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by hencq 11y ago
My experience is that in NY you can basically get any food at any time you want. SF and LA, not so much.
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by hencq 11y ago
If you're interested in this, the absolutely wonderful book "The Discoverers" by Daniel Boorstin goes into a lot of detail on how humankind discovered time and developed methods to keep time.
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by hencq 11y ago
Wow, I never heard of Juice before. It sounds really interesting. Sort of a shame how things turned out in hindsight.
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by hencq 11y ago
It's a shame that this article spends most of its time ranting and throwing around irrelevant attacks at Facebook (we get it, you don't like their product). If I buy the author's premise that REST does everything graphQL does
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by hencq 11y ago
I think car culture also means that everything is further away. I grew up in a small town in the Netherlands and from a young age I'd walk/bike everywhere (sports training, friends' places, etc.). When everything is close by,
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by hencq 11y ago
The main difference is that Europe has separate regulations for Diesel and Gasoline cars, while the US has regulations independent of engine type. You are right that this leads to lax regulations on NOx. That said, the new Euro 6 regulation
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by hencq 11y ago
Exactly! Apparently it's really difficult for some people to admit they were wrong. How difficult would it be to just say: "I'm sorry, we screwed up."? Instead they still insist on calling his clock a "hoax bomb&quo
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by hencq 11y ago
I've never actually used Prolog, but like you say, it always seems like a really cool language. That said, I always wondered why it needs to be a language instead of just a library in another language. It seems there are some types of
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PyPy warmup improvements(morepypy.blogspot.com)
166 points by hencq 11y ago|17 comments
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by hencq 11y ago
In this old thread [1] one of the Azul developers outlines a potential path to having a C4 type GC for Go. Interestingly he mentions moving to a generational collector first, before moving to concurrent. It seems the Go developers have deci
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by hencq 11y ago
I'm a great fan of Sociotechnical systems [1] for exactly the reasons mentioned in this article. A lot of focus is put on making jobs more meaningful and giving workers more responsibilities. The theory is that this will ultimately lea
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by hencq 11y ago
From this reddit thread [1]: > Right now this work is on a branch and will likely be merged to the default branch after the PyPy 2.6.1 release which should happen any day now. So this work should become available in PyPy 2.7.0 or PyPy 15
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PyPy Vectorization(pypyvecopt.blogspot.com)
99 points by hencq 11y ago|8 comments
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A Plan to Save the Big Music Labels: Shrink Them(recode.net)
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All I'm saying is that this might support the Inmarsat conclusions, but that's not the same as proving it. If my hypothesis is that all swans are white, finding a black swan would disprove it. Instead this is another white swan. I
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by hencq 11y ago
> It does mean that the Inmarsat positional analysis about the final location of the plane is likely correct. Does it though? I'm not saying the analysis is incorrect, just wondering how predictable these ocean currents are. I unde
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by hencq 11y ago
Wow, this is quite amazing! Does this also mean that we will be able to write macros in Clojurescript? Are there any plans to use mostly the same backend for Clojure and Clojurescript? It seems that since the languages are almost the same,
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by hencq 11y ago
The release notes mention the new Go compiler is about 2x slower than the old C based one. It also mentions there's ongoing work to improve this. I wonder if there are any estimates on how close to the original performance they think t
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by hencq 11y ago
I suggest reading the Wikipedia article on the rise of the Nazi party [1] or doing a Google search [2], but here's the gist of it: The Weimar Republic was very weak democratically and there were regular street battles between Nazis and
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by hencq 11y ago
I often see the trope that the nazi were democratically elected, but that either demonstrates a very poor understanding of history or is a deliberate misrepresentation.
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Germany Deserved Debt Relief, Greece Doesn't(bloombergview.com)
33 points by hencq 11y ago|73 comments
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by hencq 11y ago
> Did Greece just emerge from the largest military conflict on the planet utterly destroyed? A conflict that was furthermore started by an illegitimate government (literal nazis). On top of that most of that debt was because of reparatio
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by hencq 11y ago
Agreed, they're always beautifully written. This one is my favorite: http://www.economist.com/node/16885894
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by hencq 11y ago
How would it work on for instance App Engine, where you can't really run a script on the server? I guess you'd have to manually do the validation step, but will it do any of the other steps automatically still?
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by hencq 11y ago
I'm not really sure what you're trying to say. > Rather, 95% statistical significance means, we got this number from a procedure that 95% of the time produces the right thing, but we have no idea whether this particular number
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by hencq 11y ago
And to make it extra confusing there's "X is anything but Y" idiom which basically means what pvinis says.
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by hencq 12y ago
Or Slang, the implementation language for Squeak: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/slang
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by hencq 12y ago
I'm curious which government you think collapsed over the F-35. I can't think of any. Granted, there have been a lot of debates about the JSF program in Dutch politics, but unless I'm suffering from faulty memory none caused
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by hencq 12y ago
Actually chrome always referred to the non-content parts of the UI. Or at least it already did back in the Mozilla Seamonkey days. Chrome the browser was named as such because it removed a lot of the chrome and focused mostly on the content
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by hencq 12y ago
So did French supermarket Intermarché and Dutch supermarket Albert Heijn. It's encouraging to see that bigger chains are starting to do this. Throwing away perfectly good food just because it doesn't look 'perfect' is pr

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