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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
I like and occasionally use Git, but I started with Mercurial and still prefer it. Can anyone tell me why/how Git allegedly become way better than Mercurial? I seem to have missed that.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
You can't base decisions on a slippery slope. All we have are the facts currently available today. This kind of thinking is essential for a court system. That's why we say that justice is blind . But if you are not in the middle of a law
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
I don't. I don't give a damn about karma. This is like my 3rd HN account. Not that I had any reason to create new accounts, besides logged out for some reason and didn't remember credentials. Now watch everyone else in horror down-vote this
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
It's not an accident. It is exactly what tptacek described. Every other smarter/better representative wanted, and got committees which pay them more. And that forced these losers to end up on the science committee. No accident, but also no
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
The raspberry Pi + tarsnap or dropbox is the disposable computer I've wanted for a while. That plus cheap access to a massively parallel computer could also be very interesting. Except where raspberry Pi + online storage could be useful to
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Previous research from other groups has indicated that Alzheimer's disease has a later onset in bilingual or multilingual groups. There is also research which shows that led poisoning affects higher IQ people slower, that is unless the le
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
You are correct. I kind of ran out of steam there. Here is a bit more: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418820000094781
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Why wouldn't people feel bad about scamming someone like this? I envy your innocence. Let my try to explain this with evolutionary algorithms. People have been running simulations of social life for many years. That's how we know that soc
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
It's an immensely capable tool, but it gives no guidance regarding the right way to do things. There is no right way. Think about styling. Is there a right style? No. It is silly to argue over your code's appearance. HOWEVER! As soon
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
I recently switched from a job where the corporate cafeteria (horrible) was the only option, to a new job in town of my food full city. No one know how much of a big deal that difference was in my decision to switch.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
I wonder if we can compare what happens over the long therm with people who intuitively understand math vs. people who learn to understand it with the help of metaphors such as above? Are such un-abstractions helpful for teaching basic math
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
This is hilarious.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
The parasitic fly is native to North American and only recently started infecting honeybees, which were brought over from Europe. Interesting. If the fly has evolved to infect bees, then it might take a while before the bees evolve resist
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Holland right? Is that the place he is talking about? I wonder how he feels about Switzerland, or say Canada?
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
A far more successful strategy would be to chip away at the fringes Why would that be so? Wouldn't all the groups continually fix what you chip away and then some? Bit by bit, piece by piece. Add complexity until it collapses on its own.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Well you're just mister sunshine, aren't you.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Or a if you already know the difference you take a minute to look at the APIs you are using and switch to the one which is implemented with a hash table instead of a linked list. One minute vs. a week. A week here and a week there adds up.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Imagine you have a web startup and as soon as people visiting your website start coming with reasonably large data sets, your website becomes noticeably sluggish. And then a competitor pops up and they are dealing with the same sized data b
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
What stops a self taught developer from also 'self teaching' the fundamentals? Just read through the many comments here the gist of which is: Why would I care about the difference between a list and a hash table. A lot of people tend to
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
You don't necessarily need to be able to sit down and formally write out the exact amortized big O complexity, (or little O, [O|o]mega or theta) but equally it's good to have some idea of how something would scale. If you have a good idea
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
I have never had a real-life use case for Big-O notation, except in interviews. Nor had a real-life use case for caring about sort algorithms. I mean, not once. That is frightening. I can't think of any function I write without taking a s
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Exactly, one of the big barriers to renewable energy now is that the sources of it, like areas with more wind or sunshine, are very far from the main consumers, like large east coast cities in the US. On a global scale, with no transmissio
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Have you seen back to the future? Hover boards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_levitation_device#Supe...
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Great analysis, I am indeed biased. But too lazy to describe my bias in details, so I just write with bias.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
The Fed is trying to stimulate the economy. The ideas is people and companies should spend money, invest, give loans, etc. The Fed can't force you to spend, but they can raise the inflation rate. Ideally this means you decide to shift from
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
How do you do when compared to other small population nations like Switzerland or Israel, or others?
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
you'll notice that a lot of the talks and sentiment are of a "rebellious" nature. At the very least, security people are strong advocates of privacy. It sound to me like the sentiment is not so much rebellious, as it is very ethical.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
When I was young I thought free hackers would always beat government paid hackers. Because super smart hackers are naturally pro-freedom and against big government's secrecy and rights violations. After growing up and dealing with many kind
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Can't tell if joking....
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
I have heard it described as an attempt to get help versus actual deadly intent.

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