antris

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by antris 13y ago
Basically, we use nitrogen fertilizers derived from oil, pesticides derived from oil, harvesters which run on oil, herbicides derived from oil, irrigation which runs on oil, and the transporting infrastructure to delivery all of that food.
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by antris 13y ago
using fossil fuels Can you explain what does fossil fuels have to do with this? And with genetic modification, we're always taking something away when we substitute something else What does this mean? Really. I don't understan
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by antris 13y ago
TFA: > "He deserves the world's protection. He has not asked us for it yet. When he does we will give our answer," Maduro told Reuters during a visit to Moscow.
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by antris 13y ago
This post (like many others) completely ignores the fact that these people choose to work in this environment. Statistics show that factory / industrial workers in China are doing better than those who stay in rural jobs. Human developmen
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by antris 14y ago
You can always switch to a US keyboard layout when coding, that's what I do and it makes me faster.
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by antris 14y ago
There's two possible answers: 1. Your are not merging to master often enough. If you split your tasks and use environment flagging effectively, there's no reason why you wouldn't want to merge to master on a daily basis. 2. If you absolutel
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by antris 14y ago
Even better is avoiding shared branches and just rebasing locally, merging to master whenever a task is complete.
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by antris 14y ago
> we use branches and commits to check which user is on which task. everyone pushes code at the end of the day even if it's incomplete I think your fundamental problem is trying to use git for task management. There's better software fo
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by antris 14y ago
> Subversion we had a simple rule: "If you get a conflict, save your work outside of the project, then "accept theirs full", then re-integrate your work. A pain, but non-technical people could manage it You can do this in git as well.
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by antris 14y ago
There was a legislation about a maximum period of 7 years for doing both the bachelor's and the master's degree. This would mean a student could lose his permission to be enrolled in the university as a student and graduate: http://yle.fi/
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by antris 14y ago
> you have to estimate your income for the year, and the tax office gives you a tax rate. Anything above that level gets taxed at an exorbitant amount (>50% for the 100k$ salary) The higher tax rate is a safety mechanism in case you
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by antris 14y ago
Linux would have never happened if Linus Torvalds didn't have a chance to "slack off" in Helsinki University with taxpayer money. The whole thing started as a hobby project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux#The_creation_o...
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by antris 14y ago
Many (most?) vinyls are pre Loudness War ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war ). But CDs are mostly post Loudness War, where all the sound has become wimpy due to bad mixing practices driven by marketers. This also affects digital mu
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by antris 14y ago
Local commits and huge speed increases are some of the immediately available, tangible benefits of git over SVN. Plus, you don't have to migrate your codebase to another SCM tool if the project unexpectedly grows into a larger one.
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by antris 14y ago
>I trust you've read the charges against Bradley Manning and can cite where the UCMJ or the US Code sections listed say that releasing classified information to the public does not constitute espionage or is otherwise not an offense? Ma
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by antris 14y ago
Using laws against espionage to convict Manning assumes that he is a spy without any evidence. The evidence is actually quite the contrary: spies do not release information to the public, they give it to the enemy in secret. His isolation i
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by antris 14y ago
Bradley Manning.
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by antris 14y ago
"If you have the internal drive to be a programmer- great, be one. If the idea repulses you, then do something else." Or if the idea repulses you, think about why it is and change the world by changing how programming is done.
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by antris 14y ago
"Some choice quotes from his Google+ post: 'The lottery is not a tax on people who are bad at math. It's trading a little bit of expected-value for a lot of variance.'" If you want high variance, wouldn't you then want to make high-risk inv
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by antris 15y ago
Don't we already have console.trace?
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by antris 15y ago
Can anyone explain why these scripts that do the exact same thing for different browsers are so different? How could one learn to write these things?
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by antris 15y ago
I see this whole story as "Irresponsible kid accidentally teaches the whole town a lesson"
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by antris 15y ago
Funny how I'm instantly repulsed to try it because it's not a GitHub link.