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Both Dollar and Bitcoin are un-evenly distributed, but with Bitcoin the creation of new currency is fair, unlike the creation of new dollars by the people who have fractional reserve banking license.
NoSQL DBs have real advantages - e.g. you have a huge production relational DB, you want to make schema changes - you have to take your app offline for hours.
> How are the "other 3 billion people" without smartphones going to contribute to Facebook's bottom line?
By becoming rich, of course.
Buy/build a faster PC?
Good excuse ;)
"leading teams" is very different from "coding 80 hours a week"
IDEs like Visual Studio and Idea will show you classes, methods and parameters as you type. You only need to know which namespace to use for a given operation.
There are alternatives - e.g. instead of band albums buy overpriced T-Shirts on their official web site.
Today is a very humbling day for me.
When I read that I knew this guy would fail as MS CEO. It's a proper jungle out there and a humble Indian guy will be eaten alive by the aggressive confident westerners.
Enjoyment >> freedom /s
Plus the artists who create the content get a miniscule part of your purchase money.
Just the opposite - every time you buy any content from the evil media mega corps you're funding their war against privacy, democracy and individual freedoms.
Operates a drill press.
> impractical compared to better modern languages
How much did 'they' pay you to say that? :D
But seriously Lisps are by far the most advanced programming languages. They just take a huge amount of effort to learn.
Hmmm, are you saying that you can predict the exact protein that, say a human cell, will produce for every DNA sequence. I had the impression that the whole mRNA + ribosomes process is extremely complex and poorly understood.