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by hetman 14y ago
I think there's a big difference in investing money in things that will generate more money, and spending it on luxuries that will only depreciate in value. I expect the parent was referring to the latter not the former.
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by hetman 14y ago
This is exactly it. It's very easy to look at a field we only have a surface understanding of, and conclude it's all fairly straight forward after and expert in the field makes it look easy. I've found that in construction, as in software,
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by hetman 14y ago
I suppose one has to strike a balance between wages and quality. For this reason I suspect Poland might be a better option right now; it is now the 7th largest EU economy and one of the fastest growing in Europe (in no small part due to a g
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by hetman 14y ago
I'm interested by the statement that "the Copyright Act is meant to protect expression but not vocabulary". Could someone familiar with copyright law elaborate on this? I'm interested in the general concept, but also curious how it applies
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by hetman 15y ago
Unfortunately the initial entangling still requires physical contact (provided by proxy of the photon on the optical fibre in this case). Further more, once entangled, it is still not possible to transmit information (in the way we think of
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by hetman 15y ago
I don't understand this at all. I don't want to have sex with any of my male friends yet I still find compelling reasons for friendship with them. So why then can't things that are completely non-sexual attract me to women and be a foundati
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by hetman 15y ago
Standards based on real working implementations generally make better standards. I'm sure the github conventions will evolve to better reflect what works in the real world. If they don't everyone will just ignore them.
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by hetman 15y ago
Endianness doesn't really mean anything in the context of a single word (except maybe on serial lines). What made you conclude the above suggests big endian?
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by hetman 15y ago
I find it strange this post was downvoted. I'd love some further clarification on what criteria people are applying exactly.
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by hetman 15y ago
The "factually incorrect" is a tricky one because often the downvoters may be misinformed about the topic themselves. I agree with some others that in such a situation it is much better to reply with a correction instead of downvoting. Simp
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by hetman 15y ago
A lot of the responses here seeking a modern alternative to this experience seem to be focusing on hardware. In a way that's not surprising but I think it's a bit of a shame. That's because I think we have a platform today that can rival th
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by hetman 15y ago
So I had previously wondered about this "minority of the population" claim and I looked up the stats. Apparently 35% of the population has better than 20/20 vision without any corrective measures. With glasses/contacts/etc that numbers jump
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by hetman 15y ago
Yes, both those articles confirm Apple has created the "20/20 display" not the "retina display" (which turns out to make a difference to a large part of the population). The article I linked to talks about pixel density calculations, I'm so
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by hetman 15y ago
Sigh. That would be a nice explanation if it actually fit the numbers. That subset of human retinas actually turns out to be 75% of the population. As for average vision, 35% of people can see better than 20/20 with no aids, and once glasse
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by hetman 15y ago
No, I have a problem with marketing that is intentionally deceptive and can easily confuse non-technical users into believing they're paying for something they're not. Neither of your car manufacturer examples demonstrate this. However, whe
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by hetman 15y ago
I was referring to studies made by actual doctors not PR campaigns. Edit: For those downvoting this I should have probably provided supporting evidence, though oddly no one treated the parent post in the same way. Feel free to follow the re
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by hetman 15y ago
On a mostly unrelated note, I wish blatanly marketing driven terms like "retina display" would stop getting thrown around like this. Thanks to Apple's latest marketing adjustment for the iPad 3, it turns the phone I've owned for over 2 year
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by hetman 15y ago
Not really. HTML would remain HTML. We're talking about JavaScript, and that is already minified (and sometimes obfuscated) beyond recognisability for a human. I'd be curious to hear what kind of optimisations become unavailable.
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by hetman 15y ago
If we're compiling to bytecode there is no need to minify.
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by hetman 15y ago
Can you provide some reasoning for why this is necessarily the case?
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by hetman 15y ago
For some time now I've been wondering why the primary scripting format consumed by browsers is JavaScript (a language intended for humans) and not some sort of standard bytecode that would be executed in a browser's virtual machine. What we
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by hetman 15y ago
Are you implying any of these activities would get back the stuff I was working on at the time? Because if not I think you sort of missed the point.
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by hetman 15y ago
As mentioned by DennisP (but I can't reply on his post for some reason), one of the design goals of Minix is to have drivers seamlessly restarted so the user can continue uninterrupted.
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by hetman 15y ago
As of Ubuntu 11.10 my netbook randomly kernel panics with the default Wi-Fi drivers. It sure would be great if it didn't take out everything I was looking at because of one bad driver. Just saying.
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by hetman 15y ago
To be honest the "edge of screen" interaction paradigm seems pretty straightforward if not simpler than the traditional way to interact with Windows. I'm sure anyone that is actually told how it works will have little trouble with it. I'm n
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by hetman 15y ago
Funny. On my netbook, Ubuntu used to feel like it was finally ready about one major version ago. Today, 11.10 is so unusably slow it might actually make Windows Vista feel competitive. I thought it might be the outdated video card but the
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by hetman 15y ago
Yet one must then ask how it is that Western European countries have joined in with the same concerns about censorship (not just their people but their politicians too). This seems like an odd attempt to distract from the fundamentally deep
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by hetman 15y ago
That love manifests in your treatment. Having moved to the west at a young age from Eastern Europe, the contrast in attitudes has often struck me. Over there you appreciate the level of sacrifice your parents made to make your existence pos
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by hetman 15y ago
No, it indicates that a complex economy takes time to develop because so many structures therein rely on each other. Are you suggesting that if a billion Chinese were to be transplanted to the USA tomorrow they would all find good paying jo
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by hetman 15y ago
And where is the money for "everyone else" going to come from?

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