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If you're counting in a (rare) two-deck game with a full table, time between shuffles is so low that it isn't worth it from a hand/hour standpoint.

Except that in the case of live poker, they're getting theirs via the rake. I assume you're talking about blackjack: unless there is a CSM at the table or an absurd 6:5 blackjack p…

> Whatever your thoughts are on Java the language - would it not make sense to focus efforts on the OpenJVM project and all the languages it can support? Putting Go on the JVM woul…

Ah yes, feel sorry for someone who chooses to live where their rights are not (or are less) infringed upon.

Don't forget the close-to-10% state income tax (at engineer income), higher sales tax, CA SDI, higher food/utility costs, higher insurance, etc. If you're lucky enough to work in a…

In most cases, companies aren't actually able to adjust point-for-point for CoL.. it just isn't possible in any market with local opportunity. If remote markets ever see dramatic e…

I was very hopeful when I saw Ecco.

Company of Heroes - 1500+ hours played. I miss it so.

I thought that was Team America, World Police.

> address a perceived lack of homegrown IT talent Drive down homegrown market prices by increasing supply.

If Rust had asynchronous I/O this would be less of a head scratcher. Too bad that AIO and related, necessary primitives were forsaken for other priorities.

> > expressive enough so "scripters" feel at home As much as I love all things Haskell, there is no way it fits the "scripters can use it" bill.

Have you seen Nim? ( http://nim-lang.org )

Wow. There is no minimum spend to use AWS IAM. $1k a month over there goes a bit further, too.

> Reforming the DMCA is critical should be "Repealing"

This would be the ultimate feature. Languages with dynamic dispatch would do well to implement this feature.

> with all the complexity that implies Running the installer and paging through the wizard.

Which can be used today via 6to5!

TOTP and HOTP have been standards for how long now? (HMAC has been in papers since 1997 or earlier, HOTP since 2005) We have 2FA devices like the Yubikey ( https://www.yubico.com/p…

They're still all over the place. But these specific firearms are (artificially) worth so much you'll never see them.

> systems Here we go.

Has AMQP changed substantially in two years? For purposes of publishing a simple event?

This exists: https://github.com/omniti-labs/pg_amqp

August does everything they are claiming and doesn't require a total replacement.