buff-a

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   by buff-a 15y ago

   I gotta say, Windows 7 nailed it when dragging maximized apps from one screen to the other.
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   by buff-a 15y ago

   I can. You can. I bet most can't, and even if they could, still wouldn't know the right place to break the cycle. If you break the cycle in the wrong place then things go bye-bye when you still need them. I've had this very discussion on
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   by buff-a 15y ago

   For class based languages I am completely beholden to good tools for refactoring and the like, so rarely does a new language work for me in the long term no matter how much fun it is. But these guys make the best tools in the world. And as
4. 334.▲
   by buff-a 15y ago

   I have a physical iPad staring at me, its dark screen like a pool of liquid possibility, a bottomless ocean of imagination. And porn.
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   by buff-a 15y ago

   Yes that is a fair point and I should be flogged for referencing numbers so poorly supported. However, that does not make them wrong. A thorough review of all the evidence shows that: a) Watt stopped adding inventions after 1782, and b) whe
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   by buff-a 15y ago

   And yet the amount of horse-power generated from steam engines pretty much flatlined in England when Watt's patent was granted, while in other countries it went through the roof. When Watt's patent expired, then the real industrialisation t
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   by buff-a 15y ago

   Many problems were solved with our departure from the gold standard Such as having to give the Saudis, and now the Chinese, all our gold. Instead we give them paper, and they then reinvest that paper in: * internet companies
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   by buff-a 15y ago

   Cracking good timing too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_oil_bourse
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   by buff-a 15y ago

   I'm somewhat wary of jumping into an issue that is obviously extremely personal and emotional for people, but this remark struck me as odd: You can’t even resort to just hitting the home button blindly a bunch of times, because if you
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    by buff-a 15y ago

    I've run raytracing clusters with 4000 cores. It basically scales linearly. So for this task, or any massively parallel compute-bound task, you pretty much can just add up the cores. Also, I would rent them by the hour, because if a service