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ternaryoperator

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About ternaryoperator

I value your time and mine. So, I intend my comments and posts to be helpful. If they're not, lemme know. We're all in the soup together.

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    Comment #49250350

    I don’t think Nvidia fits on that list. It’s a company with a pro-employee culture, very few layoffs, and many employees who have been there a long time.

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    Comment #49215234

    Not sure where u get your information. Oracle Java is OpenJDK with a support license from Oracle. It is widely used in enterprises, and it is updated regularly.

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    Comment #49215183

    It is a community implementation although the vast majority of contributions come from Oracle staff. RedHat, in particular, has made numerous contributions.

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    Comment #49192173

    > What people cite and what actually is are completely different. You state this as some kind of universal axiom. Many times what people cite is exactly what is happening to them.

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    Comment #49141189

    Really? I have quite the opposite impression. HN is one of the few places I can come to where intelligent conversations can be found. Sure, sometimes discussions run off the rails …

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    Comment #49000412

    This is a copy/paste of an Nvidia press release

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    Comment #48901055

    Thanks for the good wishes. Indeed, it is super complex. It's been much harder than we initially expected. We'd thought maybe two years--it wouldn't be fast, but it would be comple…

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    Comment #48886265

    A JVM written in go at https://www.jacobin.org

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    Comment #48855253

    I don’t understand why Kelley wrote the post at all. Just thank Bun for their donations and wish them well.

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    Comment #48846136

    > the way of myspcace and Oracle Oracle had record revenue in its most recent fiscal year, with record user engagement. So whatever connection you're trying to establish between it…

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    Comment #48809974

    They were laid odd, not fired. the title is OP’s reinvention of the headline

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    Comment #48782516

    When Wikipedia first came out, there was a big debate about articles on people: should it be inclusive (anybody with minor accomplishments gets in) or should there be some threshol…

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    Comment #48742671

    2/3 of policies sold in California are assigned to the California Earthquake Authority (CEA), which is a semi-private/semi-public corporation that carries the principal risk. It wa…

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    Comment #48740595

    Alas, not. Most policies in California have a 15% deductible. That’s 15% of the insured value of your home. So for nearly all houses, a $25K bill is not covered. California policie…

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    Comment #48692145

    Ah, thanks for the correction.

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    Comment #48690084

    The publisher was generally familiar with Beethoven’s writing and conventions. He’d prepare galleys that Beethoven would proof (and frequently edit). A substantial part of Beethove…

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    Comment #48679088

    Their line of POWER chips are used in their mainframes

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    Comment #48654944

    What the Brexit vote demonstrated IMHO is that you should not make profound systemic changes based on 50% + 1 vote. You really need a super-majority, otherwise the country is at th…

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    Comment #48578925

    Pshaw! Similar behavior by Oracle has not diminished its footprint nor its sales.

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    Comment #48545559

    Everything the author complains about occurred in the dot-com bubble as well. His view that until 2007 founders were lovable nerds is completely off-base. In Silicon Valley, the sa…

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    Comment #48530054

    Jacobin, a JVM entirely written in go https://www.jacobin.org

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    Comment #48514554

    Take this difficulty and make the desired sound piano and put the whole thing into 1960s technology and you can see why recording studios were never able to remove Glenn Gould's hu…

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    Comment #48508876

    So, it is an ad.

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    Comment #48494842

    That readability is the upside of COBOL’s oft-assailed verbosity.