What is Dutch food anyway? Bitterballen? Just some salted fish on a thin slice of rye? Seems like everyone there in your neck of the woods eats Italian basically? I spent a solid month in Amsterdam once and the most…
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.…
There was less competition but it was also tremendously difficult to even see what others are doing, or to learn from them, or to even talk to them....just being in possession of scientific texts was enough to get you…
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…
I think people are getting hung up too much on the "their own" part vs "full of geniuses" part. Ok, fine, if three - instead of one - people - out of billions - came up with a revolutionary new idea - that does not, to…
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…
>But you can't fire people because you think they probably have the wrong opinions based on things they said 5 years ago, that's Soviet level repression. "Soviet level repression" would be sending Mr Martinez to a…
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.
backwards compatibility is a bitch. But yes, there's a reason why high-visibility C++ projects like Chrome basically white-list 30% of the language and keep it that way, to some small sub-set they feel is "good enough".…
> 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…
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'm not sure anyone in the (near) future will be able to guarantee you some sort of "right" that you can host/publish whatever you want and not be held accountable. America is a country that prides itself (to an…
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.
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…
Or maybe the definition of "Civil War" is more fluid than we think? I don't expect large-scale devastation and cities in ruins like in Syria, no. But let's do some fun math. Roughly 70 million voted for Trump. Take away…
This is what I try to explain when it comes to "why are you paying so much for Apple". Because when you buy a cheap Android phone from Xuoiamiaeoi or whatever, you get some custom crippled OS in god knows what ways in…
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?
Before just telling all pollsters to get another job and abandoning/ignoring everything, shouldn't we find out why the polls were so far off...again? Were Trump voters not willing to admit they were going to vote for…
What is Dutch food anyway? Bitterballen? Just some salted fish on a thin slice of rye? Seems like everyone there in your neck of the woods eats Italian basically? I spent a solid month in Amsterdam once and the most…
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.…
There was less competition but it was also tremendously difficult to even see what others are doing, or to learn from them, or to even talk to them....just being in possession of scientific texts was enough to get you…
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…
I think people are getting hung up too much on the "their own" part vs "full of geniuses" part. Ok, fine, if three - instead of one - people - out of billions - came up with a revolutionary new idea - that does not, to…
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…
>But you can't fire people because you think they probably have the wrong opinions based on things they said 5 years ago, that's Soviet level repression. "Soviet level repression" would be sending Mr Martinez to a…
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.
backwards compatibility is a bitch. But yes, there's a reason why high-visibility C++ projects like Chrome basically white-list 30% of the language and keep it that way, to some small sub-set they feel is "good enough".…
> 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…
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'm not sure anyone in the (near) future will be able to guarantee you some sort of "right" that you can host/publish whatever you want and not be held accountable. America is a country that prides itself (to an…
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.
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…
Or maybe the definition of "Civil War" is more fluid than we think? I don't expect large-scale devastation and cities in ruins like in Syria, no. But let's do some fun math. Roughly 70 million voted for Trump. Take away…
This is what I try to explain when it comes to "why are you paying so much for Apple". Because when you buy a cheap Android phone from Xuoiamiaeoi or whatever, you get some custom crippled OS in god knows what ways in…
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?
Before just telling all pollsters to get another job and abandoning/ignoring everything, shouldn't we find out why the polls were so far off...again? Were Trump voters not willing to admit they were going to vote for…