Spyro7

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by Spyro7 15y ago
Thinking about the issue some more - maybe I was wrong to disagree with your edited initial comment. I really do think that the American public is both apathetic and ignorant, and the majority of the country's current problems derive from t
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I didn't down-vote you (I think that its lame to ninja down-vote - it defeats the purpose of conversation), but I think that your initial comment was just a bit hyperbolic. I disagree with your edit too though. Who here in the US is pretend
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"With PyPy the performance will get better, and they also have a GC, so that hinder is removed. I don't really know if PyPy has a GIL, I would guess that they don't." PyPy still has GIL: http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/faq.html#doe
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"It eludes me why any developer would be using anything other than a laptop." Based on my own experiences, here are a few reasons that I can think of: + Has a setup that involves 3 or more screens + Needs to use 2 or more hard drives + Like
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Thank you jswinghammer. This statement right here summarizes the whole problem with the OP: "The only jobs that are sustainable are the jobs that produce something that other people actually want." This is exactly it. You can not stimulate
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Quote from the page you linked: "He also says they are working on ways to handle pseudonyms, but that will be a while before the team can turn on those features" I don't understand. Wouldn't the implementation of this "feature" just boil do
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I did not down-vote you (as a matter of fact, I up-voted you because I am not a fan of ninja down-voters and I think that you ask interesting questions). However, it is evident that you are not a formally trained economist. Economics is no
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"They were the only government to take a position of austerity" There are several problems with the hypothesis that Germany's austerity experience is broadly applicable. 1. Germany is an export-oriented economy operating within a currency u
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by Spyro7 15y ago
There is a certain demographic that reads The Economist and it is not the mainstream. It is closer to the mainstream than Hacker News, but it still isn't quite there yet. It is nice to see this issue filtering its way through popular media,
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by Spyro7 15y ago
The worst case may be coal, but the most likely case (for America) is that the additional electricity needs are met by Natural Gas. More specifically, natural gas derived from the oil shale deposits. Here's a link with some interesting info
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I know that they have taken some heat for security issues of late, but, frankly, I love this company and their product and I am happy to see them doing well. The magic of Dropbox is that it strikes just the right balance between simplicity
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I have to say that I did not know about the inurl google search parameter. However, this is indeed a very rough estimate because the parameter 100...100000 also captures the number that indicates how long ago a user account was created, so
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Correlation does not imply causation. Ebay's last Q2 spooked a lot of investors due to their decreased income and margins. The Nasdaq as a whole is down today (so far). I would suspect that Ebay is more negative than the market due to spook
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I'll be completely honest. Prior to this I disliked patent trolls in a sort of abstract way, but now, I have a visceral feeling of disgust just thinking about patent trolls. Lodsys in particular seems to have no shame. I wonder if a few mor
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I love this technology a whole lot , but this is Hacker News so it is worthwhile to think critically about this kind of "press release"-style news posting. This article does a bit of hand waving with the numbers, and, while this is an amaz
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"I've never used a tool that has a simple method for me to extend the ORM bits halfway through the query building process with some custom SQL" Well, I am not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but Django's ORM allows you to
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"It can just query requests over network like maeon3 suggests." Of course, you do realize that requests over a network need a server to reply to them? Millions of people making such requests would need quite a fews servers indeed. That is
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I agree with you, but Watson has some pretty hefty hardware requirements: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/what-makes-ibms-watson... Bringing Watson to a large audience would be an immense technical undertaking. The real "next Google
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I haven't compared the two projects, but the rubygame project is currently in a state of "indefinite hibernation": http://rubygame.org/blog/2011/07/12/the-new-rubygame-org/#mo... So it is good to have an alternative available.
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I don't understand the point of this article (or why so many people are up-voting it). The article says that unemployment is high and then it says: "Maybe something is missing in the Valley and surrounding tech communities and that’s a stro
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by Spyro7 15y ago
In economics a public good is defined as a good that is both non-rivalrous and non-excludable. In other words, a public good is defined as a product or service where the following are True: - An additional consumer of the product or service
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by Spyro7 15y ago
A great response! Let me see if I can shed some more light on this topic. "This phrase is the anti-science. No science operates based on \"commonly accepted\"." Exactly! And, there is a very good reason for this. Economics is not a science.
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Edit: The "depression" referred to in this post refers to the global economic instability that led to the collapse of the Bretton Woods System. It does not refer to the Great Depression. I was not able to address that due to time constrain
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"Some of you probably know that Python is currently at a bit of a crossroads. Python 2.x was the stable Python version for many years, but recently it was replaced by Python 3.x." Python 3 has not "replaced" Python 2. The reality is quite a
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I feel like I've read over 20 of these articles lately. I have used linux on the desktop in some form or another since 1998. It works, trust me. I find it strange that the author says they should have gone back to FreeBSD. In terms of "desk
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by Spyro7 15y ago
What struck me as odd was being down-voted without anyone telling me what it was that rubbed them the wrong way. The reason that I hang around HN is because I learn a lot by doing so. When someone down-votes something and then runs off, no
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"does help generate inflation, though, which helps keep labor costs (our pay) down by effectively handing workers a little pay cut every year" You do realize that wages are adjusted for cost of living changes over time? (This is a gross sim
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"While the idea that Fukushima would be responsible for a 35% increase in infant mortality anywhere in the U.S. strains ones credulity" Credulity doesn't factor into it. I found their "article" to be insulting in its lack of statistical rig
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"In the US, physician Janette Sherman MD and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano published an essay shedding light on a 35 per cent spike in infant mortality in northwest cities that occurred after the Fukushima meltdown, and may well be the resu
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I think that designating ORMs as "anti-patterns" is a bit strong. Perhaps my understanding of what an ORM is supposed to accomplish is different from the author's, but I think that some of the criticisms that the author levels against ORMs

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