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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> From my perspective, Google's goals are aligned with improving the world by offering information services. Ah yes. From "Don't be evil" to "Improve the world"? Who asked google to "improve" anyth
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> Is it really such a big deal to rewrite your function to use a loop? (After all TRE only addresses recursion that can easily be replaced by a loop. :-) Sure. Recursion is iteration. But the beauty of recursion is that it lends itself t
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> Should I blame my Computer Science education for not teaching it to me? Which computer science curriculum doesn't require a course in theory of programming languages where functional programming concepts and history ( most likely
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Can we please keep the reddit style hysterics on reddit? I pretty much left reddit to escape the fake political nonsense. And with all due respect, you are doing exactly what you claim cambridge analytica did. You are pushing extreme fear a
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
"this is Hollywood helping to make this bill happen in the first place as part of its ongoing effort to remake the internet away from being a communications medium for everyone, and into a broadcast/gatekeeper dominated medium whe
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
The media pile on against facebook is reaching absurd proportions. And it's getting harder to distinguish between news and advocacy or journalism and propaganda. When a journalist is leading a #deletefacebook movement and when news is
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
I'm talking about serious systematic migrations, not upgrades. In these instances, it is impossible to avoid downtime ( whether it be a few seconds, minutes or even hours ). It's one of the reasons why SLAs do not offer 100% uptim
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> China is just as likely to get stuck in a middle income trap Japan wasn't a middle income country. They didn't get stuck in the middle income trap. In the next sentence you say that china is like japan right before they crash
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Manufacturing is on the rise in america once again.
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
500 is low compared to the overall brazilian population, but it is significant when you consider it is the wealthy brazilians ( a small portion of the brazilian population ) who are doing this. It's the wealthy elite who drive society
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Vi is like C, it just ain't going away because it dominates a niche that it is perfectly suited for. I think emacs will decline as other graphical/simple text editors and IDEs keep making inroads.
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
It isn't just china. You can be fired for offending european sensibilities. You can be fired for offending saudis/muslims/etc. Of course we already have examples of tech workers being fired for conservative opinions. But the
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
What foundational principle? White supremacy? Genocide and theft of land? It's nice to know that we are just as brainwashed as the chinese.
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> Having no-down-time when doing migrations is not an easy topic. Depending on the nature of the migration and the type of data and the type of service and how coupled everything is, it's impossible. Especially when you are dealing
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Considering Britain is banning journalists like Lauren Southern and convicting people for making jokes on youtube ( count dankula ), I most certainly believe it. Not only that, Britain is the most surveilled society on earth. http:/&#
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> So if one finally manages to get a safer C variant that finally wins the hearts of UNIX kernels and embedded devs A safer variant wouldn't be C. What makes C great for OS development is that it is just a step above assembly and yo
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> Some countries are a lot closer to 1984 than others. Yes. Britain is far ahead of everyone at this moment. I'm sure china and the rest are desperate to catch up. > The EU and US As an american, I'd really appreciate it if
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> China is the living embodiment of what 1984 can look like in 2018. Or britain - you know the place that 1984 was about. Or germany, spain, canada, russia, saudi arabia, etc. > I do wonder if an ever increasing crackdown and everythi
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> I'm not so confident if the code itself will live up to the reputation of the services it provides. Then don't open source it. If you are running a business then it should be a financial/business decision. Is there any f
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> You weren't paying attention—except for blasphemy, those things were from across the spectrum: I didn't say it was only the conservatives/religious. I said it was usually them. Sure, tipper gore was against rap, but it w
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Don't forget conjuring up an external enemy to distract the public and get the population riled up. 5. Russia and Hackers and Collusion Oh My! > Not the fault of the media who would never shut up about Trump. But look at the ratings
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> I am fucking sick and fucking tired of people interfering with the free choice of individuals in any effort to "fix" society and "help" people. What is shocking is that it is the liberals who are now pushing for mor
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
As soon as I read the title, I knew this would be the case. Have the media started doing more of this clickbait misrepresentation or are we just now more aware of it. It's so frustrating that it's getting harder to trust media or
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
The title is a tad bit misleading. The article itself states that there is no smoking gun but a lot of anecdotal indicates that IBM is targeting older workers. So nothing was confirmed. But it is an industry-wide open secret that tech firms
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Because the source for most generic programming assignments are already online? Why not skew the grading more heavily towards in-class midterms and finals? Or you could generate indivualized hws for each student, but that may not be feasibl
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> It appears that there's a gap between objects and qualia because only I can see my qualia, while everybody can see a brain or measure electric impulses. That could be true. Or it could be true that you don't really exist and
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
The title is a bit deceiving since it is what might be coming in C# 8. Here is an interview with the PM of C# language development about what could be coming in C# 8. https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/A-P
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> Patently false. The public debt in Brazil has been almost entirely internal for the past 10 years. Should I show you a chart to settle it? Why not show it rather than asking for my permission? But since you asked, please do. And show m
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> but I find it difficult to imagine how a material thing, the brain with its neurons and electric impulses and neurotransmiters, can be able to generate what philosophers of mind call qualia, which is something apparently non material.
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> Your concept of brain is happening in your mind right now. No. It's in my brain. > Can you feel electrical signals in your brain? Or can you feel senses in your conciousness? When people experience certain kinds of brain injury

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