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by biggestdecision 6y ago
Exceptions stand out from the crowd, good and bad. If you are a competent dev, nobody cares about that if no one notices you. If people notice you, they'll next notice if you are competent or not.
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by biggestdecision 6y ago
Companies in China have Party Committees, appointed by the government. These committees have oversight over how the company operates, and how the board is appointed. The Chinese government has a strong direct influence inside Chinese busine
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by biggestdecision 6y ago
For anyone else interested in the topic of radiological accidents, check out the reports published by the IAEA. https://www-pub.iaea.org/mtcd/publications/pdf/pub815_web.pd... Curiously like in the series Che
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by biggestdecision 6y ago
Using the Windows SDK without Visual Studio is a not great experience though. Doubly so if you are a newcomer to programming.
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by biggestdecision 6y ago
I think a main reason Microsoft lost their development community is because they charged for access to Visual studio (which is the gateway to the entire ecosystem). People didn't talk about it openly, because no one was building for th
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by biggestdecision 6y ago
Visual studio code's launch.json, combined with the extension for your language of choice, is generally a pretty good experience.
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by biggestdecision 6y ago
But also, what synergy do the tech giant and retail giant parts of Amazon have? If the two parts of the business don't really gel, what's the benefit of keeping them together in one company?
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by biggestdecision 6y ago
The safety of your home directory relies on the integrity of the operating system.
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by biggestdecision 6y ago
Lot's of domain squatters listen out for whois requests, to try nab unregistered domains before the real interested buyer. Wouldn't surprise me if big tech like Google does the same.
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by biggestdecision 6y ago
I mean it's sad that this change will affect Termux, but at the same time I can see why Google wants to enforce W^X on apps home dirs. This is currently a big backdoor for apps to sneak unvetted code in at runtime, bypasses Google&#x27
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by biggestdecision 6y ago
>I normally don't close out of applications when I'm not using them, so I was always hovering around ~6-7 of my 8 gigs of RAM in use. That sounds like your problem. And I refuse to believe that the new steam UI uses 2gb of memo
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by biggestdecision 6y ago
Funny to hear the author of Ninja say that he's never used CMake... And they shouldn't have been surprised at the number of Ninja users that were on Windows, Ninja is so much faster than the alternatives if you are using CMake on
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by biggestdecision 6y ago
Goodbye accessibility.
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by biggestdecision 6y ago
Sure they are open source projects, but the majority of dev work is done on Google's dime. Google employs many of the most important people in these projects. Sure the code will still be there if Google gives up, but will anyone have t
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by biggestdecision 6y ago
Part of the challenge of competing, is that it's so easy for Google to adopt good features from other search engines. I'm not sure what to call these, but you know the rich results Google searches provide these days? Like showing
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by biggestdecision 6y ago
Hospitals are experiencing shortages, because the masks don't exist - there is not enough mask production in the world. To limit supply to drive up the price, this will only work if the mask manufactures are a cartel.
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by biggestdecision 6y ago
Doesn't much of youtube's revenue come from music these days? Whether a patreon-style model competes or not depends on the kind of content. Individual channels making videos on youtube act like patreon is a much larger income stre
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by biggestdecision 6y ago
I don't think consumers are smart enough. Look at what's happening to Corona beer right now.
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by biggestdecision 6y ago
Just archive.org every page on the wiki. Their api will let you do 15/minute.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
How do you transfer it though? If some businessman has all his wealth tied up in stock in his business, how do you convert that to money? Some other person has to buy the stock. All this does is move the wealth around.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Sure, but why would you pay Google for that same experience when you can already get it at a very low cost?
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
The same with Bitcoin. It was massive, everyone had an opinion, articles on hn/reddit every single day, now I never see crypto news unless I seek it out.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
The world economy runs on Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon. Imagine if any one of them were to fail, it would be catastrophic. That said I'm not sure I trust the current American political climate to step in and regulate, a
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
It's like saying "he was killed in 1954" about someone wrongfully executed by the government.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Google already penalizes based off payload size/download speed.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
An index fund isn't doing research or making decisions though. They invest in companies that make up an index. When a company enters the index they buy units in that company, when a company leaves the index they sell those units.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
The "fun" flavors are also a key part of helping people quit cigarettes. They aren't designed to appeal to children, "fun" flavors are by far and away the most popular among adults. Somebody trying to quit tobacco p
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
At the current time this is much more likely to be abused for political/intelligence reasons, than for profitable criminal reasons. Sneaking a malicious commit with the same signature into a git repository for example.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
I mean, that is the only reason. It's a first party language in the Apple ecosystem. If you are working outside that ecosystem, there are better choices.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Java forces you to use profiling, at least with C you can see the exact instructions your compiler outputs. Missing the fancy vector instructions? Modify your code til you can guarantee it's vectorized. With Java you are at the mercy o

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