I already have ghc-7.6.3 installed and up to date cabal. What do I get by installing haskell-platform that I don't have right now? AFAIU Haskell Platform is just a vetted list of packages bundled with GHC?
There's also a few other small tweeks, at least over building ghc from source. But the tweeks don't matter unless you're doing relatively unusual stuff (like trying to ffi out avx simd enabled c codes :-) ). (Which will be easier do do with any ghc in a week or so once some tool hacking I'm doing is done)
yes, in this case there is no need to do anything. The Haskell Platform is vetted packages + an easy way to get it all installed (which can be slightly tricky otherwise).
I dunno if it'll get you anything, but it eases things a lot for me running a tech team on Haskell. It's much easier to get people on board with GHC 7.6 for instance now.
Then you'll need to track exact value of food each employee spent, send them invoice and pay them the same amount each month to cover that amount. I can't see how that can be simpler than "free food".
Well, Dalvik is not a speed deamon. I don't have any benchmarks on actual phone hardware available, but I can guess that javascript code will not run much slower on phone hardware than on desktop comparable desktop browsers, while Dalvik is a waaay slover than regular Java code on desktop.
If going by the stats that Xamarin gave[1] for Dalvik versus Mono on Android 4.0, Dalvik is also much slower than Mono. Though obviously Xamarin is not the most independent source in the findings, but I would believe it to outperform Dalvik in my own uses of both it and Dalvik for Android apps (I bought a license for it 6 months ago).
There's also some results by Koush Dutta[1] (Cyanogenmod contributer and Clockwork Recovery developer) from 2009 showing similar findings, though obviously that's way old and before Dalvik had JIT added in Android 2.2. We had a discussion sometime ago about that article on hn as well[3]
Dalvik does have a JIT now, and it's much easier to JIT Java in the first place. The difference between deskop and mobile may be smaller with JavaScript, but not by much.
The biggest issue JavaScript+HTML has is memory usage. Cheap phones don't have much memory and Java on Dalvik is much more memory efficient.
You already have that in Javaland. It's called maven, and it allows you to change one number in one file to upgrade the dependency version. Clojure also has that with Leiningen.
> If no one agreed with them then theirs would be the only flag and there would be no effect. If several people agreed then there would be several flags, and that's what appears to happen.
It would be good if users were given not only flag, but also unflag possibility. As it is right now, it takes only a few users to flag an article to disappear, although there might be hundreds users that would be opposed to that that can affect the flagging process because there is no unflag option.
There is unflag option where you can unflag your own flag, but it doesn't counter other peoples flags, IIRC. I'm not sure about that now, since flag right has been removed from my account some time ago, and I don't see neither flag nor unflag links anymore.
Consider your front page. It's the same as everyone else's front page. The ranking of the items is a function of how old each item is, how many points it has, how many flags it's got, whether it's trip a filter, etc.
Now I flag an item. That penalizes the item and causes its computed value to fall. This in turn may cause its position in the rankings to fall, and thus will affect the front page.
But the front page is your front page, and hence my flagging an item can affect "your" front page.
Just to be clear, paying little or no taxes is only government fail to collect them. It has nothing to do with responsibilities. There is no law in the world that forces anyone to maximize tax that it has to pay, so everyone has a right to pay as little tax as legally allowed.
The difference in your arguments is that the OP is saying they are paying 5% of the tax they are legally required (not allowed) to pay. It is just by using deceitfulness that they do not have to pay the full tax owed.
There is a big difference between minimizing your tax burden and pretending you dont have assets/revenue so you straight up dont have to pay taxes on them.
Because PayPal is the only one that actually works in 150+ countries worldwide. No service offering US or US+CA+UK only service could compete with PayPal effectively, even if it were 1000 times better in technical, UX or business terms, because something that works with a lot of pain is still infinitely better than someone that doesn't support your country.
