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New comment by qop in "Paris Rolls Out Sidewalk Urinals to Tame "Wild Peeing""

qop — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 17:01:39 +0000

That is correct.

European business culture also contributes in some small part, so given enough growth it would have eventually been a problem anyways, but it was exacerbated by importing tens of thousands of primitive terrorists.

New comment by qop in "Cubans cheer as internet goes nationwide for a day"

qop — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 03:04:42 +0000

This is almost a cliche of people who don't know shit shout cuba.

They've had an Internet for years with no wifi. They have mechanics that can reliably work on cars from a half century ago.

Cuba is a wealth of intelligent engineering minds, plagued by reprehensible Communist rule. Money has never stopped the cuban spirit.

It's a disgrace to compare the Cuban spirit to Saudi Arabia.

New comment by qop in "Cubans cheer as internet goes nationwide for a day"

qop — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 03:00:40 +0000

Why would you make that point and imply that my opinion matches up just because other people think that way?

Saudi politics are possibly more detestable than Cuba. Id have said as much if I figured some clueless HN user would pigeon hole my argument.

New comment by qop in "Ask HN: What are some of the simplest software businesses that exist?"

qop — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 19:36:25 +0000

Twilio, craigslist, twitter, wikipedia, are all pretty simple from the top view.

New comment by qop in "Tomu, a tiny ARM microprocessor which fits in your USB port"

qop — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 03:56:38 +0000

Don't you think they'd have thought that through?

I admire your diligent concern, but I thought the same thing for a split second and dismissed it.

I can't imagine even a corporate churn machine with the most reckless abandon designing a device like this and missing the most basic obvious attack vector.

Well, anyways....

New comment by qop in "Julia v1.0 has been released"

qop — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 21:45:39 +0000

The software release of the year, easily.

What an incredible journey the team has had this far. A very approachable group of people involved with the project have tirelessly given their work to the Julia language and finally, FINALLY the 1.0 is ready for consumption.

As if I wasn't psyched for this weekend enough already!

New comment by qop in "China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods"

qop — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 15:54:29 +0000

What is the net outcome of a trade war? Is it just money shifting around?

I'm not squeamish about putting some pain on China, but who's to say they won't resume the same tactics later on?

New comment by qop in "Gerbil Scheme"

qop — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 20:12:56 +0000

Clicking (doc) leads me back to the landing page.

These bullet points are exciting but where is the docs? Examples? Anything?

New comment by qop in "Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform"

qop — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 20:09:59 +0000

Dart excommunicated server side dart. If I were someone who has already been let down once by that decision and is already frustrated by the extremely lackluster library story for server side dart, why should I use dart?

Flutter is the only reason. I don't care about mobile. Hell, if they take android to flutter-only, it'll finally give me the fire to switch to iOS. I been meaning to anyways.

I'm happy that Bracha got out of there. What a shame such a bright man's work has been so foully steeped in Google nonsense.

New comment by qop in "Opera launches as a snap for Linux users"

qop — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 06:07:39 +0000

Opera is incredibly smooth, works on every device I own, it's fast.

The new ownership situation isn't optimal but the quality hasn't gone to shit yet imo.

I remember when opera used to have an IMAP client built in and you could open up an IRC chat tab, it had so much cool stuff!

Mozilla is terrible. Way too left, low quality everything. Mozilla is the single most toxic thing in software culture in the past fifteen years, imo.

Your remark is sorta like "I don't trust Frigidaire, they only have one product!"

Which of course places you in perfect position to shill for Mozilla.

New comment by qop in "A learning platform to teach the Ada and SPARK programming languages"

qop — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 19:26:27 +0000

Those people generally aren't of the same caliber as Matlab programmers.

I'm talking about professional-grade numerical work. People use matlab or R for this currently. Mathematica too.

These people, who are very talented mathematical minds but maybe not necessarily the most talented programmers, are going to eventually find Julia to be more convenient and more attentive to their needs doing numerical work than Python+PyJunk libraries.

Python sucks. Plain and simple. No types, no macros, it's slow, it can be a pain to get gpu support up and running, the main guy just up and left (?!?!?), and the primary survival trait of the community at large is figuring out how to write python and make something other than python do the work.

It would be like buying a car and the dealer hands you a complimentary bus pass and says "try and keep her off the road if you can help it."

So yeah. I don't consider it a major threat to the ecosystem.

New comment by qop in "Uber and Lyft offered to bail out taxi drivers; New York said no"

qop — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 01:26:05 +0000

I haven't seen express pool here yet. Maybe I wasn't selected or maybe it's not here yet.

New comment by qop in "Uber and Lyft offered to bail out taxi drivers; New York said no"

qop — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:33:12 +0000

Horse and carriage drivers offered jobs in Ford factory, Horseback Union said no!

Six horse carriage drivers committed suicide in the past year.

Most taxis are horrendous. They barely speak English or have some sort of hygiene issue or try and take me on some wacky route like I don't live here,

With uber starting to do stuff like upfront fares and uber pool, it's pretty much over with. I've seen a LOT of new yorker trends over the past two decades, and I can safely claim that Uber has reached an indispensable point for the average upper class new yorker.

The last linchpin imo for uber will be something like uber pool with better dedicated routes. Like a bus, but without all the people that ride the bus. That will be awesome.

New comment by qop in "Germany's forest fires come with an explosive twist: WWII munitions"

qop — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 21:23:46 +0000

I've actually wondered about that too! My uncle has a bunch of old rifle optics equipment. Very unusual reticles on some of them!

New comment by qop in "Germany's forest fires come with an explosive twist: WWII munitions"

qop — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 02:57:48 +0000

Do countries like Germany, with rich, relatively recent military history have schools where people go to learn all the different models of bomb that they used back in WW2? How do they keep all that important knowledge circulating for defusal techs after all these years?

Quite interesting

New comment by qop in "The most relaxing vacation you can take is going nowhere"

qop — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 01:11:13 +0000

I wish Pokemon Go had been the game we've all actually been waiting on. With familiar Pokemon PVP and real-world Pokemon scavenging. The gym concept they have is just not that much fun. But I guess the advantage to Pokemon go is being accessible to younger audiences who weren't alive when red and blue came out (I think I was nearly 30 then!) and also that the lack of more concrete game mechanics lends the game a more expressive nature. I've seen people that just play to collect their favorite one, and that's kind of magical to me.

New comment by qop in "Ryū: Fast Float-To-String Conversion"

qop — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 23:08:57 +0000

To hijack this thread a different direction for a moment, is this type of change one that would be allowed to occur in 1.x? How is it determined what changes are suitable for 1.x and what will wait for 2.0, once 1.0 is released?

I'm very interested in how detailed and coordinated the Julia team has become regarding the longer term future of Julia. Admirable effort all around.

New comment by qop in "Ryū: Fast Float-To-String Conversion"

qop — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 22:14:30 +0000

I really enjoy seeing Julia devs so invested and up-to-date with projects and experiments like this, because isn't this the bread and butter of technical computing? The nitty gritty of making all these bits and bytes do work! So cool.

Is Ryu.jl significantly faster than what's in Base? Is there already an open issue somewhere?

New comment by qop in "The most relaxing vacation you can take is going nowhere"

qop — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 22:08:06 +0000

Do you find there are a lot of people in your circle that post those?

My friends (I'm 54) are probably older and more boring than yours, but like if I open Facebook right now there will be grandbaby pictures, look what I did in my shed this weekend, and politics. That's pretty much the formula year round for my timeline.

I strongly suspect that's a trend with younger people. I don't see my friends and coworkers experiencing the same type of satisfaction when posting something that I see younger users having.

Hell, I'm glad I'm not the type of old person that doesn't know how to use Facebook. Just that is really enough satisfaction for me.

New comment by qop in "Launch loop"

qop — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 22:02:18 +0000

It's fascinating stuff. Those are the types of people our society will need a thousand years from now when we're coordinating larger structures in space. Maybe even coordinating builders/supplies from different planets!