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by gordaco 12y ago
I'd like to add something to this: we like to believe that we are immune to advertising, but we aren't. No matter how much self control and self awareness we may think we have. The consequences may not be as grave as they look at
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by gordaco 13y ago
It shouldn't stop at the developing countries. This is why I'd like all medical research to be public.
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by gordaco 13y ago
I agree, and I'm pretty sure there is a correlation between those two axes, although there are a lot of subtleties that can make someone prefer dynamic+SQL or static+NoSQL. Speaking for myself, I'm completely in the static+SQL cam
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by gordaco 13y ago
This is why Java is used widely. It works . It works well . And this is also why Java is great for huge systems (not in terms of users, disk space or bandwith, but in terms of code size). The same can be said about a lot of "old&quot
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by gordaco 13y ago
This looks like an employee acting on her own, thinking (wrongly) that the account was not active and nobody would notice if she took over the username. Still, it's a disturbing issue that shouldn't have been allowed to happen, so
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by gordaco 13y ago
Thank you, this really had to be said. You can do C in C++ (and if you do that, chances are that you're doing it wrong), but you can't do C++ in C. The ugliest and unsafe parts of C++ are invariably those coming almost untouched
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by gordaco 13y ago
Aside from the taboo and the (heavily, if not completely, cultural) disgust, I have to say that I've never liked seafood (prawns and such, but also oysters, clams, etc), and this is the main reason I'm not willing to eat insects;
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by gordaco 13y ago
Sorry, this is simply false. The only reason the poor value the physical work is that, often, it's the only immediate source of income they have (and they're much more desperate for an immediate source of income). As much as we li
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by gordaco 13y ago
I think that this may be mostly an American thing. This is why in Europe we have better social systems (national health, etc): generally, we don't think the poor are people who fucked their lives up, we think that they're mostly u
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by gordaco 13y ago
Easy, just set a number of traits for each company/product and let the user decide what doesn't they want to buy. Add info about country of origin, political affiliation of owner, or things like that, and you have a nice tool for
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by gordaco 13y ago
And it's far easier to prove: 1!=1, (n+1)!=n!·(n+1), thus 0!=1!/1=1.
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by gordaco 13y ago
But 1+1=0 or 1+1=1 happens because you are redefining the operator + (sometimes subtly, like using it over Z2), so what rickhanlonii said still holds. 1+1 is 2 if you're using the usual definition of sum, i.e., addition over integers
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by gordaco 13y ago
TBH I still find it very ugly, but then again I've disliked flat design since the first moment I've seen it. I know I'm pretty much a caveman (and a minority) in this sense, but I really like the old, classic, sober windows 9
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by gordaco 13y ago
This is what Bertrand Russell advocated about 100 years ago. But he thought of a sane society where the productivity was split between everyone so we got more leisure instead of unemployment.
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by gordaco 13y ago
I achieve my segmentation by studying, and I've been very successful at forgetting about my job when I'm not in the office. Not everyone's cup of tea, though. Other people I know achieve it with sports (not my cup of tea, a
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by gordaco 13y ago
Really, the Lady Gaga episode was awful . And not only because it was a very obvious 22 minute advertisement. It was just plain bad, very bad. I absolutely agree that it's the worst Simpsons episode I've watched. The individual r
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by gordaco 13y ago
> their project, their baby, so to speak Yeah, same thing, sure. You realize that for 90% people, even most at the hot companies, a job is above all something they do because they want or need the money, right? And there is such a thing
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by gordaco 13y ago
I'll add another link: https://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/ . Not the same, but nevertheless a great source of music. I lost the count of how many times I was hearing a song and though "wow, I NEED this"
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by gordaco 13y ago
Youtube's playlists also have it. It's annoying when I'm listening to a playlist at work and it suddenly stops, although if I'm deep enough in the zone I don't notice it until some minutes later.
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by gordaco 13y ago
I'm Spanish and I'm curious about what you said. I feel that English has much easier grammar than Spanish (just think of the verb conjugation in both languages!), but much more difficult phonetics (just how many vowels do you have
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by gordaco 13y ago
Too bad it's anglocentric, I expected something a little more generic. As a non-English native speaker, a can assure you that the ROI of learning English is much higher than two percent. Aside from that, I'm really sad to read a
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by gordaco 13y ago
If I'm uniderstanding correctly, this is nothing like the Spanish "Google tax", which states that aggregators (like reddit and HN... well, their spanish counterparts like Menéame) and search engines have to pay a fee to the p
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by gordaco 13y ago
Wow, I didn't expect this to appear on nytimes or HN. This is kind of a big deal in Spain, but I didn't know he was that well known in the US. Anyway he was widely considered one of the best Spanish guitar players ever, so it&#x27
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by gordaco 13y ago
Indeed, but the fun was not in using them, but drawing them!
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by gordaco 13y ago
Edit: I misread you and I interpreted that you meant Java was already a legacy and out of date language. So my answer is a little out of place, although I don't think there's any harm in keeping it here. I disagree. I know that
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by gordaco 13y ago
IANA economist, but as I see it, the problem is that healthcare is mostly a captive market, i.e. not having it when you need it is not an option. With such an inelastic demand and relatively high entry barriers for providers (making competi
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by gordaco 13y ago
I don't think there's going to be any performance difference at all compared to the basic case, which actually is another reason why this is so good. Ultimately, all these struct just hold a double, which means that in memory they
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by gordaco 13y ago
Stack overflow is clearly both an useful, time-saving tool and a "waste of time" (in the sense that it doesn't look directly productive). If you don't like these kind of questions, don't worry, there are plenty
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by gordaco 13y ago
And not only the start menu. Win7 had a few quirks of its own, like the new search function, which I find it far less usable than XP's.
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by gordaco 13y ago
This happened to me with FF4: After Years in the Wii. It was advertised as a full game and then I learned that most chapters had to be paid separately (and they weren't cheap). That made me really angry, but now I know better: research

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