We were extremely lucky, yes. Not to mention he was Jewish and being born, say, even just 15 years later than he was, could've meant he'd have ended up in concentration camp and we'd still have no theory of relativity.…
We can't prove that. It feels good to believe it, sure, but it's also possible that precisely zero people working in sweatshops have ever had Einstein's talent. Sure, it's easy to say - take away the sweatshops, provide…
And yet - why are so few others capable of standing on the shoulders of said giants? Here I am, with more giants' shoulders to stand on, if I wished it, with easy access to vast wealth of information that Newton (or…
If you started your adult life with the same help from Daddy that Trump had - and did nothing, literally besides putting all of that money into an index fund - you’d be richer than Trump is today. They did the math. So…
Go back in time a thousand years and tell people that one day man will fly faster than a bird and land on the moon. FTL is not impossible. The only thing physics say is that you can’t accelerate a particle that has mass…
What happens? You become the most-widely used language on the planet? The Python 2-3 wars are over. Python 3 won.
> on their most important product. If Ubuntu depended on random users pointing their browsers to ubuntu.com and then clicking a download link to download and burn an ISO, they'd be long, long gone. There hasn't been any…
I think it's a pretty mediocre language because of the compiler intrinsic data structures and functions like maps and slices that cannot be created by the language proper. It can be verbose and tedious, some of the std…
So everyone is equally empowered to make decision on the strategic direction of the company? If I got hired tomorrow at Google, I should just be able to decide to kill off Android and Chrome, yeah?
>Avoid inheritance. Once an object is instantiated, don't change its internal state. etc. Just embrace Clojure then. You get all that enforced for you, plus the entire Java eco-system.
> but simplicity trumps doing either of those things well. That's the genius (?) of Go. They gave us what we didn't know we needed. Software people love the "manliness" that comes with "serious", "real" programming…
Twenty years ago, I'd have been more willing to agree with that. I could see the US Gov't as some sort of sinister, hyper-competent (and even malevolent?) force that could definitely keep a secret like that forever from…
And after the tribunals are setup and operational and people are getting executed - would it be enough then? Or not quite yet still? What's your "this is enough, guys" point? Do you have one? We got mighty close this…
So what do we do instead? Just continue down this path until 75% of Americans "feel oppressed" and that "BLM and Antifa and Democrats are Marxists and enemies of the people"? Yeah? 'cause that's not working out. Or are…
I’ve been using docked on macOS for the past 5 years and it’s been quite pleasant. I had a few times when CPU was spiking and that was fixed with subsequent patches. Definitely over a year ago. I don’t think “constant…
That's Electron for ya. We decided that javascript was thew ay to write cross-OS UI's. God help us.
There's probably a middle ground but you know that within a day of making it optional, the various "Clean my Mac" utilities will have an option to disable it and soon enough instead of 99% of people having it enabled,…
I feel like there's some over-reaction here. You pretty much have to either: 1. allow blanket access to all executables 2. perform some sort of validation/verification Most people are not as technical as the people on…
Do you blame them? How many cops need to be exonerated for the blatant murder of our fellow citizens before "disband the police" actually starts sounding semi-reasonable?
Roughly 50% of voters in this election voted for Trump. His approval rating amongst his own voters is in the high 90%'s. If Trump is saying that the election is fraudulent and undermining the Democratic institutions of…
Oh man. It's like Visual Basic all over again! "It's so easy - just fire your entire department and have the secretary write the codes - look, you just drag and drop!" I'm waiting for the predictions about how…
Not that I expected different from a "l337" Arch user, but "Windows plebs" have had "chocolatey" and the Windows Store for a while now...
I agree. Installation is kind of fun in an old-school UNIX-y way. I feel Desktop Linux spent the better part of two decades endlessly tweaking the installation experience, as if people spend 50% of their time installing…
It's shameful period, non-profit or for-profit. But - don't hate the player, hate the game. Our entire system has been setup like this for decades. 99% of earnings have been going to the top 1% for decades now. I…
>Do you suspect there are any 0day/worms still targeting Windows 95 systems? You'd be surprised how much malware is "legacy" 32-bit and works without issue on WinXP. A lot of malware even shies away from Unicode API's…
We were extremely lucky, yes. Not to mention he was Jewish and being born, say, even just 15 years later than he was, could've meant he'd have ended up in concentration camp and we'd still have no theory of relativity.…
We can't prove that. It feels good to believe it, sure, but it's also possible that precisely zero people working in sweatshops have ever had Einstein's talent. Sure, it's easy to say - take away the sweatshops, provide…
And yet - why are so few others capable of standing on the shoulders of said giants? Here I am, with more giants' shoulders to stand on, if I wished it, with easy access to vast wealth of information that Newton (or…
If you started your adult life with the same help from Daddy that Trump had - and did nothing, literally besides putting all of that money into an index fund - you’d be richer than Trump is today. They did the math. So…
Go back in time a thousand years and tell people that one day man will fly faster than a bird and land on the moon. FTL is not impossible. The only thing physics say is that you can’t accelerate a particle that has mass…
What happens? You become the most-widely used language on the planet? The Python 2-3 wars are over. Python 3 won.
> on their most important product. If Ubuntu depended on random users pointing their browsers to ubuntu.com and then clicking a download link to download and burn an ISO, they'd be long, long gone. There hasn't been any…
I think it's a pretty mediocre language because of the compiler intrinsic data structures and functions like maps and slices that cannot be created by the language proper. It can be verbose and tedious, some of the std…
So everyone is equally empowered to make decision on the strategic direction of the company? If I got hired tomorrow at Google, I should just be able to decide to kill off Android and Chrome, yeah?
>Avoid inheritance. Once an object is instantiated, don't change its internal state. etc. Just embrace Clojure then. You get all that enforced for you, plus the entire Java eco-system.
> but simplicity trumps doing either of those things well. That's the genius (?) of Go. They gave us what we didn't know we needed. Software people love the "manliness" that comes with "serious", "real" programming…
Twenty years ago, I'd have been more willing to agree with that. I could see the US Gov't as some sort of sinister, hyper-competent (and even malevolent?) force that could definitely keep a secret like that forever from…
And after the tribunals are setup and operational and people are getting executed - would it be enough then? Or not quite yet still? What's your "this is enough, guys" point? Do you have one? We got mighty close this…
So what do we do instead? Just continue down this path until 75% of Americans "feel oppressed" and that "BLM and Antifa and Democrats are Marxists and enemies of the people"? Yeah? 'cause that's not working out. Or are…
I’ve been using docked on macOS for the past 5 years and it’s been quite pleasant. I had a few times when CPU was spiking and that was fixed with subsequent patches. Definitely over a year ago. I don’t think “constant…
That's Electron for ya. We decided that javascript was thew ay to write cross-OS UI's. God help us.
There's probably a middle ground but you know that within a day of making it optional, the various "Clean my Mac" utilities will have an option to disable it and soon enough instead of 99% of people having it enabled,…
I feel like there's some over-reaction here. You pretty much have to either: 1. allow blanket access to all executables 2. perform some sort of validation/verification Most people are not as technical as the people on…
Do you blame them? How many cops need to be exonerated for the blatant murder of our fellow citizens before "disband the police" actually starts sounding semi-reasonable?
Roughly 50% of voters in this election voted for Trump. His approval rating amongst his own voters is in the high 90%'s. If Trump is saying that the election is fraudulent and undermining the Democratic institutions of…
Oh man. It's like Visual Basic all over again! "It's so easy - just fire your entire department and have the secretary write the codes - look, you just drag and drop!" I'm waiting for the predictions about how…
Not that I expected different from a "l337" Arch user, but "Windows plebs" have had "chocolatey" and the Windows Store for a while now...
I agree. Installation is kind of fun in an old-school UNIX-y way. I feel Desktop Linux spent the better part of two decades endlessly tweaking the installation experience, as if people spend 50% of their time installing…
It's shameful period, non-profit or for-profit. But - don't hate the player, hate the game. Our entire system has been setup like this for decades. 99% of earnings have been going to the top 1% for decades now. I…
>Do you suspect there are any 0day/worms still targeting Windows 95 systems? You'd be surprised how much malware is "legacy" 32-bit and works without issue on WinXP. A lot of malware even shies away from Unicode API's…