Luyt

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by Luyt 12y ago
Burning hydrogen releases water vapour, while burning fossil fuels release carbon dioxide and water vapour. So, you could call it indeed more environmental friendly if you consider carbon dioxide harmful. However, hydrogen doesn't occu
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by Luyt 12y ago
Very cute video. I like the way the mouse pointers scares away the 'nasties'.
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by Luyt 12y ago
Really? That's good news. I still have an original iPad for which I want to write programs. Can you explain shortly how to make Xcode 6 build iOS 5.1 apps? Or do you have a link? I haven't been succesful in googling it.
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by Luyt 12y ago
I'm 48 and programming since I was 11 (on a PET-2001 ;-). A few years ago I wrote up a 'résumé' because everybody seemed to had one - since then, a few people told me it's more a 'bio' than a 'résumé'
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by Luyt 12y ago
I'm also mildly annoyed by these popups which conceal the content you came for, and ask you to sign up or rate the site. Why do the site designers think I can decide that, when I just arrived?
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by Luyt 12y ago
Design for Hackers - David Kadavy A rebours - J.K. Huysmans (in dutch translation: 'Tegen de keer') Bad Astronomy - Philip Plait
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by Luyt 12y ago
I can't help reading 'Eve Online' everytime I read 'Eve'. I guess it's a time-space deformation.
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by Luyt 12y ago
Did you miss this? "At least one employee had complained to Downtown Project management, calling her “a bully,” one source told us. Also working against McCabe was the fact that she did not follow Holacracy, the flat power structure f
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by Luyt 12y ago
Why would that be a pain? Apparently it works for them, and is stable enough. Now, if pylons turns out to be a roadblock to an expansion they want to make, that'd be a reason to swap it out for something different.
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by Luyt 12y ago
I remember WordPerfect 5.1. The blue screen gave me headaches and the first thing I did was go into settings to have gray letters on a black background. Shift-F1, if I remember well ;-)
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by Luyt 12y ago
Ice sheets moving rocks, this has been seen before: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4021 "The surrounding mountains were still covered with snow, and the playa itself was firm but had a large lake covering about a f
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by Luyt 12y ago
The article asserts: "Aesthetically, a slightly taller can looks nicer. The Golden ratio is approx 1.6, so a can with a height of approx 1.6x it's diameter (3.2x the radius) would be very appealing." However, it is a myth t
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by Luyt 12y ago
This article made me read up on Johnston Island, very interesting history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_Island Also, http://www.travelbughawaii.com/Ioke.htm , about a few contractors which had
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by Luyt 12y ago
If you're interested in Rails, I transcribed an interview with DHH about many things, including Rails, which he had with Randal Schwartz on the FLOSS podcast: http://www.transcribed-interview.com/dhh-rails-david-heineme
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by Luyt 12y ago
Yeah, the death ofJohnson shocked me too, since it was so preventable and unnecessary. The story mentioned that every crew member had two carabiners, to be able to stay connected to a safety rope at all times. Apparently there was some mome
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by Luyt 12y ago
You mean the shredding of the cars? Those were mere pieces of recycleable metal. The good part is that the salvagers were able to prevent the leakage of 176,366 gallons of fuel into the sea.
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by Luyt 12y ago
and especially this: "when you're writing software that only has to run on your own servers, you can use any language you want"
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by Luyt 12y ago
MacDown requires OSX 10.8 or later.
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by Luyt 12y ago
Not really an illusion, but a case of pareidolia. Our brain is wired to recognize patterns in chaos, even the more so when prompted in advance . Another example is 'seeing faces' in everything that vaguely resembles a face. There
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by Luyt 12y ago
Actually, the majority of PyPI packages are python-3 compatible. For a status overview, see http://python3wos.appspot.com/
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by Luyt 12y ago
There's a skeptoid episode about the Pacific Garbage Patch: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4132 "In 1988, Robert Day, David Shaw, and Steven Ignell submitted a report to NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric
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by Luyt 12y ago
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" - Thomas J. Watson, 1943. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson
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by Luyt 12y ago
They're working on a modern version nowadays. I think it's in beta. http://elite.frontier.co.uk/
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by Luyt 12y ago
Earth also loses helium and hydrogen. The current rate of loss is about three kilograms (3 kg) of hydrogen and 50 grams (50 g) of helium per second , according to Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_esc
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by Luyt 12y ago
One of the first things I do after installing firefox, in the about:config page, is setting 'browser.tabs.animate' to false.
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by Luyt 13y ago
And in Python 3.4+, much of the async functionality of Twisted will also be available in the Python standard lib itself (asyncio, Tulip, http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3156/ ).
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by Luyt 13y ago
A talk by Rich Hickey (creator of Clojure) about what sets Clojure apart from the usual object oriented languages, concurrency-wise: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic...
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by Luyt 13y ago
I owned the book "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs" and I learned a lot out of it. And while I wrote quite a few programs in Pascal, I found myself always confined too much: I fled to C. There are some critiques on Pascal:
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by Luyt 13y ago
The article seems more about all the water trapped in the Earth mantle. It mentiones it about a dozen times ;-)
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by Luyt 13y ago
Same here, I configured Firefox to not allow pages to choose their own fonts. Instead, I use a font of my own choosing to render all webbrowser content, and I've set a minimum font size limit, too. Together with the 'View/Z

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