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by coriny 12y ago
It could also be self-fertilisation, which is still a form of sexual reproduction. Sorry for being so pedantic.
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by coriny 12y ago
"... it's in the bucket of tools which - at least to me - should be treated as liable to be cut at any time and don't rely on it." Unless you've paid for a guaranteed period of support, bug fixes and extensions of f
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by coriny 12y ago
"First, because you should be making the decision about whether to run the script after you look at it" - exactly, which is what my suggestion is. All I'm suggesting with tee is that it allows you to read in terminal what you
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by coriny 12y ago
As already mentioned, save to disk first to avoid network connection failures messing you up. To avoid an extra command use "tee" to output to file while viewing it (i.e. it's "less" and ">" functionali
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by coriny 12y ago
And, in 1963 Moore's Law had yet to be recognised. If it had been, he might have realised that fat clients were going to dominate the future of computing. But at the time, it would have been near impossible to believe how relentless CP
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by coriny 12y ago
Yep, sure. The thin client approach has grown substantially recently, mostly I think due to improvements in networking. But the author was talking about "20 years time", so the early 80s. What we actually saw was the arrival of th
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by coriny 12y ago
It was light hearted, comes with a smiley now :)
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by coriny 12y ago
"I think by far the most twisted notion in the article is the idea that little changed between 1913 and 1967. I'm pretty sure technological change during that period had more impact on the average Westerner's life than any ot
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by coriny 12y ago
He's after this weeks "Useless use of cat" award: http://www.smallo.ruhr.de/award.html#cat Good to see there's still some competitors out there.
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by coriny 12y ago
Given that referendum, an independence referendum was always possible. It was probably only during the 80s that it didn't seem possible, and was definitely being talked about by the time I lived in Edinburgh 15 years ago. Devolution wa
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by coriny 12y ago
Or that lots of Android apps are shoddy iPhone ports by developers who approach it as a second class citizen, and so are unaware of what it can do. And then they complain that Android users don't buy their apps...
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by coriny 12y ago
"it’s as crazy and unrealistic a dream as an independence referendum used to seem." I'm assuming this guy's pretty young as there was one 35 years ago. I kind of feel that a similar amount of evidence was used in the res
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by coriny 12y ago
So, I'm definitely not confused :) I do appreciate it's very common in what I'd call pseudo-formal speech, mostly used when trying to impress someone one perceives to be of higher social station. Estate agents do it a lot whe
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by coriny 12y ago
Well, I can't say much about the reality of the FBI approach, y'all seems to have that better covered. Instead, I'm led to ask at what point will people stop using "myself" as a formal version of "me"? It
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by coriny 12y ago
Apologies for my poor stab at answering this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8273839
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by coriny 12y ago
Sorry for the very late reply, I've been hoping I'd get some time to do this properly, but haven't succeeded. It's something I first read ~10 years ago, where it was mostly in the musings of a complexity theorist. Since
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by coriny 12y ago
The Natural History museum in the UK has shelves full of samples dating back >100 years that have never been looked at. Furthermore, even ones that have been studied can be revised in the light of new evidence. So primarily it's a q
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by coriny 12y ago
Though I think he is correct that politics does not need to be antagonistic to prevent "politicians running rampant with power". Plenty of democracies use more collaborative politics than the USA (e.g. the Polder model of democrac
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by coriny 12y ago
Anarcho-collectivists, which as far as I understand, represents the dominant modern anarchistic philosophy, examine alternative methods to central government for generating laws. So they don't argue for an unregulated society - which i
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by coriny 12y ago
:) I thought I recognised the name, and as a microbial genomics guy myself, I'm pretty familiar with TIGR. I suspect we agree more than disagree on OA, but these are some good points for debate. Genomics has largely been very pro-OA th
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by coriny 12y ago
Publishing in multiple journals is heavily frowned on (and most journals will not republish work irrespective of copyright) since it is normally done to (a) boost publishing records and give the impression of greater productivity (CV paddin
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by coriny 12y ago
It's not about handing over copyright but it's generally agreed that publishing multiple copies of the same work is a bad thing. This is typically done by researchers to boost their paper count (+ a bit of self-citation), and ca
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by coriny 12y ago
A second key step that is frequently ignored is that funding has to be provided for publishing in open access (normally it isn't). Publishing budgets are normally very small (if any money is given at all). This often puts quality open
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by coriny 12y ago
Thanks to reveals like Echelon ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON ), every big/strategic (e.g. energy/arms) business in Europe has been aware of this since the late 80s (at least). For instance in the 90s,
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by coriny 12y ago
I like your idea. A small amount of randomisation can be very effective at (1) defeating gaming, (2) finding unexpected signals in complex systems (3) Preventing over-fitting of results when optimising. All three of these advantages come in
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by coriny 12y ago
"Its pretty much the same as "Perl hate", why do we hate Perl? No reason at all, other then being cool means hating Perl!" Ummm, no. Believe me, having worked in a PERL shop for nearly 10 years, I was ecstatic to start w
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by coriny 12y ago
Yay, I'm lucky too. Not only that but 2 out of 3 MacBook Pros in my office do very badly with WiFi - slow to connect (my android phone is 10x faster) & they drop at the first sign of a flaky signal. The most robust laptop I've
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by coriny 12y ago
Your comment is quite disingenuous. The major ISPs parental filters have all suffered numerous false positives and varying commitment to fixing the problems. The porn filters particularly often block access to sex education, anti-bullying,
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by coriny 12y ago
Arsenal coming back from 4-1 down against Reading to win 7-5 was pretty epic as well. Also, goal difference is important in leagues, so teams tend to play to the end even if the gap is large. Though I think this could be improved by changin
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by coriny 12y ago
True. I could also walk over to the place and tell them in person (after a flight and a drive etc). My thoughts are that if you are asking people to volunteer to contribute, expecting people to sign up to a third party in order to communica

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