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by chrisb 16y ago
And are they successful? Do you make money from them (if that's your aim)?
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by chrisb 16y ago
I realise this is probably half in jest, and I'm not saying I agree with what is happening in Australia. But please remember that there is absolutely no comparison between the state of anything in North Korea and Australia.
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by chrisb 16y ago
The video is well worth watching. It gives a very clear picture of what's happening in North Korea, and about the situation for North Koreans inside and outside of North Korea (I was going to write '...their country', but that doesn't reall
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by chrisb 16y ago
This is not quite correct. The SQL generated in this case depends on the return type of GetThings(). If it returns an IEnumerable<> then it is indeed a terrible thing to do, but if it returns an IQueryable<> then the SQL wil
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by chrisb 16y ago
The .Count() method in LINQ to objects checks to see if the IEnumerable implements ICollection, and if so then just calls the .Count property. Of course, calling the .Count property yourself is more efficient, but not by orders of magnitude
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by chrisb 17y ago
But the potential gains surely outway the large risk?
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by chrisb 17y ago
"going through countries like North Korea..." Your geography and politics are slightly incorrect :)
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Python re-write of the GISTEMP climate analysis(clearclimatecode.org)
4 points by chrisb 17y ago|0 comments
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by chrisb 17y ago
What action is it possible to take over some of the (deliberatly?) incorrect/inaccurate journalism? Can a legal challenge be made? Or is there any other effective way to stop the lies? I'm not trying to suggest that honest debate be stifled
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Refutation of current media storm against IPCC(realclimate.org)
24 points by chrisb 17y ago|21 comments
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by chrisb 17y ago
Good plan, but: "Future versions will call for ... network support" :)
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by chrisb 17y ago
But I can ignore the Bose advert and choose to look at any other manufacturer of audio equipment. The Chinese government claims the right to make that choice for the people. Very effective mind control.
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by chrisb 17y ago
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the
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by chrisb 17y ago
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the
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by chrisb 17y ago
Thanks for the response. It's good to hear your opinion is overall positive when building a large app. Java isn't my favourite language/environment either, but I suppose it gets the job done.
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Large number of UK government held data-sets now available(data.gov.uk)
1 points by chrisb 17y ago|0 comments
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by chrisb 17y ago
The real answer is: Yes
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by chrisb 17y ago
Note that this claim was not in the "Summary for Policy Makers" nor the "Overall Synthesis Report", which is what the vast majority of people read (myself included, I haven't even tried to read the entire report). Therefore very few people
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by chrisb 17y ago
Thanks for the information - glad to hear you haven't found compatibility too much of a problem. I don't plan to do any low-level stuff that might cause a problem.
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by chrisb 17y ago
Is anyone actually doing any Android development?
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Ask HN: Android development, revenue and compatibility
9 points by chrisb 17y ago|5 comments
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If It’s That Warm, How Come It’s So Damned Cold? 2009 temperatures by Jim Hansen(realclimate.org)
1 points by chrisb 17y ago|0 comments
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Avatar censored in China - fear of fermenting unrest(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by chrisb 17y ago|0 comments
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by chrisb 17y ago
I agree that technically it should be possible to defeat the firewall with a system like this. However, possibly fear of reprisals from the government if found doing it may put off many people. I might spend some time putting together somet
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by chrisb 17y ago
Doubt it. Although it might take a few months to get sorted out. There are many other places to get goods manufactured, and the free market is extremely good at sorting out problems like this.
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by chrisb 17y ago
This may allow full search results, but the links still won't work, as the firewall blocks 'undesirable' URLs. So the proxy would also need to convert URLs in the returned pages to link to proxied URLs, and to provide a proxy service for th
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by chrisb 17y ago
Interesting idea. But maybe more practical to provide an easy-to-install package that allows an apache installation to provide a proxy service in a standard way. Probably with a configurable bandwidth limit. Not sure how people would discov
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by chrisb 17y ago
But not here: http://news.cn/?falun+gong And apparently its IP address is in China.
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by chrisb 17y ago
Agreed. Contrasted with the > 1,000,000 results on google.com And curiously, google.cn gives ~42,000 results - and they still say they are censoring (据当地法律法规和政策，部分搜索结果未予显示。 = According to local laws, regulations and policies, some searc
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by chrisb 17y ago
I doubt that the IP address I'm searching from has much to do with it, as it they won't show any more results to me (who isn't in China), presumably they won't show any more results to someone who is in China. Although I agree the language

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