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by adamauckland 14y ago
Except in the case of MP3 it was a while before the encoders and bitrates became good enough that MP3 sounded as good as the CD. In this case, people weighed the convenience of portability of MP3 over the sound quality. Of course, these day
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by adamauckland 14y ago
North European countries are social democracies with incredibly high income tax (roughly 30%). I don't think you can tax your way into getting societies like these. The world wars gutted large parts of the population and society had to chan
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by adamauckland 14y ago
In other news, the UK now has the greatest divide between rich and poor in the west. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk-most-unequal-country-in...
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by adamauckland 14y ago
Can take a while over a slow mobile connection
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by adamauckland 14y ago
This is probably the most correct response. It still bothers me that because GET can't take bulk parameters I either have to use a PUT or spool many GETs (which still isn't as fast as one GET)
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by adamauckland 14y ago
What about a RESTful API where you pass in a list of IDs to retrieve from the server? You'd want to use a GET so it's idempotent but I can't see how you'd make an exceedingly long list of IDs without using a data payload underneath the GET
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by adamauckland 14y ago
> If you need to pass the same set of multiple things to multiple functions, you declare a type that represents all these arguments. At least this is the approach used in Haskell, with semi-explicit (explicit in type, implicit in the v
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by adamauckland 14y ago
> 3. Cell level. Ask your enterocytes how they feel about glutens and friends. Ask your neurons how they feel about sugar surge and Coca Cola. Its total disaster here. Way to much for adaptation. Thats why we have rogue cells converting
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by adamauckland 14y ago
The problem isn't the monetization, the problem is the shutting down of services which arguably _made_ Twitter what it is. I was late to the Twitter game and it's running continually on my machine, but the programmer in me screams "This is