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by gbog 14y ago
One fiber can carry many more lines than one thread of copper, right?
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by gbog 14y ago
> easier than ever to learn to build industrial-strength products Well, ok, it might be "easier than ever", but it is still very hard. Just see how relatively niche applications like github are struggling and how out-of-the-box tools li
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by gbog 14y ago
No one mentioned a possible reason for this regulation: get rid of the mess with cables.
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by gbog 14y ago
pdb is a bit scary. Is there a way to drop "into pdb into ipython"?
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by gbog 14y ago
"Take your time and do it right" More often than not this means thinking about it a couple of hours more, and results in much faster development the next week, so for me the correct answer, even for start-ups, is " we can't afford doing i
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by gbog 14y ago
PHP suit "experienced programmers"? In a way this means nothing: experienced programmer can program in any language. In another way it is wrong: experienced programmer know how so well that building a solid application on rotten grounds is
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by gbog 14y ago
I think the naked board aspect of the Pi is another relevant attribute.
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Robert Johnson on Facebook greatest tech(quora.com)
1 points by gbog 14y ago|0 comments
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by gbog 14y ago
Would it be possible to build a github mirror with only the repos and nothing of the web candies? Then maybe the reliability would be increased.
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by gbog 14y ago
esc-#, comments the current line ctrl-\, kills current process even xtail xtail, tails dirs tweaks in .inputrc to have up and down arrow do backward history search, like in ipython.
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by gbog 14y ago
> the opportunity to provide value for others is the goal or just a byproduct of your own interests In any place that I know of, other than here, the answer would be obvious. Provide value for other is not a random byproduct, it is a pr
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When, if ever, is “number of lines of code” a useful metric?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by gbog 14y ago|2 comments
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by gbog 14y ago
Right, but scatology do not have to be silly. Aristophanes, Rabelais, and I'm sure many more didn't fear taking about shit, pee and so on.
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by gbog 14y ago
I have been asked to explain French postmodernism more than twice, and read Lacan aloud and in French in front of wannabe Chinese psychoanalysts, understanding this is out of reach even for native speakers. I mean, each sentence has 5+ poss
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by gbog 14y ago
> the back button is a "interesting" technical challenge. Especially when some A/B testing seem to show that it is a bad UX idea (for shopping goods). Side thoughts: I wonder if they did A/B test "My apps" page on Google play ( https://
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by gbog 14y ago
Well, the GP writes a blog about future and tablets, has a self-declared "reputation for being fair and impartial"; why would he not reply to a common question as Android's room in tablet market?
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by gbog 14y ago
Good to have you here. You said you are fair, let's see: do you think Android has some significant room in tablet space?
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by gbog 14y ago
> Do they value an audio plug over a clean dashboard? "Clean dashboard" is the apparent reason, but there is in fact no difficulty to have a clean dashboard with an audio plug, or put the plug in the gunbox. There is another reason behi
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by gbog 14y ago
> This insistence on balance is getting tedious. Balance? No, here I would insist on honesty. Had this guy been honest, he would have mentioned Android and maybe Ubuntu, at least to tell us he has not much experience with them. But as G
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by gbog 14y ago
> luxury car > "When we created this car, we really tried to make you feel comfortable, treated well and respected" Do you really believe that? Do you think that cheaper car makers try to make me feel unconfortable, treated badly, e
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by gbog 14y ago
The extreme example is when the translation is actually better than the original, for a book. Edgar Alan Poe's tales translated by Baudelaire are said to be one of such cases.
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by gbog 14y ago
> nobody outside the Android team bothers contributing anything Do you have any figures to back this claim? Somewhere above or below a guy said he did send a patch. > less developers and less features than it would if it were truly
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by gbog 14y ago
And? I mean, ok, we get it, the most recently committed code is not open yet, probably because Google would prefer its flagship phones not be spoiled. So what? My phone runs an OS whose code is on github, and I install new versions when I c
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by gbog 14y ago
This post seem convoluted but heading in the right direction. Social interaction should be like emails: a client you choose and a protocol to communicate with other clients.
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by gbog 14y ago
Thanks for your answer. > "set an alarm for 9:30 tomorrow" If tomorrow you have some unusual reason to wake up at a different time, I agree that voice control is simpler, but this one is the kind of complex one-time configuration I was
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by gbog 14y ago
I am more than ok with the self-driving car. This will really relieve us from a heavy and unsafe burden. Our grand kids in 50 years will wonder how we did foolishly let (almost) everyone drive so dangerous a killing machine. But I am not ok
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by gbog 14y ago
re Chinese factory: you must be aware that millions of people migrate to coastal cities in China in order to work in these factories, have some heating in winter, buy a phone and avoid being farmer? Do you think they all stupid? You must be
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by gbog 14y ago
Last they got Galaxy Notes in Beijing, I purchased mine to a Googler with small hands.
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by gbog 14y ago
MmHg, I like my fellow human beings, I prefer more of them than less of them, and therefore agriculture is positive, as are culture, cities, medical science, and so forth.
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by gbog 14y ago
Chomsky may have a more ductile view on ownership, when it applies to means of production. And you can't assume the rationality of the capitalist, many psychological and cultural factor play the game when choosing to empower workers or mana

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