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by berntb 13y ago
Seeing this 11 hours later, it devolved into a political fight. Sad. A simple, alternative hypothesis: With the opening of India, China, etc the world has gotten a really, really large increase in work force -- but (not yet) an equal increa
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by berntb 13y ago
>> basically you have to micro-manage the project in extreme detail Welcome to outsourcing to unknown people. (The customer probably had some other job.)
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by berntb 13y ago
Thanks. I generally use external screens with a laptop anyway, as long as I don't sit in a coffee shop or something. (I did some work with my late-2008 13" Macbook. Yeah, 1280 is too little.) You did answer my specific question: I
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by berntb 13y ago
I can't say you're objectively wrong, but my experience differs dramatically. I am a really lousy cook. I am not handy; I'm fairly certain my relatives laugh at me behind my back. And I did high school chemistry lots of years
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by berntb 13y ago
How are the safety aspects with steel or carbon fibers, considering that it will be close to roads and lots of people will have close access? Could the (near) vacuum be compromised by any idiot with a hunting rifle and bullets optimized for
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by berntb 13y ago
Coming in 10 hours late, but from the little I know of computer architecture... Intel won that fight on being at least a generation ahead in semiconductor technology. Intel have efficiency problems compared to the ARM processors now, becaus
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by berntb 13y ago
How do these direct democracy solutions scale? Hardly linearly with population. I doubt you can organize USA's 300++ million people in the same way as a conservative and homogeneous small country (at least much less heterogeneous than
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by berntb 13y ago
The horrifying part of this behaviour of using conspiracy theories and blaming external enemies, is that it is so like the world's worst dicatorships, in e.g. the Middle East. Where will this end? :-(
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by berntb 13y ago
Any comments on the dual core processors of the 13" rMBP/Air compared to the 15" rMBP four core processor for Obj C etc development? (I am ambivalent if I want to do that kind of work. I love my iPad and want to develop for i
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by berntb 13y ago
As a Scandinavian, it is surprising to read people from so far, far south complaining about SAD. I've been in mid Europe for a while. The sun here in mid winter is like being clubbed in the face with a bat of sunlight. Simply wonderful
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by berntb 13y ago
A lot of the people going to an interview will be incompetent. With other people's projects as references. (Or so they say it is in many places, these days.) If you insist on just working where they have evolved perfect routines to wee
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by berntb 13y ago
I think most of that needs to come from bottom-up, that is from contributors. Let us hope it generates a good community. (A working "CCAN testers" would be wonderful for C code. People would want to upload stuff just to get compil
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by berntb 13y ago
Ambivalence? Oh yes. (Love to visit the place, but is it really good to live there?)
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by berntb 13y ago
Considering the Barcelona winter weather I'd be tempted, if I got a job in London. And I hate commuting. (A reason I'm not that hot on getting a London job anyway, despite loving the city.)
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by berntb 13y ago
Which type of C molecules? I think you want to say "X mol of Y. Weight measured in a vacuum, which necessitates an Y with very low evaporation."? Since it isn't done like that, I assume it isn't easy to find an Y which
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by berntb 13y ago
Thanks for the time. (I never read the 2nd Knuth book at Univ. :-) ) OK, obviously the obfuscation algorithms using entropy are equivalent to some form of hashing/encryption function. So if I understand this: To just keep every Xth bit
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by berntb 13y ago
>>still hoping for an 11"-12" 16:9 iPad Pro Personally I was hoping for two products; a retina iPad with 11"-13" screen -- and a Macbook Air with the same screen! (If they could reuse the screen and electronics it
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by berntb 13y ago
Uh, I am stressed at work -- but most of that looked like a discussion of cryptological algorithms, not generation of random numbers? Your point is obviously true, then. Sorry if I was unclear?
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by berntb 13y ago
This is certainly naive, but I have wondered a long time so I'll stick the foot in my mouth. :-) Shouldn't an easy way of getting reasonably good random values be to take three-four of the best of breed implementations of algorith
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by berntb 13y ago
As a last note (and as a last chance for the pathetic down voters that lack better ways of arguing :-) ): I Googled. There really is some guy that wrote a book and claims that the embarrassing Wikileaked internal US data is a conspiracy!
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by berntb 13y ago
As functional_test said. Also note that this e.g. depends on how long lived your data is. (An update routine can be run at any point with low use like Xmas, etc. This is potentially neat, depending on use statistics.) I'm not saying th
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by berntb 13y ago
That is easiest [cough, imho] solved with adding a version number to stored records. Since data is not in much of a normal form and there won't be that many joins, it generally is easy to handle in code. Sometimes you have to do update
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by berntb 13y ago
I hear you, re CSV. Join the dar... cough, Perl side, we have cookies. :-) We have CSV parsers and everything else, all the way up to e.g. good web libraries and the best OO among the scripting languages (Moose, ~ like the Common Lisp OO en
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by berntb 13y ago
That regexp fails with fields containing '"':s, but I guess you can grep for embedded double quotes ("") first. Are there multiple variants of coding '"' in CSV fields? I don't know -- but some
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by berntb 13y ago
Again: We talk about short term affairs -- both of these cases would be visible in VD statistics. Also note the additional obvious problems: Other birth control sales, just like condoms, are easy to find statistically -- and environmental f
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by berntb 13y ago
I always heard it described that Japanese are shy to a large part for the same reason Scandinavian/Nordic people are shy -- a very violent society, which isn't violent anymore. The shyness is a historic anacronism. (The shyness co
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by berntb 13y ago
You missed the claim that it is well documented that the Japanese young have less sex. A quick check of condom sales (and/or VD statistics) can verify if people have less sex. But, of course, the article really might be just pure fanta
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by berntb 13y ago
Thanks. Can you also use that for if/else, other block things? (Last I looked -- the answer was no. It removes a use case for ideology, sigh.)
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by berntb 13y ago
Good luck doing one liners with Python, as long as it use wspace indentation for e.g. loops and don't support {}:s as an option. :-( I'd argue with most others, Perl is the single most useful command line tool. Not the only one, o
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by berntb 13y ago
I might add that Iraq Body Count has a bit funny history. First, they were criticized by the Bush administration for overcounting. Then by the extreme left for undercounting! Now the Wikileaks report, which I linked, discuss this -- so the

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