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by dgregd 9y ago
European spruce bark beetle [1] infected a large number of trees. That's a fact. Foresters are obliged to protected the forest and do try to this by eliminating infected trees. The first such action was conducted 100 years ago. Some ex
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by dgregd 9y ago
I wonder how HN will explain this [1]: "In western North America, the current outbreak of the mountain pine beetle and its microbial associates has destroyed wide areas of lodgepole pine forest, including more than 16 million of the 55
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by dgregd 9y ago
Dart is losing with TypeScript. It seems that outside of Google almost nobody uses Dart. It'll be interesting to see how Go will cope with Kotlin/Native (in technology preview stage right now) Kotlin has no unsigned types (JVM lan
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by dgregd 9y ago
Take care of your health. Sitting long hours damages your spine. I learned this too late.
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by dgregd 9y ago
> This shows that no agency is immune from leaks That's well known for a long time. During cold war a lot of Russian weapons were based on the US designs. There is a TV series, Americans, which shows how to manipulate people and ste
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by dgregd 9y ago
I've seen and understand Redux TO DO examples. However I develop enterprise CRM app. In db there are 200k client records, 500k sales calls records. It is implemented as a standard Ruby on Rails / Postgresql web app. It works quite
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by dgregd 9y ago
> The minimum size for 6 doors is probably about the size of a long-wheelbase Transit van Depends on the mini-bus layout. 7-seater VW Touran (4527 mm long) has 5 doors. So maybe it possible to build 5 m long van with 6 doors, with 2 on t
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by dgregd 9y ago
That's why I would like to see a hybrid of a electric van and Uber as a new city bus. The bus should have 6 doors and separated passenger space. So each passenger would have its own private space. Travel time should be much shorter due
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by dgregd 9y ago
If you are really worried about this then stop reading mainstream news propaganda, especially GW, TVN24, Newsweek. Poland leaving EU is the newest oposition narrative to discredit current government. That's all. People don't care
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by dgregd 10y ago
There are a lot of good software engineers in Warsaw, working at various companies. However most of companies here doesn't care that much about top talent. They just want to pay an average salary and that's all. It is very rare th
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by dgregd 10y ago
What kind of load (number of concurrent app users) your app has so it needs multi-master db? It is quite easy to setup powerful pg master node (32 CPU threads, fast SSDs) and many slave nodes for read-only queries. That setup can handle qui
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by dgregd 10y ago
> but almost none of them wanted me to use their names Half of their beliefs leftists treat like heresy. So nobody wants to be hunted by inquisitors. > as she worried she’d lose her job Hopefully nowadays for heresy you are just fired
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by dgregd 10y ago
> Trust me, the alternative is much worse The alternative is French Revolution. Hopefully for leftist elite democracy is still working.
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by dgregd 10y ago
> problems came back after 8 years, worse than ever Please give some real examples what problems came back after that 8 years. In live in Poland and haven't noticed any particular change to worse in last year.
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by dgregd 10y ago
I have a question to tech companies CEOs, who make so much noise about Trump latest executive order. If you really care that much about Muslim countries then explain to me: why the PhD brain drain is so good for these countries?
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by dgregd 10y ago
I ask myself the same questions. It seems that Apple is lost in internal politics. It was right decision at the time to build the new OS only for mobile devices. But now laptops and desktops have also touch screens. It was easy to foresee t
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by dgregd 10y ago
I live in Central Europe. It is really hard from my perspective to understand all that mass hysteria in US, especially in California. Maybe overdosing leftist propaganda causes that hysteria. Many products of Silicon Valley and Hollywood co
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by dgregd 10y ago
> but I'll make it again just for you. Mac laptops are sturdy, well made devices You misunderstood me. I agree that Apple products have the best build quality. But Apple was always something more than a well build luxury product. M
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by dgregd 10y ago
> What frustrates me the most is that Apple never admits a mistake In corporate politics that would be a suicide. Only Jobs was powerful enough to make mistakes. Anyway it is shocking what Apple does now. During Jobs Apple removed produc
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by dgregd 10y ago
I live in central Europe. It is really sad to see so many manipulated people in the US by politics propaganda. 90% of people support Clinton/Trump because they dislike the other candidate more. That's it. Why do you offend each ot
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by dgregd 10y ago
> I always wondered why MySQL gained more popularity. Because of the first-mover advantage. When first web pages/apps were created there was no native port of Postgresql for Microsoft Windows. At that time Windows was the main devel
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by dgregd 10y ago
My summary of the whole discussion: genius_level = talent_genes * hard_work * know_how talent_genes - natural ability to be good at something hard_work - amount of practice, willingness to practice hard is determined by genes, but can be al
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by dgregd 10y ago
> If you think backup tools are a minus for PG, I guess you've never used barman You are right, I've never used barman. But I have streaming replication configured manually. Generally I am quite happy with PG backup tools. Howe
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by dgregd 10y ago
> What's wrong with WAL backup? I use PG for 10 years and I never needed incremental backups. But if someone asked me about it then I would respond that the PG has no incremental backups. So WAL backup is not well known or documente
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by dgregd 10y ago
> why companies are still paying for commercial DBMS engines In my experience in 90% of cases application code migration to a new db engine is the real road block. I've seem many cases where even migration to a new Oracle version is
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by dgregd 10y ago
Yes, SO search is average quality. Therefore I add site:stackoverflow.com to all my google searches.
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by dgregd 10y ago
Probably performance of A8 for most of people is good enough. At least for native apps.
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by dgregd 10y ago
We already know that we are very similar to animals. Our mind and consciousness are last things that distinguishes us. We are strongly attached to this idea. It was hard for people to accept the fact that the Earth is not the center of the
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by dgregd 10y ago
What about Oracle Linux and Bash on Windows?
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by dgregd 10y ago
> I just can't understand why Merkel would care what he thinks? Because Turkey is one of the main passages of immigrants to Europe. And Erdogan can limit the number of immigrants passing EU border. Turkey already got 6 billions Euro

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