If you are a European "Amazon", you are going to pay taxes. How do you compete with a company that doesn't pay taxes? They can use those untaxed profits to acquire and bully their way to the top, including just buying out European possible competitors.

Europe should not only look at this as missing tax income, but effectively market dumping.

I have spent quite a bit of time in britain, a sizable percentage of the population there takes great pleasure in being really mean when the rulebook allows them to do so. They will gleefully enforce rules that ruin a person's life even when those rules make no sense or are disproportionate responses to the problems being solved.

This sort of insanity doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I suspect that some of the enforcers had a strong suspicion that the computer was wrong but continued to enforce the rules anyway "to maintain order and discipline" "If people start doubting the computer what other chaos will ensue?"

I have long argued that brexit is a great thing for Europe as it removes over 60 million petty minded individuals from holding back the European experiment.

Britain will try to reenter the EU after two things have happened. Spain's GDP has eclipsed the UKs and English is no longer the linqua-franca of the EU. I would suggest that the EU wait a full 20 years after britain is prepared to re-enter before letting them in as they will only start this request when they think they have any cards to play in a negotiation.

I can see these companies screaming that they will anonomyze the data. Don't even let them do this. This is one of those laws that needs to go way beyond into basically, "If you track any aspect of public behaviour or data, then you get punished far beyond any potential gains."

The last number of slashdot polls have had to ask the question "Do you even know what X is?"

This is clearly just clickbait trying to push some stupid tech that nobody cares about and will probably wither into nothing sooner than later.

They should have an option "I don't care at all what X so never mention it again."

This guy has been cancelled. It doesn't matter if you agree with the cancellation or not; he is a parahia. Universities of note haven't had him come by in a long time, etc. If you have an organization that depends on fundraising then you might as well bring in Kevin Spacy or dig up Jeffrey Epstein.

Pretty certain the OP is using a fictional idea of what BGP could be (what the company is trying to do is improve BGP from least hop to less congested or less latecy, etc.) or a misunderstanding of what BGP does.

I read a story long ago about microsoft developing their C++ IDE (Pre visual studio). They kept shoving in features the top developers in the US wanted, but nobody would buy their garbage product. Borland continued to rule until a new guy took over the Microsoft effort and focused on features joe average developer wanted like wizards to make setting up a basic windows program. Microsoft then proceeded to dominate.

Don't listen to developers who go to conferences, they are not at all the average developer. Listen to the users who do this as their day jobs. I highly suspect that the only features they are really looking for are related to speed.

As you work through more and more advanced programmers you might find desires like threading friendly features long before static typing. To me static typing is found in other languages that really need it like C++. Not having it is a virtue for python. I would very much say that if you want static typing, use a different language.

The worst argument for static typing is that it is required for speed. This is total BS. Javascript is rocket fast without it. PHP is rocket fast without it. The people who want static typing are people who don't understand what makes python great and just want it to be something it is not.

If solaris was any good people would be using it on new projects all over the place. I don't see it in super computer clusters, or pretty much anywhere.

By any sane measure of actual usage I can say that Solaris is as dead as blackberry phones; A few oddballs out there are still using those as well and the same goes for Solaris; just oddballs who got over certified in a single tech and can't let go. I feel for the organizations that they have fooled into continuing the madness.

If I hire some kids to help me put up a fence, that is a gig. If I hire someone to drive professionally, and they need to go out and get professional driving insurance, that is a job. They should have all the rights of anyone working at any full-time/part-time job.

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I had the same conversation with the other end of the Sun stick from McNealy. The local rep came in for a board replacement on a $20,000 sun system. He saw that we had a bunch of whitebox linux systems and said, "Oh, I see you are trying out linux and this explains why you haven't bought from us in a while. Don't worry, you'll be back, linux is a fad."

We told him to quickly find better employment. He thought we were being asses instead of helpful to an otherwise great guy.

I have used solaris and it is just painful after using Linux. Everything is just harder. But where its days are entirely numbered, even for legacy systems, is hardware replacements. Sparc; just give up. But for x86 solaris you can put it on a VMWare system. This way it will cling to life on nice shiny hardware. You pretty much can't get it to install on newer hardware. For this reason, I can see old solaris systems going for a long long time, or until VMWare drops support.

And Solaris isn't as hardcore as many unix systems; in those cases, I can't even imagine the maintenance nightmare.

Quite simply, this was one of the brightest of bright spots in the UK tech world. They should have blocked any deal for a foreign entity to buy it.

I timed it at 7 seconds on first open after reboot and well under one second on subsequent opens.

I timed it at seven seconds on first open after reboot and well under 1 second on subsequent opens.

I timed it at 7 seconds on first open after reboot and well under 1 second on subsequent opens.