stuki

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by stuki 12y ago
Thinking of "programming" as a completely separate field, to be "done" by specialists only, is highly unfortunate. All "programming" really is, is formulating what you want done precisely. A compiler can take i
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by stuki 12y ago
Good way to keep resources locked up in zombie companies unable to generate even 0% return, by letting them roll over loans despite destroying value. Instead of flushing out the stagnant resource pools, so they could be put to better use do
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by stuki 12y ago
And if two commands get stored in quick succession, such that the first results in a state that renders the second impossible? Particularly if some of the balance updates in the first command, are contingent on others ( credit line backing
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by stuki 12y ago
IPv6 doesn't fundamentally offer end users anything far beyond the current standards. I'm imagining a protocol for less tightly coupled endpoints could be written to, while the "switches" merely translate traffic to rout
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by stuki 12y ago
Which is a pretty good indication that all meaningful solutions to the spying problems, need to work at a level more fundamental than government. Routing around them, or rendering them impotent, by design, if you wish.
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by stuki 12y ago
Even by the "standards" of Newsweek, this article is supremely stupid. Current high level languages make so few concessions to the underlying execution engine, that all they really are, are convenient notation for clear and logica
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by stuki 12y ago
It's not "our own" government, for any "our own" that purports to include me. It is a junta with enough guns to have their way with people across a continent. Pretending otherwise may sound "non extremist"
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by stuki 12y ago
The relevant question isn't whether it is "breaking things" in the abstract, but whether it is breaking things in a way meaningfully detrimental to end users. Or, if you really want to stretch it, perhaps also include externa
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by stuki 12y ago
All "language" is not the same. To be reliably and consistently machine executable, a language needs to facilitate manipulations that are logically rigorous. While in a language for general human communication, emphasis needs to b
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by stuki 12y ago
One threat that is getting bigger in the Bay Area, is the ever increased concentration and dependence on start ups. Most of whom are not living of anything remotely resembling cash flow. The tech eco system itself is one thing, and largely
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by stuki 12y ago
The kind of aggressive court interference talked about in the article, will (or at least should) be the catalyst to make that happen. Anonymous comments really ought to be hosted anonymously and in a distributed fashion, preventing them fro
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by stuki 12y ago
Like any other scheme to make commenting more expensive (resource wise), it implicitly makes the assumption that the value of what one has to say, somehow correlates with how much resources one has at ones disposal to be heard. In the web e
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by stuki 12y ago
Are they also going to force participants not to blog, talk about, or otherwise disseminate the information they gleaned there? Otherwise, this childishness is just another act by the clueless to try grabbing some attention for themselves,
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by stuki 12y ago
Compared to most of Europe, one of the things the US has to recommend it, is easier access to personal bankruptcy, jingle mailing underwater house keys etc. Of course, given the obsession of our time being to trick someone into putting his
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by stuki 12y ago
Not just waiting.... If you have the ability to insert backdoors on widely used hardware with no realistic alternative implementations, without anyone other than a very select few (who all have plenty to lose if they reveal anything) knowin
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by stuki 12y ago
I simply cannot fathom how the NSA could hope to intercept and physically mess with every single piece of $10 to $10,000 router sold. If true, and I have a hard time believing it is not, either this is done at the design level (and not just
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by stuki 12y ago
The additional layer of redirection, at least conceptually enables the use of application specific, or pluggable, vDOMs and/or diffing strategies.
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by stuki 12y ago
I guess the takeaway is: Don't operate Big Data companies out of Europe..... Pack up your bags, apply for YC and move to SV instead... All harassing publicly famous entities will achieve, is to make obtaining available information more
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by stuki 12y ago
Another is Beck's "Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns." Just like Smalltalk-80, it's a book relevant for anyone writing software, almost regardless of language and discipline.
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by stuki 12y ago
And they did all this despite their paying customers not wanting their coffee that way? Simply because they wanted to, above else, be as nasty as they could to people, never mind lost sales, complaints, court fees and what have you? In othe
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by stuki 12y ago
Outside of emergency rooms and acute care, people have quite a bit of choice as to when to see a doctor, and whom to see. It is conceptually little different than auto repair in that sense. Making the world artificially black and white only
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by stuki 12y ago
Rather, tort reform, or more accurately some sort of limitations of what one can drag the civil courts system into, boils down to looking at who wrote the Bill of Rights, and making an estimate as to whether it is reasonable to believe they
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by stuki 12y ago
And as she didn't specifically ask for coffee served at a specific temperature, McDonald's had no way of knowing what temperature she preferred. What McDonald's did have, however, was a way to estimate what temperature it&#x2
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by stuki 12y ago
Reviews weighted by trust, seem to do quite well in most places where they are employed. From Amazon and Ebay sellers to Uber drivers to College rankings. Even yelp rankings, which are extremely unspecific, seems to provide users with waay
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by stuki 12y ago
And what kind of reputation, do you think an Amazon seller who makes potential customers sign "no review" contracts, will get? There's nothing magical about the medical field, that makes approaches developed elsewhere somewha
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by stuki 12y ago
What always irked me about the whole "vacuum train" debate, is that once you have vacuum, why bother with trains? Trains beat individual cars efficiency wise, largely because they are long and have low frontal areas, hence air res
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by stuki 12y ago
Any coffee heated to the point where it is still drinkable at the end of a 20 minute commute, will be hot enough to kill if poured straight down your throat in one gulp. It is up to the customer to have some sort of clue. I am pretty sure t
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by stuki 12y ago
Reputation systems, reviews and properly skeptical consumers, are what to aim for, in determining who is good and who is not. Whether for restaurants or doctors. Not frightfully pricey lawyers and other coercive, after-the-fact institutions
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by stuki 12y ago
Just for clarification, wouldn't it appear that RBS was in violation of licensing terms even when it owned LaSalle, by using the software corporation wide, despite it only being licensed by a subsidiary? Otherwise, you'd think the
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by stuki 12y ago
That's pretty central to any OO language. "Everything's an object." Veering away from that, only serves to turn the language into a mess of boxing and unboxing. That's not to say that OO is necessarily the ideal lan

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