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by Danieru 14y ago
And the most damning: >After all, isn’t that what open source is all about – the idea that collaboration and teamwork achieve amazing things?
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by Danieru 14y ago
True, but what happens once the coal is a pile? Unless said pile is being turned into a giant bonfire it will need further transportation. This means big machines and their operators. It means trucks, trains, barges, and yet more drivers. G
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by Danieru 14y ago
Natural gas is also much easier to store than coal and gas turbines have much shorter startup times. Thus Natural gas provides an excellent base power to complement renewable energy. So while I am sure many would prefer a direct to renewabl
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by Danieru 14y ago
I wrote a small article on an obscure piece of software, I even studied the wiki syntax and added an infobox & image. It got fast track deleted the next day. Wikipedia has reached an equilibrium point between articles that cannot be del
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Firefox uses a faster(worse) scaling algorithm than Chrome. Besides, it consumes extra bandwidth for 97% of users.
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by Danieru 14y ago
> the news of Digg's own sale has yet to show up on Digg's front page The news is on Digg, about 2/3 down the page now. When I first looked earlier today it was in the top five with less than 100 upvotes. Even now it has only managed 16
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by Danieru 14y ago
The first one I finished was The Mythical Man Month. At the time, high school, I doubted if I was good enough for programming. So I started reading through Jeff Atwood's recommended books: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/02/recommend
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by Danieru 14y ago
OUYA is a startup. A startup's job is to explore new markets at a high risk. Maybe that is too abstract, I'll reword it. A startup's job is to overcome challenges and create the non-obvious. Each of those 'reasons' are just challenges that
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by Danieru 14y ago
Considering that at first they had just enough slots to reach their goal I think they are managing the launch to maximize unit sales and hype. What I am surprised about is that they did not raise the price above $99 with the second top up (
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by Danieru 14y ago
Apple is not going to let the AppleTV run iOS apps. If only because the mess of resolutions and aspect ratios you find in everyday TVs. Thus without the iOS ecosystem Apple would be competing on specs and marketing. They could do it but the
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by Danieru 14y ago
Same thing, slightly different connotations. Consulting implies a more advisory role while freelancing implies you are working on something. Another similar term is contracting. The implication of contracting is that you only work on one pr
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by Danieru 14y ago
You're right, we should blame them as well. Woe is us. On the other hand I do not see anything wrong with our Canadian talent drain. Canadian software engineers are not for want of jobs, I imagine we have the easiest time moving to the stat
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Did this virus operate on the honor system by any chance?
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by Danieru 14y ago
An interesting point. Do they happen to have a bank account with billions? Think of all the methods money arrives into a large corporation. There must be thousands of accounts. Imagine the accounting department going through hundreds of acc
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by Danieru 14y ago
I would suggest that serving webpages falls into the set of embarrassingly parallel problems. The solution is to saturate your cpu running multiple instances.
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by Danieru 14y ago
Worst case we have a surplus of maintenance programmers. What could possibly go wrong.
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by Danieru 14y ago
It's a standard open source wordpress theme, one of the popular ones: https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/responsive
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by Danieru 14y ago
Plus no one will ever steal it. I've had two people say to my face "Wow, that's an old computer". Which is silly since it is the world's coolest looking laptop.
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by Danieru 14y ago
Are you sure? I see a giant Windows banner here: https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ You can download that without even registering (tiny link on second page).
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If you have two lame horses and you glue them together do you get: 1. A race horse, or 2. Two sticky lame horses
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Chrome on Android is real chrome. Chrome on iOS is, different.
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by Danieru 14y ago
A nasty situation no doubt, but manageable. What I would do is: 0. Rename IE to 'intranet'. 1. Configure IE to only access Intranet. 2. Switch everyone to chrome/firefox, keep bookmarks, etc 3. Hire some university students to temp man the
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by Danieru 14y ago
Because that is how percentages work.
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To be fair the cost of burning 1 million dollars is only the cost to print and transport the money. Assuming it only costs 10c to print a $20 bill then the cost to society of the act was a meagre $5000. I imagine the entertainment value pro
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by Danieru 14y ago
According to statcounter ie7 was at ~1.5% last month. It dropped a full percentage point from the month before that. Even Firefox 3.6 usage was higher. I think there is value in moving to faster deprecation. Plus even if it does make finici
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by Danieru 14y ago
Which is one third of what it would take to download, maintain seed ratio of 1, and then push a copy to dropbox.
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by Danieru 14y ago
Full width characters have a fun habit of breaking most things. Even more so than unicode. Since they are only used in CJK languages the majority of programmers are unaware of them. The seperate code points between half-width and full-width
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by Danieru 14y ago
Not since false negatives are the biggest issue. For companies that use this software keeping porn and viruses off the network is a higher priority than letting charity donation pages through. These companies have never little trust in thei
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Well that explains why Raymond Chen's blog is called The Old New Thing.
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China has many large buildings. Of this very large set a few turned out to need demolition. The article accuses China of paying the morning crew to dig a ditch and the evening crew to fill it up. I dislike communist in-efficiencies just as

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