Erwin

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by Erwin 13y ago
According to this: http://top10hell.com/top-10-countries-with-most-bicycles-per... (no idea about veracity of that data), Netherlands claimed 16.5 million cyclists cycling 2.5 km/day on average; compared to US with 100
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by Erwin 13y ago
Well, on a PG 9.1.9 instance, which has fsync=on and an older Intel i7 on an Intel SSD, my 8-process program inserting a 120-byte TEXT value into a (SERIAL, TEXT) table, with transactions each doing 10 inserts, manages to finish inserting
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by Erwin 13y ago
Thanks, I've spent a few months with Feedly but InoReader feels much more right! While Feedly does not allow you to export OPML, it still syncs with Google Reader so unless you've changed your feeds very recently, you can get them
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by Erwin 13y ago
I agree that recursive queries overcomplicate things greatly. Store the whole thing as a semi-typed JSON document, consider adding a thin caching layer to avoid re-parsing it on every hit (perhaps with some kind of sticky load balancing if
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by Erwin 13y ago
What has Microsoft done to compete with the Sony rootkit? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootki...
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by Erwin 13y ago
Hmm, I have a hard time seeing a difference, but this is a large screen and a decent computer. What uglieness should be fixed by this? I use Oracle Java 1.7.0_21-b11 64-bit. Those hundreds of Java flags are a mystery to me.
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by Erwin 13y ago
PyCharm does this. In addition to doing type inference while you have your project open, you can while debugging it run it and make it collect type information. That's quite a bit slower than usual, but once done you will get extra typ
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by Erwin 13y ago
There are already DRM plugins, such as http://www.adobe.com/products/adobe-access.html Why aren't all videos on the Internet already protected by it? Why is a standardized API worse than the existing proprietary ones? Here's an alternativ
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by Erwin 13y ago
I think it's a great update. Everyone already using C++ on a platform that has the required tooling (also considering libraries, IDEs) will benefit from updating. Compare to that Python 2.x to Python 3.x. I have no interest in updating my X
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by Erwin 13y ago
My Kindle books hold higher value for me than physical hardcover books (and also cheaper comparing to buying an imported paperback let alone hardcover). There's convenience in getting the book you want at any time and not having to store th
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by Erwin 13y ago
Python's methods on unicode strings also apply this logic. E.g.: >>> u'١٣٦٨'.isdigit() True >>> int(u'١٣٦٨') 1368 I suppose this could be potentially abused if you are storing and displayeing
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by Erwin 13y ago
Are you claiming that multinational corporations automatically adjust their country local pricing based on the corporate tax rate in that country? For a single-country corporation, I can see the argument. Why add a complex corporate tax --
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by Erwin 13y ago
These hammer-wielding maniacs rival many an American shooting spree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs
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by Erwin 13y ago
I purchased the Dell XPS developer edition here in DK 2 months ago. While it's under "small business", you can buy it as a private person (the only downside is a stream of annoying small business email ads until they acknowledge your unsubs
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by Erwin 13y ago
I really like Flex. It's supposedly flowed and buggy and abandoned though. Yet I can easily write a dozen lines of code with my 1990s GUI knowledge that display 20,000 items in a sortable table and work at full speed in any browser -- while
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by Erwin 14y ago
I've had the new XPS for about 2 weeks now. It's nice and light, good screen. Worked with Ubuntu out of the box except hibernate -- which ran into some problems with encrypted swap before it could work (could be my fault for saying Yes to e
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by Erwin 14y ago
Another tragic case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Kaloyev -- he stabbed and killed the (Danish) flight controller responsible for a plane crash (in Switzerland) in which his children died; after his imprisonment ended early he retu
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by Erwin 14y ago
My Dell XPS 13 (Developer Edition) came preinstalled with Ubuntu 12.04: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd (aka "project sputnik") I haven't used it or other laptops enough to say how good it really is (but hibernate etc. w
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by Erwin 14y ago
The dancing octopus will have to wait for the next version. The unicode consortium is currently only adding the SMILING OCTOPUS: http://codepoints.net/U+1F419 Probably not supported by your browser's font just yet: 🐙🐙🐙
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by Erwin 14y ago
The latest statistics I could find for Denmark (2009) say 80% accepted the tax as prepared by the government, around 18% edited it online and 2% sent in paper. Recently most things are automatically filed and unchangeable, even down to some
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by Erwin 14y ago
This was a surprisingly interesting read, compared to what else has been written about the event so far. Someone should turn this into a little Grisham-style legal drama for the twitter age.
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by Erwin 14y ago
3D computer games on the PC are especially bad -- with a dozen weird graphic options you cannot really evaluate. What will setting texture quality to "Very High" instead of "High" really mean and how much slower will my game run? Maybe th
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by Erwin 14y ago
However the workflow issues you break are sometimes something like this: http://xkcd.com/1172/ -- that may be a problem with software you paid $1 for 3 years ago and expected forever to work exactly as you need it.
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by Erwin 14y ago
An often touted "benefit" of TDD is that "addictive" feeling when you write tests and see them pass. "you feel like you have done a lot because you have a lot of code"; "you feel a great deal of accomplishment". Quite a few pages talk about
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by Erwin 14y ago
They finally got rid of <> in Python 3 (together with the `` as being alias for repr).
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by Erwin 14y ago
Looks like Scott Adam's Dilberito returns: «With the mantra “We Make it Easy to Eat,” Scott Adams Food, Inc. condenses the gastronomy, convenience, and economy (the would-be price in 2008, adjusted to inflation, is $3.31) into one object,
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by Erwin 14y ago
I recommend Zope's Restricted Python: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/RestrictedPython for that sort of thing (this is not like Python's now-dead restricted mode). Restricted Python will recompile your code from something like "x.y(42)" into
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by Erwin 14y ago
I'm not sure what to feel when someone who spent (reportedly) $30MM for a space trip: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garriott#Spaceflight asks me for $1MM But I guess the more power to semi-independent studios we can give through Ki
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by Erwin 14y ago
Interesting. If that's not enough royalties, Spotify is charging too little. According to last.fm (who can record all track plays from Spotify), I've played 10672 tracks over the last 4 months ($55 in royalties at the 0.0052/stream rate), b
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by Erwin 14y ago
The newest PyCharm uses an interesting dynamic approach. You can run your app in their debugger and enable collecting of type parameter info (at a significant performance loss, however). So when you have a function like: def foobarize(f): r

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