SeanDav

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by SeanDav 10y ago
Not being optimized for a particular use case, makes it a poor choice for anything outside toy, or best case, medium sized applications.
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I often wonder what is it that keeps Haskell out of the mainstream as a development language. There seems to have been enormous popular support for Haskell by experts over quite some time, yet relatively newer languages like Golang are comi
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> "Why would you not do this? It has cost just £2.5m a year..." This is is a real feel-good success story and all for 2.5 GBP a year. The frustrating side of this is that the UK Government gives hundreds of millions of GBP in
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by SeanDav 10y ago
I am surprised that Lucy is not mentioned, or her affectionate nickname AL 288-1. Her time of 3.2 million years ago dwarfs the 3200 B.C. mentioned in the article! (disclaimer: TIC - Tongue-in-cheek)
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If I may play Devil's advocate here - it is very easy to anthropomorphize animal behaviour. There are numerous examples in the animal kingdom of animals protecting and even rearing animals from other species. This could be down to gene
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> "Rust on BBC micro:bit" OT: I just did a double-take. For a moment there, when I saw the title, I thought of a rusty computer part.
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by SeanDav 10y ago
> "The Millennium’s engineers anchored the building over a thick concrete slab with piles driven roughly 80 feet into dense sand. "To cut costs, Millennium did not drill piles to bedrock,"... They built a skyscraper, on
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by SeanDav 10y ago
I am probably in a very small minority, but I have never seen the point of Twitter. It has almost limitless potential to destroy your life by taking something out of context and copying it to millions. I shudder to think of the number of ti
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by SeanDav 10y ago
but the solar plane does not need 100 million years to replace its fuel...
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Less code does absolutely mean less bugs, in the majority of cases . Of course it is not an absolute rule and can be gamed, but simple logic dictates that since it is not possible to always write 100% bug free code, the more code one write
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by SeanDav 10y ago
Leaving aside the question of how many profitable day traders there actually are, there are profitable professional poker players out there but no bot can compete with them. Now scale up the complexity of poker by at least an order of magni
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I am surprised they did not add the line "think of the children" in there somewhere... Meanwhile in the real world, criminals will resort to sending encrypted USB sticks via post, or carrier pigeons, or implanted in mules. There i
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by SeanDav 10y ago
It is a guideline, and like every guideline, there are exceptions. If your interests and strengths are comic reading, you are not likely to get a job making money in that direction. However if you really enjoy teaching but think accountants
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by SeanDav 10y ago
I believe he was being a being slightly tongue in cheek. In reply to your question though - never follow the money, follow the path where your interests lie and where your strengths lie. Biggest career mistake I ever made was to move from a
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Don’t “Hire by Keyword”(michaelrwolfe.com)
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> "If a business is flimsy enough to be destroyed by a letter, it was toast anyway." Completely disagree. In the early stages of its life, almost any business is very vulnerable. If Microsoft had irritated IBM just the slight
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It would just be great to get in a decent chip that does not have built in, and unblockable, back-door hacking, like those on Intel, AMD and probably ARM.
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> "Facebook is under no obligation to support the business model of another company..." Agreed, but neither should they have the ability to destroy a business by the single act of sending out a letter. Pretty much from that p
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What is so special about a cease and desist letter? So now 1 company can destroy the business model of another company by simply sending out a letter? Power was using a public API with user permission. If Facebook did not like that then cha
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Other potential problems are the life span of the membrane, and how to keep it clean. I would imagine that seawater is full of impurities that would cause havoc with a membrane in real world use.
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This technology has been proposed for some time for use on wind turbines as frictionless bearings. I am not sure why they are not in common use yet. http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/the-worlds-first-...
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It can be kept in place using magnetic force as well.
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Idle Game / Incremental Game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_game One of the best known is Cookie Clicker
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Just curious, this is one of my most downvoted comments and seems pretty innocuous, would love to know why it seems so objectionable? What am I missing?
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I disagree. This is not only a scientific story, it is also an inspirational story. The title shows that.
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Arguably, almost any Idle game is a Groundhog Day simulator. You end up doing almost exactly the same thing again and again, but improve over time as you gain in experience and understanding...
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It is pretty much assumed by almost everyone out there that Skype is fully under surveillance and intercepted. If you care in the slightest bit about security, don't use Skype. Other than that I find it useful for keeping in contact wi
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by SeanDav 10y ago
This is not a criticism, but last time I looked at Kivy, the environment seemed pretty fragmented and documentation/ tutorials far from ideal. i.e. pretty immature. How is it looking right now? Can anyone point me to some good docs and
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How well does the PS4 API work on Windows, Linux and Android? That is kind of the point of Vulcan.
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In the small print: > "E-Residency does not confer automatic market access to the European Union." Kind of defeats the purpose of using the system I would think.

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