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by idoubtit 7y ago
> The question isn't "should we genetically modified food?" because we already are and have been doing it for centuries. "Genetically modified" does not apply to selection and cross breeding. To create a variety
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by idoubtit 7y ago
> it shouldn’t be treated as anything more than a nosql document store with mature replication. For years, Windows NT claimed to have Unicode support, but what they called Unicode was in fact the UCS subset that used 2 bytes for each cha
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by idoubtit 7y ago
I'm surprised existential crisis is not a common phenomena. Life has no meaning, no purpose. "I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun; and see, all is vanity and a chasing after wind." (Qohelet, in the Bible, about 23
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by idoubtit 7y ago
Metaphysical subjects like this are mostly a matter of taste, but I can't resist pointing out there are bias and errors in this. > the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths or magic. Religi
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by idoubtit 7y ago
In many cases, customer ≠ user. The customer that buys the product may not be the one that uses it. The OP makes no distinction. For example, hardware and software that help teaching are usually chosen by the school or the university. Teach
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by idoubtit 7y ago
Firefox must have realized that their UI for handling "top sites" was bad. In ESR v60.7, the Tiles/topSites block has a menu where the first entry is "+ Add Top Site". This was missing before. In fact, this problem
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by idoubtit 7y ago
Not much content in this article. A single benchmark which shows nothing of real-life cases. Two minor technical features, one of them already in Chrome beta. Lastly, an appeal to fight Chrome's monopole. Surprisingly, not a word about
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by idoubtit 7y ago
The global trend for Apache is not looking good, and I believe a large part of its popularity is simply a legacy of its dominant position a decade ago. Over the last 10 years, it probably lost half of its share. The exact figures vary with
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by idoubtit 7y ago
> the most populous country in the world The United Nations estimates the current population of China around 50,000 more than the population of India. Given the uncertainty of these numbers, I can't exclude that India already has th
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by idoubtit 7y ago
The conclusion makes it clear that this work has no aggressive intent: Unfortunately, our work has identified numerous problems in the FSE study that invalidated its key result. Our intent is not to blame, performing statistical analysis of
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by idoubtit 7y ago
My own take of this: - This study tries to enhance the original work by better metrics (e.g. confusion with C/C++), using better statistics (e.g. uncertainty). - Automatically evaluating the quality of a code is hard and time-consuming
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by idoubtit 7y ago
How come a meaningless question, which is probably just a click-bait for promoting a web site, is the first result on HN? I'm worried about HN. This is totally subjective, but I feel that technical content related to computers is now s
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by idoubtit 7y ago
JSX is clearly a second class citizen in Vue. Last time I tried, using TypesScript with Vue made JSX unavailable. And it was not documented, so the process was try, fail, look around, find the Github issue about this.
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by idoubtit 7y ago
Even without plugin in a three-ways tool, Git's conflict can provide more information. [merge] # display 3 parts for each conflict, # including the common ancestor conflictstyle = diff3 There's als
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by idoubtit 7y ago
While I mostly agree, I think the PHP world it depicts is too rosy. The language itself is a bit chaotic and its enhancements are often half-baked. For exemple, PHP5 introduced type declarations for functions, but only for arguments and cus
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by idoubtit 7y ago
From the Github changelog, I clicked on the homepage link. Then my laptop's fan became noisy as many particles moved on the screen to form the logo of Uix Kit. As I moved the mouse cursor toward the menu which points to the documentati
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by idoubtit 7y ago
I've always been told that these large clusters of bees are a way to keep a warm center. Wikipedia has the same explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee#Winter_survival
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by idoubtit 7y ago
> JavaScript is now the new Java Toward the end of the 90s, Java was a cool language with a new paradigm: write once, run everywhere. I remember people advocating it passionately. A few years later, Java was everywhere: servers, web brow
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by idoubtit 7y ago
This post is of very low quality. "Boeing admits..." but no source, no date, no quote. I suppose this is just a mashup of previous articles published in newspapers, which were all discussed here. The WSJ was the first to reveal (1
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by idoubtit 7y ago
> ORM's are easy but not simple. ORM libraries may not be simple, but what matters is the code that uses them. My experience was that the main code was often easier and simpler. Easier because small tasks are made easy. Simpler beca
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by idoubtit 7y ago
What's the difference between Developer Edition and Vanilla Firefox or Nightly? The home page just describes features which seem to be in plain Firefox. Last time I searched for details, I could only find unofficial answers in Stack Ov
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by idoubtit 7y ago
> Logicomix, is terrific, informative, and has great art. I strongly disagree. Logicomix is informative in the same way a Hollywood biopic on Alan Turing is. Logicomix' point of view is that everyone that worked on the foundations o
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by idoubtit 7y ago
When Apache published OpenOffice 4.0, there were about a million download per week, for a total of 85M downloads in 2.5 years[1]. Fortunately, that is no more the case. OpenOffice is in maintenance mode (last minor features were 5 years ago
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by idoubtit 7y ago
I suppose it is because of the feud between OpenOffice (Apache) and LibreOffice (Document Foundation). For years, OpenOffice has been Apache's most downloaded project[1]. But it is only because of the past glory of this name when Sun p
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by idoubtit 7y ago
> If I understood correctly the biggest issue was that pilots simply didn't understand what was going on with their plane No. This is not what happened. The Ethiopian pilots followed the new procedure that Boeing published after the
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by idoubtit 7y ago
The beginning of your sentence send a shiver through my spine. I thought you were advocating for a radical solution, like the Saudi Kingdom just did with 37 protesters. In both cases, Saudi Justice and Plane engineering, the main problem is
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by idoubtit 7y ago
This is the context I was missing when I switched to QEMU. I had not heard about libvirt. A simple "apt search qemu" had shown a few unsatisfying GUIs, but nothing about other layers above qemu. I suggest QEMU's documentation
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by idoubtit 7y ago
Last week, I intended to replace VirtualBox with QEMU for my personal use. The spartiate documentation made it really hard. I lack the competence to seriously contribute. The official documentation just explains the numerous parameters. It
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by idoubtit 8y ago
Homo sapiens started emigrating out of Africa 50k years ago. There is a small incertitude on their emigration pattern (one wave or several), but it doesn't matter here. If they had cities in Africa, it is very surprising we found no tr
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by idoubtit 8y ago
The roof is not made of wood, but like most old European buildings, its frame is made of wood. Above the vaults of stone, a wooden frame supports the roof which is covered with metal (zinc). This is obviously lighter, and easier to build an

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