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by grn 10y ago
I'm not sure whether we can draw conclusions about _adoption_ from this chart. A simplistic model could assume that adoption = integral of popularity over time The peak adoption is where popularity is zero. This model doesn&#x
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Heroku tip: How to move expensive queries to a cheaper follower(gregnavis.com)
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Active_record_doctor – fix unindexed foreign keys in Rails(github.com)
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by grn 11y ago
I'd even say that a license clause that forbids users to modify the software is really not well-defined. Modification of what is actually forbidden? I have no access to the source code (assuming closed-source software). I have only bin
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by grn 11y ago
I'm wondering what the potential for savings is given that only 2.5% of the whole US energy consumption is lighting of commercial and residential buildings. Could anyone estimate the savings?
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by grn 11y ago
Nice. I did something similar some time ago: https://github.com/grn/bash-ctx
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by grn 11y ago
_I'm sorry but I don't discuss internal policies, salary or other, of my past employers. Of course, I'll treat whatever comes up during our talks with the same level of privacy._
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by grn 11y ago
If I recall correctly the source and destination of strcpy cannot overlap. If they do it's an undefined behaviour.
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Ask HN: How to get part-time consulting work?
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by grn 11y ago
I'm guilty of using this method in my side project ( https://github.com/grn/bash-ctx ). My goal was to solve the installation problem quickly. I absolutely would love to offer proper installation methods. However my
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Show HN: Bash-ctx – context-aware bash(github.com)
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How to Implement a Type Checker in Python 3(enotagain.com)
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Decrease Coupling and Increase Cohesion with Publisher-Subscriber(enotagain.com)
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by grn 12y ago
Amazingly, Dell claims 15 hours 12 minutes of battery life, and on our Light test we hit exactly that. That sounds really impressive. Congratulations! I have mixed feelings when it comes to Dell. I use Dell U2713HM. Initially I got the
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How to Fix “toplevel Constant Foo Referenced by Bar::Baz:Foo” in Rails(enotagain.com)
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Why Methods Are Sometimes Better Than Constants(enotagain.com)
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6 Gems to Make Rails Development Easier(enotagain.com)
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Simplified Markdown Parser in Python(enotagain.com)
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by grn 12y ago
The government messed up the public procurement. They wanted to have the system done in a very short time (one month?). Only one company submitted an offer.
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by grn 12y ago
I think that, from the economic perspective, it's just a form of protectionism. You help local producers at the expense of consumers. Few benefit at the expense of many.
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by grn 12y ago
It will be worth more than the competing products (all else being equal), but it won't be worth twice just because it lasts twice as long. Absolutely agree. You rightfully point out broad simplifications that I made, though I think w
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by grn 12y ago
If it were possible, say, to create a light bulb that lasted 1,000 years for a dollar. Who could afford to make such a thing? I sense that you think manufacturers don't have an incentive to produce quality products like bulbs that ca
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by grn 12y ago
I think that the problem of pollution, and other externalities, can be best handled by Pigovian taxes, not by explicit bans or heavy-handed regulation.
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by grn 12y ago
When there are two ways to light a room, yielding the same amount of light, but one uses much less energy, it is the superior one. Not necessarily. What about manufacturing costs? If manufacturing a CFL/LED is more labour or capital
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by grn 12y ago
I haven't seen the term before too. It's etymology is interesting: 1830s, from total, the reduplicated tee being an intensifier – “T-total” (see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/teetotal ).
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by grn 12y ago
It looks really great! So bad it isn't available in Poland. Does anyone know when they will expand to other countries?
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by grn 12y ago
Personally I have the impression that many web programmers, especially those who has never worked with anything other than the web, are ignorant of the existence of other branches of programming. In many aspects programming for the web is
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PluginBase – a module for building plugin systems in Python(pluginbase.pocoo.org)
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by grn 12y ago
I once led a scraping proxy project that required users to be registered in order to access it. When someone unauthorised tried to use it 402 was returned with a message body giving a bank account number that was a concatenation of consecut
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by grn 12y ago
There's also VimFx which is also actively developed.

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