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by cheald 11y ago
The rationale is specifically to encourage parties to try to settle out of court before tying up the justice system with a case. As is illustrated here, it makes the cost of saying "no" to a reasonable settlement both the loss of
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by cheald 11y ago
No, Ruby behaves like APC by default; code is loaded and parsed once per process, and then the AST is reused from memory. You can do some stuff to hot reload from disk (ie, Rails' reloader), but you have to intentionally do it. This wo
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by cheald 11y ago
A bytecode cache is unlikely to affect runtime performance; only load times.
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by cheald 11y ago
Agriculture uses around 80% if you don't count environmental water usage, yes. Those people need to eat, but it's not like 100% of the food grown in California is eaten in California, nor does California grow 100% of the food it c
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by cheald 11y ago
"literal shellcode" made me chortle. What a delightfully wonderful hack.
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by cheald 11y ago
http://www.ppic.org/content/images/wateruse2-full.png Urban water usage has remained steady at around 11% of the total despite population growth. Agricultural consumers use about 4x more water, and then export it
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by cheald 11y ago
You are so obviously a shill of Big Nitrogen. How do you sleep at night?
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by cheald 11y ago
Google Music does this pretty well for me. The one issue I have with it is that their radio selections will repeat songs, but there's a "reroll this station" button that builds a new playlist on demand.
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by cheald 11y ago
There are quite a lot of local radio stations that broadcast online for anyone to listen. I picked my favorite local station ( http://kslx.com/ ), found their website, and there's a "Listen Live" button right t
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by cheald 11y ago
Well, so was George Washington.
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by cheald 11y ago
Netflix now works under Chrome (not Chromium) as of...October? But Amazon has broken as of a few months before that - they switched the DRM they use and the old solutions are no longer valid. As far as I know, there is no workable solution
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by cheald 11y ago
Oh, that's a good catch. I checked on JRuby, which doesn't use bson_ext.
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by cheald 11y ago
The 1.x versions of BSON are vulnerable, too, FWIW.
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by cheald 11y ago
I'm trying to figure out what on earth you mean by OS X having better window management than Windows and Linux. Of the three, I've long considered OS X to have the worst.
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by cheald 11y ago
A fleet of appropriately-powered OS X boxes is substantially more expensive, and a fleet of Linux machines can't be operated efficiently by the rank-and-file.
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by cheald 11y ago
This would be my vote, too. Let the VM be the self-contained dev environment, with your desktop just being a thin client to get to it.
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by cheald 11y ago
Yup. I love that OS X is an actual POSIX environment with easy access to the standard GNU toolchain, but the UX drives me absolutely up the wall. I think that Windows 10 is actually a much nicer desktop than OS X.
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by cheald 11y ago
Yeah, I've just learned to use the Windows clipboard rather than buffers when I want to move stuff. Takes a bit of self-training, but it's not too bad now.
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by cheald 11y ago
I have tried many flavors of Linux (I presume you mean desktops - I've run GNOME, KDE, Xfce, and a bunch of others), and I run Fedora (dev) and Ubuntu (HTPC) boxes at home. I've tinkered with switching fulltime to Linux desktops a
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by cheald 11y ago
It's kind of amusing to me how the pendulum has swung, and we're now producing OS X-only developer software. But then, I'm an oddball who works on Windows as my shell with the real work happening on a headless Linux box via S
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by cheald 11y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gap_(networking)
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by cheald 11y ago
Oh, I like that. I might take a tack like "How'd you know I named my penis 'resistance'?"
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by cheald 11y ago
I'd be willing to lay money that if you gave me a "you won't be prosecuted" pass, I could do the same thing with about the same success rate with no training, a nice suit, and a smile.
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by cheald 11y ago
Holy hell, that's cool . What a promising line of research for autoimmune sufferers!
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by cheald 11y ago
> If someone else is producing wealth in order for your accounts to grow and you as the owner of the accounts are the beneficiary of this growth then that means you are exploiting someone else's work. This is NOT fair. You are the
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by cheald 11y ago
"Low risk" is not "no risk". I mean, heck, look at 2008. People invested in index funds - frequently considered one of the lowest-risk, most stable stock vehicles - lost 50%+ of their invested value in a hurry . It grow
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by cheald 11y ago
Yes, I did. The answer is "because they are assuming risk so that other people don't have to". None of those risks fall on people actually doing the work - their future jobs are at risk, but they'll have been paid for ti
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by cheald 11y ago
The return on capital is a function of risk. The VC who puts $1m into a company assumes all the risk for that money - if the company fails, or the owners don't execute, or the legal landscape changes against them, or a competitor com
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by cheald 11y ago
I'm not sure it's fair to call Radiohead "pop". Their shtick is experimental stuff, very different from the bulk of pop.
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by cheald 11y ago
Yup. 3.5 million professional truck drivers at $40k income (+ $3,600 in payroll taxes + ~$12,000 in health insurance premiums + ~$2,000 in 401(k) matches) is $200b in annual costs that potentially go away. A huge portion of the cost of ma

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