merry-year

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by merry-year 13y ago
Both Dollar and Bitcoin are un-evenly distributed, but with Bitcoin the creation of new currency is fair, unlike the creation of new dollars by the people who have fractional reserve banking license.
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by merry-year 13y ago
NoSQL DBs have real advantages - e.g. you have a huge production relational DB, you want to make schema changes - you have to take your app offline for hours.
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by merry-year 13y ago
>> How are the "other 3 billion people" without smartphones going to contribute to Facebook's bottom line? By becoming rich, of course.
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by merry-year 13y ago
Buy/build a faster PC?
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by merry-year 13y ago
Good excuse ;)
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by merry-year 13y ago
"leading teams" is very different from "coding 80 hours a week" IDEs like Visual Studio and Idea will show you classes, methods and parameters as you type. You only need to know which namespace to use for a given operati
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by merry-year 13y ago
There are alternatives - e.g. instead of band albums buy overpriced T-Shirts on their official web site.
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by merry-year 13y ago
> Today is a very humbling day for me. When I read that I knew this guy would fail as MS CEO. It's a proper jungle out there and a humble Indian guy will be eaten alive by the aggressive confident westerners.
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by merry-year 13y ago
Enjoyment >> freedom /s Plus the artists who create the content get a miniscule part of your purchase money.
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by merry-year 13y ago
Just the opposite - every time you buy any content from the evil media mega corps you're funding their war against privacy, democracy and individual freedoms.
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by merry-year 13y ago
Operates a drill press.
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by merry-year 13y ago
>> impractical compared to better modern languages How much did 'they' pay you to say that? :D But seriously Lisps are by far the most advanced programming languages. They just take a huge amount of effort to learn.
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by merry-year 13y ago
Hmmm, are you saying that you can predict the exact protein that, say a human cell, will produce for every DNA sequence. I had the impression that the whole mRNA + ribosomes process is extremely complex and poorly understood.