Luyt

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by Luyt 15y ago
In Dutch, there is 'jij' (colloquial 'you') and 'u' (formal 'you'). There is a trend to replace both 'jij' and 'u' by 'joe' (pronounced as the english 'you'). This eliminates the dilemma whether to address someone formally or not. The word
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by Luyt 15y ago
"Freedom: To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing." - Ayn Rand
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I use http://cherrypy.org/ (behind a nginx revproxy) to my satisfaction. The data is stored either in http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/ , or in MySQL. Disclaimer: these websites are not designed for 50.000 hits per second, but durin
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by Luyt 15y ago
A classic. I also read esr's other material, like the 'Cathedral and the Bazaar', and the his views on the Halloween Documents.
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Prepare yourself for a 400 GB download. The software to process this quantity of data must be truly massively scaled.
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I wonder why the government needs to impose 35% tax on companies. Could it have something to do with inefficiency?
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COBOL. But I think the author didn't know that the preg_*() functions use regular expressions the same way Perl does.
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The story of the Fail Whale(readwriteweb.com)
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esr writes in his latest Smartphone Wars[1] installment: "WebOS, we hardly knew ye [...] WebOS has looked terminal to us for a long time. [...] WebOS didn’t suck, technically speaking. It was certainly better constructed than the turd-with-
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by Luyt 15y ago
In this light, http://mongodb-is-web-scale.com is maybe relevant.
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Did the original Wolfenstein also feature the Horst Wessel Lied? BTW, Castle Wolfenstein's scenery is based on Wewelsburg [1] which housed a SS 'school' before WW2. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wewelsburg#The_Wewelsburg_SS_Sc...
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What a superficial article. Is it only meant to attract page views? Stuff like: "there have been links to extended Internet use and a rise in depression" How about some references? "It is said..." "everybody knows..." "literature exist
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The author has a great tip for kernel/filesystem developers: "Perhaps the buffer should be dynamically set based on the size of the directory entry file" This would eliminate the readdir() bottleneck.
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esr has foreseen this: "This morning came the news that Google has agreed to buy Motorola Mobile for $12 billion. I was half-asleep when A&D regular Jay Maynard phoned me with a heads-up, but not surprised for a second; as I told him,
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Turning off Social Media during unrest won't have the desired effect: people will use their cellphones instead. Turn those off too, and they'll start distributing underground papers (like in WW2). Or maybe they'll just use their voices to s
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by Luyt 15y ago
Oh yes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSrcMaid0mg (a fragment of the alien vs. powerloader fight)
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"If you can't yet write competently, learn to." Excellent advice. Ayn Rand wrote: "If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn."
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by Luyt 15y ago
Thanks, I thought it was 'urban exploitation' ;-)
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That story about Goiânia made my neck hairs raise. I wonder, did the radiological therapy machine not have any 'radiation danger' signs on it? Or maybe the scavengers ignored it, or didn't recognize it as such.
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Still a 33% failure rate. And oh, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vf8N6GpdM
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In the meantime, ESR on his continuing 'Smartphone Wars'[1] saga: "...With Nokia and RIM in collapse and Microsoft failing to gain traction, the smartphone market is increasingly just a two-horse race – Android va. Apple... ...in a survey
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by Luyt 15y ago
"a series of menu buttons that aren't labeled; you've got to mouse over each one to find out what you're about to click on" This actually has a name: 'Mystery Meat Navigation'[1]. It's one of the most irritating usability ailments. I thou
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"This book is so full of bad initial examples and difficult to follow instructions that it actually hurts Python to have it exist. When beginners stumble onto it they end up getting discouraged and go on to another language. I personally h
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I'd like Chocolat the be open source, so that it's easy to tailor to specific needs, and gets debugged rapidly.
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What would happen in such a case? You sound like you have experience with it. They stay forever?
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"They will hire anyone even sort of qualified for the job" Are you sure? When I read those job postings, I see stuff like: Job Requirements: Bachelor's degree. Minimum of five years experience with Informatica or another comparable ETL p
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by Luyt 15y ago
You are right: Grannie is already on facebook and isn't gonna learn another social network interface.

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