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Java, or, how "software engineering" can kill a decent enough language with incredible complexity.

They are not providing the security they promise.

VPN are a scam business run by offshore companies in budget datacenters with the cheapest possible employees. It probably doesn't matter because 99.999% only want to access Netflix in another cou…

On average worse than Google but not without its pleasures. Much worse on "long tail" searches and non-English terms. I went back to Google. To be fair what really made me move away was that…

1) why would companies care about tracking people who don't even have clean water and food? (You are just confused about what the third world even is) 2) "Americans resist privacy invasions&…

No the best UI. Not Unix. Not a major mobile platform. Dominates a huge but dying market. Why would you do that?

This is so right. It's not that the rich countries can't do anything to help, but that they are so often clueless in their approach. Internet.org is one such example even if you assume it&#x…

Everybody is taking these questions too seriously. These are not interview questions, and these are quite fun actually - I know the answer to a few of them (not because I know RFCs by heart but becaus…

I believe these days WoW merges underpopulated zones so those ~20 players per zone are across a bunch of servers while ~50 players in a zone may be all in one server.

Agreed, learning Emacs while learning Clojure is just a bad idea. It's a huge distraction and it ties the success of learning Clojure into the success of learning Emacs (which will never be every…

The SEC can get involved. The question is whether they should. See, people who write "bad" algorithms already get punished by the market and lose money. They already have an interest in impr…

Building new backbones is completely different from forking the Internet.

Of Mere Being The palm at the end of the mind, Beyond the last thought, rises In the bronze distance. A gold-feathered bird Sings in the palm, without human meaning, Without human feeli…

It's similar to Applescript in that it's a "read-only" language.

Which is exactly why the browsers should do just that.

In Latin America, Latin America is seen as part of "the West". In Europe and the US, "the West" is a different entity that includes only Europe and the US, Canada, Australia and NZ…

Brazil has reduced smoking by 35% since 2000 using mandatory scary pictures in the packaging, restrictions on advertisement, restrictions on public smoking and mandatory minimal prices. Whether packag…

That's what you would interpret if you heard someone say "open source" but that would have been two words put together, not a term. The OSI people invented the term.

I meant "all JVM implementations of languages that also exist in C". Sorry I was unclear.

All C implementations of languages that exist on the JVM start fast. All JVM implementations are slow. How is this not a JVM problem?

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