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by emn13 8y ago
This is so misleading as to be false. Batteries do not all degrade alike; not even close. There are huge differences in the rate of decay, and those are significantly impacted by the way the battery is used in the device (particularly maxim
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by emn13 8y ago
And "gamer tools". Boy, are those resoundingly, universally terrible. Have you ever touched an overclocking GUI or whatever management tool for "gamer features" your motherboard/other hardware has? It's often
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by emn13 8y ago
One possibly explanation for these results which would be less interesting that their suggested conclusion: bigger items with smaller margins are better than smaller icons with larger margins. The difference on the icon results were particu
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by emn13 8y ago
Yeah, it's a complex issue with many interlocking parts. Which is why it's a shame when we get hung up on "privatized" vs. not - on that kind of topic people have often already made up their mind, and you're just no
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by emn13 8y ago
In a way, that's true of the US too; and various (perhaps most?) european systems have most care provided privately - with whatever regulations apply. The framing of "privatized" vs. government health care is, IMNSHO a holdov
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by emn13 8y ago
And most open source projects run a fairly transparent dev process - almost by necessity. Doing something like that as an individual dev might be possible, but hard and likely impossible to do structurally (no guarantee to get it in, no gu
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by emn13 8y ago
Centralized comment references sounds like a good+simple idea - I'll try to remember it, and hope I never have to of course ;-).
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by emn13 8y ago
Even a pure function has "state" - namely its (arbitrarily complex) inputs. But sure, it's a little less of a landmine. The fundamental issue remains that sometimes your knowledge about that state (whether the classical kind
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by emn13 8y ago
And it's really much worse than that. The aim should never be for maximum production of IP "at all costs" - it should be for maximum benefit at minimum cost. So if an IP horizon of (say) 30 years started to make a tiny
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by emn13 8y ago
But what if comments pertain to unexpected states the system as a whole can be in? Kind of the whole problem is when there are weird corner cases going on that straddle function boundaries. I'm not saying that's a good thing; mind
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by emn13 8y ago
I think it's usually a sign of a poorly understood domain or a poorly modeled problem. It's not a good sign; it's not necessarily a bad sign; it's (at best) an admission of one's limitations. Comments become useful
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by emn13 8y ago
If copyright lasted (say) a year or two - maybe. But even then, it's a terrible tool with huge social costs and limited upside. In any sane world, given the increased pace of information exchange and cultural change, copyright terms sh
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by emn13 8y ago
Exactly! That's why I was confused - they didn't replace mongodb with colloquially "hosted" postgres; they stayed at the same level of (partial) hosting. I.e., they didn't "switch to hosted postgres", in
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by emn13 8y ago
By server management - do you mean VM? Sure, you can outsource that. I mean that what and how a home-grown application uses a database tends to mean that database (software/schema/optimization/whatever) management cannot be
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by emn13 8y ago
The way I read it, mongo was hosted the same way postgres was - on AWS VMs. OpsManager wanted to be more like a SaaS. I'm a little skeptical of the idea that you can do custom software development with a custom database schema and rea
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by emn13 8y ago
I don't think we're getting a good deal in terms of signal to noise here. If anything, the irrelevant chatter distracts from important messages; making it hard to tell fact from fiction. And that's not a coincidence: by doi
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by emn13 8y ago
I doubt it's quite that simple, but sure: in essence that makes sense. But there's so many factors and interactions and feedback loops going on here...
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by emn13 8y ago
Underlying this perspective is an implicit assumption that conventional social filtering - a practice as old as we can remember - serves no social good; that it's all just smoke and mirrors. At the very least that's a remarkable a
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by emn13 8y ago
As that wiki link points out, wealth isn't entirely public or measurable; so the list isn't complete. It explicitly excludes dictators and royalty (so, hey, saudi family!), and " excluding and ranking against those with weal
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by emn13 8y ago
I wonder if licensing really even is the right way to avoid harm even in industries like aviation and medicine. At least: licensing in its current form, which is pretty all encompassing. If licensing were merely focused on knowing your own
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by emn13 8y ago
I think it's terribly worrisome that anybody is talking this article seriously. To be upfront about my own assumptions: I totally believe that licensing in general is nonsense. But that's not the point! Just because something agr
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by emn13 8y ago
The point is that a copilot is there to assist the primary pilot, not be that primary pilot all of the time - even if in emergencies a copilot can take over. Frankly - if you're asking for emergency "landings" I'd say mo
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by emn13 8y ago
Also, I'd assume that if police officers noticed one such case it's pretty plausible there have been and will be other, unreported cases where people got lucky.
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by emn13 8y ago
Open source doesn't reduce the issues with people writing to the implementation, not the spec - leading to unintentional interactions and trivia suddenly becoming impossible to change. If edge dies, and FF shrinks further (both of whic
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by emn13 8y ago
I'm not javascript syntax, especially if you're being pedantic, but focusing on that is kind of missing the point, which is that it's tool friendly in the way string interpolation is not.
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by emn13 8y ago
I came to write... this. Sure, stringly typed programming is sometimes a quick and dirty solution - and that's fine, even permanently, if you just don't want to invest much in whatever you're doing - which too, is fine. But i
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by emn13 8y ago
...and easily defensible borders for when things did go pearshaped, and peaceful (and weak) neighbors to avoid the drain of constant defense, and had lots of internal cultures to draw from. And in any case throughout certainly the first ha
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by emn13 8y ago
I don't use linux at all anymore as a DE, but in a few jobs I did, using both (and for a while canonicals ill-fated WM), and the idea that gnome appears less flexible, slower, and just generally worse in almost all ways was usually (th
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by emn13 8y ago
Given the actual changes apple+samsung made it's hard to argue this was in any way necessary - they chose to prioritize making the old phones look more like the new ones, which makes sense from their point of view because they want t
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by emn13 8y ago
Yeah, they sure bungled that one up well. Maybe it's the jarring worlds of security! paranoia! Absolute Control! vs. the FF wants to fun! unpredictable! Think different (no wait, that slogan's tainted now...)! Given the way they

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