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Deleted, then. Perhaps I have conflated the memory of being at javaone and being told all about the wonders of javafx, and the contemporaneous wonders of "filthy rich clients".

History is not the strong suit of this site's readers. Yes, Intel was selling ARM CPUs into the mobile market (Compaq IPAQ, Sharp Zaurus, etc) when Apple was still making pink iMac…

What do you mean discontinued? What about the Atom that was just introduced earlier in 2016? e.g. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138... ?

People also seem to forget that Kodak owned the entire digital still photography market for its first decade. They had a 1 megapixel sensor during the Reagan administration, for cr…

It's not just that. Hackborn spent many years denying that Android was janky as fuck, or making excuses for it (e.g. https://plus.sandbox.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/...…

I agree. Qualcomm and the rest can own the frontend and get half a nickel in profits per handset shipped, while Intel owns the backend and sells server CPUs by the millions with gr…

That's not where the money goes. The money goes to responding to every drug addict with a stubbed toe with a giant firetruck and its crew, and then taking the aforementioned drug a…

I'm not sure. I don't program in C++ because I want it to have performance comparable to other languages.

The thing to keep in mind is that copying a shared_ptr isn't cheap at all. It's a class with a pointer and atomic reference count inside and the atomic inc/dec takes many cycles.

+1 to this. I wouldn't touch ZFS or DTrace or anything else from Sun/Oracle with a 30-million-foot pole.

"One of the goals of such systems is that copy of the file system on disk is always consistent." Goal yes, implementation no. WAFL does in fact have consistency problems and filers…

On the top right side you can switch it to county-level data. I wish this site had a reasonable way to make permalinks, then I would just paste it here.

Exactly my point!

Can't I just put a lens above the surface to concentrate it? I think you picked a poor example.

"Violent gun crimes are nearly non-existent in rural settings." This cannot be the basis of a rational policy, because it's false. Gun violence is much higher outside of cities. Pl…

In fact this is the perfect illustration of how the non-rich are manipulated into supporting the policies of the rich. Lots of people oppose the minimum wage increase on the basis …

Wasn't this the kind of understanding that Cyc was supposed to accomplish?

The joke is that the rural people are oppressing themselves. "Urban elites" have long advocated for policies that would benefit the rural poor but the white rural poor are dead set…

Say what? The counties of the Bay Area are all well below the national average suicide rate (age adjusted, per capita CDC data). Explore for yourself at [1]. How did you arrive at …

I'm actually using it as shorthand for "your sentence fragments do not amount to an argument."

I always complain about code comments that aren't complete sentences. Why should comments be misspelled or grammatically incorrect?

Well perhaps another part of Google's code review culture is important, then: proposed changes must be style compliant, must compile, must have tests, and all the tests must pass b…

My throwaway account is as anonymous as yours. I use it because it's been logged in in Chrome for the last five years and I'm lazy. I don't see how "JTxt" differs from "thrownaway2…

Again I'm not really seeing your point. One goes about in public "openly and notoriously" as the legal jargon goes. It is expected that one's face would be recognized.

I don't disagree with your facts but I also don't think they lead to your conclusion. One does not expect privacy in public, by definition.