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by zsombor 2mo ago
The language also has a pretty good manual: https://hobbes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ that also give a bit more background on why this was developed in the first place. Imagine being able to answer real time what i
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by zsombor 2y ago
I think it is more about urban vs rural voters. Latter group is more likely to vote with CG, even after emigrating. It takes more time for them to pick up western values simply because they are economically disadvantaged at home and to a le
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by zsombor 3y ago
While some areas of the firm may indeed have what you call old and crumbling tech, this is far from the rule. I expect the electronic trading arm of JPM to be far and beyond what you normally can find at tech firms. The arms race in electro
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by zsombor 4y ago
I'm putting things into perspective. Hungary has 136 km shared border with Ukraine, it also represents only 0.25% of the global GDP, and it is a small country of less than 10 million inhabitants that took in 700'000 Ukrainian refu
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by zsombor 4y ago
Orban is the prime minister not the president. As for being chummy no Hungarian prime minister or president current or former has ever served as board member for Gazprom, nor served as head of shareholders for Nordstream AG, or director of
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by zsombor 4y ago
You have to build solar panels and wind turbines. Then have connecting service roads able to carry heavy equipment. Wash the panels frequently or watch their performance plummet. Grease moving parts to avoid friction losses. Maintain the ro
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by zsombor 9y ago
Both Go and JS are async and callback driven. The difference is that with JS those nasty callbacks are painfully explicit, whereas it is all hidden in Go. Node's callstack is a goroutine, except that the latter can also be preempted.
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by zsombor 10y ago
The Linux version was benchmarked with gettimeofday() while the Windows one with QueryPerformanceCounter. The first has a lower resolution of 10 micros and as such the benchmark is not comparable.
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by zsombor 10y ago
For something to double in 10 years it only has to grow by 6.9% per year. This is from a somewhat unusual application of The Rule of 69. Latter is way of determining doubling time of something that grows by x%: just divide 69 by x and that
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by zsombor 10y ago
The rate of economic growth has little relation to the stock market yield. For one you have forgotten about the dividends, currently around 2%. Now lets assume the company grows by 3%, so your shares will now be worth 3% more. But the total
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by zsombor 11y ago
Seems a bit patronizing to assume that farmers will buy a product that does not work, then continue to do so after it had proven that it yields no advantage. If it were the case that the advantage lasts only two years, then nobody will buy
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by zsombor 11y ago
On the other hand this is exactly the kind of people you wish for when something like the 1918 flu pandemic will happen again.
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by zsombor 12y ago
Someone from the top 5% is more likely to hold their a wealth in equities, then the Average Joe from of the 50%. The top percentiles may be paid more, but they are likely to make far more in the long term on their investments anyways. In th
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by zsombor 12y ago
I would be surprised when a study comes out proving the opposite, given that there are strong proofs why beating the market average is difficult: http://www.norstad.org/finance/tsmproofs.pdf . Sure none of these profs e
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by zsombor 12y ago
A great tool to create a healthy debate about nothing, while the world changes unnoticed beneath you.
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by zsombor 12y ago
In 2015 clang & gcc have a more or less working devirtualization feature that eliminates the virtual overhead in a simple benchmark such as this. The compiler sees all classes and knows that a particular interface is implemented by only
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by zsombor 12y ago
Oh yeah having six or more horizontal navigation bars was pure pain. Considering how difficult is to effect changes with an established user base, plus the complexity of the domain itself, their new design is anything but cosmetic.
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by zsombor 12y ago
Have created something similar enabling cross referenced search both from code and diffs as well at https://tixef.com . Indeed the ability to slice into the details of an implementation can be quite useful for actually understand
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by zsombor 12y ago
OTH there was no Heartbleed bug in the SSL implementation of Go's net/http. So much for hardened implementation. Secondly you can use go behind a http proxy, or even in an FCGI etc environment with minimal change to the code.
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by zsombor 12y ago
In a 30 KLOC rails project I find those numbers acceptable. Also you are unlikely to run the full suite after every editor save. Even Jim Weirich runs a single test file and not the full suite.
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by zsombor 12y ago
I am quite sure that the Basecamp cluster contains tens of machines. It also features a rather clever caching design. Please don't try to justify a push towards simplicity as lack of ability to handle complexity.
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by zsombor 13y ago
The sole advantage Paymill has is that you can make use of it from any EU country. That said my experience with them was horrific. If Stripe continues to expand, I doubt that Paymill will be around in a few years. Instead of the 10 days app
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by zsombor 13y ago
If it has an effect on overfishing then we should welcome it. Sometimes paranoia can be useful. Or there will be no more tuna left for our grandchildren. Nature does not care so much about radiation than we do. The wildlife in Chernobyl had
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by zsombor 13y ago
As of Go 1.2 (released a few weeks ago) goroutines are preempted. Sure currently this only happens in the presence of function calls, but it is hard to create a non preemptible infinite loop without function calls by accident.
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by zsombor 13y ago
Whilst thanks to lack of choice JavaScript is so important on the browser side, I would hope the Node infatuation would eventually pass where you do have a choice. Async calls in Node are done via explicit passing of closures. Callbacks, Pr
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by zsombor 13y ago
More likely it had merely promoted the quick and easy pop culture, where people no longer take the time of reading a book. After all you can just use google and look up your next short fix.
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by zsombor 13y ago
And?
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by zsombor 13y ago
Considering the impact of fishing perhaps a bit of paranoia will do good for the biosphere. Still I must point out that whatever radiation is released or will be released from Fukushima, is nothing compared to what nuclear weapons testing h
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by zsombor 13y ago
By what standard do you see Fukushima as being worse? Number of casualties? Number of people who had their livelihood directly affected? The effect on the biosphere?
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by zsombor 13y ago
Expect a lot more: the banana for example that had it's reportedly most tasty variant (Gros Michel) gone extinct in the last century. The variant you are buying today (Cavendish) is under great strain and is likely to go down the same

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