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by agentgt 10y ago
Counter counter example: my college had a library and it was hardly open layout. It was a giant maze of rooms. With the exception of the entrance the only libraries I can think of that are sort of open are ironically old famous ones and eve
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by agentgt 10y ago
IMO the best office are old houses even if it is not remote. I'm from New England and I hate "open concept" design. I like cozy pockets, wood floors, oriental rugs, steam heating, and in general old designs. I like mazes of i
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by agentgt 10y ago
Timing of this post is good as I just read an interesting paper on various current vehicles impact on climate change based on electricity + carbon output. I posted it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13270712 The
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Personal Vehicles Evaluated Against Climate Change Mitigation Targets [PDF](pubs.acs.org)
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by agentgt 10y ago
Well because Rust's support for Arduino is still in its infancy [1]. [1]: http://jakegoulding.com/blog/2016/01/02/rust-on-an-arduino-u...
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by agentgt 10y ago
Oh I am sure there are ways around it but the big issue is that almost all of the daemon scripts out there do not do it. That is you can't just set some configuration in /etc/default/some_daemon as the script will try to
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by agentgt 10y ago
I'm trying to find the exact situation but basically if you have something like: PROPS="-Dprop1=foo bar -Dprop2=bar foo" java $PROPS SomeClass.class You can try to escape with backslashes and what not but it becom
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by agentgt 10y ago
Actually Bash does have some issues with command line arguments if doing variable expansion. For example in Java apps it is actually fairly difficult to pass -DsomeParameter="something with a space in it" if doing variable expansi
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by agentgt 10y ago
> So you're suggesting industrialisation to save the environment? There are different levels of industrialization and modernization. Do I think technology can improve things and be more efficient ... I do. Do I think Africa should b
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by agentgt 10y ago
It is also feasible the device could just wait and transmit only voice like data and drop other sound data... (Even my crummy baby monitor can detect the difference.) Speaking of which I wonder what the net traffic usage of the Echo is?
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by agentgt 10y ago
Must be my mental holiday hangover but I didn't see that summary. I assume you mean the last sentence which I assumed was part of the third point: So the fat cells that exist are getting bigger, and the body is creating more of them .
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by agentgt 10y ago
No the article doesn't show that. It just shows there is a correlation of increased weight gain for both chickens and humans that come in contact with Ad-36 virus. The mechanism to how the virus works is unclear as stated by the articl
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by agentgt 10y ago
“There are three ways that we think Ad-36 makes people fatter: (1) It increases the uptake of glucose from the blood and converts it to fat; (2) it increases the creation of fat molecules through fatty acid synthase, an enzyme that creates
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by agentgt 10y ago
At a high level I agree with you and over the years I admit have become soft or I would argue more open minded and even keeled. The need for population control policy has been discussed many times on HN. Some argue technology can fix the pr
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by agentgt 10y ago
While it certainly could be done it would probably be a subset of the API because of security. With swagger you can interactively play with the API. To do this on some other host would require some cross origin policy setup as well probably
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by agentgt 10y ago
I'm all for saving wildlife but really the problem in Africa is lack of jobs, education, nutrition and infrastructure. If you fix those problems the wildlife will have a better chance. I have looked into some of the wildlife charities
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by agentgt 10y ago
This also works for sorting as well and is typically called Radix Sort or Bucket Sort. Basically using unique attributes of the data you then divide and conquer on those attributes (e.g. for Radix you make buckets based on the digits).
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by agentgt 10y ago
I can't help but ask a bigger picture question: "What are you trying to do or what is your end goal"? If you are trying to roll out some new software for a startup or project and you want it to look good and semi unique then
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by agentgt 10y ago
For what it is worth I think the design is fine. In fact I actually prefer it :) . I think it is easy to read and loads fast.
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by agentgt 10y ago
I wonder if the plant exhibits (or will eventually) the Edge Effect [1]. Poisonous plants such as poison ivy often do because people will avoid the plants but will tromp on others (thus the poison plants survive readily on the edge since th
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by agentgt 10y ago
I agree that Akka is ugly (my company doesn't even use it) and I totally agree that you don't need classes (and you don't really have to in Scala and Clojure... even in Java you can just uses classes as though they were struc
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by agentgt 10y ago
The big reason I won't use Elixir is there are similar and arguably better options on the JVM. The whole Server B column in the article can easily be replaced with JVM instead of Erlang. For example you could use JRuby and Akka and pro
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by agentgt 10y ago
I have to say I am fan of both Mercurial and Git particularly because I'm a crusty old developer who came from some god awful VCS/SCM like PVCS, CVS, RCS, Source safe. I remember first using Perforce for the first time and thinkin
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by agentgt 10y ago
As an experienced Hg user I will say what the author did would be about the same pain level in Hg (maybe even less if you use some extensions). Regardless it is probably less painful with whatever tool you are most familiar with. I would ar
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by agentgt 10y ago
Well it depends on what you consider modern but Openbox is still alive and kicking (albeit it is only a window manager). On a rant tangental note a slight annoyance I have lately is that all the window managers are getting pushed out /
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by agentgt 10y ago
I have some doubts about vaseline as well as zinc oxide (I just had a son so I'm changing diapers frequently). On the one hand you want a barrier on the other hand you want skin to breath (it is a similar problem with rain jackets made
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by agentgt 10y ago
Of course but they are not broad ideas like creating a new type of math while explaining how planets circle the sun kind of ideas. Like I said earlier I don't know how you can place the value or rate ideas but please point out some ind
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by agentgt 10y ago
Nope... I have been meaning to get into Stitcher or whatever is in vogue these days for listening to NPR style radio but just haven't.
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by agentgt 10y ago
On the other hand the inventor of Vaseline aka petroleum jelly claimed that his invention allowed him to live to 96 [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Chesebrough
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by agentgt 10y ago
It is fairly hard to measure quality and I guess to some extent quantity of ideas coming from individuals and I agree Da Vinci is vastly overrated. But do you honestly think there are individuals alive today making extreme broad breakthroug

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