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by peoplewindow 8y ago
I was wondering how far down I'd have to scroll to find the first sensible comment. Congrats. The internal logic of these claims is non-existent. During the actual campaign Hillary and her supporters were convinced Russia (the generic
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
Because the actions that would be obvious outcomes of the identified problems are pointless to suggest, they will never happen. For example, a key issue identified in this discussion is the perceived career risk of being friends with women
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
Kotlin has null, but also nullability in the type system. They kept it in for interop purposes. Also, optionality is very common, so having it integrated into the language makes it more convenient and efficient.
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
It's not a theory, it's a description of my observations. I've presented my sources. Why not go find counter-examples? I bet you'll find it's harder than you expect. But OK, I'll make my case more strongly. Her
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
That attitude doesn't help the cause of women in tech. It makes things worse. Machines don't have empathy. They do not care about feelings. Code is harsh. So are professional code reviewers. Therefore if you're a programmer,
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
"Women in tech" events are a good example of how women exclude themselves. A typical event has the following attributes: - Men strongly discouraged or banned from participating. - Many of the attendees are "women in tech&quot
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
You're assuming CS class performance correlates with ability. Most of the people on my CS course hadn't programmed before, and they mostly all passed. But many of them couldn't code at graduation and went into non-programming
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
Because the idea that gender disparities are due to the choices men and women make is some sort of ideologically impure heretical thought, for some reason. If it's not to do with oppression/awful men then where's the fun? Whe
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
Maths is clearly warmer. Go look at the stats for undergrad vs postgrad. There's a huge difference. Women get maths degrees to become teachers, more or less.
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
GOSPLAN didn't fail because of lack of MapReduce. I don't think you could make a planned economy even with all the big data tools that exist today. There's far too much important information affecting prices that isn't r
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
Maybe not, but it worked out pretty well for him.
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
I realise we're not meant to meta-discuss here, but that post you're replying to was flagged and dead, and I vouched for it. For what it's worth, I agree that the post was ridiculous - Musk's behaviour is dumb and with e
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
No, SubstrateVM and Graal are both open source. The enhanced versions compile to faster code, pretty much. You can do without them if you don't want to pay.
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
That implies the balances are being represented as floats and turned directly into strings ... how does something that basic happen at all? Is Sabadell's Spanish web UI like that too? No wonder they're screwed
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
Who is suggesting that will happen? I suspect you aren't quite sure about what "support" means here. It doesn't mean your app suddenly stops working one day. For most apps it'll make no difference in fact.
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
There are several points in this post but the bulk of it is, I feel, one of those classic fallacies that journalists or security hobbyists often engage in: "I found what looks like a flaw in a system but I didn't try to exploit it
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
And OpenBSD has large numbers of skilled VM engineers sitting around doing nothing? OpenJDK is Oracle. They're the same people. If Oracle stop releasing bug fixes to the open source project OpenBSD isn't going to step up and sud
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
How is selling security fixes unprecedented? That's basically the entire Red Hat business model in the early years - yes the fixes are "free" if you want to spend all your time downloading and recompiling software, or you can
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
developers, pay us or we will direct your players' complaints to you How is that even remotely unreasonable though? The game example is poor for a different reason; Oracle don't seem to care about desktop apps anymore and they w
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
There is no sign reflection is going to be removed. That wouldn't be possible anyway. The "denial" of use of internal APIs can be disabled with a command line switch. The point of the new warnings is to try and start slowly w
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
The only other companies that have been proposed all make money by charging for support. And since when is charging money for work done 'greedy'?
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
Well, the intervention is to change the pensions, surely. And the goal is to intervene before a collapse occurs rather than afterwards. If the argument is "we don't need to change the university pension scheme because when they
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
Haidt is a psychologist whose research and advocacy has in recent years moved towards political bias in universities, in particular he talks a lot about student and faculty driven morality-based censorship. He started the "Heterodox Ac
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
That makes it sound like it's all the students fault. I studied CS at a top tier UK university (not Oxbridge but a tier below). The course was a mess. The professors were useless, often didn't understand their own subjects, markin
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
Er is it a questionable scenario? UK universities all have very similar businesses, customer bases, staff unionisation levels and risk profiles. It's quite imaginable that if there was a sudden drop in the number of students attending
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
You make it sound like a zero sum game. If academics are being hired into industry, that frees up grant money to be spent on other areas where they aren't recruiting so aggressively. It doesn't actually 'deplete' academi
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
European countries and companies are less likely to go big or go home in my experience. The USA has the expression, "bet the farm" and American leaders like to use it frequently. I can't think of any European equivalent sayin
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
That's absolutely true but if you read between the lines it's possible that's not what he means. Lots of people in Europe use the word "Europe" when they actually mean "EU". This is such a common verbal ti
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
Is that really true? Everyone in science speaks English and DeepMind, based in the UK, is in fact one of the world's top AI research hubs. Their papers are consistently excellent and of course DeepMind's workforce comes from aroun
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by peoplewindow 8y ago
Linux became popular because it was free as in beer, because it was essentially a clone of pre-existing systems that lots of programmers happened to like (the commercial UNIXes) and because those competing systems were fairly stagnant. So f

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