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by effn 13y ago
Kotlin would preserve Google's investment in Java in a way Dart wouldn't.
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by effn 13y ago
The funny thing about your comment is that you could have made the exact comment in 1995 to dismiss Java. Sometimes it just takes very long for ideas to reach mainstream, but they can nevertheless become extremely successful. The most impor
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by effn 13y ago
The bar for what counts as "innovation" in mainstream languages is strikingly low.
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by effn 13y ago
I found it way harder. I'm struggling to reach even a score of 1000 when I rarely score under 10000 in the original.
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by effn 13y ago
Hating somebody for writing free software is not anywhere near reasonable. He never forced you to use it.
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by effn 13y ago
This article is not about web pages.
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by effn 13y ago
So you get other sites to publish your articles, but when other sites want to do the same to you, you call that spam?
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by effn 13y ago
Boarding card reissue fee? It's been a few years since I've been on a Ryanair flight, but all the other airlines I've used recently have QR scanners now, you no longer need a boarding card to board a plane.
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by effn 13y ago
Or a github security vulnerability.
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by effn 13y ago
There is nothing evil in preventing people from migrating to MySQL.
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by effn 13y ago
It has a index clustering operation but this is a one-time operation that will not affect further inserts/updates. But it shouldn't matter, the implicit constraint on a VARCHAR(n) does not affect indexing.
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by effn 13y ago
> The critique is 'Haskell takes FP to an extreme and I show this is true because someone tried to implement miniKanren and needed Oleg to do it'. >That is not really a strong argument. It's worse than that. The linked
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by effn 13y ago
You can also tune the fsync option to get mongo-like performance and reliability.
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by effn 13y ago
We do this in Sweden too. WWW is pronounced VVV and the car manufacturer is pronounced BMV.
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by effn 13y ago
> It's this "the customer is just wrong" attitude that makes some of us sense an area ripe for disruption. Pride goeth before a fall. Doesn't this apply to syntax as well?
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by effn 13y ago
If something seems scary/spectacular/surprising it's usually a good idea to do some fact checking. In this case it's very easy, since the authoritative source (Forbes) is available online. GE is 4th, not 44th. It seems t
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by effn 13y ago
So, any programming language incapable of beating a heavily tuned C/ASm h.264 encoder is bullshit?
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by effn 13y ago
The vast majority of OTC derivatives was far less disruptive to the banking sector than your average vanilla home mortgage loan during the crisis. An overwhelming majority of all the banks that failed during the crisis had zero OTC derivati
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by effn 13y ago
VAT is never charged on assets (which Bitcoin is), only goods and services.
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by effn 13y ago
> I don't know but I assume that part of the reason that Swedes are able to deal effectively with the trash is that they sort it properly at the source, so that they more easily can process it. Nope, you can burn unsorted garbage. T
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by effn 13y ago
Yes, of course.
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by effn 13y ago
No. The authors of GPL-licensed code has no say in how other people license their code they don't own the copyright on. Derivatives of GPL-licensed code is either: 1. GPL-licensed 2. Illegal If it's not explicitly 1 by the license
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by effn 13y ago
No, short term bonds get lower yield because they carry much less interest rate risk. There's no free lunch.
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by effn 13y ago
30-year bonds do, but they are not risk-free unless you hold them to maturity.
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by effn 13y ago
A friend of mine with a record deal is getting more from a single album sale than he gets from 50K listens on spotify.
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by effn 13y ago
My experience is the opposite. I find Chrome horribly, horribly slow to use. Safari is ultrafast and FF somewhere in between. I still use it because I've become so accustomed to its UI but I switch to Safari on some sites to avoid spin
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by effn 13y ago
I think this is for people that already know how to use monads effectively in Haskell and wants to learn more about the mathematical background.
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by effn 13y ago
> You can do that in most Nordic countries, and it has many more benefits than disadvantages. For example, you can walk safely everywhere because everyone has sufficient social security. Street robberies and whatnot are practically non-e
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by effn 13y ago
Possible in theory. But then you have to explain to people why they are paying the same amount of tax as people one year older than them, but will still receive a lot less when they retire.
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by effn 13y ago
> The idea seems to be that you can free up a lot of the money wasted on bureaucracy and pay out to everyone indiscriminately. This idea does not stand up to any scrutiny at all. The cost of administering a welfare bureaucracy is minuscu

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