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by zeroname 8y ago
Oh come on, everybody can churn out papers and patent filings. If you go by Nobel prizes, the ranking is different (leaving out non-US contestants): Physics: 1. MIT 2. Harvard 3. Berkeley 4. Chicago 5. Columbia Chemistry: 1. Harvard 2. Berk
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by zeroname 8y ago
Speedometer is not really a "Javascript" benchmark, it's a browser benchmark, all the actual "heavy" lifting is DOM operations. It's absolutely useless as a benchmark for hardware, because it's testing wil
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by zeroname 8y ago
> I'm not sure how I feel about this article. On the one hand, it brings to attention an important side effect of the unfriendliness of the community around Linus, namely that it's particularly discouraging to women. Why? Wha
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by zeroname 8y ago
That's just the spin that the New Yorker desperately wants to put on it, because much to their chagrin, Torvalds doesn't seem to have said anything sexist. (edited)
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by zeroname 8y ago
He didn't say it to a co-worker, he said it to a hypothetical person that doesn't actually exist in the real world. Quote: "So here's a plea: if you have anything to do with security in a distro, and think that my kids
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by zeroname 8y ago
> As for anyone who thinks those who commit this kind of fraud shouldn't go to jail, I'd say jail is about the one thing the rich are afraid of. If you have $20m then a $3m fine might suck but it's not the end of your worl
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by zeroname 8y ago
Who says I am (or need to be) an employee? All you slaves can go work for me instead, I'll pay you an extra nickel. I'll sell your labor right back to those companies you just left, those old robber barons couldn't write an S
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by zeroname 8y ago
So, if the unions conspire to limit wages, it's in the interest of all workers , but if the companies do the same, it must be made illegal. Particularly interesting is the contrast between this paragraph... "Today's inequal
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by zeroname 8y ago
The whole "priced out of the market" idea is nonsense. That argument isn't even being made by Andreesen here though. The competitive disadvantage is true, by definition. It doesn't make sense to discriminate from a marke
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by zeroname 8y ago
> No, the platform gives the tools to specifically filter by sex. Facebook is enabling sexual discrimination. Like any ad seller, Facebook offers displaying ads based on demographics. This is a basic requirement for many advertisers, bec
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by zeroname 8y ago
" § 1604.5 Job opportunities advertising. It is a violation of title VII for a help-wanted advertisement to indicate a preference, limitation, specification, or discrimination based on sex unless sex is a bona fide occupational qualif
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by zeroname 8y ago
Here's a source for the actual quote: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/linus... The preferred pronoun of that person is currently "they": https://en.wikipedia.o
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by zeroname 8y ago
> There is a certain cost in time and energy required to separate yourself from harsh statements like that identify it as such. It's not a "harsh statement", it's a joke . If anything it's flattering of that per
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by zeroname 8y ago
> This email alone set the tone for what was acceptable. Did it really? Did other contributors adopt his "style"? Linus gets a pass because he's Linus, I'm not so sure about other contributors, who presumably have the
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by zeroname 8y ago
Why do you feel that way? Because it seems "right"? Being ruthless, manipulative and dishonest is highly effective, that's how Con Men get to be so successful. It takes a sociopath to pull it off and it doesn't work out
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by zeroname 8y ago
Saying that "Linus has advocated physical abuse" based on that statement is completely disingenuous. It's an absurd interpretation. It was obviously humor and it wasn't insulting either. There are several cases where L
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by zeroname 8y ago
> The problem is not so much the security of Javascript itself but the craptacular state of the Javascript/Node ecosystem where pulling in random unchecked dependencies is the norm, for example. So lowering the barrier of entry to a
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by zeroname 8y ago
Node doesn't have it natively like Python does, but it exists: https://github.com/node-ffi/node-ffi
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by zeroname 8y ago
Oh, they did do the whole spending part of the Keynesian "strategy", it's just that if they now raise rates too high there will be bankruptcies across the board, causing another crisis. Keynesianism just doesn't work e
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by zeroname 8y ago
Calling the OS doesn't require native modules, it should be supported via a native cffi in node, like in Python.
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by zeroname 8y ago
That's because you'd rather reap the benefits of market irrationality than solid business fundamentals. Admittedly, that attitude has worked well in the past ahem fifteen years. The thing with irrationality is that it's har
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by zeroname 8y ago
Looking at stock price is a poor indicator of performance, it's too tied to market sentiment. Remember when Elon Musk smoked that joint and Tesla stock took a 10% hit? It's all nonsense. Look at revenue, look at earnings per share
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by zeroname 8y ago
The point is that Ballmer didn't drop the ball on that one, unlike Apple, who killed their server business.
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by zeroname 8y ago
Hololens, Magic Leap, Google Glass, all of these will not become "must have" consumer devices. Reality is already augmented. Need more information than what your bare eyes can see? Pull out your phone. You don't need it overl
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by zeroname 8y ago
2005? Try 1995.
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by zeroname 8y ago
"In 2014, Microsoft finally announced that Ballmer would retire, and in early 2014, Satya Nadella took charge. Nadella got Microsoft organized around mobile and the cloud (Azure), freed the Office and Azure teams from Windows, killed
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by zeroname 8y ago
He didn't say it was due to more efficient motors. Just compare the average MPG of the cars on US roads, running on subsidized gasoline, vs. those on European roads, running on heavily taxed gasoline.
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by zeroname 8y ago
"When applied to humans, this model is ludicrously implausible. While it is true that some males have trouble finding a mate, the idea that some huge percentage of males are simply not desirable enough (as we shall see, the paper requ
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Today, we are in a state of disputing facts, because people are disputing theories behind stating such facts. Let me give you an example: a reporter finds two dead bodies. The fact that two dead bodies discovered may not be under dispu
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by zeroname 8y ago
It looks horrible to me. I use a lot of FP math, and I'm not going to pick up the habit of sprinkling these dots everywhere. The fact that the language designers would even seriously consider this solution tells me it's not for me

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