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by geophile 8y ago
No, America cannot. I visited Hoover Dam a few years ago. It is impossible for me to imagine a project like that happening now. It was a massive project. The government saw the need, put out the project for bids. The project was completed a
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by geophile 8y ago
This is not hell. I have had mercifully little exposure to this world, but I once had to implement ACLs for a storage system my company bult. We stored ACLs, and needed to make them available through Linux and Windows interfaces. Linux was
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by geophile 8y ago
Is there a risk that the gene drive mechanism could be transferred to other species?
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by geophile 8y ago
I think it's very good. It feels very slightly less glassy than the MBP. Actually, I first bought a Galago, just before the Darter came out. They have a 30-day return policy, and the Darter was a better match for what I was looking for
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by geophile 8y ago
An improved MBP would be great, but they've lost me. Those ridiculous keyboards (butterfly keys, touchbar), the general falloff in quality, and the insane prices sent me searching elsewhere. My main machine is now a System76 Darter. $2
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by geophile 8y ago
OK, how about this: osh timer 1 ^ \ f 't: (t, processes())' ^ \ expand 1 ^ f 't, p: (p.pid, int(t), p.commandline)' ^ sql "insert into process values(%s, %s, %s)" - ti
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by geophile 8y ago
Take a look at osh (Object SHell): https://github.com/geophile/osh It is a Python implementation of this idea: OS objects like files and processes are represented in Python. You construct pipelines as in UNIX, but pass
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by geophile 8y ago
These bots are getting out of hand.
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by geophile 8y ago
> I inevitably “broke it down to pieces” by keeping pointing out all the exact scenarios where the code delivered would fail, ... I felt like a prick and definitely felt resentment from the other party (especially since code reviews are
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by geophile 8y ago
About twelve years, spanning my first two startups. Would have taken longer, but the sale of #2 coincided with the end of the dotcom era. (We were definitely not a dotcom company, but we rode the wave.)
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by geophile 8y ago
This is yet another consequence of Apple's new approach to design, "Reality Distortion Field 2.0". I posted this here a few days ago, but seems relevant to this discussion: https://github.com/geophile/rea
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Reality Distortion Field 2.0(github.com)
1 points by geophile 8y ago|0 comments
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by geophile 8y ago
Looks really good, thank you.
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Ask HN: Working environment with Mac and Linux
1 points by geophile 8y ago|3 comments
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by geophile 8y ago
I’ve heard bad things about dell quality.
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by geophile 8y ago
What’s wrong with clevo? I’ve heard bad things about dell quality. And wasn’t impressed with the dells I’ve owned, although that was years ago.
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by geophile 8y ago
I've owned MBPs for over ten years. But my mid-2015 15" MBP ("peak MBP") is giving out, and I need a replacement. It won't be another MBP, because of the keyboard regressions -- the butterfly keyboard, and the touch
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by geophile 8y ago
Hey, MIT Technology Review, you should know better than this: "C++ remains the archetypal 'high level' computer language (that is, one that preserves the features of natural, human language)"
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by geophile 8y ago
Wow. Three errors in three lines. 1) Yes, a 20% improvement is impressive, especially in such a major component of such an important and long-lived piece of software. 2) What do you mean "certain inputs"? There is a fixed set of k
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by geophile 8y ago
I have a mid-2015 MBP 15, which is great, but is a bit beat up (dropped it too many times). I use MacOS for consumer stuff, and a Linux VM for development. I'd like to replace the machine, but I'm stuck. The newer MBPs are a non-s
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by geophile 8y ago
TFA says that the problem is Agile run by bad managers. Why the hate for this tool used to implement Agile?
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by geophile 8y ago
Major omission: Does the business model make sense to you? More specifically: Is there a demand for the product? Are there competitors? If not, why not -- are you sure the product is actually something that somebody wants? If there are comp
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by geophile 8y ago
1. Read the manual, or a suitable book. (C++ in particular has books for people with different starting points.) 2. For me, it helps to have an actual problem that I want to solve with the new language.
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by geophile 8y ago
The top-level manager on the engineering side needs to be pushing back, saying "Guys, this isn't going to ship if the requirements keep changing." If he isn't doing that, you are in a tough spot. It sucks to work on such
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by geophile 8y ago
This sounds like a management problem more than a technical problem. Requirements need to settle down a bit so that you can get some work done. A schemaless approach does make schema changes easier, but woe is you if you have data in your d
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by geophile 8y ago
iPhones (and all smartphones and tablets) are magic wands. You have to know the spells. Any of the hundreds of capabilities that are made easy and obvious, cause other capabilities to become more obscure and harder to enable and even know a
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by geophile 8y ago
This is not a lot of data. Without trying hard, you should be able to import the data within an hour. After that, it's basic postgres optimization. But it's hard to offer advice with such a vague description of the update you are
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by geophile 8y ago
I believe HOT provided some of the advantages of covering indexes. Covering indexes is tricky in Postgres, due to its MVCC implementation. Versioning info is in the table, not the index, so the index may have stale data. The table itself ha
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by geophile 8y ago
What's wrong with UUIDs, which seem to meet all the stated requirements? The article discusses them without saying why.
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by geophile 8y ago
Down for me.

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