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by Lendal 13y ago
In my city there is a river which roughly splits it into two equal halves. You identify yourself by which side of the river you live on. But this algorithm completely ignores this natural division and instead uses an arbitrarily angled line
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by Lendal 13y ago
Sorry I still don't get it. A database that actually used all 64GB of MEMORY--not disk--would store billions of customer records, and yet this is a small business? What small business stores billions of records of anything? Yes I have
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by Lendal 13y ago
This was mostly well done and really makes me want to take a closer look at Postgres. But a cheap shot came on the last one, "Readers and writers block each other". Both locking and snapshots are implemented in SQL Server, and you
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by Lendal 13y ago
I really wish I could sign the White House petition to pardon Snowden, but I don't want to get my name on the no-fly list or any other such secret lists of "terrorists". I wonder how many Americans are afraid to speak out for
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by Lendal 13y ago
Comparing its strategy with Steam doesn't work for me, since I already boycott Steam anyway, for the same reason I'll boycott the Xbox One. I don't want to be under surveillance while I play a single-player game, or even a mu
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by Lendal 14y ago
I do SS myself, but one of this article's requirements is he can't be bothered to go to a gym or to buy large gym equipment for his home. And he wants to do the whole workout in bits and pieces no longer than 30 minutes. With those kind of
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by Lendal 14y ago
Nothing happens. Is this a clever way of saying that nobody should scroll at all on the web? Why is this the top story on HN? Or is this saying that everybody should use Chrome? I don't. I use Firefox and it doesn't do anything either on Wi
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by Lendal 14y ago
To this article I say-- Wow. Jump on the Microsoft-bashing bandwagon some more. This writer has not actually used the product at all. The desktop is still there. The command line is still there. If you're the type of customer that wants a s
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by Lendal 14y ago
I write code every day, but I don't save it and its been 20 years since I wrote any code for 'pleasure'. For pleasure I have sex, go to a symphony or swim in the ocean. Coding is something I do because I'm good at it and people will pay me
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by Lendal 14y ago
Maybe they should be banned. Only something of this magnitude would draw the necessary level of interest from apathetic voters to make this a campaign issue, thus positive change might result. If a couple of years without Xbox's is the pric
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by Lendal 14y ago
They want Street View to be constantly up-to-date, and they don't want to pay hundreds of drivers to constantly crawl the streets of the world 24/7. I can think of many possibilities when every Street View picture of every sign and storefro
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by Lendal 15y ago
Good article. Unfortunately while reading it, it's difficult to ignore the fact that neither of these should be cut at all before cuts are made to overseas military campaigns, CIA, war on drugs, DHS, corporate welfare, cronyism, etc. etc.
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by Lendal 16y ago
What's the big deal? Why can't it be a trade and a craft? Problem is, if you don't have the craft, then you're not gonna get the end result. Just don't shove the craft down the customer's throat. That stuff is for colleagues. The customer
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by Lendal 16y ago
Let's put it a way a programmer would understand. Regulation is like generalization. Not enough of it is bad. Too much of it is also bad. What is the problem we're having that's in need of fixing? If you can't answer that question with conc
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by Lendal 16y ago
Silly argument. Both are needed. It doesn't do any good to teach a man to fish if he dies of starvation while waiting for the fish to bite. On the other hand a failure in employment only leads to higher demand for charity. So they're both e
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by Lendal 16y ago
Exactly the opposite is true. People who make their payments get low interest rates. People who don't, get higher rates. That's the way it works. Think about cars. Car dealerships know almost anyone coming in the door can get approved, but
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by Lendal 16y ago
This crisis won't be the same at all, because you can't discharge student loan debt. There is currently no reason for a lender to bother examining the loan because repayment is virtually guaranteed. Having the federal government take over t
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by Lendal 16y ago
The solution is for government to cut its spending. But that brings up an interesting question. Has any government in history ever significantly cut its spending and reduced its taxes for the long-term benefit of its people, without a viole
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by Lendal 16y ago
The reason this is better is because their ebooks are DRM-free. Not so with Safari's books. When you use the download tokens from Safari, you get a book that is riddled with watermarks and legal threats on every single page. When I'm readin
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by Lendal 16y ago
This is really old news. They've already admitted N97 was a disaster, and have since recommitted to doing everything better. At this point we're in wait-and-see mode. Revisiting old failures is not constructive. Come on guys, keep up. We're
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by Lendal 16y ago
Using private where you should should use protected is nowhere near as bad as using goto.
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by Lendal 16y ago
Wow, a really twisted way to look at reality and thus prove with a little sophistry that price-fixing and communism is the only way to prevent poor people from starving. The only problem is that with communism, eventually everybody starves
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by Lendal 16y ago
The 'food industry' doesn't dictate what you eat. The 'food industry' provides you with many choices at many different stores and restaurants. You just choose the unhealthy ones. That's not the food industry's fault. Make better choices.
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by Lendal 16y ago
"Libertarian dictatorship?" Hunh?
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by Lendal 16y ago
Have to say I own an N900 in the US and I love it. I prefer the resistive screen because it works better. I can use the web and click on very small links and buttons without having to zoom in and out all the time. It can run Firefox too, bu
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by Lendal 16y ago
You consented when you selected "Install updates automatically," instead of "Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them."
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by Lendal 16y ago
Have you ever tried to convince a woman of this truth about diamonds?
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by Lendal 16y ago
First, they will have to increase the federal prison capacity 10x, so they can hold all the American citizens who rebel against this tyranny, and would gladly spend the rest of their lives in a federal prison in protest. I would be among th
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by Lendal 17y ago
All the same arguments, but ignoring the most likely explanation of why people choose to disbelieve in evolution: It doesn't matter to the common person. Disbelief in germ theory could get you killed, whereas disbelief in the evolution theo
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by Lendal 17y ago
What about your income? Is that keeping pace as well? I know mine surely isn't.

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