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by 50CNT 11y ago
Matter of fact, sometimes it's better to be using a respectable 3rd party library. Requests vs. urllib2 in Python springs to mind, and I'm sure there's more examples.
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by 50CNT 11y ago
I thought they worked by dielectric heating? Making polar molecules get all frantic and stuff. There is a safety mechanism to shut off the magnetron when the door is opened, and a screen to make the viewing window opaque to microwave radiat
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by 50CNT 11y ago
This may be a bit rude, but seriously, what the hell? It sounds like the kids hit high school, and you're already like "it's too late for'im, he's doomed!" That's quite the rough judgement to pass on someo
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by 50CNT 11y ago
This may be slightly off topic, but look at this cool LED[0]! It's a 150W 18000lumen LED, which is the raddest thing ever. [0][ http://www.cree.com/LED-Components-and-Modules/Products/XLam... ]
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by 50CNT 11y ago
That reminds me of an urban legend regarding microwaves, which doesn't seem entirely infeasible. It involves a man working at a small fast food stand, who worked next to his microwave. Now his microwave was used often, and it had a sma
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by 50CNT 11y ago
It does make sense in that context, but even then it seems like a dangerous choice to make depending on your development culture, especially if it only pays the minimums on technical debt. Javascript seems like the payday loan of technical
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by 50CNT 11y ago
Sorry, it's based off tofu dreg construction, which is a chinese slang term meaning substandard, rushed construction. Used either as 豆腐渣工程 or just 豆腐工程. I've heard it explained as old tofu being mixed into concrete to push up vol
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by 50CNT 11y ago
Argh, that article has the "Things are different in China" excuse in there that utterly makes my blood boil. Granted, things are different in China, but that doesn't excuse fraud or 豆腐渣编程[0]. They're worse than Baidu. [0
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by 50CNT 11y ago
Because .js. I think the general argument is this. Javascript is a necessary evil, but serverside, it isn't. Please, let us use something saner, or at least give us the option to do so. Javascript seems to be spreading into areas javas
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by 50CNT 11y ago
I mean there is Mozilla Thunderbird, but it hasn't been the focus of much development since 2012, with intention to decouple it from Firefox development in 2015. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird ]
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by 50CNT 11y ago
What'd you expect from an AI chat?
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by 50CNT 11y ago
This is probably silly speculation, but I'm neither good at testicle models nor the more squishy sciences. So sperm virility is correlated with temperature. My phone gets very warm if I leave an app running. I keep my phone close to my
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by 50CNT 11y ago
Where does your conclusion stem from? I haven't been aware of the German government discriminating against these groups, nor of the CDU proposing laws to do so. One issue I can think of is same-sex marriage, but there's laws enabl
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by 50CNT 11y ago
This isn't quite a relevant xkcd, but I do think it's relevant. Whilst it'd be cool to be able to apply models from physics to economics, there may be issues in applicability. http://www.smbc-comics.com/index
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by 50CNT 11y ago
She is a physicist though, which reminds me of one "controversial" statement she made in an interview. Essentially, the interviewer asked her what she liked most about her job as Chancellor, to which she replied "I like that
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by 50CNT 11y ago
The name came out the the desire to unite catholic and protestant groups after WWII in a centre party. They've been open to non-christians since inception, and they decided to keep the "Christian" in the name to emphasize the
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by 50CNT 11y ago
There's these very nice swiss wooden blocks that have pathways for marbles carved into them.They're a lot of fun, and dead simple to put together, but also quite expensive, at about 150EUR for a set of 50. I had some of them as a
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by 50CNT 11y ago
I've heard that at 12 months Duplo's and Visual VHDL/Verilog editors become suitable for the child. You can get them started on very simple PLDs, move on to FPGAs along with some more palatable Assembly. If the child cannot s
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by 50CNT 11y ago
This stuff belongs in the domain of graphical design. Rule of thumb is to provide padding towards the edges around text, a little more to the sides than to the top, eg. [padding: 1em 2em;] depending on the font used because of inherent vert
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by 50CNT 11y ago
Yes, the registration thing is a nuisance. They do seem to be working on ironing out the bugs in the current visa laws though, and there's reason to believe they'll become a lot more lenient, especially to y'all tech PhD peop
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by 50CNT 11y ago
I think language design may be too strong a term for a lot of web technology. That's where you want to be using a linter and/or validator though.
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by 50CNT 11y ago
Kinda. The Chinese government has been trying to mix sitting on a powder keg and rapid economic growth. They do not want to become a second USSR by opening up all the floodgates at once. Also, considering how they got to their position, I d
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by 50CNT 11y ago
In part it's that in China your network matters a lot in life. There's somewhat of a subdivision into friends, family and strangers, and university is viewed as THE place to broaden the first group, preferably with influential peo
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by 50CNT 11y ago
The "self-explanatory"/"brevity" problem is quite interesting. It reminds me of the point Donald Norman made in "The Design of Everyday Things", where information is either found in the world, or in our he
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by 50CNT 11y ago
Reminds me of this quote by Kurt von Hammerstein, a German general of the Reichswehr. I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clev
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by 50CNT 11y ago
I like to generalize it to "Understand and consistently apply the concepts and good practices of your chosen field". This requires you to find out what good practices are, understanding why they are good practices and then working
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by 50CNT 11y ago
My guess is, the brand of YC on your startup will more than offset the complications these terms create. Being a YC company is a strong qualifier in this magical world of unicorns and angelic investment. I'm fairly certain that there w
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by 50CNT 11y ago
That reminds me of a pet peeve of mine: Why are we assuming kids will learn about learning through osmosis? Cognitive maps (or mental models) are part of that. I struggled a lot with this, and other meta-learning topics. Got it eventually,
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by 50CNT 11y ago
Yeah, but it does seem like interesting tech that was kept under wraps gets a comeback tour once patent protections run out. Consumer 3D printing is an interesting case, because the wealth of extrusion deposition products came after the pat
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by 50CNT 11y ago
That's an interesting point on patents isn't it. Things become emerging tech once the patents on it expire.

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