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by xxchan 12y ago
It's not stupid at all. By giving into the racket, Netflix demonstrated that it's not a technical issue at all, so that argument no longer flies. It's clear that the ISPs are capable of supporting the service, they just don&#
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by xxchan 12y ago
The leaker can always visit the SSL site via Tor, which would solve the problem.
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by xxchan 12y ago
They're actually hurting their current customers, those that can't get a text message through to their lost Apple brethren. Shame on them for having traitors in their flock, I guess.
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by xxchan 12y ago
Sure, I'd just say that Go has been extremely stable since before 1.0 (~2 years). Author's point was that we should not use "not good" languages for the fear that we might be stuck with them for next 20 years. I'd r
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by xxchan 12y ago
Every single thing listed in the article can be added to Go at any point, since it currently has a very minimal feature set. Once something like generics are added, they have to support it until the end of time or risk having an unstable AP
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by xxchan 13y ago
That definitely helps, though you can't use it to introduce new variables with the := syntax: if buf, err := json.Marshal(make(chan int)); err != nil { fmt.Println("Ehh..", err) return } In this case, buf will not be ava
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by xxchan 13y ago
I appreciate the inline if-else statements. I'm so tired of having: if err != nil { return err } Take up 70% of all lines in a function.
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by xxchan 13y ago
All bought (or they tried) by Facebook. That's the one data point.
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by xxchan 13y ago
You might be surprised to learn that in the trademark law, common words like "paper" or "candy" can be used by multiple companies without them infringing on each other while "Coca-Cola" is way too specific for
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by xxchan 13y ago
".. with as much money as the city spends on programs to help them.." - that's pretty much the answer right there.
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by xxchan 13y ago
Amazing how the old is new again. Welcome back, CGI! I hope everyone's aware that this is just a toy and should never be used to do any real work, because most command line tools were never written to be exposed to the internet at larg
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by xxchan 13y ago
That sounds like a pretty good thing.
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by xxchan 13y ago
Other things can improve when you're not stressed and struggling on minimum wage (or not wage at all).
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by xxchan 13y ago
Did you read the article? It is exactly that, a wage for being a swiss national (and alive). The title's a bit sensationalized because.. well.. fucking news can't get people to click on their stories otherwise, but it's techn
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by xxchan 13y ago
Remind me, what year is this again?
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by xxchan 13y ago
And at one point this relationship is better described as "not friends" rather than "friends". It's typically mutual so I don't see a problem here.
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by xxchan 13y ago
Why on earth does every kid need to learn how to build websites?! Their heads are already being stuffed with useless stuff that is of no interest to vast majority of kids. Expose the kids to programming and let them decide, if they want to
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by xxchan 13y ago
I don't know if I'm ok with using 83% (125/150) of all my Monkeysphere slots on "work".
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by xxchan 13y ago
You're reaching.
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by xxchan 13y ago
I find it disconcerting that a significant portion of those invited are simply "too busy" to attend. Wouldn't you WANT human rights activists to stir trouble instead of avoiding it?
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by xxchan 13y ago
Irregardless of that, the reply to OP's comment is representative of the attitudes that are common of HN. Sometimes I feel people just disagree and take apart anything for no other reason than longing for plain acknowledgement.
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by xxchan 13y ago
No, it's only about his choice of HK. Expect more articles from SCMP with very little factual content. Gotta milk those pageviews!
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by xxchan 13y ago
Please quote the what you think is the relevant part from [3]. I can't find any suggestions like that.
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by xxchan 13y ago
Hashing the code wouldn't help. In fact, nothing besides simply not processing any transactions would.
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by xxchan 13y ago
Compare who has more influence and therefore potential for harming the public - two dealers with $200k or a crackhead mayor of a city with 2.6M inhabitants.
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by xxchan 13y ago
Really? I always found it somewhat lacking in this. It has the potential to be so so much faster. Glad to see they're finally working on it.
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by xxchan 13y ago
I see, obviously the math is a bit more involved. I assumed those 8000 were identical twins who were separated at birth. Thank you
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by xxchan 13y ago
> It’s tempting to say that the lonely were born that way—it’d let the rest of us off the hook. And, as it turns out, we’d be about half right, because loneliness is about half heritable. A longitudinal study of more than 8,000 identica
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by xxchan 13y ago
I'm the 4am-12pm sorta sleeper variety, but it does, you know, make sense to conduct society's business during daylight hours.
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by xxchan 13y ago
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