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I’m always wary of posthumously published books. I mean, the author didn’t publish them for a reason. Normally that reason is because they were bad.

Also, I tried to read the Silmarillion once. THAT was a struggle.

Christopher Tolkien calls himself an “editor” but I’m not sure he understands what the word means.

Keep up the good work, people of Wisconsin.

;)

We all benefit when AMD is a player.

And this player is fighting HARD right now. Me gusta.

It's been eighteen months guys, time to rewrite all our front end code from scratch!

He's running.

I'm pointing out, that which is 100% factually correct, that he was accused of rape and fled from justice.

This is a matter of public record.

He skipped bail, costing his supporters £60K in surety.

For skipping bail he's now wanted for failure to appear, which is a criminal offence in the U.K. of which he is most certainly guilty.

Whether or not Assange is a rapist we can't ascertain because he fled justice rather than face the accusations.

Maybe if he ever leaves the wardrobe he's hiding from justice the case will be re-opened he'll answer the accused and we'll find out if he's a rapist or not.

But since there's no statue of limitations on his failure to appear, of which he is certainly guilty, it doesn't look like he's emerging from that attic any time soon.

Well we don't know if he's innocent or guilty, because he skipped bail and fled justice.

But he'll always be the man who spent a decade hiding in an attic to avoid a rape charge.

Yes, rape. Putting "rape" in scare quotes because you're a misogynist doesn't make rape stop being serious. Just FYI.

John Pilger actually puts "rape investigation" in inverted commas. This is misogynist fuckwittery of the first order.

Assange is FREE TO LEAVE THE CUPBOARD HE'S HIDING IN TO ESCAPE A RAPE CHARGE WHENEVER HE LIKES. This is literally the EXACT opposite meaning of detained.

Let's go over this again since Assange fans are largely misogynistic rape-apologist gullible fools.

1. He has been voluntarily hiding in a cupboard for seven years.

2. He's been doing this because he was accused of rape

3. In the U.K. and Sweden we consider rape a serious crime

4. Hiding in a wardrobe does not exempt him from answering to the crimes of which he is accused

5. He skipped bail losing his followers £60,000 in surety

6. Bail skipping is a criminal offence; he is wanted in the U.K. for that

7. If he ever leaves the wardrobe he's hiding in he will be arrested and charged for bail skipping

8. Sweden may reopen the rape investigation until 2020

9. Now the rape charges are droppped it will be easier, not harder, to extradite Assange to the US

10. The US has made no formal extradition request yet, but given Assange's role in collaborating with the kremlin to sabotage the 2016 US presidential election, I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to.

IANAL, but fleeing from an arrest warrant is very definitely illegal in the UK.

Assange had a very personal vendetta with Hillary Clinton, the Kremlin were merely another weapon.

The UK police will arrest him for obstruction of justice the moment he tries to leave the wardrobe he's hiding in.

He'd probably be convicted, which carries a maximum sentence of [EDIT] 1 year in prison.

It looks like there's been a very conscious effort to strike a midpoint between Java's familiar clunkiness and Scala's hipster experimental side.

I think that's a good thing, you end up with a language that feels pragmatic and powerfully practical.

I think it's important to separate the GPLv2 which is still vital and alive, and the GPL v3 which is now generally regarded to have been a failure.

Yeah, I think that's just for TV. Ain't no way Teller's getting fooled by any fresh-off-the-cruise-liner cabaret magician.

Teller is possibly one of the greatest living historians of magic. Once got a chance to speak to him at the bar of the Oxford Union once, and he has an absolutely encyclopedic knowledge of almost every trick, turn, swindle, deception, racket, illusion, con, prop and misdirection technique that mankind has ever invented.

Absolutely astonishing when he's in full flow.

I did ask him if he ever saw a trick that he didn't immediately know how it was pulled off, and he said yes: the first time he saw David Copperfield's circular saw trick. Then apparently Penn Jillette got Copperfield so trashed that he eventually gave the game away.

The author is making it seem like Google is doing something sinister here.

But Google submitted the QUIC drafts and it's being developed in the open under the aegis of the IETF.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/quic/

QUIC seems to be following the playbook Google set with SPDY and its eventual maturation into HTTP2. I think everyone is happy with how that process turned out, so I think Google have earned the benefit of the doubt given they're handling QUIC the exact same way.

A linked list is almost certainly not what you want either. They're so deeply cache-unfriendly that their appearance in kernel code should be viewed as suspect.

SRE: because DevOps isn't buzzwordy enough these days.

$120m from investors none of whom were aware you don't need a $400 machine to squeeze the juice from fruit?

How do people with so little sense get so much money?

One thing the author didn't mention is, in this case, whatever the intentions behind Munoz's dismal bit of bureaucratese, it most certainly did not deflect blame or attention. In fact, the response was so ham-fistedly out of touch with the response that was needed it made the PR situation way worse.

What's the point of PR-speak if it inflames a situation it's meant to cool?

1) Smart people who have great ideas

2) A business model that has no need of those ideas

3) Management who have absolutely no idea how to capitalise on those ideas outside of a core business?

...

That's Google. Google are Xerox.

'There is no evidence of malicious intervention'

Becomes

"OMG BREXIT WAS HACKED!!!" in the hands of a BBC clickbaiter.

Nice work.

Spotify has lost 20% market share in 2 years, in the same time pushing their annual losses to $200m.

Growing your losses whilst losing market share is not an enormously attractive value proposition to investors.

Headline is clickbait. He's talking about the majority, headline implies any.

Why use JQuery when you can do it in a way that's more ugly, more verbose, less portable, more likely to break?

Hear hear.

The curl devs were totally irresponsible, and worse, outright intellectually dishonest to pretend memory safety wasn't a serious problem for them or anyone else.

This the sort of thing Einstein might have believed when was going through his quantum mechanics denialist phase.

Suffice to say the universe proved him, and fans of the quote, very wrong.

This is a good post. I hope this was a good comment.

The interesting thing about NIHCE and its short existence is that it's a startling reminder that the idea that health policy should be evidence-based is still a new one.

NIHCE's greatest contribution has been that, in insisting on being evidence-based as de-politicised any and all questions about what treatments should be available.

I think this week's US shenanigans have showed that de-politicising healthcare is a very laudable goal.