gutnor

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by gutnor 13y ago
4000 $/hour for a trial lawyer ? I hope I never get arrested for anything in the US, my lawyer would cost me more in 2 days than what I make in a year (after taxes). I understand better why people settle all the time - who can afford to def
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by gutnor 13y ago
Well, more likely the technology will get to the point where we download ourself in a machine or virtual VM - no need for keeping the brain in a jar. That leads to plenty of interesting Asimov like thinking, except instead of AI and Robot,
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by gutnor 13y ago
Exactly! And when you use your IDE to edit text file they should be listed aswell using the same logic. When I said 99.9% of my text editing is done in Intellij. I also meant text editing outside of the project I'm working on: various confi
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by gutnor 13y ago
Well, not quite sure about that. The only time I edit a text file outside my IDE is when I connect directly to a server, and in that case I use vi. That seems ridiculous to chose Vi as my primary text editor, when 99.9% of my text editing i
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by gutnor 13y ago
It is heavily alluded in the novel that culture citizen have been genetically engineered somewhat to smooth their personality. Except for extreme shyness, they would seem like charismatic well balanced individual (source wikipedia I think).
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by gutnor 13y ago
I guess a clue is that male prostitute generally have male client, not female.
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by gutnor 13y ago
We are talking about migration plan here - eg: moving from gmail to hotmail without losing your data, or better transferring them to your new provider. In any case, your data may be physically safe in Google datacenter but you are still one
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by gutnor 14y ago
It is evident in this case. However, with almost any crime, the right of the people could be considered to trump the suspect right. It is a normal and sane that a society scrutinise those cases, to make sure the exceptional stays exceptiona
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by gutnor 14y ago
Well, we are finally getting rid of IE6 and IE7. There is still a problem with IE8 market share but the upgrade inertia is nowhere as bad as IE6. Microsoft is definitively cleaning its tab.
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by gutnor 14y ago
I'm one of those depending on the team I'm working on. As a rule, if I would rather my colleague not to write code at all, I likely prefer them not to do TDD either. Bad code is never fun to maintain. With bad TDD code, you just get twice a
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by gutnor 14y ago
The way it works is the following: workers pile outside the refiner and buy a lump of silver. They spend the day hammering away. Once it is flat, they sell it back to the refiner for a profit or use it to do stuff (dies, ...) Unfortunately,
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by gutnor 14y ago
The worst thing is that what you describe is a profitable business, even in London. Every jeweller shop gather floor swipes, drain sludge, ... and have them processed (edit: processing is done in the UK, that's normal job for a refiner). Th
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by gutnor 14y ago
I was wondering aswell - around 2:00, there is a joke about dongle. I guess the interesting bit the parent wanted to highlight is that a similar joke to the one that offended Adria, was showed on public television.
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by gutnor 14y ago
That is what I was thinking during this whole affair - if I buy a Tesla I sure hope I will not make the front page of a website like Reddit with a negative opinion of my car. ( I have posted in the past a humoristic picture of my broken dow
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by gutnor 14y ago
Also the whole open source movement depends on copyrights.
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by gutnor 14y ago
You are a bit outdated, tooling is a bit better nowadays. Java integrates everything you need to parse and generate XML. Most API are XSD driven (either through annotation in the code, or with the mapping code generated from the XSD), so yo
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by gutnor 14y ago
Indeed, even team planning, goal settings, ... are useful to avoid wasting time on low value stuff, or getting stuck when others can help. Problem of project plan generally is the divide and conquer approach. Work is divided in various inde
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by gutnor 14y ago
I think the article is trying too hard to justify Apple-hate to some sort of intellectual reasoning. Really, people are all upset mostly because of the low barrier of entry to have an opinion on the subject. That is just open to any kid ove
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by gutnor 14y ago
It gave us something important: a third major engine (webkit in general). Standards really get taken seriously when there are more than 2 players.
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by gutnor 14y ago
Indeed, US/EU allows you to voluntarily pay taxes above the legal minimum corresponding to your situation. I'm happy you find that awesome.
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by gutnor 14y ago
Because that somebody else has agreed ?
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by gutnor 14y ago
"immorality " That is a strange moral system you have in the US. In other countries, it is morally acceptable to take from the rich and redistribute to the poor. The reason is that in those countries, wealth and lack of wealth is thought to
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by gutnor 14y ago
Indeed in country fully converted to metric, the old unit are converted to their closest sane metric equivalent. For example, my grand-mother still talks about buying a pound of stuff. However a pound is now understood as meaning 0.5 kg, we
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by gutnor 14y ago
Similarly, when there are no extension points, extension get hacked in (= "if" everywhere !) Here is my experience with architected extension points: 1. Generally the first extension point used set the trend, other developers will follow th
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by gutnor 14y ago
> That's the only way we'll actually deplete resources. Well, at humanity timescale a lot of thing can deplete without shooting them outside the solar system. Environment for one.
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by gutnor 14y ago
I'm sure they are trying to be useful, but I don't think it is the right choice of question to ask the community of a blog that pretend to bridge CS theory with practice. For a practicing developer, that is like finding a professional carpe
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by gutnor 14y ago
That is indeed worrying. It is worrying that our society has no place for Journalism, Literature, History, ... We are building a society with an extreme focus on personal wealth. Since we are stuck on a single planet with limited resources,
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by gutnor 14y ago
There are a few road in France (some very famous Tour de France "col") that I know become part of a ski resort in winter time. Sure the road is indeed still there but for several months a year you need a pair of ski, a pass and the skill to
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by gutnor 14y ago
Isn't that a sure way of not getting anybody competent ? Isn't that the hallmark of incompetence to think that you are better than everybody else. When I was younger, I was also producing software faster, doing in 1 week what the senior wer
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by gutnor 14y ago
I really wonder if a Zeppelin would be cheaper considering that it would require more personnel, accommodation and service for long period of time. Actually like cruise ships: they are not cheaper than flying. They are a lot more comfortabl

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