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by dasmoth 11y ago
The video-game-playing mobs occur, pretty much by definition, organically. If this stuff catches on, it will be imposed from above on coders who are far from enthusiastic.
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by dasmoth 11y ago
This is parody -- right?
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by dasmoth 11y ago
There's a world of difference between choosing to leave a door open door and not having a door in the first place.
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by dasmoth 11y ago
My first thought too. But looks like this may be somewhat more oriented towards including temporal information in queries, which implies a slightly different indexing model to Datomic (where time is the last component of all the indexes the
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by dasmoth 11y ago
> For instance, you don't go to the store, take a can of WD-40 home, use it, then go back to the store to pay for the can. That's true, but may have more to do with an unwillingness to track a squillion IOUs for individual cans
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by dasmoth 11y ago
Wetware, surely.
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by dasmoth 11y ago
Of course the outdoors and mountains are very attractive but they're not a viable workplace. While many of your city complaints are valid, it's not as if the suburbs solves all of them. Given all the technology that supports rem
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by dasmoth 11y ago
The UK has 26.7M households in 243,610km^2. That's nearly a hectare per household -- doesn't sound "suburban" to me (although maybe some parts of the US would disagree!). Of course, the UK population is very unevenly
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by dasmoth 11y ago
Not so very long ago, there seemed to be a movement in quite the opposite direction: live somewhere car-friendly and work on out-of-town campuses with ample parking. While I'm another one who believes that the ideal commute is "st
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by dasmoth 11y ago
SpaceX seem to try pretty hard to avoid pyros -- one reason I've heard is that pyro devices can't be tested! i believe they do still use a few, but pretty sure not for stage separation.
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by dasmoth 11y ago
Could you say a bit more about the query optimisation problems you've run into? The "put your most restrictive clauses first" rule (which is reiterated on the new Best Practices page) usually seems to do the trick in our hand
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by dasmoth 11y ago
Datomic doesn't seem to have had a huge amount of marketing: it's been spreading largely by word of mouth, so a slow build-up makes sense. It does bring an exceptionally elegant design (well worth reading Nikita Prokopov's &q
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by dasmoth 11y ago
Is there a good source of information about ARX (the originally-planned OS for the Acorn ARM machines) out there? I did search around a bit a few years back and found very, very little.
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by dasmoth 11y ago
There seems to be an assumption here that if you negotiate a higher salary, you'll go out and spend it all. Save your extra N% and you'll be that much better placed to ride out a layoff, regardless of why it happens.
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by dasmoth 11y ago
From the timeline, and from remembering past launches, I'm pretty sure it was well past Max-Q.
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by dasmoth 11y ago
Damn you FaceBook. I dislike the underlying premise, the adverts, and (especially) the "real names" policy. But... between great bits of Open Source like React, cool infrastructure projects like this, and a technical culture whic
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by dasmoth 11y ago
UK perspective: how come "NSA" is censored but "GCHQ" isn't?
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by dasmoth 11y ago
Are you confusing wing span with body length? In the right hand panel of the video, the insect certainly moves several body lengths, and is still moving downwards at the end of the clip.
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by dasmoth 11y ago
One reason to prefer whiteboards: I find the feeling of touching chalk unbearable.
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by dasmoth 11y ago
I assume you mean 40,000 kilometres here. That'll definitely be lower than that (at that kind of height, you wouldn't need hundreds of satellites for global coverage). Wiki page talks about 800km and 950km orbits.
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by dasmoth 11y ago
Yes (although with five or six times as many satellites).
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by dasmoth 11y ago
What about a village where you can walk to the local bar/pub?
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by dasmoth 11y ago
Milton Keynes clearly isn't the only possible result. Even I kind-of like Letchworth, and I'm really not a town/city person.
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by dasmoth 11y ago
On the other hand, some of us do. Reducing the pressure for people who don't really want to be there to move into cities should improve life for everybody.
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by dasmoth 11y ago
https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie could be worth a look. That said, "add more type hints" hasn't generally been my experience of Clojure. If anything, it tends to be an indication that you've alr
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by dasmoth 11y ago
Why not? If you've got reasonably static 100TB datasets you want to be able to fire queries at, then -- if the price is right -- a single huge-memory box could be a great solution. Need to run more queries than the box can handle? Bu
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by dasmoth 11y ago
Slavery seems to go rather beyond accepting unpaid labour.
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by dasmoth 11y ago
Would you care to explain those reasons?
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by dasmoth 11y ago
This is great. One thought: any chance of showing launches as arrows -- ideally approximating the actual launch azimuth -- rather than circles? Would help dispel the myth that rockets go primarily upwards!
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by dasmoth 11y ago
If you'd enjoy the structure of university life, that's certainly worth considering. But if you're happy doing it independently, why pay $lots (and add at least some extra bureaucracy) to "make it official"?

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