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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah, it'd be interesting if there was a study on population size vs. happiness. I imagine there would be an inverse correlation (smaller population, more happy). But whether you could isolate the cause would be a different matter. F
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by adwf 13y ago
The cynic in me is actually thinking it's interesting that the Scandanavian countries are left off the charts. They are usually touted as being amongst the happiest countries in the world, despite rather aggressive tax regimes to pay
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by adwf 13y ago
I remember those, I don't think enough people realised/needed the utility of them at the time for it to gain critical mass. Not that many people in the population at large, have friends all over the world that they need to have a
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by adwf 13y ago
Dunno about Clozure, but I just ran it in SBCL (had it open anyway), it took 11.256 seconds (5.17s of GC) on my old Intel Q6600 (7 years old now). Makes it seem that there might be something strange about the Clozure benchmark, although I
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by adwf 13y ago
The advantage of CTEs is they have the explicit "WITH RECURSIVE" option. Whereas an aliased SELECT statement can't refer to itself as far as I know.
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by adwf 13y ago
I love using small CTE's to help with the hassle of the alternative - creating temp tables and then cleaning them up. They can be particularly useful for data modification, as you can't ordinarily do a recursive delete or insert
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by adwf 13y ago
I think it's safe to say he's just being unpleasant for the sake of it. The old adage of "If you've got nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all." springs to mind. I thought that shares as currency was a
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by adwf 13y ago
I don't really know about the nutrient balance without looking it up, but it's always trickier with multiple different types of plant in a single system. If you have a single plant system, you can just replace the nutrient soluti
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by adwf 13y ago
Yep, tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce, chillies, etc... No weed I'm afraid!
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by adwf 13y ago
Love the idea, might try it at home. But speaking as someone who has run both hydroponic and aeroponic systems successfully (as a hobby) - I'm envisioning a lot of dead plants in 6-12 months time and a maintenance nightmare. Various i
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by adwf 13y ago
Yes it's actually quite an awkward point for me at the moment. I have a side-project that I've been developing for a while. My attachment to it means that I know every single bug and flaw within the product. But at the same tim
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by adwf 13y ago
The funny thing is that I come from a physics degree background and hence have a tendency to stick with the more scientifically accurate "I think, maybe, probably, possibly, almost always", rather than going for absolutes. How
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by adwf 13y ago
Now put it in an algorithm that detects any mention of "only, always, never" or any other absolute. Then insert a boilerplate at the top of such discussions, saying there are always exceptions, but the gist of the argument is sti
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by adwf 13y ago
As much as I've avoided Facebook for so long, I've come to the realisation that if you want to use the internet, old-school "full" privacy is dead and gone. I've had a profile on FB for a long time now, but never ev
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah I was probably being a little snarky there. I'm sure that the vast majority of doctors, even in profit-making systems, are just trying to do the right thing. But there's no reason the less scrupulous ones couldn't be d
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by adwf 13y ago
I'm told this is why doctors don't typically go on "fishing expeditions". They could order an array of tests every time you go for a checkup. But given the false positive rate combined with only vague symptoms (eg. o
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by adwf 13y ago
Good point. Of course another interesting way to look at it might be to see if there are multiple maxima. Perhaps if he advertised a very high rate comparatively to the competition, he could find another stable price point. Or perhaps he
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah, I'm surprised he hasn't gone with some sort of exponential or logarithmic scale (eg. hit $10/hr then start increasing by $5 each hour booked). He might accidentally zip past the optimum price point, but he'll get t
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by adwf 13y ago
You can also use "sudo service nginx reload" instead of restarting. Helps if it's in use and you don't want to drop any active users.
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by adwf 13y ago
The startup one is eerily familiar. I sometimes think the most frequent comment I write is along the lines of "TODO: Should really write a better version of this, but it works for now..." I've even started writing those com
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by adwf 13y ago
This is going to be like Betteridge's law of headlines. After people have learnt about it, they can't stop referring to it for months and months!
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by adwf 13y ago
Yes, I wonder whether you could use this as an extra emphasis effect for certain buttons on a page, have the important buttons (sign up, buy, etc.) with depth, and the less important - but still necessary - just flat. Would be interesting
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Hyper-Reality: A New Vision of the Future(kickstarter.com)
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by adwf 13y ago
Useful tool. The interesting part is scanning the images and seeing where the flatness works and the "3D" effect was unnecessary, vs. the parts where the 3D really does work quite well. For example, the Twitter "Home" b
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by adwf 13y ago
It's reported because the other big tech IPO recently was Facebook, which went from ~$40 down to ~$20, back up to ~$50. They're trying to provide a reference point to the other major social networking company on the stock market.
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by adwf 13y ago
Yep, I was going with Faraday cage. If the special electrical cells that an eel has on its skin are conducting, then surely there is some form of cage effect happening. Having just done a very very quick search of relevant papers, I'm
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by adwf 13y ago
Electromagnetism and quantum physics have quite a bit to do with one another. Einstein won his Nobel on that one ;)
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by adwf 13y ago
Love the idea, not so sure about the name. Glancing at the title I thought it was an actual "swear jar", not a figurative one. That brought a little angry thought to my head, "What is this? An office for children?", th
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by adwf 13y ago
Your apparent misanthropy aside, every study I've ever heard of links increased wealth, health and prosperity with declining birth rates. By improving the lot of these women, you decrease their need to have large numbers of children (t
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by adwf 13y ago
That's quite a scary thought. It's like trying to program with one hand tied behind your back and only your little finger to poke out the keys...

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