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by hrjet 13y ago
The hitch is that G+ users are not writing reviews; they are just writing what they think are comments or mini-blog posts. They are being taken out of that context and marketed as reviews by Google.
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by hrjet 13y ago
This is exactly what I thought. How are they going to be sure that the review is actually honest and relevant. What if I say something contradictory in the review? Or post irrelevant stuff in it? The only way they could avoid such face-palm
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by hrjet 13y ago
CEO: Haven't you two heard of Wine, ReactOS, CodeWeavers?
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by hrjet 13y ago
Just curious. How can one be sure that there is no worms or rootkits installed?
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by hrjet 13y ago
But their website doesn't render the styled icons with javascript turned off. I think it is a bit misleading for them to say "CSS based SVG styling".
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by hrjet 13y ago
I wonder if it were to get close to a star, would the heat from the star be sufficient to ignite the fusion in the orphan planet?
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by hrjet 13y ago
Apparently, the estimated number of orphan planets is "100,000 per star in the galaxy!" [1]. The star equivalent to these orphan planets are called, well, orphan stars. They are not bound to a particular galaxy and roam about free
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by hrjet 13y ago
The article says that such planets have been observed previously, but only indirectly. I found an article about those previous discoveries: http://arstechnica.com/science/2011/05/exoplanets-without-a-...
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by hrjet 13y ago
The planet radiates only in Infra-Red, so the frequencies have been surely mapped into our visible spectrum.
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by hrjet 13y ago
The biggest difference between Flipkart of today and that of yesteryear is that Flipkart is now a marketplace. This is unwieldy. There are 5 different sellers for the same goods with different prices, different offers, and different shippin
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by hrjet 13y ago
Well, the browsers could disable non PFS ciphers by default. When a site doesn't match any PFS cipher list, show a pop-up with a way to add an exception for the site. Much more graceful than a complete switch-over and doesn't requ
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by hrjet 13y ago
I agree with what you are saying. It's just that you gave a floating point multiplication example, where an integer multiplication with overflow would have been a relevant example. Here's a relevant example, 2^26 * 2^26 == 2
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by hrjet 13y ago
You seemed to have jumped from talking about integers to floating point! And the example you have given is a problem with all floating point implementations, not just Javascript. You will get that exact same answer in C, Java, etc. The only
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by hrjet 13y ago
I was working in a largish project recently with a three-tiered architecture as described in the article. However, both of the server-side tiers were in Scala, and it was hard to see the advantage in that case. However, using NodeJS in lieu
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by hrjet 13y ago
Exactly. I would have loved to see an overlay of consumption over production in the article.
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by hrjet 13y ago
I guess they mean: system packages which are stable, but apps that are bleeding-edge.
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by hrjet 13y ago
Many people don't realize the significance of privacy. That's not a good reason to shoot down those who do.
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by hrjet 13y ago
In the final stages, the powder becomes < 20 micron and the mirror becomes sensitive to even the heat from your fingers. Dust that is invisible to the naked eye can leave deep scratches on the mirror. That video shows the kind of clean-r
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by hrjet 13y ago
Best classical reference (yet somewhat more modern than Newton) is: How to make a telescope by Jean Texereau http://archive.org/details/HowToMakeATelescope
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by hrjet 13y ago
I didn't consciously use 'grinded'; my mind just blurted it out based on what I may have read before. Thanks for pointing it out; though I do wish for a more regular English grammar. Edit: I also just realized I typed "a
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by hrjet 13y ago
It is also dangerous to inhale these powders. They are very fine and very abrasive. One needs to maintain a clean-room environment, both for the protection of the mirror from dust, and of yourself from the abrasives.
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by hrjet 13y ago
I have grinded two 8" mirrors. The first one took three years (calendar time) and was a disaster. Lots of scratches on the mirror and astigmatism. I didn't give up though. Built a second one, applying all tricks that I learnt duri
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by hrjet 13y ago
The real worry is not Canonical misusing your data, but third-parties mis-using it. Even if Canoncial makes a mistake and goes down, in the mean time, your private information has been sent to third-parties, by default! "Third-parties&
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by hrjet 13y ago
Apart from the Amazon search there are a couple of other services that may be worth investigating and turning off: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticConnections
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by hrjet 13y ago
"There is nothing stopping the Go compiler from using SIMD and automatic vectorization, it just doesn't yet. " A JVM could compile byte code to SIMD instructions. Most of them don't, yet.
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by hrjet 13y ago
Right, thanks!
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by hrjet 13y ago
One thing which I detest about maven, it uses http by default. Getting it to use https requires a lot of work[1] so many don't use it. By default, not only are you downloading a truck load of jars from the internet and running them loc
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by hrjet 13y ago
MySQL was bought in cash by Sun for $1 billion. Of course, Sun collapsed after that, so perhaps you are right about the madness.
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by hrjet 13y ago
In general I agree, but "forking" would be considered as a very essential feature by many in a product like Stash. I don't think dozens of users were needed to argue that it be included. Another example of a crazy bug/fe
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by hrjet 13y ago
It's open source. You could fork and add more features to it. For example, I am going to try and add a file navigator in the PR interface. Another is, voting for an issue without adding a +1 in the comments. This is the biggest pain po

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