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by epsylon 13y ago
If it's the same backer, using the same kickstarter account, then it's likely that it's the same amazon payments account.
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by epsylon 13y ago
dm's player and overall speed is unfortunately way behind youtube.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Actually, giant mushrooms replaced trees in the "Beyond the Dark Portal" expansion to WarCraft II. For example see the 2nd screenshot there: http://allgamesplayed.com/pc/warcraft-2-pc/
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by epsylon 13y ago
I'd argue that it's the other way around: Americans don't take vacation time very seriously.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Make A see only see C's reponses to B.
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by epsylon 13y ago
> On average the signal over 24 hours will equal about 24 hours so you can keep time with it, but as the load changes on the grid it will actually slow down and then speed back up when people turn off their devices at night. Yes, the lo
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by epsylon 13y ago
From poster with similar project above: https://github.com/int3/doppio/wiki/Successes > We're also making progress on others, but we're not quite there yet: JRuby, Clojure, Scala REPL I think I j
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by epsylon 13y ago
> Aloneness is not loneliness Isn't "aloneness" what English-speaking people usually call solitude?
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by epsylon 13y ago
What's insane to me is that you only get 2 or 3 weeks of vacation a year. Especially in software engineering where companies struggle to hire!
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Ayn Rand (comic)(activatecomix.com)
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by epsylon 13y ago
> Recognize that BMW/Daimler/et al really don't want true self driving cars. I highly doubt that. Self-driving cars are a revolutionary product. The first manufacturers to enter the market will definitely make a lot of mon
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by epsylon 13y ago
People still take the plane, and most commercial planes are almost entirely flown by auto-pilots. Making self-driving cars safe isn't an unsolvable problem: we do this already for planes.
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by epsylon 13y ago
> Why are you forcing those two choices? One could be well-versed with the arcana AS WELL AS point out that bit about statically declared variable .. You're the one forcing the choices. He's just saying that one should consider
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by epsylon 13y ago
A MOOC is a scalable replacement for a traditional class lecture. It's not intended to replace labs or hands-on experience, nor the value of being immersed into a campus, mixing with students and teachers... That being said, MOOCs ca
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by epsylon 13y ago
> These days, Apple is probably more hated than Microsoft. Perhaps, but the HN sample population is still biased favorably towards Apple.
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by epsylon 13y ago
It's quite good, but still far from a discrete GPU.
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by epsylon 13y ago
> Microsoft makes no money by giving away Windows 8.1 for free to consumers. Of course they make money from it. That's very naive of you to think that they don't.
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by epsylon 13y ago
DDG's search results are terrible for me most of the time. Though DDG as a frontend is quite nice. I use the bang shortcuts all the time. It's actually a better frontend to google's search than google's search itself: I
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by epsylon 13y ago
That's the wrong way to look at it. They served the whole 100%, and now they are starting to optimize for the 99% at the expense of the 1% of power users. (My guess would be more like 95% / 5%, but I may have a biased view myself)
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by epsylon 13y ago
Basically, we'll soon be able to download more RAM!
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by epsylon 13y ago
Lenovo just released the Ideapad Yoga 2 Pro, for the $1,149 model you get a 13" 3200 x 1800 touch screen display, core i5 haswell, 256Gb SSD and 8Gb of RAM. They will also release a Thinkpad Yoga in november, with less attractive specs
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by epsylon 13y ago
Yep, engineer time costs probably orders of magnitude more than adding a few servers.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Yes, taxes pay for education for all. Considering that a large part comes from taxes on income, which means the rich pay more than the poor. Damned socialists, giving the same education opportunities for everyone! (Well, unfortunately it&#x
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by epsylon 13y ago
Could you explain why Racket isn't homoiconic ?
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by epsylon 13y ago
> If you pick Ubuntu, any issues usually aren't too hard to fix. I've tried various distros on my laptop (Thinkpad W500) but I was seriously impressed when Ubuntu had everything working (including WiFi and ACPI key bindings) ou
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by epsylon 13y ago
> If I could get a virtualization scheme where I could have one desktop with OSX and 3-4 desktops of Linux, that would be ideal. But I don't think that's possible with Parallels or VMware Isn't that the main feature of VMW
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by epsylon 13y ago
I never used 1password (I don't own any Apple hardware), but if you need a password manager that works on Linux as well as Windows, KeePass (using Mono) is pretty good. I'm using it on my laptop and desktop and use Dropbox to sync
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by epsylon 13y ago
I currently live in Paris and that's exactly what I was thinking while reading the article. Except maybe for the taxes which may be a little higher in France, the situation seems nearly identical. In the last decade, prices in the whol
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by epsylon 13y ago
Coops, exactly. These days I'm reading the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (WARNING: minor spoilers), and he mentions a lot the system of coops in the new Martian economy. One of the examples mentioned is a real-life one: the Mond
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by epsylon 13y ago
As far as I know, Bic still sells them.

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