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by zigzigzag 10y ago
It's fascinating how the group dynamics of this whole situation work out. London provides enormous amounts of financial services to Europe. Around 35% of all wholesale financial activity in Europe takes place in London. Around 85% of E
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
The Economist is basically pundits channelling their personal politics these days too. Sadly. I used to enjoy reading it a lot more than I do these days. I don't think The Economist is what to read for this situation though. A book on
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Electron certainly isn't the first thing to give "write once, run anywhere", let alone good enough to satisfy users. I groan every time I download an app only to discover it's Electron based. Java beat Electron to write-
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Firstly, to the OP, that is an excellent post-mortem. Introspective, goes deep, generally confidence inspiring even though a part of it is literally "we were incompetent and didn't know it", well, lessons learned. I'd li
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
those analyses were based on the announced policy that article 50 would be triggered immediately Then they were naive analyses rather than expert analyses weren't they? Did anyone seriously think Cameron would stay on to implement Br
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Graal already can compile bytecode, right, so I don't get why SubstrateVM finds it so hard to dynamically load code but a truffle java bytecode interpreter would work
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
If that's the case surely it doesn't matter if you have the barriers for Shenandoah, as it's written in C++ for HotSpot. Wouldn't you have to rewrite it from scratch in Java for SubstrateVM?
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Yes but only in Go. There are projects that have successfully evolved APIs in not only source compatible but binary compatible ways over a period of decades. Win32 and Java are the obvious candidates. Not changing or deleting existing funct
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Yeah. The article is like "everyone at BitTorrent Inc said Cohen is brilliant, so he's brilliant". BitTorrent is a shit way to move files that only makes sense if your users are willing to subsidise your bandwidth for you. If
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Who is going to do that innovation? A startup? Good luck getting a municipal government to take risks by handing maintenance contracts to a startup. Their incentives are to do nothing and wait to be bailed out through inflation.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
that wouldn't help much, since the infrastructure is still crazy expensive and not worth paying for. Surely it would help, then? The entire point of the article is that local governments built infrastructure that isn't worth pay
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
They treat money as limitless because they "know" they'll be bailed out in future by government further up.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
This. None of us know Mayer, have met her, really, none of us give a monkeys about her. I'm sure she's a lovely and pleasant person. Criticism of her in this context are entirely criticisms of the events surrounding her time at Ya
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Arguments like "you don't need generics" or "exceptions lead to convoluted code" or "assertions are only used by lazy programmers" came from Go's creators. I too am rather surprised to see Go, Lisp an
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Runtimes have bugs but normally you just download a new one and swap it out.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
AWS is just a fancier form of server outsourcing. It's helpful and progress but doesn't represent a paradigm shift. Great chance for companies to shoot themselves in the foot by wasting lots of money though: http://idle
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Have you worked at any of these companies recently? If not, how do you know they fly? My observation from when I worked at Google was that the organisation was rapidly slowing down over time, and projects that were essentially pointless or
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
There's a lot of selection bias there. Google at least has failed and late projects like any company. You just don't hear about them.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Yes of course. It's concurrency related. You write a program that starts something, does some work, then tries to access the something expecting that it's already started. On your computer, the "does some work" stage hap
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
It's actually quite apt. AWS is a different beast, but Google and Facebook can and routinely do ship broken code to production that drops queries on the floor, serves broken JavaScript, redesigns the UI in ways that confuse millions of
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
I wouldn't describe that as groupthink. Groupthink has a fairly clear definition and set of symptoms, well, clear by psychology standards anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink What you're describin
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
How is the factory diamond shaped?
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Retail banking isn't what is being talked about in these articles, euro clearing is (primarily).
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Google's own projects have been developed erratically throughout the years. They could have simply forked it.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
He just posted a list of facts. That's only destructive if you think the facts are embarrassing to medium (which in this case I think they are - it's simply not clear what kind of community was supposed to gel around medium, if an
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
It has weird stuff because Medium clearly hired "editors" who are all politically extreme and/or culturally homogenous. My medium.com home page has some technical articles that interest me, an article by some Obama press flun
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
The rest of the publishing world isn't "still sorting things out". Quite a few publications have figured out how to get people to subscribe to them and now make money from their online presence.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
It's the opposite actually. The specific activity that tends to be talked about here is Euro clearing. London clears transactions in currencies from all over the world, including US Dollar and Renminbi transactions. Nobody cares about
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
That is totally wrong. In fact the MiFiD II EU financial regulations that are coming into force in 2018 say that any country can essentially be passported into the block as long as they have an "equivalent" regulatory regime. h
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
And polls never indicated the UK would vote out of the EU until it did. So sure, perhaps Wilders won't get anywhere once again. But he's not getting less popular. Political pressure in Europe is building and there doesn't s

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