Sapient

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by Sapient 15y ago
None of the IntelliJ IDEs work properly with OpenJDK.
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by Sapient 15y ago
People not familiar is Microsoft are probably not taking part in a discussion on HackerNews, let alone a discussion of why their SQL Server product was not ported to *nix.
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by Sapient 15y ago
And South Africa
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Western Digital restarts production(wdc.com)
2 points by Sapient 15y ago|0 comments
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by Sapient 15y ago
Thanks for taking the time to answer! You have helped me understand a few things better. However I also realise now that I phrased my question wrongly and should never have used the word "bound". I also see now that I misread the grand-pare
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by Sapient 15y ago
Since the rotation of the earth has to be factored in, does the earth's orbit around the sun need to be as well? How about the suns orbit around the Galactic center? I suppose my question is - all things being relative, why aren't the neutr
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by Sapient 15y ago
A few minor annoyances with the using the Ubuntu repositories. Mint, on occasion, looking for Katya repos. Actually, I do wish I had just stuck with Mint, but I dont have time to go back now, and If I am going to install another distro, the
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by Sapient 15y ago
I actually switched to Mint 11 after 11.04 and found it to be a really good alternative. Specifically because it didn't break everything and has access to all the Ubuntu repos and tools. I switched back to Ubuntu for 11.10, hoping some of t
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by Sapient 15y ago
Perhaps you also have to average in her previous job?
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by Sapient 15y ago
Thanks, I knew about that when it came out, but before I was able to install it, the preview of 1.9.3 came out - which is when I first noticed just how much faster it was. After running a few tests on the commandline, rake and rails command
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by Sapient 15y ago
Maybe there was something wrong with my 1.9.2, but when working with rails projects (rake, rails console etc), this feels a few orders of magnitude faster.
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by Sapient 15y ago
I didn't pick that up, but it explains the Melktert recipe.
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by Sapient 15y ago
I don't believe this is real for a second, though I would love it to be. But I wonder why, if it was connected to the grid, did they not just produce the expected 1MW...
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by Sapient 15y ago
Yep, crunk was where I stopped as well. Nothing else in the ad really offended my delicate sensibilities until that.
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by Sapient 15y ago
Probably, but I imagine there might be a massive build-up of salt, leaving the "mine" unusable after a while.
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IPhone hacked into spiPhone to eavesdrop and track what you type on nearby PC(blogs.computerworld.com)
2 points by Sapient 15y ago|0 comments
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by Sapient 15y ago
I believe ORMs want to save you from writing tons of repetitive queries, not to save you from ever having to touch a line of SQL. At least that is what I believe, I have never seen an ORM advertising itself with "NEVER WRITE ANOTHER LINE OF
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by Sapient 15y ago
Granted, it may not make you a "well off" geek, but my point was - at $95, this would be a dream to most of the people who could benefit from it the most.
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by Sapient 15y ago
The geek in me completely agrees with you. But I also think that would miss the point of this being a charitable enterprise entirely.
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by Sapient 15y ago
At $25 they will be helping a lot more people than just well-off geeks - this whole project a charitable after all. I will be buying them for kids who would never have even touched a computer in their lives if not for these (and doing a bit
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by Sapient 15y ago
I think this is a terrible idea, unless that price only applied to buyers in first world countries. At $25 for the board + shipping to South Africa + power supplies I can afford twice the boards I would buy. And even at $25, I can't buy as
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by Sapient 15y ago
Lying well is actually really difficult and doesn't come easy to many people. The differenced between a review written from experience and a review written from someone's imagination may be slight, but I think there will always be markers.
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by Sapient 15y ago
I hear a lot of people call it "The HI virus".
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by Sapient 15y ago
I am ashamed of the code in some of the older ones, and I don't trust that certain of my clients to keep to our maintenance contracts in others. Certainly there are some which I would feel okay about sharing the code. But since there is a n
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by Sapient 15y ago
You are probably correct. I don't even know why I like GitHub as much as I do. I have decided not to pay them as I can't really justify the amount (Dollars are not cheap in Africa) - so I host my repos on one of my Linodes and have them bac
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by Sapient 15y ago
I assume that what the poor twenty-somethings actually want is the interface since alternatives like Gitosis and Gitolite are cheap and cheery, but unpopular amongst that crowd. If that is the case however, then I am surprised noone has mad
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by Sapient 15y ago
I would agree with your IDE point, IF the person doesn't know how to use the IDE properly. I used RubyMine when learning Ruby/Rails, after having used IDEA for years (Java), and the two things which helped me learn Ruby and Rails faster tha
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by Sapient 15y ago
I am not an American, but I can't imagine that this will ever hold up. In a world where filing cabinets and office safes are vanishing, the courts would be cutting off access to a major source of evidence they need for successful prosecutio
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by Sapient 15y ago
You are probably right regarding email clients, I haven't actually used one since I switched to Gmail and Google Apps. I do count services like Gmail as email clients though, but I don't think any of them have S/MIME or PGP/GPG support out
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by Sapient 15y ago
It would be great if more email clients had encryption built in, and encrypted emails to people with known public keys. Barring that, perhaps something like a peer to peer network where messages are automatically encrypted and addressed to

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