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by ivix 14y ago
Yes, it's just a circular road which happens to have lots of roundabouts on it.
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by ivix 14y ago
Living standards would become averaged globally. Result: Rich people (thats you and me) get a lot poorer. But on average people get richer.
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by ivix 14y ago
mbed.org has been doing this successfully for a few years now. The difference is that it's a compact, tightly integrated IDE for a specific technology (C/C++ embedded development) rather than trying to solve everybody's problem. And yes, we
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by ivix 14y ago
The summarised version: 1. Mistakes happen and will always happen. Saying "it wont happen again" doesn't fix the problem. 2. Make a joke to stop people getting defensive.
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by ivix 14y ago
Here's another: If you look at your history and think 'oh, migration 0005 hasn't been run', don't do 'migrate 0005'. That will of course take you back to 0005, deleting any modifications made after 0005.
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by ivix 14y ago
In terms of starting a business, you have absolutely no idea how easy you have it there, compared to almost every other country.
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by ivix 14y ago
Syrians can still dial an international number and get online via modem. So you are better off sending money to aid organisations to pay the phone bill.
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by ivix 14y ago
I'd say that's more unlikely. It's just a lot easier to sit at your desk and issue a couple of commands, which will guarantee getting the job done. Unplugging things is messy and unreliable in contrast, with redundant links, rings, and who
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by ivix 14y ago
Kind of muddles up why and how, but it's quite clear that someone made a call to the state ISP, and then someone went around reconfiguring the routers to drop all the published routes into Syria.
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by ivix 14y ago
Well, look at some countries with rampant corruption, nepotism and other abuses. They have all the technologies you mentioned available, but generally still do not have economic success.
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by ivix 14y ago
I don't know if anyone has mentioned one potential reason: Opera is the only browser which is clearly not made in the USA. For countries which aren't big fans of the US, this could have made quite a difference.
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by ivix 14y ago
Raspberry Pi is not a platform - you can't port something to it. This just means that minecraft has been compiled for ARM Linux.
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by ivix 14y ago
Surely this is the only sane way to design a REST API? Of course taken to extremes, things can get silly. As I see it, the point of encapsulation is that you don't know what your system might be asked to do next. Keeping things reasonably g
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by ivix 14y ago
What on earth? Blaming this on Linux or Rails is ridiculous. And as for 'mystery technical problems'... I think the reality is more like they got in over their head, decided it was all a bit too difficult, and gave up.
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by ivix 14y ago
I really doubt a v1 of an app would have much if any "optimization", profiling, analytics, or documentation.
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by ivix 14y ago
You have said that you know that the best tactic is to avoid these people, which presumably is through experience. So why do you say that you're "Confused" and "Puzzled" at why this article exists? It's a well known sales tactic as you say,
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by ivix 14y ago
This kind of thing is what has really annoyed me about the Pi 'movement'. "Raspberry Pi compatible" means nothing . It's a totally standard ARM based linux computer, of which there are a huge (and growing) number.
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by ivix 14y ago
Interesting post. This is exactly the same kind of thing that happens on smaller IRC networks. Power groups come and go. Sometimes servers (with their own regular users) join the network and stay for a few months. Political compromises are
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by ivix 14y ago
Another great thing about bitbucket is that the basic code which handles the mercurial integration has been published as a Django application (on bitbucket of course). This has allowed us to create our own specialised code hosting platform.
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by ivix 14y ago
I thought the commonly accepted way to do this was to * Have more than one application server * Deploy new code to a non-active application server * Send some traffic to the new app server (perhaps based on cookie) * When confident, switch
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by ivix 14y ago
Not at all. Hardware is becoming more and more obscure. 5 years ago many people could and did swap components in their PC. Now try doing that with a modern smartphone or laptop. Don't confuse the chatterings online about RPi etc with any ki
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by ivix 14y ago
The NHS already provides this data: https://indicators.ic.nhs.uk/webview/ The spreadsheet: http://indicators.ic.nhs.uk/download/SHMI/July_2012/Data/SHM... Sadly, you can pretty much guess the results. Poorer areas = higher death rates.
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by ivix 14y ago
Does anyone know why so much cabling on Curiosity is on top of the vehicle, exposed to the elements? Surely it would be safer to contain those cables in the body? It would just take a rock to fall on the rover from a cliffside or similar to
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by ivix 14y ago
It is absolute confusion, and when you think you've got it, they change it again. I suppose it makes sense to someone somewhere, who probably thinks they're being helpful by inventing all these complicated schemes.
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by ivix 14y ago
I found this statement particularly surprising: >Java, with its faults, has completely conquered web >application programming. Is there any evidence that this is true? It's certainly my experience that the direct opposite is true. J
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by ivix 14y ago
Yeah, it's not quite a HTTP server, more of an API-driven backend to a HTTP server. Still neat.
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by ivix 14y ago
Yes, don't forget that they may be afraid of telling you you're not helping.
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by ivix 14y ago
I think we all know which individual this is actually parodying :)
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by ivix 14y ago
Of course, in a more sane language, it would throw an exception, rather than silently returning a wrong value.
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by ivix 14y ago
Yes, the money is spent on the review process, which is another way of saying that ICANN spends the money on itself.

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