bmuon

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by bmuon 15y ago
> Democracies turn rotten when the people don't care about what happens at the top Exactly. Plus it seems there is a global movement of some sort in this direction even in countries with a history that would make you expect the opposite
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by bmuon 15y ago
Very interesting! I'll re-read the code.
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by bmuon 15y ago
Pjs may work for a small number of objects, but if you're dealing with a large number of intances from a single class Pjs is going to use much more memory than needed. That's because the recommended method P(function () { this.method = fn;
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by bmuon 15y ago
Foo.prototype = new Bar() has the problem of setting the superclass' instance properties as prototype properties of the subclass. This can be solved pretty easily with something like Object.create (the first part explained here http://news
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by bmuon 15y ago
Object.create has two parts: the "create a new object with this other object as its prototype" part and the "define properties" part. The first part can be easily reproduced in ES3 and it's the most useful part. It's really well explained i
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by bmuon 15y ago
Actually in this case the only reasonable way to validate it would be with an expert. Do you know how to recognize a badly treated XX century violin from a Stradivarius? I don't.
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by bmuon 15y ago
That's why PayPal insists on you destroying the counterfeit item and providing proof that you did.
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by bmuon 15y ago
I wouldn't take it that seriously, because to be completely honest, the article sounds to me like a troll post. The title and the content seems to be chosen for the biggest impact and there doesn't seem to be much more to it. The fact is th
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by bmuon 15y ago
Because treatment is not science. Its goal is not to understand more about your body but to cure you and/or relieve you of your symptoms. So yes, doctors try to cure with what they know is the best option and they try again if it fails.
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by bmuon 15y ago
I understand conceptually what Ethan wanted to accomplish with Solarized, but in practice I find I need to make an effort to read it.
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by bmuon 15y ago
> (unless you have a better way to implement it) Actually I do. Here are a couple of ideas. The problem is that the application gets in the way of the normal user interaction with the browser. However, there are ways you can provide the
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by bmuon 15y ago
> I imagine he has no choice I think so as well. Back when Guillermo del Toro was going to direct it, he posted in The One Ring forums saying they didn't any interest in 3D at the moment, but "If after AVATAR the market may change and d
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by bmuon 15y ago
The fact is that Mongo is _fun_ to develop with and that's invaluable. But there's another side to databases and that's DB administration. Most Mongo reviews I've seen so far are from developers, but I haven't seen many positive reviews fro
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by bmuon 15y ago
It's a long way down the rabbit hole. There's a series of steps for measuring in a particle accelerator and each itself is a big area of knowledge: - Detectors - Hardware triggers - Software triggers - Data storage - Statistical analysis I
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by bmuon 15y ago
I think this is not the case. TFA seems to say that replying to a many-recipient message sent with Group Messaging off is automatically considered a "reply to all" action when it shouldn't.
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by bmuon 15y ago
I think the app is indeed polished. It looks really good. But you do have a point in that users, specially iOS users, expect a lot of feedback from the app in the form of animations. I remember reading the guys from @mikamobile talking abou
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by bmuon 15y ago
I wouldn't expect the "official" apps to be power user friendly. TweetDeck will remain the app for the PU.
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by bmuon 15y ago
You can run pretty much any JS library on Node with jsdom https://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom/
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by bmuon 15y ago
You could also look at YUI. YUI3 is built from the bottom up with that mentality: keep a file for each class, merge them in the build stage into one module file and serve all modules combined automatically.
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by bmuon 15y ago
+1 I try to reach a middle ground in terms of security vs convenience. I have 5 different passwords and I re-learn one at a time when I want to change them.
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by bmuon 15y ago
+1 but the article isn't very clear about it
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by bmuon 15y ago
Firefox for Bing http://www.firefoxwithbing.com/
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by bmuon 15y ago
Everything on the web points to the opposite. Ads in the long run are always more profitable. Besides, nothing guarantees that the quality of the ads will stay the same. When I bought my Kindle 4 I reasoned they looked well now because the
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by bmuon 15y ago
Bioware appears to be an example of that. They have changed a lot their business strategy (lots of DLC now) but their culture seems to remain the same.
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by bmuon 15y ago
I think it doesn't have to be just "more stats classes". They also need to be focused on the kind of work they'll need to do with those statistics. If you teach future biologists or medical doctors "so there is this theorem that says that i
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by bmuon 15y ago
There are other services besides Flattr that have their own good parts. For instance, Tip The Web ( http://tiptheweb.org/ ) is a non-profit that serves as a hub for micropayments and maintains itself from tips without taking a cut.
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by bmuon 15y ago
It's still worth it when you're outside the US and want to get certain books that aren't published in your country or aren't imported in their original language. Then you save some money on shipping and a lot of time (the cheapest shipping
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by bmuon 15y ago
It depends exclusively on corporate culture. I've seen my share of small to mid-size businesses with an IBM-like culture of paperwork and "ask permissions thrice to the superior of the superior of your superior".
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by bmuon 15y ago
I agree that time isn't a matter of concern for most scientists. The article seems to be a badly researched rehash of other Open Science articles. Open Science is not about faster delivery, it's about access to information. The problem is n
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by bmuon 15y ago
On Mobile Safari it actually works with the accelerometer! You can toss it around by shaking your device

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