VieElm

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by VieElm 12y ago
Preexisting life being able to adapt to inhospitable environments does not also mean that they can develop there. We know very little about under what conditions abiogenesis can occur.
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by VieElm 12y ago
It's interesting to me that the author spent years looking at these photos and wrote a very long article about them and still doesn't seem to understand the photographs. I think I spent less than a minute before I at least I think
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by VieElm 12y ago
From a literary perspective, Tolstoy's War and Peace has volumes of text dedicated to examining Napoleon and the impact of "great men" on history. He also doesn't create a very flattering portrayal, it's a great rea
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by VieElm 12y ago
This was an interesting technical article about the publicly visible networks inside a closed country. Nowhere does it mention Sony or "The Information". Your comment is probably off topic and I think a bit conspiracy crazed.
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by VieElm 12y ago
I have O'Reilly's "PostgreSQL: Up and Running, 2nd Edition" (You can buy the ebook already) and it's mostly about setting it up and administering postgres and a look at the tools around postgres. It's not a boo
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by VieElm 12y ago
> They gave credence to every threat. Earlier in the day I was somewhat neutral on this, but now that I've had a chance to consider it I think that Sony is actually endangering our national security with this move. This is the first
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by VieElm 12y ago
> until real revolution in US, or some sort of vigilantism movement America doesn't need a revolution, it just needs more informed and motivated voters who vote in their self-interest. Maybe that counts as a revolution, but the way
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by VieElm 12y ago
Isaac Newton practiced alchemy. What it comes down to is that all claims require a standard of validation and evidence, regardless of who makes them. I am often bothered by quotes bandied around by the incredulous about things Albert Einste
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by VieElm 12y ago
> The only thing it sucks at is being the only store on amazon's devices. It's not the only store on Amazon devices. You can download and install a bunch of different app stores on any Amazon device. I have Humble Bundle instal
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by VieElm 12y ago
> I have no sympathy for Sony, but I feel deeply for the honest people who are just trying to earn a living working there. I don't understand this statement. Sony is not a person, it's a company comprised of the people who are
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by VieElm 12y ago
> If you want to avoid lots of really challenging problems, PostgreSQL is often the best bet by far. How about 0 single points of failure. How does PostgreSQL help you avoid that challenging problem?
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by VieElm 12y ago
>In JS this is just another object, like any other object. You are mistaken, "this" is not an object nor a variable, it's a keyword and behaves differently than variable scope. Consider closures for example.
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by VieElm 12y ago
I'm pretty sure the CoreOS CTO, Brandon Phillips, has personally made many significant contributions to open source, just check his GitHub[1], and is a Linux kernel developer. He's been an open source contributor for a very long t
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by VieElm 12y ago
> with a librarian chipping in one of my most hated lines, "But if you're not doing anything wrong, why are you so concerned about privacy?" This librarian is a bad librarian who must have dumped whatever he or she learned
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by VieElm 12y ago
In which case find a new job. I don't understand why people stick with these hell holes for engineers when there are many opportunities to be found elsewhere. You can even find remote work so even if you're stuck in a small town w
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by VieElm 12y ago
Can you please explain why you think it is a terrible idea and why you wish people would stop doing this? If you included that in your original comment it would contribute more to the discussion.
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by VieElm 12y ago
This site looks broken with EFF's HTTPS everywhere.
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by VieElm 12y ago
How nice it must be to know what's best for people you know nothing about. I'm sure they love it when complete strangers with judgmental attitudes feel the need to interfere with their private lives.
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by VieElm 12y ago
> Also, hopefully this means fewer divorce attorneys. Because divorce is bad? Divorce can be a good thing, good marriages don't usually end in divorce, more than likely the bad marriages do. So then maybe because you think people go
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by VieElm 12y ago
This is very similar to idevelop's ascii cam[1]. The code is significantly different though[2]. I first assumed one used code from the other but it looks like separate implementations of the same idea. [1] http://idevelop.ro
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by VieElm 12y ago
> All told, French workers put in an average of 39.5 hours a week, just under the eurozone average of 40.9 hours a week, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. For comparison, according to the Bureau of L
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by VieElm 12y ago
It's not terrible.
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GNU Hello(github.com)
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by VieElm 12y ago
The creator wrote up a blog post on his entry: http://birdgames.nl/2014/04/js1k-post-mortem-minecraft/ Lots of very interesting details, but surprised to see setInterval instead of requestAnimationFrame
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by VieElm 12y ago
I was under the impression that git hashes are generated based on the contents in a commit. If that's true you cannot retire them. They're not random.
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by VieElm 12y ago
It's a neat system, but I also like that it's written in Java. Given all the new things coming out with Go, Scala, clojure node.js and what not it's inspiring to see people still also building things on top of the Java platfo
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by VieElm 12y ago
It takes years because you learn about these things as you go, and you solve them as you go and by looking at the source code of things you're using. People started using and jumping right into scala, and go and and node.js, solving th
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by VieElm 12y ago
Programming languages are simply a problem of learning syntax and the build environment. Scan through a couple of books, maybe read a specification, write some code, and you got it. The hard stuff is problem solving, understanding algorithm
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by VieElm 12y ago
I missed this, thank you. Though I read through the OP I still assumed it was through the postal service.
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by VieElm 12y ago
Why do you have text files that are 200MB? Why don't you separate that into multiple files? 200MB of text? Moby Dick is 1MB in plain text. The Holy Bible is like 4MB in plain text. What is in your files? I think you may be doing someth

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