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by adwf 13y ago
I wonder what the performance hit is like when calculating comparitive constraints. Rather than just looking up x = 100, you now need to look at x == y == z == a == 100, etc... I can imagine some complicated websites getting out of hand qu
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by adwf 13y ago
Thanks, I didn't know about that one; haven't checked the labs in a while. Also found a preview pane feature which I'm going to test out.
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by adwf 13y ago
I just pin a tab in Firefox. Keeps me from compulsively checking my email, while still letting me know when new mail has arrived.
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by adwf 13y ago
So you disagree with laws banning children from casinos and other gambling venues? That's all I'm proposing the equivalent of. Not new regulation, but placing certain categories of F2P/IAP games within the existing gambling
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by adwf 13y ago
Which is exactly why I've said it should be regulated like gambling; You hear the exact same dysfunctional, illogical reasoning from compulsive gamblers. We have regulation to protect children from this with old-fashioned gambling, but
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by adwf 13y ago
I'd probably suggest some sort of restriction on IAP amounts. Under-16s in the UK can play fruit machines, but only upto a £5 jackpot before it gets classified as adult gambling where serious amounts of money can be lost. This is on
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by adwf 13y ago
I've often thought that F2P games should be strictly regulated like gambling is. No one questions the 18+ law on fruit machines in the UK, but we allow a roulette style IAP for a F2P game with no regulation? The worst part is, if you
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by adwf 13y ago
I've heard the exact same thing about olympic fencers. I also experience this one firsthand every week at my club. Beginner fencers lose so many points because they think all they need to do is hit faster, react quicker. When in actu
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by adwf 13y ago
I think it's because some workplaces have policies about not committing partially done code. ie. Don't break the build. Personally, if I'm on a local branch I don't care, but I guess it might bother some people.
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by adwf 13y ago
I'd imagine they'd go with super-conducting cables personally. Space is extremely cold, so achieving a super-conducting state is simply a matter of shielding the cable from the sun. Shouldn't be too difficult... At least,
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by adwf 13y ago
Asteroid mining. Mine some asteroids for iron, carbon, silicon, water. Now you have the raw materials for the biggest solar powerplant ever made. Ship the power down the space elevator and you have cheap renewable energy without the downs
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah they put a full block in my jaw the first time they drilled, but subsequent sessions were just a small injection around the tooth. Could still feel a certain amount of discomfort, eventually a bit of pain when the anaesthetic wore off
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by adwf 13y ago
Having had root canal in the past, this doesn't seem particularly helpful. The drilling and cleaning is the painful and time-consuming part. The actual sealing it up at the end was relatively trivial in comparison (from my perspective)
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by adwf 13y ago
Just an example, not me personally. Yeah it's depressing.
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by adwf 13y ago
Yes exactly. The end of the article summed it up nicely, the seed funding sometimes feels impossible over here. It's very difficult to find an investor who will give a decent SV-comparable valuation when you are pre-revenue. It'
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah, for my company I have to comply with some serious regulations over what I can do with customer data, what I can collect, etc... I can't imagine that ripping a customers entire web history is anywhere near compliant. When I think
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by adwf 13y ago
I hope this isn't true, because I like Valve... IANAL, but I can only imagine this is quite illegal in the EU. No terms or conditions could possibly waive your rights to this extent. Maybe that's just my optimism speaking though
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by adwf 13y ago
Bootstrap 3 is a responsive grid that uses media queries. I can trivially adjust the look of a site on desktop/tablet/mobile, all just by adding a few classes. When you add in the fact that they manage all the cross-browser&#x
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by adwf 13y ago
It's even worse when you consider one of the reasons why healthcare costs are so high in the US - people avoid getting early treatment because it costs so much. A vicous cycle. Whereas socialised healthcare can prevent a lot of illne
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by adwf 13y ago
Sounds good enough to me. Might have to keep an eye out for it, hopefully your users will all be good ;) Maybe you could design a feature that gives them a little friendly reminder if they're about to cross someones robots.txt, lets t
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by adwf 13y ago
Looks cool, but I couldn't find any definitive answer about whether it obeys robots.txt or not? Just that it's upto the end-user to determine which pages get crawled. I'm not too fussed about people crawling my sites (as you
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by adwf 13y ago
Fair enough. But the entire point of the article is that "There will never be another RedHat". It's the title, it's presumably the main point of the article - and it's ridiculously over-generalising. RedHat as a co
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by adwf 13y ago
You have to remember how AWS started - Amazon selling their excess datacentre capacity in their offpeak downtime. It really isn't possible to distinguish how much of AWS is a money maker for Amazon, because you can't separate the
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by adwf 13y ago
Yes, there's potential for a Tragedy of the Commons style problem to happen with kernel development, where each corporate developer suddenly decides to save money and not contribute, whilst letting everyone else pay. Eventually everyo
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by adwf 13y ago
A lot of Microsofts growth in recent years has been in enterprise tools, not operating systems. Amazon do not break out their AWS revenue from their main revenue, hence one of the reasons it's a dodgy claim. Not to mention the fact th
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by adwf 13y ago
For RedHat it's free. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/google... If 10% are paid by RedHat, 90% aren't - therefore count as free to RedHat. Even then, the single largest group
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by adwf 13y ago
Yes, but the article is comparing the total Amazon revenue in the $70bn+ range to the RedHat ~$1.3bn. A completely misleading comparison, considering that Amazon don't actually break out their AWS figures in their financial reports. T
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by adwf 13y ago
My bad. Perhaps I should have said sustainable . Canonical is not going to disappear. They may have unprofitable ventures, but ultimately they can cut it back to the core business and carry on going. Got to spend money to make money!
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by adwf 13y ago
I was about to suggest much the same thing. Instead of offering a month trial by default, only offer it when enterprise customers ask about billing. Then you can use it as leverage, in the "Here! I'm giving you something!"
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by adwf 13y ago
So many shaky premises here that I barely know where to start. 1) Canonical. You could have made the exact same argument as this article 10 years ago and said that there wasn't room for another RedHat. Canonical arrived and proved t

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