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by wsy 9y ago
It is true that there is reluctance to put pressure on your own industry. So we see that Microsoft, Google, etc. receive more pressure in EU, while Volkswagen receives more pressure in US. However, the article points out perfectly well how
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Yes, and rightfully so. But to convince someone that SOLID is the right approach for decentralization, one needs to refer to the specific technology, and to specific use cases where specific user groups have an incentive to switch to it. We
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Arguments following this pattern are often made to defend technologies: The current state A is bad, and we should aim for state B. Technology X aims for state B, so X is good. This pattern is fundamentally flawed. X needs to be useful on it
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by wsy 9y ago
As many people here already said, just stick with your simple JS. No need to complain about anything because plain JS still works exactly as it always did.
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I agree, but the opposite also happens: teams start by implementing something small themselves because the framework is so 'huge'. Over time, they end up with a semi-huge custom framework because they run into the same issues and
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IMHO the key is to not think about scaling and economics when you initially try out stuff. You need to find one friendly hotel manager who puts one tablet in one of their rooms, and have reception staff ask the guest on checkout how they li
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by wsy 9y ago
This is an example how philosophers work: if I understood you correctly, you state that one must have empirical evidence to back up their position. If someone claims something without giving empirical evidence, their claim should be refuted
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Hume's point is much more fundamental: you can't know if the world is indeed governed by 'natural laws'. Maybe the sun will just not rise tomorrow, ignoring all of the causal relationships we think we 'discovered&#x
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They know that they know nothing, so the question of proofs is somewhat moot.
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Humes point is that we can't perceive causal relationships, even if we think we do. We can only perceive events, and then our mind constructs causal relationships on top of them. But these relationships are not inherent to the world, t
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by wsy 9y ago
I understood the article a bit differently: if you rant about Java, don't pretend that this is only to educate other Devs and open their eyes to sad realities. There is another, less benevolent side to it, a destructive side, that on p
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by wsy 9y ago
If you anyway assume a legal system to resolve issues, then just go for traditional contracts and money transactions. Why then bother with blockchain-based contracts in the first place?
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For well-established journals, the editorial board finds new editors, so there is no cost involved for publishers. With respect to typesetting and proofreading, my personal experience is that the 'service' provided by Elsevier was
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> ... europe needs more appreciation of self-reliance and entrepreneurship to enable a richer startup culture ... A good social support system is not detrimental at all to a rich startup culture. It is financed by taxes, and as startup
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Your argument would be more convincing if brought as falsifiable science-style theory. In its current humanities-style argumentative form, you somewhat contradict yourself: either your argument holds power, then why do you dismiss this fami
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The article, in particular the heading, paints a very wrong picture. There is no hunger in Germany, neither open nor hidden. "Grundsicherung" (the state provides all essentials for everyone) is guaranteed by the German constitutio
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by wsy 9y ago
You claim that "the now well-established distinction between a and b was intuited long ago", but in the discussion refer to various a'/b' distinctions that separate the whole into quite different parts than today&#x
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I have no expertise in ancient philosophy, so can't comment on these philosophers. Is 'cogito ergo sum' a logical or an empirical truth? For Descartes it was a logical truth (undoubtably true). However, from the point of view
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> just about every culture distinguishes between empirical and logical truths Actually, having this distinction is quite young even in our own western culture: depending what exactly you mean, ~300 years (Kants distinction between "
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> math, not science While true, it is an artefact of the usage of the term science in English. For example, theoretical computer science is no science according to that distinction between math and science.
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In German, "Wissenschaft" includes all kinds of academic knowledge production, regardless if mathematics, natural sciences ("Naturwissenschaften"), humanities ("Geisteswissenschaften"), or engineering ("I
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> it's hard to believe such a seemingly harmless claim (women aren't as well represented in tech because they're not as interested in it) has created such outrage His claim is much stronger: he claims that women _working a
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If the broadcasted stream is encrypted, and the key is not public, it is obviously not public data. If the stream is unencrypted, the reasoning applies perfectly.
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While it is true that all economic systems have specialization, so far capitalism seems to be most efficient in self-organizing it. The reason is explained before: wherever specialization yields a high margin, people jump into that gap. As
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It hugely depends on the target user group: admins don't mind about an 'ugly looking ... but productive software', but non-IT users mind a lot, and for them it has a significant effect on usability. It can only be '_very
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It is particularly good for an introductory programming course to use something 'exotic', because that levels the field. Students who did some Basic/Pascal/PHP/Ruby/... in high school, who often think they alre
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Anybody who read "Disrupted" by Dan Lyons knows that not only software engineers suffer from this ignorance. It is amazing that nowadays startup companies can become successful even if the ignorance level of their employees is qu
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Fraunhofer Institutes are set up to perform applied research. For pure research, Germany has its Max-Planck-Institutes.
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VS Code is not based on Atom.
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For sure they won't change Trello to become like JIRA, and there is a little hope the JIRA UI will become more like Trello. So IMHO nothing to worry about.

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