StrawberryFrog

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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
I don't think I was misunderstood, but just in case: I agree with mkramlich, and my comment was facetious too.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> That would push the costs down by a factor of ten, at least. For man-rated space flight! I don't think so. Those 7 people need all the "junk" up there too. it's their living quarters, their food, their science experiments, etc. Maybe
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Hm, allowing config in code make me happier than relying on app.config. It's more flexible, particularly where there are tests that use different configurations.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
I know a couple of LJ'ing goths who now have Google+. Thus I can see people with stated first names like "Persephone", "Ariadne" etc. The rule of thumb is that if someone says that's their name, that's what you call them. There are also som
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
It's Ok, he's hedged his risk with bitcoins.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Yeah, because manually re-entering data that exists already is just what a geek wants to do with the next few months of their life. Not.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> Why does Anonymous focus so much on attacking the US government when it could instead be focused on fighting the governments that are actually oppressive? Because the US government is much easier to reform. It pays at least some lip s
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Yeah. That's conspicuously absent from the "questions" page. e.g. "Why a new DVCS"? or "What problem does veracity solve?"
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> Because it's not Microsoft who is contributing. They just paying Linux Kernel developers So it's Microsoft employees as directed by their managers ... but not Microsoft? What is the distinction.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Not entirely a black art any more. Here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnR8fDW3Ilo
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
That would be recursive.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
"The same thing could happen with Google+. An app could come along that would bring sense to its UI/UX" I'm not sure what this means. Google+ launched with an Android app that, to me anyway, has strong functionality, carries the same design
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> So you just have to severly emotionally abuse someone and that's terrorism? Well, if you severly emotionally abuse they, you know, feel terrified.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
You're right, my terms are sloppy. Are there rigorous definitions, or does it vary between languages?. I think of "lambda" as a language construct that creates closures. "anonymous functions" are of course just a simpler subset of closures.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
If an anonymous function can capture state from the enclosing code block, and outlive that code block, then it's a lambda. So this probably isn't really a lambda.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
I am not a physicist, but... Does the matter/antimatter distinction have any relevance to black holes? I though that they erased all features of the mass that they swallowed. What does it mean for an object to be composed "mainly of antimat
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
No. Google+ has shipped.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Facebook is simple?
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Ok. Still, I get the feeling that Balmer should be sorting this out and setting direction. or making sure that someone does. Doing the "vision thing". Leading, basically.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
I'd imagine that that manager is Steve Balmer, or only 1 level below him. The heads of WinDiv ( http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/ssinofsky/ ) and DevDiv (Not sure who that is - Scott Guthrie or his boss?) are pretty senior. Has the
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
There's a longer and less journalistic article about the same study here: http://www.nhs.uk/news/2011/06June/Pages/type-2-diabetes-and... I wonder it it supports/is related to this line of reasoning: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/mag
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
To create an airline where the staff were united to offer a wonderful service to their customers. Sounds great, pity it's PR rubbish. The service that I got from Virgin Atlantic in December 2010 when Heathrow was troubled with a little sn
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Some failures are at a random distribution - running 1000 for a year will help you estimate that. But any moving part has a finite lifetime due to wear, and you want to know how long this is. Running lots of them for 1/1000 of the expected
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
The other article given in comments here ( http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/06/the_clock_in_... ) has a lot more detail on this. The paras around the picture "Testing the longevity of materials in space on the MISSE" are quite
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
So, just like Tortoisegit? I'm still not getting the Unique Selling Point. Or is this just a case of the intersection of Github fanboys and Mac fanboys? Once both of those factors are removed, I'm not seeing the magic.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
I don't get it. If I made a windows desktop client for a popular website, would anyone at all even care? Github (the website ) is great, it works well. The thinking that a website is a poor substitute for a native app is increasingly outdat
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
I don't buy that. If thier web app is rubbish, surely the time would be better spent on making thier web app great. But thier web app is great. What's the big deal about a desktop client that wraps a great website?
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Cheetahs are less genetically diverse than humans http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cheetah+genetic+bottleneck also due to a severe and recent (on an evolutionary scale) genetic bottleneck
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> It wouldn't surprise me if MS dropped the Silverlight browser plugin all together It would surpise me if they dropped it any time soon. MS is big on backward compatibility. Even if a MS technology is "dead" and "abandoned", that just
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Why would jurisdiction enter into someone in the UK suing the company that processed the UK census data? Thier data. I don't know if antihero is in the UK, but if they aren't, people in the UK should do it instead. I am disturbed that my da

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