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The analogy there is poor.
Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself on Monday November 20, 2017 @04:54AM (#15738857)
Actually, Yes I am. If I attend an event, my friends and acquaintances will often upload pictures of me. I do not have a Facebook account, but they are known to operate shadow profiles.
Collect data; build robot.
Re:Zucktown, USA on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @03:05AM (#15398765)
Wages are high if the supply of labour is low and the employer has money for wages. If supply is low and the employer does not have money, then the job won't exist. This is why tech workers wouldn't benefit from a union very much.
Re:Diminishing returns of static typing on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @07:55AM (#15391751)
I use a code generator. It has a great type system, it's composable, mature and it can even compile pretty fast with the right tooling. It's called C++!
No it won't. If everyone is mining more efficiently then the difficulty will rise.
Re:How Many Years of Life Does That House Cost? on Saturday September 09, 2017 @08:15AM (#15206727)
Wait... Bournemouth and Dorset!?!?
I also find it ethically troubling. The commercial application is probably advertising.
Re:Wall Street Banks Warn Downturn Is Coming on Thursday August 24, 2017 @10:49AM (#15090524)
Another example: products get slightly smaller but remain he same price. Often packaging can hide the change.
Re:Building Reactive Terminal Interfaces in C++ on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @08:45AM (#15071790)
Looks like a few features are still being developed (most notably text input) but it's a good start.
This looks very interesting. Does anyone have any experience with this for C++ functions vs AWS Lambda?
Because the threat model is different. Why would your friends and colleagues in a group chat want to tinker with the order of messages? Just trust a sender's timestamp, provided it's within X minutes.
Get the OSS for free and use the money saved to pay a support developer?
Does it matter? I think there will be enough qualified candidates who know, understand and are willing to take the risk.
Interestingly, the war on drugs has pushed people away from better and cheaper alternatives.
Re:Show HN: A 2D Physics Simulator in JavaScript on Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:20PM (#14869078)
Destructive updates are where computing the next step in the simulation destroys or overwrites the previous step.

This is destructive:

    this.position += this.velocity
Re:Show HN: A 2D Physics Simulator in JavaScript on Thursday July 27, 2017 @10:50AM (#14865819)
Cool!

Is it deterministic? Does it do destructive updates?

Re:Windows 10 is making too many PCs obsolete on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @04:51PM (#14860226)
Linux is a better fit for netbooks anyway.
Re:Breaking open the Mt. Gox case, part 1 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @04:41PM (#14860120)
Magic the Gathering Online Exchange ;)
Most precious metals are worth more than their industrial applications. I suppose you could say that their value is derived from trust in the stability of their market prices.
Autonomous cars have benefits beyond being safer, which would explain why the investment outweighs the deaths/year
Re:LWJGL: Lightweight Java Game Library 3 on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @02:27PM (#14798897)
Great library, particularly for beginners who have done a Java 101 course. But why is it being posted now?
Re:Kotlin's hidden costs – Benchmarks on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @02:08AM (#14700252)
I agree with your conclusion, but it actually could be possible for kotlin to be faster than java for practical purposes, despite running on the JVM. For example, it might be more expressive, allowing the user to give the compiler more information for better optimizations. We see this when C++ is sometimes faster than C.
Agreed. A modern compiler will pick the optimal assembly (most of the time!)

That said, I feel like C often lacks the expressiveness to properly define intent and allow the compiler to optimise well.

Looks fairly well organised but it doesn't seem to have a build file!

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