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by dgregd 11y ago
PG:"We will not do a good job of fixing the bad causes of economic inequality unless we attack them directly. But if we fix all the bad causes of economic inequality, we will still have increasing levels of it, due to the increasing po
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by dgregd 11y ago
The most important thing to do after a server setup is to enable firewall. By default block all ports on public IP and then open ssh, http and https. There are tools like ufw, just few commands and your server is secure. This is much bette
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by dgregd 11y ago
Actually Android standard doesn't include ALSA. There is a thin sound HAL above ALSA, OSS and other Linux sound technologies. Of course many phone vendors use ALSA to implement Android HAL layer. It seems that Samsung uses its own soun
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by dgregd 11y ago
Both have serious problems. 1. Many Android apps depend on proprietary Google Play Services. So app customization is needed anyway. 2. Do ordinary people really need unified apps for PCs and mobile? Currently an easiest way to develop multi
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This might be just a coincidence. But I have a strange filling that secret services were involved in both cases. How hard is to sabotage Falcon 9 mission?
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by dgregd 11y ago
> Mars is going to be his Spruce Goose I'm a fan Elon Musk. But I think people are exaggerating that Mars mission. For me it looks like a goal for SpaceX employees. You have to somehow motivate people to work harder. Maybe I'm
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by dgregd 11y ago
And most incumbent players seem to like the current state of affairs. The whole situation is beginning to resemble feudal Europe class system. You cannot sell a car unless you belong to a specific fraternity. You cannot sell Android phones
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by dgregd 11y ago
Nginx HTTP Push Module seems to much better solution than EventMachine. So Nginx keeps opened sockets and a Rails app sends messages via ordinary HTTP. http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpPushStreamModule
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by dgregd 12y ago
1. Banks do not need deposits to lend money to ordinary people. They lend money from FED, which 'prints' them. 2. If interest rates are low then Banks profits should be also low because of small difference between deposits and len
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by dgregd 12y ago
> many bank/insurance/pension calculations It will also clearly show how big banks, HFT companies are making huge profits. They are slowly pulling money out of your pension fund. Banks do not produce, they have no income from d
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by dgregd 12y ago
The next question is why _developed_ countries are taking the debt.
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In my country was a politician who was outraged by the fact that 50% of people earn below the national average.
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Slightly off topic, Ubuntu and Redhat are building their own display servers, Mir and Wayland. Why they can't simply use SurfaceFlinger? It should be simpler to add X Server emulation to SurfaceFlinger than to create whole display serv
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by dgregd 12y ago
I asked this question because I was a little bit frustrated with one page in my app which rendered in 800ms. 100ms was db time, the rest it was Ruby. Sure, the answers won't help to solve my _specific_ problem. However in general I lik
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by dgregd 12y ago
In short term immigrants definitely have negative impact on wages. However, in long term brain drain helps Silicon Valley to maintain its software capital of the world status. Nokia mainly depended on local workforce. From Poland it is much
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by dgregd 12y ago
Two years ago I built an app using Angular. Of curse using Rails as the back-end. As a whole this wasn't a good experience. A such simple thing like authorization took a day or two to implement, solution looked like a one big hack. How
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by dgregd 12y ago
Would you please explain why my comment have been down-voted?
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Ruby on Rails is still the most productive why to build web apps. Turbolinks prolonged Rails life cycle, as the best web framework, by two or three years. However SPA are the future. Maybe Angular 2 will be good enough to switch. Maybe some
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by dgregd 12y ago
https://github.com/wybory2014/Kalkulator1/blob/master/Kalkul... Is this correct generation of salt? It looks like someone just c&p an example from http://www.cprogramdevelop.com/12639
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You can download the installation package here http://zapasdlakbw.home.pl/kalkulator-wyborczy/kalkulator/ and decompile it. pdf file was included.
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How to generate a good salt – unofficial sources of Polish voting system(github.com)
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> management said no Because management would have more work and responsibility with your solution. > what they paid hundreds of thousands in licensing fees and man hours to do the same job They spent shareholders money. So they don&#
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Because it has too few good libraries and frameworks. For example I am waiting for a good Postgresql driver. The existing drivers have _async_ API.
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BTW is there something like PhoneGap but for desktops (Win, Linux, OSX)? Or even better, Ruby integrated with Webkit.
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> There are very real reasons why "average" people need alternate identities online. However alternate identities also allow for click fraud things and so on. We don't know exactly why Google guys wanted so much to elimina
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Office package for Internet and open source era. MS Office concept was good in 1990. Google Docs just replaced local drive with cloud drive. Tools for developers are really good. IDEs and DVCS are pleasure to work with. But try to work on a
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by dgregd 13y ago
I cannot ignore IE9.
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So nowadays to Apple innovation means to increase fps from 59 to 60? Shadow DOM might be really, really useful for millions of developers building ordinary business web apps. It is 2014 and would be good to add new things like Shadow DOM, n
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Really? How many mobile platform do we have now?
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Newton's niece Catherine Conduitt reported that he "lost twenty thousand pounds. Of this, however, he never much liked to hear…" This was a fortune at the time (equivalent to about £2.4 million in present day terms So you&#

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