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No. Java doesn't have fearless concurrency, zero-cost abstractions or move semantics.

If only VLC had been re-written in rust this would never have happened. For shame.

They joined the party a bit late, they are already a sinking ship.

The newer skype versions on Windows are web-based.

> Nobody in the last 5-10 years cared about writing Desktop apps before Electron came along, there's basically zero money in it

What a load of tripe.

Try stuffing all the functionality of a large enterprise desktop app like SAP or Siebel into Electron and let me know how well that goes.

> + Cryptocurrency

LOL. I see a "Sorry for your loss" in your future.

I like to cook, and so does my SO. Even if that weren't the case, we have friends over regularly.

I don't think I'd be ok with inviting over guests and shoving bottles of soylent in front of them as a "meal".

If I had to guess, the .cc TLD implies that what the site hosts is licensed under Creative Commons.

Oh wow, taking a shit on Google after they helped you by reporting a critical flaw in your infrastructure.

I'm no longer using CF for my own projects, but you've just cemented my decision that none of my clients will either.

Enjoy your horse then; I'll just speed off into the sunset with the latest model Generics Motors has to offer. :)

> As long as it is a job it is a form of slavery

How is it a form of slavery if you're earning a decent wage and can leave any time you want?

Pull your head out of your arse and grow up.

The guy does have a point, yet is bring downvoted into oblivion.

Government can play a role in the improvement in the everyday life of it's citizens. As an example, I pay 25 euros/month for 200mbps fibre internet thanks to my government's antitrust laws.

How are you doing on this front, Americans?

No to mention the SQLS execution planner will beat the pants off both MySQL's and Postgres' when it comes to non-trivial queries.

Don't know how it compares to Oracle as I've never used it.

Keep in mind that SQL Server has had a role in driving certain windows features which I'm not sure exist natively in the Linux kernel.

IIRC fibers were added to the NT kernel specifically for SQLS.

Precisely. It will also depend on how well you've grown to know and become friends with the people in question.

Myself and my close friends curse, insult and tease each other in a manner that we find entertaining; however if I had this same type of interaction with someone I've only known for a couple of months it would be insulting and I'd avoid that person.

When was I not civil? Also I did follow up on my original comment when prompted.

Opening the article with "as a woman and minority" in tech is exactly playing the victim card right up front. It has no weight on whether the supposed actions of her managers and colleagues were wrong, because they'd be wrong no matter who they did this to.

And by your standards even the OP is "just an anecdote". We have no proof whatsoever that she was in fact mistreated.

What he is saying is that there aren't two buckets, more of a gradient of what's likely and unlikely.

How did this turd of an article wind up on the front page?

Companies that produce cigarettes also optimize the tobacco blend and chemical treatment to make it as addictive as possible, which is why vaping nicotine doesn't have the same addictive effect as smoking cigarettes.

Me, I wrote my own OS.

Every real Jedi needs to build their own light saber, and come on, it's just 100KLOC or so.

As a former smoker, you are absolutely wrong. Tobacco will give you a kick, as nicotine is a stimulant.

I'd describe it as being similar to caffeine, it makes you more alert. Of course there are downsides that everyone knows about.

> The US is an empire (and the mightiest one yet) and will act like that until it isn't capable to do so any more. Historically, that's around 100 more years but I'm not sure history is predictive here.

Agreed, but one thing that has been a constant throughout history is that empires eventually become complacent and buckle under their own weight, and have to face smaller contenders that don't have the inertia to maintain the status-quo.

It's telling that there really isn't any empire that has endured "forever", probably because this is simply not possible.

Portugal was the first global empire and ostensibly lasted for 600 years, but its decline started much sooner than it's total lifespan (around the 200 year mark). The country is now a shadow of what it once was, and the US will also be one day.

As much as you may think the DPRK leadership is irrational, I'm sure they understand the concept of MAD very well.

If they do try to launch a nuclear attack (or even a conventional one), they will forfeit the cushy setup they've created for themselves.

> As currently practised, democracy tends towards bureaucracy and short-term thinking (projects small enough to fit in a term).

Not to mention that it can devolve into something that's more of a democracy in name only.

Take the upcoming US elections where the choices are, on one hand, a blowhard who wants to build a massive wall to keep out Mexican immigrants, and on the other a corrupt-to-the-core corporate puppet.

This isn't much of a real democracy when parties become so big that more competent people have no chance of running for office without the support of said parties.

For large applications performance will undoubtedly nosedive.

Not being a Gopher myself, and seeing whats missing from Go compared to C#, I don't see why I'd ever bother using it (unless it's a work requirement).

I like generics and the things that come with it, like LINQ and manipulating abstract collections in a type-safe manner, thank you very much :)

Oh wow, string prefix checking is the example you want to run with? In C#:

  toCheck.StartsWith(prefix)

Meanwhile in Golandia, this is still an issue:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16721#issuecomment-24015...

...and I haven't felt this kind of pinch when using C#, ever. But what do I know? I'm just a .NET wage-slave pleb who's too mentally handicapped to see Go's glory.

True, yet they push absurd agendas of their own, see for example The Daily Show's ridiculous outrage-mongering over women's football.

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