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by disbelief 14y ago
> the same UN extrapolations that predict such threatening sea-level rises for Bangladesh also say that, in two or three generations’ time, it will be as rich as Britain. Can anyone find a reference for this one? Seems a bit outlandish
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by disbelief 14y ago
I've built quite a few Rails-based APIs recently, and one of the major pain points (for me) has been the performance of generating the actual JSON in the payloads. I've ended up with a modified JBuilder gem and using a subset of its render
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by disbelief 14y ago
I'm sure it's quite liberating to cut back severely on email, and I don't doubt the increased productivity it brings while trying to code or do other high-concentration tasks, but my one problem with this system is: > If I happen to be
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by disbelief 14y ago
> this blog post tells me extremely little beyond giving everybody high-fives. It also crashed my browser with that mp3 embed, FWIW.
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by disbelief 14y ago
A lot of this has to do with Berlin's history. When the wall was still standing, west Berlin wasn't the most desirable place to live in Western Germany, it being basically an island in the communist east. So while cities in the West grew we
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by disbelief 14y ago
I think definitely your second example, possibly your first, could be accomplished with "Soft" AR. Remote personal interaction would still be reliant on the latency of the network/medium, and without touch , I'm not sure how much more use
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by disbelief 14y ago
Aside from how obviously cool Hard AR would be (for us SF nerds particularly), and some interesting gaming/entertainment(/adult) applications, is there any real need for Hard AR? It seems like it would be used primarily to turn reality in
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by disbelief 14y ago
Normally I would have agreed with you, but have you seen the latest Gmail native client for Android? It is hands-down the best mobile mail client I've ever used. Attractive and incredibly intuitive. Someone at Google has been taking their U
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by disbelief 14y ago
I was a bit shocked by that. Not sure I would want Fracking to be the engine driving my economic growth — you're trading a financial crisis for a potentially massive environmental catastrophe.
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by disbelief 14y ago
Instead of starting over and building another browser rendering engine from scratch, they could have switched to Webkit, putting their development cycles to better use contributing to a mature, stable, Open Source browser. Thereby improvi
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by disbelief 14y ago
Great story and congrats on the progress thus far! I have been building an application using a very similar Backbone+Rails stack, and your decision making at the top of the article matches up almost identically with mine. One thing I'm curi
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by disbelief 14y ago
Ah thanks, I only made it through the executive summary. The one billion figure seems more realistic if we're talking lifetime usage. I'd still expect that "once in the last year" number to be higher, though they do say that's a conservativ
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by disbelief 14y ago
Does the 270 Million worldwide drug users number seem a bit low to anyone else? I'm also wondering if that means "daily users" or "addicts" or "people convicted of a drug-related offense"?
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by disbelief 14y ago
I've been wondering this myself lately. It seems that every major EC2 outage hits US-East. By comparison, my US-West instances have way better uptime (granted, over a shorter test period). I've never tried the Europe or Asia zones, but I'm
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by disbelief 14y ago
But the same is true for MongoDB. If you're querying an attribute of a document that isn't indexed, Mongo has to scan all of the Documents in the collection for it. The solution to this is to have additional indexes on any attributes you wa
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by disbelief 14y ago
Same here! My school was fortunate enough to receive a shipment of Apple computers when I was in 7th grade. I quickly discovered HyperCard, and spent my free time the rest of that year building a "fantasy RPG" with it. Totally ugly, barely
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by disbelief 14y ago
This is seriously madness. As an expat entrepreneur living in Berlin, I can honestly say that I'll leave Germany and take all my tax money with me if this law passes. Being an entrepreneur and a foreigner here already has many drawbacks inc
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by disbelief 15y ago
Mind sharing what you switched to? Another schemaless data store, or a more traditional RDBMS?
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by disbelief 15y ago
Not sure if Mongo has this feature, but in many classic SQL databases, per-user views can be created which act like tables, but are actually "the user's view into that table". This would mean creating database user accounts on the fly for p
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by disbelief 15y ago
So, there's nothing worth building that can't be accomplished in under 1000 hours?