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by zzalpha 9y ago
Funny, I noticed an absence of a far more cynical explanation that made me immediately doubt how balanced the article was: if cops know that the footage is difficult to obtain or can be easily suppressed, deleted, or otherwise buried, or if
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by zzalpha 9y ago
BTW, I took out that last paragraph, I was being a dick. But I don't think there's a clear answer to the question, other than "they're pretty common". My bet is that they're more common on the east coast than t
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by zzalpha 9y ago
apart from megacorps where they seem to be universal So factor out a huge part of the job market? SV startups are a small percentage of the overall tech world. Legions of programmers are hired in traditional companies in finance, energy,
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I have no idea if this is true or not, but generally you can't get tariffs without pointing to some alleged unfair trading practice. I'd buy that if this was a WTO ruling but these are tarrifs adjudicated by Americans, supportin
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Your explanation does not justify the choice. They were tasked with communicating with other academics who were already using the term "class" in the field of programming language research.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Yes, I get that. It's still confusing. And programming languages exist to first and foremost aid programmers, not to adhere to some abstract expression of mathematical perfection. At the time Haskell hit the scene, the term Interface
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Fiat currency holds value because (among other reasons): 1. It's used by a sovereign government as a means of receiving tax payments. 2. It's a common medium of exchange for products and services. Neither of these things is true o
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by zzalpha 9y ago
And my point is that that usage of the term predates Stroustrup by 10 solid years. By the time Haskell was first released, OOP was either already available in popular languages (Smalltalk, Object Pascal) or being introduced into existing la
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by zzalpha 9y ago
You... don't really think Stroustrup invented the term "class", do you? :)
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Oh, I don't dispute the name is logical. I'm saying in the broader context of programming languages, it's confusing. And that that confusion could have been easily foreseen and avoided... after all, Smalltalk had been using t
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I kinda wish the Haskell designers hadn't gone with the term "typeclass", as it's incredibly misleading. Typeclasses have a lot more cognitive similarity to Go-style interfaces or Smalltalk protocols than they do to OOP-
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Those reasons being...?
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by zzalpha 9y ago
To be pedantic, I said doubling their coin, not doubling their USD equivalent. And who's gonna complain about 5-6% in free gains? And that's assuming speculation doesn't continue to inflate the price of those alternative coi
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by zzalpha 9y ago
They'll all continue. Who wants one bubble when you can have three? The last fork resulted in people doubling their coin holdings. Another fork means another doubling and people will buy/sell on that chain, too. Once again, th
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Which is why this isn't as simple as a direct Ponzi scheme where actual cash payments are passed around (and why I never actually called it one). It's more like a MLM where sellers are buying their own product for resale with the
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I think everyone's quick to pile on the author, for some reason Oh, that's easy. The prevailing wisdom around here is that management is always, without fail, a bad thing. Management is either bad because they get in the way by
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by zzalpha 9y ago
No developer is a solo developer. At a bare minimum, Present You is working with Future You. And Future You would appreciate it if Present You documented your work.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Ah, I see! So from one article and no actual evidence or information, a random Hacker News subscriber managed to determine that a story about a bad dev written by an insider on the project was actually about a poor, amazing, faultless dev w
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Not sure why the downvote. I never learned to drive (combination of lack of desire and circumstance) and at 38, I have a much more... shall we say realistic understanding of the responsibility someone takes on by getting behind the wheel, a
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by zzalpha 9y ago
LOL, so I read this statement: but anyone yelling bubble now really needs to consider how tiny 86 billion actually is. As a statement that the current price means the bears were wrong and that this isn't a bubble. I probably misunder
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Eh, I've heard that before. And yet, no one can seem to put a finger on what, exactly, those fundamentals are that might justify the magnitude of price movement, aside from "someone else will buy it from me for more than what I p
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I disagree. Let's take the American real estate bubble. According to Wikipedia: "Total home equity in the United States, which was valued at $13 trillion at its peak in 2006, had dropped to $8.8 trillion by mid-2008 and was still
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Even at its downs, bitcoin has found demand still. That is a very interesting signal. If it were just the ponzi as you say, it would have come crashing down on its downturns. That is profoundly faulty reasoning. For a lot of people, a d
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I struggle to believe that's enough to drive a 400+% increase YoY for 2017.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
What blows my mind is the massive wealth transfer this represents. Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. It's simply an abstract asset with no value other than what someone else is willing to pay for it. And there are no fundamentals that
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by zzalpha 9y ago
This is what flagging us for. Get it off HN. As another commenter noted, this topic is important, but doesn't belong here.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
For anyone reading who has an apple tree, quick correction: cold and humid. My crop easily lasts for 3 months in my storage fridge (and I don't take the time to sort them to properly eliminate bruised fruit, etc), but the key is cold a
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by zzalpha 9y ago
No problem! As I mentioned in my other comment, the only gotcha is to make sure you set up your syncthing ignore file to ignore the KeePass database lockfile.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Syncthing + KeePass works very well for cross device peer-to-peer syncing. Just make sure to configure Syncthing to ignore KeePass lockfiles.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
FYI: KeePass plus Syncthing works great for me for cross-device password databases.

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