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Not being able to play Youtube in the background on your phone is unfortunately one of the main appeals of Premium. There's a lot of good mixes, concerts, etc that I play for the audio while doing something else that I can't do without Premium unless I wanted to leave my phone unlocked (and pray I don't pocket click a link).

Using Git Wrong 9 years ago

Under "Changing Code":

It might seem like chaos, but it is not. It is just fluid synchronization, or to put differently: eventual consistency system.

Can anyone explain this? The example he used wasn't fleshed out enough for me to understand how this system wouldn't be chaos

I hate to be that guy, but the amount of havoc commercial flying cars could create is concerning. If these things become commonplace, imagine the destruction someone could wreak. I don't think fear should ever be a good reason to deter progress, but it is something to think about if we want to go this route

Don't know if it's relevant but Tesla admitted that only 2 individuals on the board didn't also have ties to Solar City, so hearing that shareholders are enthusiastic about the merge wouldn't be surprising I wouldn't think

You argue under the presumption that the prostitute is there against their will. Assuming prostitution is made legal and thus brothels are allowed to operate under government regulations there shouldn't be any emotional or physical trauma. Prostitutes would become prostitutes because they would want to or because circumstances determined that that was the best way for them to make a living. Pregnancy wouldn't be an issue either. You know people become porn stars because they want to right? How is being a prostitute in a regulated industry any different?

Legalize It All 10 years ago

This is unrelated but it would be nice if this site offered the ability to minimize sub-threads. I was genuinely curious about people's opinions as to how best legalize drugs in a responsible fashion. Instead I have to scroll through an obnoxious amount of comments bemoaning the short falls of the government long enough to lose interest.

This is really cool from a first glance. I definitely think one needs to take this sort of approach when learning a new technology. Despite having enthusiasm about a new field of software development, it's far too easy to abandon any attempts education oneself due to the dryness of the material.

Java Developers 12 years ago

It's also important due to it helping one understand everything that's going on under the hood in whatever high level language one's using

I really, really want to get into Haskell and functional programming in general, but I have no idea what sort of project to build with it. Anyone have any good suggestion?

The End of Food? 12 years ago

Assuming that it doesn't taste as bad as it sounds, it's likely that this will just end being a quick meal replacement here and there. I.e. you're pulling a long night at work and you _could_ order pizza but that's unhealthy so you whip out a Soylent shake.

It's certainly not a revolution by any means

As awesome as it is to see Google kick the regional monopolies into upgrading, it's really a lack of competition that's stifling both modern connection speeds and reasonable prices. Prices for the ridiculously named "Gigapower" are undoubtedly going to go increase repeatedly over time if Fiber backs out since it has achieved what it wants. Competition would have the opposite effect.

Or better yet, why not treat ISPs as utilities. Could anyone offer insight as to why internet in this day and age is not regulated like electricity or other utilities?

Drop Dropbox 12 years ago

If you don't believe every country in the world doesn't try to bug any country they have an investment in, rather it be ally or enemy, you're naive. I can't believe it even came as surprise that US bugged its allies, you don't believe our allies do the same thing, or at least try to, to us?

Why I like Java 12 years ago

Copy standard input to standard out? It's like 5 lines of code in Java

Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in) while(scan.hasNext()) { System.out.println(scan.nextLine()+"\n") }