rapala

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by rapala 6y ago
The article is unfortunately paywalled so I couldn't read it. That ratio is indeed more sensical and interesting. But I think it still misses two points. First, the distribution of tax payers to different marginal tax rate brackets dif
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by rapala 6y ago
You can't really compare tax rates between countries like that. Some 20% of households in the USA earn 112000€ or more per year, where as only 6% of house holds in Germany earn 72000€ or more per year.
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by rapala 8y ago
Atleast here in Finland the political hurdle is so tall that when the green ligth is finally given, they basically have to build the biggest reactor possible.
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by rapala 9y ago
One way to get at the end conclusion that the original modeling is wrong is simple logic. If given 1. Player can have a Weapon 2. Sword is a Weapon 3. Wizard is a Player The from the statement "Wizard cannot have a Sword" follows
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by rapala 9y ago
> You seem to trust that programmers will play by the rules, even if the compiler doesn't enforce them. I've been trying to say the exact oppisite. C, C++, Javascript, all those languages provide ways to define abstract datatyp
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by rapala 9y ago
My comment "not something people do" was about directly accessing memory to circumvent the private data abstraction in c++ and I stand by that. I admit that I kinda pushed you into it, but you are moving the goal post. People inde
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by rapala 9y ago
Yes, you can access raw memory and flip bits to modify a private member of an object (and it migth even be defined, not too sure about that thou). But I don't find that an valid argument for the statement that you can't do abstrac
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by rapala 9y ago
> That means it is illegal because it goes against the (higher) EU law. It actually does not mean that. The courts cannot ignore an Act of Parliament even if it conflicts with the Human Rigths Act but can o ly give an declaration of inco
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by rapala 9y ago
The Human Rigths Act specifically does not grant the courts the possibility of not following Acts of Parliament when the too conflict. The courts can only give an declaration of incombability which they have done. This is how an Parliamenta
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by rapala 9y ago
Umm... that is exactly how an parliamentary democracy works. The parliament can enact any law. Yes, many such systems contain laws that overrule all other laws and are often harder to change. These are often called constitutions. But I can&
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by rapala 9y ago
I have always thought commitment in this context as "we commit this much time for this task, then we stop and reevaluate" instead of a deadline.
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by rapala 9y ago
Exactly. The point of time boxing is that you have to stop and reflect on the time spent. It gives you the chance to switch tasks if priorities have changed or to split the current task. Or to go on to the next sprint with the same task. Bu
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by rapala 9y ago
This is pretty much how bash completion works...
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by rapala 9y ago
It depends. If the duplicated code is supposed to do the same thing in both places then the two pieces of code are already dependent. You change one of the duplicates, you need to change the other one two.
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by rapala 9y ago
You'r missing 300k from your after tax sale proceeds. You could still afford the smaller house with 263k left over. You would make a 37k loss yes, but you could buy the new house. An important distinction in my opinion.
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by rapala 9y ago
As I understand this, the client here is not the caller of the methods defined in the interface, but the one implementing them. Caller has no problem just ignoring the methods that it doesn't need. But the implementer doesn't have
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by rapala 9y ago
It's off-topic, but I just have to ask. Why? Why would local copies be disallowed?
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by rapala 9y ago
No, not really. Quite the contrary actually. It would be very unlikely that a volatile and nonreplicating molecule would be the carrier of biological information through billions of years.
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by rapala 9y ago
My understanding is that this process didn't really come into existance but stayed in existance. Countless other arrangements failed to replicate and endure.
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by rapala 9y ago
If a micro service is independent it makes no calls to other micro services. Thus the system has a single service and that service is a monolith. Contradiction, thus a micro service cannot be independent.
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by rapala 10y ago
Yes, but the resolver is not specific to sorting. The runtime of Prolog contains no list sorting code. (Or if it does, it does so as an optimization.)
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by rapala 10y ago
>I-don't-want-to-pay-for-others != I will not insure my health. But it is. Insurance works by pooling money from a group of people where only few are going to use it. >People never ask "So, what does this drug/treatment
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by rapala 10y ago
Depends on the industry. If your firm needs to buy heavy equipment for example, it's relatively common to get a loan for that from a bank.
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by rapala 10y ago
Well, the runtime then runs the Tasks in a thread pool, so using Task.WhenAll is just a one more item to the list of options in that sense. It is a nice abstraction though.
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by rapala 10y ago
> As Korzybski said "the map is not the territory." Trying to resolve wave/particle duality is trying to impose one of two maps from other territories to a new one. As a CS graguate, I would call it the halting problem. A
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by rapala 10y ago
Is the necessary volume achievable, both in land required and producing the actual panels? I'm under the impression that efficiency drops when you move towards the poles, where many of the developed countries are. Also, do solar panels
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by rapala 10y ago
All the dependencies of a unit are part of its API. You may not need to give them at every call, but you do need to give them atleast once. Whether the unit calls MissileLauncher::launch or not is in my opinion part of the external behavior
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by rapala 11y ago
Testing practices are orthogonal to the cathedral vs bazaar idea. Linux is a great example of this. Anyone can checkout the code and work on it, but upstreaming the changes requires coordination and approval with the community. The lessons
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by rapala 11y ago
How many of those side projects ended up being 6 million lines of code maintained over 5 years? Because those are the kind of code bases I have in mind when I'm weigthing the pros and cons of TDD or other testing practices. When readin
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by rapala 11y ago
In your run of the mill webapp you rarely have state outside the db and caches. What little you have can often be modeled with a single agent or atom. So no need for refs. What you do have in webapps is synchronization between concurrent pr

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