Herring

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1561.
by Herring 19y ago
I'd demand a refund if I were you.
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by Herring 19y ago
This bears repeating. People think increased difficulty identifying the good developers (lower signal:noise ratio) means there are fewer good developers. It's a heuristic bias, as far as I can tell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availabilit
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by Herring 19y ago
is it bad that I was thinking dx, dy....
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by Herring 19y ago
I don't see what exactly Ozzie doesn't "get". He made a fairly straightforward point, i thought. "People want interoperability, we're giving them interoperability". You can debate good faith all day, but MS of 10 years ago would never have
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by Herring 19y ago
from my install script.. compizconfig-settings-manager, emerald (& get some themes) nautilus-open-terminal netbeans, python, rails google desktop (tracker sux balls) dvd playback (google it, i forget how)
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by Herring 19y ago
"anectodal support" is an oxymoron. You need many data points to show a correlation. Adding one more doesn't mean anything at all, whether it's an outlier or not.
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by Herring 19y ago
No kidding. You should see what i went through trying to get flash on ppc & amd64 linux
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by Herring 19y ago
That's a nice trick...
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by Herring 19y ago
he meant users, as someone up there said.
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by Herring 19y ago
Still equating OSS to anarchism & altruism, I see. The lessons of capitalism vs communism must have been very hard because lots of otherwise intelligent people can't frame OSS any other way.
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by Herring 19y ago
I'm confused about something. Mediawiki's PHP so, no luck?
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by Herring 19y ago
Good luck getting the media to call people "crackers."
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Ultimate physical limits to computation(scribd.com)
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by Herring 19y ago
What's the use, when you can get terabyte USB drives these days? It's impressive engineering don't get me wrong, but..
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by Herring 19y ago
"Many scientists believe that if Einstein hadn't incorporated gravity into the theory there's a good chance that it would still be undiscovered today." Actually, no. If you start out with flat spacetime & try to describe massless spin-2
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by Herring 19y ago
Much like the internet, mythology is serious business.
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by Herring 19y ago
A little googling later.. http://peteremcc.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/scobles-mystery-so...
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by Herring 19y ago
Re: gore see footnote [2]. Very smooth reply.
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by Herring 19y ago
Well how would you prove it? Just list who was running & pick the most charismatic? There must be many factors to control for, eg incumbency & apportionment. We can do a real study or we can sit around talking till the data comes in
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by Herring 19y ago
My bad. I meant kilograms to joules or megatons to joules
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by Herring 19y ago
hmm? Megaton is a unit of energy.
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by Herring 19y ago
ugh no kidding. That's pretty much the main reason I like smaller projects. Who do I have to talk to in google to add conversions like "10 kilograms/megatons in joules"?
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by Herring 19y ago
Noob here (4 yrs). Muddled code is perfectly ok so long as you wall it off, jesus H christ. The UI should be separate from the machinery, seperate from the data it works on & outputs. Add a bit of refactoring & I'll be perfectly hap
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by Herring 19y ago
I didn't believe his bit about ryanair so I had to go check it out myself. Ryanair.com A one way flight Dublin to Rome costs 0.01 EUR plus 22.74 EUR for taxes/fees