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by al452 9y ago
AutoValue beats Lombok hands down. Not least because it is pure Java so no extra IDE support is needed.
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by al452 9y ago
Yes.
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by al452 9y ago
Yes it is an America-thing. If you're in the rest of the world move on, nothing to see here,
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by al452 9y ago
This.
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by al452 9y ago
Note how the Guardian headline has seamlessly converted the report's wording “display one or more characteristics that signal their potential vulnerability” to "are financially vulnerable". I think that's self-evident di
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Dimon Knocks Bitcoin Again: Crackdown Likely on 'Worthless' Cryptocurrency(coindesk.com)
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by al452 9y ago
They could, though then there would be more trust issues about who hosts and controls the database. A database of which every participant keeps a copy, and with strong guarantees about consistency between the copies, has pretty obvious attr
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by al452 9y ago
You miss the point about trust. The trust issue that blockchain addresses for big banks is not "I'm worried you're a scam that will disappear with all my money". It's "I'm worried that you've not got
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by al452 9y ago
That it works as a sales pitch doesn't mean it's inaccurate. The focus of container work pre-Docker really was all about isolation not packaging.
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by al452 9y ago
The reason people build those models with those assumptions isn't some great conspiracy, it's merely because under those assumptions it's actually feasible to build models. Building working mathematical models with imperfect
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by al452 9y ago
Well the original article headline doesn't talk about anyone "wanting" anything at all -- I don't know, why would Wired repost articles from Quanta, changing only the headline? https://www.quantamagazine.org&#
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by al452 9y ago
True but in fairness NextBSD was only ever a technology demo / proof of concept.
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by al452 9y ago
IntelliJ often shows latency, but it's not "slow", it's doing a stupendous amount of work behind the scenes and building an incredibly rich model of your code and your application. If you're not getting more out of
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by al452 9y ago
Excellent site, love it. I can't provide a funny story or eulogy, but have a scary one... "Microsoft Lync" [item 10 on the list right now] is not dead, it's aaaalllliiiiivvveeeee... Those of us who work in the nightmare
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by al452 9y ago
In some ways agree, except that I do not find Taibbi's rage-driven ignorance-fuelled style in any way "emotionally satisfying".
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by al452 9y ago
"The Daily Mail coverage is worse" It always is.
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by al452 9y ago
You mean NIST not NSA, right?
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by al452 9y ago
Oh god yes, the Guardian was the last newspaper I read regularly (well that and the FT sometimes) but I gave it up because I just couldn't take the horrible whingey whiny columnists any more. It's got worse though, now seems like
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by al452 9y ago
Yes absolutely, a good one is invaluable at helping the rest of the team be more productive.
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by al452 9y ago
"Under single payer system, it's illegal to purchase medicine or health care." Total utter FUD. It's legal and normal in each of the 3 countries I've lived&worked in with a single-payer system. You seem very mis
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by al452 9y ago
> Oracle Solaris is irrelevant. Amen to that.
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by al452 9y ago
I kind of agree, but feel a need to point out that the "absurd cash piles" are a byproduct of tax rules, not of (alleged) timidity on the part of Cook et al.
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by al452 9y ago
> I find good Windows machines are as reliable as Mac's ones. Yes. But they are still fugly.
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by al452 9y ago
> Maybe I've just watch The Wolf Of Wall Street too many times. Why do so many HN commenters think that movie is, like, a credible documentary? (I don't necessarily mean you , obviously.)
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by al452 9y ago
Not quite... the real point of gerrymandering is to concentrate your political opponents' support, so that they have a small number of large majorities, and to spread out your own, so that you have a large number of small majorities. T
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by al452 9y ago
"incomprehensibility"
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by al452 9y ago
Google AutoValue is (for my money) a much better alternative to Lombok. Plus it's strongly opinionated towards immutability, big win.
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by al452 9y ago
You lost me at "Trump administration has plan".
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by al452 9y ago
I'd totally pick the person who has already shown extreme enthusiasm for my products.
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by al452 9y ago
The UK government (perhaps the relevant one in this case) does not have a stellar track record of figuring out how to make big IT systems and projects successful. This knee-jerk appeal to regulation is unconvincing to say the least.

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