rowland66

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by rowland66 5y ago
I think that several of the fallacies of distributed computing are being ignored here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...
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by rowland66 5y ago
I believe that when you license Weblogic from Oracle, the Weblogic license includes a license for the Oracle JVM it runs on. So there is no reason to run Weblogic on another JDK/JVM. I assume that Oracle requires their JDK/JVM for
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by rowland66 5y ago
It is not shown, but I expect that Oracle EE is probably the most significant contributor to software licensing costs. If Oracle licensing was computed for 288 cores, that is totally unrealistic. Oracle EE would only run on a subset of core
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by rowland66 5y ago
An alternative implementation of BigQuery? If the integration libraries are that bad, perhaps the market would go for a BigQuery alternative with better integration support. I expect that the integration libraries probably work pretty well
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by rowland66 5y ago
> You don't pay investments back. They are a purchase of shares. The exchange is made and you're done. This is a common misunderstanding that equity funding is free. For the owner of a business, taking outside investment and is
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by rowland66 5y ago
Why is this guy being called an inventor? The helicopter was invented over 100 year ago (1907). He was a tinkerer or hobbyist.
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by rowland66 5y ago
The US is absolutely shooting for herd immunity now. Its just a question of how individual members of the herd want to achieve their immunity. They can take the easy way (vaccination) or the hard way (get Covid).
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by rowland66 5y ago
There has been alot of innovation in digital payments in India over the last 10 years. There are a number of local alternatives to traditional card brands. This might be a combination of protectionism to support local payment alternatives,
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by rowland66 5y ago
How about adjusting the tax rate that is paid on income based on wealth? This would absolutely complicate the tax code for wealthy individuals, but it would certainly increase the tax paid by the wealthy on the income that they do have.
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by rowland66 5y ago
I think that Sayre's law applies here. "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake."
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by rowland66 5y ago
Starting with Java 8, Java has been adopting functional programming ideas, and appears to be heavily influenced by Scala.
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by rowland66 5y ago
From the article: > But if you need some complex algorithms — particularly algorithms that do a lot of heavy mathematical lifting — then Lisp is the ideal choice. Is this right? I never thought of LISP as good fit for numerical processin
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by rowland66 5y ago
I agree, and packages and package private access is such a powerful tool in Java, that so many developers completely ignore.
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by rowland66 6y ago
Wow, that is pretty basic economic fallacy. Whether you hold coins today or not should not impact an investment decision. If the BTC you bought 10 years ago for $100 is worth $100,000 today, and a couple of weeks from now the price collapse
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by rowland66 6y ago
That first sequence diagram in the article reminds me of similar diagrams that I have seen for microservice based systems recently. Progress? Not so sure.
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by rowland66 6y ago
I think that you have the option with Quarkus to use the traditional JVM with byte code for development, and only generate exe's for stage or production deployment. Best of both worlds.
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by rowland66 6y ago
Yes, the OP has this backwards. The Java sandbox would allow an application to limit the access granted to a library to protect from a malicious library. It does not protect a library from being used by an application in way that was not in
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by rowland66 6y ago
I think that there are alot of advantages to a using a declarative/functional programming style for these types of tools.
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by rowland66 6y ago
Looks like Power Fx could benefit from a dose of Haskell point free notation. Might help eliminate some of those parenthesis.
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by rowland66 6y ago
That seems completely irrelevant.
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by rowland66 6y ago
So it looks like Taler is designed as a consumer to merchant payment system, and not person to person. I suppose that person to person could work with banks serving as intermediaries. With anonymity for consumer how would transactions like
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by rowland66 6y ago
I think that it is called an immediate annuity. It is a standard insurance product that offers protection against outliving your assets. You pay a lump sum in return for a guaranteed income as long as you live. Yes, if you die early, the in
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by rowland66 6y ago
I think that it is a mistake to call this a UI issue. Its not like a mistake was made because text was difficult to read, or because to check boxes were too close together and the wrong one was checked. Those would be UI issues. This was an
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by rowland66 6y ago
Looking at the screen tells you nothing about the quality of this system. The screens look a bit dated because the system is 20 years old. It is also a back office system used by a small number of what should be trained professionals. Prett
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by rowland66 6y ago
Your experience with Citi is very similar to mine. It is funny that as an organization Citi seems to believe that its technology is brilliant and that any software that it uses must be built by Citi. Tremendous hubris combined with total in
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by rowland66 6y ago
If your goal is to buy and never sell, then btc is the ideal investment. You can buy the btc, destroy your private key, and nobody will ever be able to sell it, not even your grandkids poking around in the attic 20 years after you have died
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by rowland66 6y ago
I think that the first sentence on the why Pony page says it all "There’s plenty to love about Pony, but more than anything else, what we love most is that Pony makes it easy to write fast, safe, efficient, highly concurrent programs.&
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by rowland66 6y ago
I don't really think that a comparison to Rust is all that useful. Rust and Pony are really intended for different purposes. Rust is systems programming language. Pony is an application programming language that provides an actor model
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by rowland66 6y ago
Bitcoin mining?
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by rowland66 6y ago
> It could be the case that every message you send gets dropped due to a persisting partition and in such a case none would arrive, thereby violating the "guarantee" of exactly-once delivery. That is not correct. All interactio

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