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by zxcdw 13y ago
Military usually excels at it's applications.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
I'd be surprised if most didn't think of this at some point when reading the original article, let alone when talking about concentrating huge energies from space in general. That said, perhaps people don't consider it feasib
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Could someone elaborate what for is such spying happening in the first place? What is it really needed for? What would happen without it?
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by zxcdw 13y ago
No, instead of expect others to deal with the US foreign policy when it comes to spying, fix the offending foreign policy. US is at the blame here, not UN or those which US spies upon.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
But still a good proportition of them ends up spending their lives in there by returning again and again if not being sentenced for life straight away. It's as if being a criminal was a lifestyle some people choose to adopt from the be
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by zxcdw 13y ago
How? In Dropbox ?
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Do you find that marketing/advertising is about creating experiences ? I find it is about bullshitting people as much as you can, change my view please.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Steganography.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
What are these magical "x86 bytecode instructions"? That phrasing itself means nothing. Are you sure you know what you are talking about? I personally object by principle anything which is non-optimal by design because it means th
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Except that the implications of Snowden and PRISM and whatnot are fisrt and foremost technical when it comes to running an online business, something HN is very focused on.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Agreed. Not the language itself, but the way the runtime operates. One simply does not build reliable and fundamental abstractions over non-optimal enough abstractions and expect things to work long-term.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
> But he won't, and I suspect that the reason is that his claim is fanciful. Do you find this more probable than the fact that by giving out a name he'd set up his friend between a rock and a hard place?
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by zxcdw 13y ago
I think the point is to deliver . You are better off delivering than talking. Shut up, sit down and get shit done so you can deliver .
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Out of curiosity, what kind of educational background do you have if you don't mind the question? As a highschool dropout it interests me. :)
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by zxcdw 13y ago
A browser ought to compete against Firefox and Chrome? Do managed languages come even close in resource usage(CPU and RAM) and consistent performance at projects at that scale?
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by zxcdw 13y ago
> Companies with a huge existing codebase (e.g. EA) likely find porting an existent engine cheaper than writing a new one, and will of course stick with their historical C++ Can you envision an alternative for C++ with similar performa
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by zxcdw 13y ago
So what you're saying(or, implying, as I stubbornly deduce from references to GC, sue me ;)) is that it is unfortunate that we can't use... gasp Java? Oh dear.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Sometimes the awesomeness of "the future" outright depresses me. :(
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by zxcdw 13y ago
> It's heartening to see a renewed interest in functional, declarative and logic based programming today, but also saddening that the poisonous legacy of C has prevented us from getting there sooner. From the point of view of prog
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by zxcdw 13y ago
The other party benefits from status quo and we don't, that's why. :) ...maybe
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by zxcdw 13y ago
No, it is not. But what does it have to do with anything discussed here? I can't see IR being something which locks users or developers to a particular vendor.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
I've donated useless $20 for nothing(except goodwill funding of the project), so additional $50 for the device would be something I'd choose any day without hesitation.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
> The solar heat gain is close to 1kw per square meter. Where, for how long and when? Certainly not when you need to regularly use a wood stove for heating, at least not around here in northern Europe. :)
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by zxcdw 13y ago
> The probability that a certain person be "unethical" is independent of any other characteristic of that person. To nitpick offtopic: Is there any proof of this? That "personality charasteristics" are completely in
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Has very little to do with the language, apart from what undefined and platform dependent behavior allow the compiler to trick around. Of course, if the compiler goes nuts or is buggy, anything can happen "behind the scenes", but
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by zxcdw 13y ago
What about them, exactly?
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by zxcdw 13y ago
A fellow cmus user here, I can only second the awesomeness of it and encougrage everyone interested in client-side music playback to try it out.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
And millions of us foreigners with absolutely no vote on anything.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Where do I sign up?
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by zxcdw 13y ago
I am not sure -- perhaps if the proposal is that it's directly based on only the residency or citizenship then children too would have it, although I would find it somewhat questionable if it is needed(because it's the parents who

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