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by dripton 14y ago
It's true on Linux as well. I upgraded my work machine from Ubuntu 11.04 to Ubuntu 12.04, and my VMWare Workstation 7 stopped working. (The kernel modules it uses are incompatible with newer kernels.) There are some third-party patches t
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by dripton 14y ago
Last time I had two job offers, I chose a nice 12-mile bike commute over telecommuting. About 90% of the time, I'm happy with that decision. (The other 10% of days involve bad weather or rude drivers.) Of course, if I were telecommuting I
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by dripton 14y ago
Now that some browsers have merged the URL bar with the web search bar, you will end up doing this whether you want to or not. And even if it's obviously a URL rather than a search term, Chrome (by default) sends every URL you type to goog
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by dripton 14y ago
Yes. I loved this book, but didn't really get much out of it except affirmation of my own beliefs. I think it would be much more valuable for a new programmer, or a non-programmer who works with programmers, than for an experienced progra
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by dripton 14y ago
Pillow ( https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow ) is a fork of PIL. If you look at recent commits, you'll see one that claims to make it more Python 3 friendly, but not quite Python 3 compatible because of differences in the C code. So
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by dripton 14y ago
They do update them, but manually and probably not very often. Looking at commit logs, all three features that have asked for donations have had a lot of work done, but that's different from success.
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by dripton 14y ago
You don't get to pick what other people work on, unless you pay them. PyPy is quite friendly to new contributors, so if you want to help speed up JSON or improve docs, visit #pypy on freenode and offer to pitch in, and I'm sure some core de
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by dripton 14y ago
Fantastic. Needs a pause button. Note that some of these changes were forced by rules changes. So I don't know if "evolution" is quite the right word.
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by dripton 14y ago
I don't have actual numbers, but it's my primary desktop at home, and it saw everyday use.
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by dripton 14y ago
Funny, I suspect that SSDs have much higher real-world failure rates. (My personal, limited, anecdotal evidence is that my 64 GB Crucial M4 SSD lasted about a year as the root drive in a busy Linux desktop, while I have a stack of about
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by dripton 14y ago
I've never had a debit card. Every time I've opened a bank account, I've asked for a plain ATM card with no Visa or MasterCard logo instead. It's safer because there's a mandatory PIN and an enforced daily withdrawal limit.
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by dripton 14y ago
I bought a 64 GB Crucial M4 SSD for a boot drive for my Linux desktop about a year ago. About a month ago, it started giving read/write errors eventually leading to kernel panics. (Didn't lose any data.) I switched back to the hard drive
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by dripton 14y ago
Which is still way better than any lottery I've heard of.
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by dripton 14y ago
My netbook is running Lubuntu 11.10. It was previously running Ubuntu 10.x Netbook Edition and Ubuntu 10.04. They work. (I like Gentoo too, but I don't want to do much compiling on a netbook.) Most GUI programs aren't designed to use in
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by dripton 14y ago
It's theoretically a felony charge in every state, but in practice, drivers who run over pedestrians or cyclists often get charged with traffic infractions or don't get charged at all.
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by dripton 14y ago
In the US we have three kinds of charges: felonies, misdemeanors, and infractions. Felonies are major criminal offenses. Misdemeanors are minor criminal offenses. Infractions are oopsies. Most traffic charges are treated as infractions, e
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by dripton 14y ago
Max out the 401k and IRAs every year. Save more on top of that. Hope we don't get hyperinflation to wipe out all those savings. If necessary, keep working (maybe part-time, maybe telecommuting, whatever) into old age.
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by dripton 14y ago
EULAs are only valid in some jurisdictions. Of course, even if one lives in a jurisdiction where they're not, it would take some guts to stand up to Oracle's lawyers. And to convince your ISP, your government, etc. to stand up to Oracle's
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by dripton 14y ago
If you're a W2 employee, they already have that information. It's on the W4 form that you fill out when you start a job, so that they can deduct the right amount from each paycheck.
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by dripton 14y ago
Also, while we're at it, animated GIF click-to-play. I don't want anything on a web site animating or making noise without my specific permission.
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by dripton 15y ago
I found CarMax to be pleasant to deal with, but they have awful prices, both when buying and selling. For example, they offered me $5000 for my car, which I ended up selling pretty easily to some guy on Craigslist for $7500. Of course the
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by dripton 15y ago
Can you cite the law?
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by dripton 15y ago
I think it's fine to compare Go and Python. They're both general-purpose programming languages. When choosing to write a new program, you can often pick either of them. I can imagine problems where either might be a reasonable choice. I
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by dripton 15y ago
The US military has been offering ROTC scholarships that completely cover all college costs (at least at cheaper schools) for a long time. Of course they also include a multi-year commitment to a job that could include being shot at.
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by dripton 15y ago
Probably none. You can still use ZeroMQ. If Crossroads ends up better than ZeroMQ, you can switch.
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by dripton 15y ago
I'm a programmer in the US, and I get 4 weeks paid vacation plus 2 weeks paid sick leave plus 10 paid holidays. At my previous job I got 4 weeks vacation (it would have gone up to 5 weeks after 4 years) plus (I forget how much) paid sick le
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by dripton 15y ago
I sometimes see C++ code where all the member variables start with "m_". I'd much rather have it enforced by the language than in a coding convention. (I personally find Ruby's explicit "@" prefix for member variables prettier than Python
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by dripton 15y ago
For my area, Apple has several zoom levels of detail less than the others. It shows the small streets but not their names. Google and OSM zoom to the same level, but OSM shows more details like walking paths and power-line rights of way.
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by dripton 15y ago
Possibly. (Not necessarily at exactly the same time.) I read the study, and they did attempt to isolate this effect from others, but correlation is still not proof of causality.
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by dripton 15y ago
It's also possible that there's a co-factor: TV appeared about the same time as reliable birth control.

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