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by burgerbrain 14y ago
There will still be puns... but probably not much else.
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
> "Software rendering might suffice though." If I understand correctly, if it's using Mesa it should software render what it has to and hardware render the rest, without needing to change the program itself?
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
Does it though? interviews-by-committee are consensual too...
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
Let me tell you, if you want to meet women just check out the CS labs at your local college... Oh wait, exactly the opposite of that.
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
In fact, I see "bro-ing" to be a defence against "nerd culture". I assert the only reason it has become popular is because of that other end of the spectrum.
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
Oh certainly, I fully agree. I think I'm just saying that I think logging is going to be one of those things, for better or worse, that most developers look at and do the mental calculus of "It's a good idea, but do I want to go out on a
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
> "Shouldn't you use the best tool for the job, not the one you happen to know?" Well, 'best' in this case should be determined by combining a number of factors. Certainly technological superiority should be weighted quite heavily, b
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
Accelerando, by Charles Stross (a HN'er actually!) Features asteroid mining, expansion through the solar system in the quest to find more matter to turn into computronium, and some people becoming obscenely rich in the process. I wouldn't d
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
Not that I disagree with your conclusion, but increasing the actual supply doesn't necessarily have to wreak havoc on the economy if limited number of distributors are willing to control the release of the supply (which could be considered
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
The trick with stereotypes is that you don't have to opt-in for people to apply them to you. Be an individual... and people will still stereotype you.
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
I am not so quick to blame the people who call themselves that. Sure, some 'brogrammers' are sexist pigs who lack self awareness, but I get a strong feeling that the majority of them are just regular smoes who are looking to avoid the alte
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
Are you suggesting that people should only apologize for things that are illegal?
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
I'm sure they think it, but does that make it so?
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
If I recall correctly, he's been told and didn't seem to care.
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
The desire to not go to jail is stronger than the desire to not kill someone? I know when I slow down for pedestrains I'm thinking about not hitting people, not not going to jail. Maybe I give others too much credit.
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
Interestingly, fans are particularity important while sleeping in space. Otherwise a pocket of CO2 will form around your head until you wake up gasping.
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
What I really don't understand is this obsession some people seem to have with jailing people for a mistake that will already haunt them for the rest of their lives.
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2042520 1816496 226024 0 294344 486908 -/+ buffers/cache: 1035244 1007276 Swap: 4194300 8172 4186128
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
Ah yeah, had a brain fart there. Even so, `last` is similarly fast.
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
> "That delay is /usr/bin/login searching the system logs so that it can display the date and time of your last login." Am I missing something? `w` on my linux system takes well below one second: [burgerbrain@eeepc] ~ % time w
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
I bike regularly and trust me, these sorts of things vary a good deal between people. In my overly warm 70F office I feel like I need a shower halfway through the day anyway. There is no way in hell I'd bike for an hour or more before tha
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
The earth's Schwarzchild radius is about 9mm. However tennis ball sized might be neutron star territory, I'm not sure.
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
If more work places had showers, that might be a workable solution. Also: "I drive 40 minutes each way " 1hr20min of driving is not going to translate into 1hr30min of biking, with the only possible exception being if you spent the entire
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
Facebook was drooling over Instagram customers? I find this somewhat hard to swallow.
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
Not a measuring stick for value, no. But certainly a measuring stick for "expensive as hell" .
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
Indeed I was using SpaceX Falcon 9 numbers. Looks like I botched my math though.
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
If the idea is that BigCo's who desperately need programmers are throwing cash at people in an attempt to get them, then what the OP is describing as a bubble is just a massively inefficient fad recruiting technique. There is absolutely n
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
Facebook bought Instagram for as much money as it would take to put something like 112 '69 Volkswagon Beetles into low earth orbit. Now maybe that is an isolated incident, but I'm not so sure.
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
Was the entire experience faster than it might have otherwise been? I can see an advantage from a "not having to wait in lines" standpoint. (unless I suppose the machines become heavily trafficked).
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by burgerbrain 14y ago
I don't think there is anything really stopping them from merely investing like that right now. Sure, starting up that sort of thing yourself is probably something you should wait to do until after you've made good on your prior obligation

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