto
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That doesn't make sense, since it would mean manufacturers would not be able to provide any kind of connector on their devices that provides more than just USB and charging, which I cannot imagine to be true. If an adapter that goes fr
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Maybe I'm the one who's missing something here, but why is everyone so obsessed with the Lightning connector Apple uses? As far as I understand it, the proposed legislation is about universal chargers , not universal cables , an
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>> On the other side, we have some people who have always forecast an imminent heat death of Malthusian malaise for us all. Those people have never been right I'd argue that for a very large part of the global population, maybe
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>> I agree entirely BUT I can see how someone might be misled by all the bitcoin cheerleading. I don't. Every time I see the comments on BTC articles, I get the impression the groupthink among BTC optimists is so strong it effe
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>> Mutable state can be a huge pain in the ass [..] 8I don't know, I think it's a point where education fails* I'd argue that the problem with software quality is not so much in the (ab)use of mutable state, but the f
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>> In the real world, everything is a process. Nothing ever stays the same or stands still. No object is the same object from one millisecond to the next. Been reading up on Heraclitus lately? While this is an interesting statement
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>> Physical money has intrinsic value equal to the metal or paper it's made of. Of course that is not what makes physical money valuable and I am equally confused by that quote. USD/EUR/JPY currency (either physical a
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>> So far I've heard these drones won't work because existing aircraft can't do this, or because military drones can't do that. That's not the reason why I think this Amazon drone thing is just a way to gene
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No, air traffic is not 'almost automated', and pilots are not 'just there as a safety backup'. The only part of flying that has been automated is avionics, ie: taking off, flying the aircraft along a pre-set flight p
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>> This is probably the reason for Javascript's popularity, but if you ignore some bad language design, Javascript is a very simple language with a very small number of concepts that you need to understand to start getting work
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Interestingly, the expressions are the same, but the graphs are not, which means one of the two is wrong.
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I think that by now, not many people consider JavaScript 'alien technology', or don't believe you can do clever stuff with it. I don't mind the 'X in 30 lines of JavaScript' articles at all, they're nice c
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>> The primary way prisons reduce crime is by people who commit crimes. You realize there's a virtually unlimited supply of people that could potentially qualify to be locked up because they are criminal for violating some more
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by w0utert 13y ago
No, credit is created by private banks, but the money supply is controlled by central banks, for example like the FED does right now by scooping up assets (quantitative easing, ie: increasing the money supply). This is popularly called
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That's not completely correct. Governments don't print money, central banks do. Governments still have have to sell bonds to actually have money to spend. The amount of money in circulation affects the interest on these bonds, but
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>> I'd be more happy if Unity goes toward being more programmer-friendly. Fully code-only projects support, no need to waste a lot of time tinkering in that complex UI, etc... I guess you are not really the target audience for
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by w0utert 13y ago
>> Now if you don't want to use Camel and want to build a Big Ball of Mud, that is your choice, but do not pretend that it is a best practice in the 21st century. The standards for software engineering have moved on. I don&#x27
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by w0utert 13y ago
I'm not knowledgeble about HFT by any stretch of imagination, but I watched this epsiode of VPRO Backlight when it aired on dutch TV, and what I got from it (not just from Bodek himself, but also the Nanex guy) that initially, these &#
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by w0utert 13y ago
>> There are a lot of things wrong with Java, of course, which does not mean that they are also issue of object-oriented programming. Inheritance (sorry...) doesn't work both ways: the fact that a Lexus is prohibitively expensiv
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I also don't fully agree with the statement that Java (or other JVM based languages) is the pinnacle of interoperability. Try interfacing between e.g. Python and Java some time and you know what I mean. Besides JNI or some other JVM ba
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>> I wonder how many gas-fueled car fires have there been in the last two months... just asking. Contrary to popular belief (and maybe common sense), gas-fueled cars rarely catch fire because of the gas in the tank. You'd need
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>> People always complain that Linux desktops just mimic Windows 95, now that Gnome has done something entirely new (and good!) [..] If by 'entirely new (and good)!' you mean 'just mimic the OS X desktop' (badly)
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Or just re-submit it another time and see what happens, try to negotiate, try to get an explanation why this requirement is not in the submission guidelines, whatever. The people reviewing submitted apps are just that: people. They sometime
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Haha so true. I remember I had an S3 Virge DX back then, and it was actually slower to enable 3D 'acceleration' in the few games that supported the card, than using software rendering. It didn't add much if anything to the qu
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Cats are nothing like dogs though. While it's also important to socialize kittens as soon as possible to make them comfortable around humans, I don't think it's a good idea to haul them around town in a car. Cats don't l
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>> JS only picked up steam because Flash died. Not because it was a great language. If it were a great language people would have started optimizing it 5 years ago. It isn't. So they didn't. The new optimizations are out of
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Apple is shit, Google is shit, Microsoft is shit, and the list continues... Not trying to defend anyone here, but with so many customers, products, software versions, it's no surprise problems will occur, which are sometimes inappropri
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>> However, I reject the idea that you have to shower women with money to get them to go out with you. Something like going out for coffee is low-key and harder to reject, whereas a show or dinner puts on a lot of pressure. Sure, no

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