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by adwf 11y ago
This reminds me of one of my biggest facepalm-ing moments when I first started using Lisp. I needed to serialise some data to disk, it was all in a list form - (list (a b) (c d)) kinda thing. So I thought to use XML format to store it on
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by adwf 11y ago
Milton Keynes is probably the worst place I've ever been to in the UK. No easy walking around town. All chain stores, very few independent shops. No hailable black cabs for some reason, everything involved calling a minicab and waiti
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by adwf 11y ago
This is a big improvement for me. The inline help in particular is much better than the previous links to the knowledge base.
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by adwf 11y ago
Halting problem perhaps? Even if you put in safeguards, an exhaustive search could still be unacceptably slow. You can never tell when a pathological case might arise.
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by adwf 11y ago
If they IPO'd, Bezos would be under humungous pressure to give it all out as dividends. Given his business beliefs, it'll never happen. It's not like they have cashflow problems anyway.
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by adwf 11y ago
I've taken to mostly using my upvote as a means of reverting other peoples bad downvotes. I think they should just take downvoting away entirely.
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah I was thinking much the same. I really do believe that we should just remove the downvote button entirely, too many people abusing it for the wrong reasons. An entirely upvote-oriented site would work reasonably well. You could stil
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by adwf 12y ago
Slim is still working for me on systemd here. Didn't even know it was abandoned... I guess I'll give LightDM a look, just in case. Thanks for the heads up!
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by adwf 12y ago
It was no.3 that eventually killed Gentoo for me. Took a three week holiday and it must've been a busy release period or something, because when I came back I had an unholy hell of packages needing updating. The worst part was there w
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by adwf 12y ago
Ah, I didn't realise they had tiered pricing, I thought it was just $2500 across the board. I guess I must read the articles a bit more closely. I can't imagine that this will go well for the .sucks registrar in court - looks li
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by adwf 12y ago
The possible upside is that if it's trademarked, no-one else should be to register the domain name either. However, that all depends on the rigourousness of the registrar...
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by adwf 12y ago
I think it won't be long before someone gets sued over a .sucks or .porn style domain. Then we'll see what happens in court. Due to the nature of the internet it'll be a debate fought multiple times internationally as well,
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by adwf 12y ago
I always thought these sayings were more about what people get upto in the evenings - that's usually when parties, drinking, etc. happen. Therefore if you can get up early, you probably haven't been out all night partying, ergo y
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah I've said that for years. Google have a serious tendency to just announce products, push them out the door and then forget they ever existed. Then 3 years later we hear about them being closed down (due to lack of traction) and
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by adwf 12y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head there. A lot of GDS's mandate revolved around modern agile techniques and just doing it. This doesn't exactly mesh very well with traditional civil service slow bureaucracy. The civ
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by adwf 12y ago
Bear in mind the Register enjoy taking contrary opinions just for the sake of it. I've found that most of the Gov.UK stuff has actually been very good. A welcome redesign of a lot of godawful, confusing old websites that had no consis
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by adwf 12y ago
Whoops, edited thanks!
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by adwf 12y ago
That was a consideration after the war, not during. Nowadays we hold back from razing entire cities like we did with Dresden/Nagasaki/Hiroshima.
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by adwf 12y ago
I would say he missed the biggest reason: Because we've changed the definition of "winning". It used to be that you just trounced the enemy army and didn't give a damn about what the country looked like afterwards. Go
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by adwf 12y ago
It's all about strategy. There are two main paths that any nuclear war could take: The first is all-out war, we're all screwed regardless of strategy. The second is a more limited tactical war where the aim is to try and take ou
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by adwf 12y ago
I'd replace anxiety with introspection in this article and it sounds a lot better. I wouldn't necessarily consider anxiety to be a virtue; for many, it's a crippling affliction. The examples in the article are really more ab
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by adwf 12y ago
Individual doctors do not make purchasing decisions. They don't have pharma reps turn up at GP clinics handing out free lunches in exchange for prescriptions. The NHS decides what drugs are allowed to be prescribed and doctors are li
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by adwf 12y ago
Just a quick googling: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/11/b... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28212223 Reading the BBC article reminded me of a
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by adwf 12y ago
Not to mention that most young ex-pats do eventually come back to the country and contribute. I'd rather they came back alive and well, even if it is me footing the bill for them in the meantime. That's one of the big missing par
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by adwf 12y ago
Drug companies spend more on marketing drugs to doctors and consumers than they do on R&D. In the UK, marketing drugs is illegal and therefore they don't need to go to that expense. All they have to do is convince an NHS board and
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by adwf 12y ago
$1 billion? That's nothing. In the UK we spent over £10 billion on our abandoned NHS IT system ;) http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/nhs-records-s...
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by adwf 12y ago
It's different in the eyes of the security services because of the potential for blackmail. A single guy picking up girls is not particularly blackmail-able. A gay man in a society that imprisons and chemically castrates gay people?
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah, I've never understood the raving about the i8. I get that it's one of the first major performance efforts of a major car manufacturer, but it really isn't that great when you compare it to a Tesla. Compare it to the P8
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah I'm going with confusing wording, I think he meant what I said above. Not to mention he could be referring to eliminating false positives, which is slightly different to finding true positives versus true negatives.
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by adwf 12y ago
Because the current rule of thumb is that ~9/10 startups fail. If you can reduce that to a 50/50 bet, you've made quite an improvement.

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