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by eliben 12y ago
"... An-225 transported a payload of 156.3 tons on March 22, 1989 which broke 110 air world records. This has become a world record in its turn. ..." Awesome quote :)
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by eliben 12y ago
It's a question of whom you want to secure it from. If the answer is "the government" I wouldn't even bother. If it's just from snooping, I find it very hard to believe TrueCrypt is not sufficient.
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by eliben 12y ago
You can put pretty much anything into a Truecrypt partition, which is just a file on the external (host) OS. Now keep that file in Dropbox/Drive/Some other cloud storage for backup.
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by eliben 12y ago
What I especially like about the HTML5 player is the ability to change the playback speed. It is extremely useful for watching lectures & talks.
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by eliben 12y ago
Keep in mind that a developer being paid $100K gross actually costs the company way, way more. Health insurance and other benefits, cost of office space, electricity, transportation, and so on. It varies greatly between companies and countr
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by eliben 12y ago
> I guess Google managers have a slightly different view of freedom from work than I do After an evening of chasing kids around the house to get them to eat, wash and sleep, email does feel like freedom. Especially if you like your job
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by eliben 12y ago
As a tangent, I'm really happy to see that Python is slowly but surely becoming the go-to demonstration language of posts like this. Wasn't always this way. Python is so lucidly readable that it serves great as "executable ps
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by eliben 12y ago
Interesting. While I agree with the general premise (a lot of mathematics is a human-made construction), the concrete examples she provided feel somewhat forced. Especially the comparison to OOP - I personally don't see how it adds to
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by eliben 12y ago
That's pretty interesting, thanks for sharing.
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by eliben 12y ago
Gah, it's perfectly possible to use Django without DRF for simple REST services. If you need simple things, it's not a big deal.
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by eliben 12y ago
I find the claim "if your services are small enough ... Django is an overkill" baffling. When you're writing a simple program / command-line tool, do you use a minimalistic programming language or do you just stick to yo
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by eliben 12y ago
Seconding this. Could someone clarify? I thought Django and "microservices" are orthogonal. Can't Django be used to create any service, even a micro service? I certainly used Django in the past just as a REST server, without
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by eliben 12y ago
A salary number on its own doesn't say much, though. What are the living costs like? In other words, where does the 12k put you compared to the median income? What percentile?
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by eliben 12y ago
It's not about having a laugh, really. This is a serious and interesting topic to discuss. To be honest, 50k USD/year strikes me as low for two reasons: 1. I always assumed Sweden would have quite high taxes (indeed according to W
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by eliben 12y ago
Yes; there are also efforts for Java, AFAIK
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by eliben 12y ago
FWIW, C++ already has it with clang-format
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by eliben 12y ago
Neat idea, but why can't it spoof the Wifi authentication page/popup? Can't it dress up as a new device and try to connect to the wifi network, and then see what kinds of authentication page is returned by the router? Then ju
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by eliben 12y ago
Isn't Python, in general, significantly more widely used than Perl and Ruby outside their narrow popularity domains (sysadmin for Perl, RoR web apps for Ruby)? Just a guess.
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by eliben 12y ago
Your comment seems strange in light of the fact that the linked article discusses a historic event from 70 years ago. "News" is hardly the right word...
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Microsoft, Apple sell Rockstar with big loss(arstechnica.com)
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by eliben 12y ago
YMMV, but I find that audio-books and audio-courses are a superb way to make an otherwise boring commute more tolerable. I hate commuting as much as anyone, and thankfully my commute isn't long, but even then, it's much more fun &
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by eliben 12y ago
The relations of tech giants with totalitarian governments like Russia is a typical tragedy of the commons. The only step that makes sense for the common good is to remove all business from that country. But Facebook can't do it, becau
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by eliben 12y ago
Is it only me that finds it depressing that modern journalism would try to stir a controversy around the drug's price instead of celebrating a new and better cure for a disease that only had much worse, and no less expensive, cures in
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by eliben 12y ago
No, thanks. A wide enough monitor and I can show three buffers in Vim horizontally fitting >80 cols in each using reasonable font size. As a programmer, this is invaluable.
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by eliben 12y ago
I wasn't aware of UK-born mothers' increased fertility rate. However, I'll argue that even if the fertitily rate of immigrant mothers decreased, this can explain the data because if more immigrants came in, the average fertil
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by eliben 12y ago
So in Russia the life expectancy went down, AND the fertility rate went down. Oh my, the country is in a real demographic problem...
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by eliben 12y ago
Could this be because of immigrants, whose birth rates are higher? [just guessing here]
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by eliben 12y ago
This is exactly what the linked article says about universal references, by the way. Did you actually read it, or just got angry at the title?
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by eliben 12y ago
Is your comment supposed to make someone feel sorry about a country that helped start wars that led to tens of millions of lost lives and devastated much of the continent for decades?
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by eliben 12y ago
Yep, I omitted it for simplicity in the diagram, though I do mention it later on.

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