Luyt

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by Luyt 16y ago
Could you elaborate a bit on what kind of project it is? Your description is very vague.
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by Luyt 16y ago
6,873,900,000 and counting... (continuous growth since the Black Death around the year 1400) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
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by Luyt 16y ago
Instead of def sum_double(a, b): # Store the sum in a local variable sum = a + b # Double it if a and b are the same if a == b: sum = sum * 2 return sum I wrote: def sum_dou
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by Luyt 16y ago
I immediately found the quote "never take software advice from a bug tracking system salesman" an ad-hominem attack. It doesn't address at all why the advice would be bad.
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by Luyt 16y ago
I maintain an in-house developed 'enterprise database app'. When someone suggests new additions to this app, I tell him/her to use Excel to test their idea for a few weeks first, and then ask again. This gives a pretty good idea what they
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by Luyt 16y ago
Indeed. Something is not 'cheap' or 'expensive'; it's worth the money, or not.
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by Luyt 16y ago
This reminds me of phorid flies, the natural enemy of the fire ant. The larva of a phorid fly eats its way into the head of the ant, decapitates the ant by dissolving its neck with enzymes, then cocoons in the head. http://en.wikipedia.or
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by Luyt 16y ago
Soylent is made of People!
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by Luyt 16y ago
The #python IRC channel on FreeNode is a great resource for programmers learning python. (But don't expect to be spoonfed, or have everything served on a silver platter, it'll be greatly appreciated if you can show your efforts (using a p
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by Luyt 16y ago
He's also planning to give python classes: http://codelesson.com/python (discussed in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1724354 )
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by Luyt 16y ago
Maybe he should have announced it as 'Freedom Unix'? That way 'free' wouldn't have been interpreted as in 'free beer' ;-)
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by Luyt 16y ago
I buy my 'green' servers for 900 euro or so, and the colocation costs are 25 euro per month. I place big (media)files on the Amazon S3/Cloudfront. $1k/year for a dedicated server sounds a bit expensive to me.
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by Luyt 16y ago
I have one of those too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV . You can even solder a PS2 keyboard connector to it and hook up a keyboard, then use it as a C64 and do a POKE 53280,0 or write a basic program ;-) http://en.wikipe
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by Luyt 16y ago
My attempt: "Everyone I talked to from the west coast had a horrific first impression of NYC." Oh, and that goes for the people from the middle, too.
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by Luyt 16y ago
Nowadays participation mostly depends on gear, not abilities. Parties will seek players with for example "at least 5K GS", which means 5000 GearScore points according to a popular GearScore AddOn which analyzes your equipment. The Dungeon F
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by Luyt 16y ago
YouTube is full of Frozen Bubble movies. See for example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nUkly7AkFs , someone completing level 70.
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by Luyt 16y ago
I quite liked NT 3.5 as a development platform back then. I came from WfW 3.11 and used Borland C++ 4.5, and nasty programming bugs would hang 3.11, but not NT 3.5.
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Reconstructing INTERCAL(esr.ibiblio.org)
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by Luyt 16y ago
This article reminds me of two things I've observed in ordinary computer users: 1. Many users don’t understand how or where data is stored or even that it is separate from the application. That is correct. My photographing neighbour keeps
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by Luyt 16y ago
I used Copernicus for that.
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by Luyt 16y ago
On paper, serifs can be printed with enough resolution to aid in readability. On screens however, serifs are rendered too coarse and distract. That's why with current screen resolutions, sans serif works better for screen type.
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by Luyt 16y ago
He mentions a lot of LISP dialects, but not Clojure. EDIT: Ah, there was no Clojure back then ;-)
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by Luyt 16y ago
Indeed: I think it's indicative of a system which is too bureaucratic.
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by Luyt 16y ago
I love fountain pens. I have bunch of Parker 'Vectors' in a diversity of line widths and ink colors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Vector The only disadvantage is that the ink stays water-soluble after it dries.
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by Luyt 16y ago
This is far more than just a reset: it's a starting template.
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by Luyt 16y ago
They should have ported the standard shell, /bin/sh, which is still used for executing most scripts (via the #!/bin/sh shebang at the top of the script), independent of what shell the user uses interactively.
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by Luyt 16y ago
Would it help to seal the CDs/DVDs/CDROMs in a vacuum bag? And/or in cryogenic storage?
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by Luyt 16y ago
Nowadays I use SSDs in all my home machines (MacMini, laptop, gaming desktop). It really speeded them up, since seek times are so much faster. My unix server runs with a SSD for more than a year now, and I haven't had any problems with it.
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by Luyt 16y ago
This happens with World of Warcraft, too. Someone makes an AddOn which enhances WoW with a great feature. Then after some time, Blizzard incorporates the feature in the base game, and the AddOn is obsoleted. I've seen this happen numerou
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by Luyt 16y ago
In those days, you'd use FTP a lot. And Archie, a search engine for FTP sites. IRC and usenet also existed as popular ways of online communication before the web, and email of course ;-). Somewhat later Gopher servers came into being, and

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