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by julian37 15y ago
That's an interesting approach, but how many potential employers would raise an eyebrow if you mentioned having kids or being a social person as your greatest weakness? I know it would smell like BS to me.
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by julian37 15y ago
I wouldn't mock it, actually, but others ("fanboys") do. I got that, sorry if my reply wasn't clear. When I said "not sure why you would mock it", what I actually meant was "why one would mock it". Anyway, as I've argued before [1] t
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by julian37 15y ago
Gnus is an awesome piece of software and having all of Emacs editing capabilities at hand when writing mail is fantastic. I'd use it as my primary mail client if it weren't for the multithreading issue. Not sure why you'd mock this use of E
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by julian37 15y ago
I am not entirely sure why you need multithreading in a text editor for example. Perhaps someone could enlighten me as to when this sort of thing would help. Basically, the lack of multithreading prevents any sort of background processing
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SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Technical Papers Trailer (Video)(youtube.com)
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by julian37 15y ago
To this day I still feel very very dirty about this hack, but it was needed to achieve the objectives and harmed no-one :) Great story! Next time just make sure you wear gloves.
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by julian37 15y ago
Does he have the same moral reservations for other devices in his life? Yes, as far as I know. ie; what car does he use and own? All (modern) cars accept software updates which is his definition of a computer. I am pretty sure he doesn'
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by julian37 15y ago
Right, that's what I was missing. That makes sense, and come to think about it, is a very useful addition to my toolbox. Thanks pdw and jochu!
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by julian37 15y ago
Somewhat off-topic, could somebody explain why echo 3 | tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches rather than just echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches Is it because the output to stdout lets you be extra sure that the right data was sent
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by julian37 15y ago
You and your sibling posters are all focusing on my point about scaling. Fair enough, maybe the fact that it's so much cheaper means that point is moot. That still doesn't mean that it's a fair comparison. EC2 has plenty of other features
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by julian37 15y ago
They are well known in Germany, they've been one of the biggest, if not the biggest, provider of VPS and colo services over here since the mid 90s. The recent buzz is the first time I see them mentioned on US-centric sites though, if memory
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by julian37 15y ago
That's hardly a fair comparison. Last time I checked Hetzner doesn't offer auto scaling, "elastic" load balancing, or any of the countless other features that EC2 offers. Actually, forget auto-scaling: what if you want to bring up another
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by julian37 15y ago
This looks quite impressive and useful. Could someone explain what the precision metric refers to? The documentation states: Ookaboo attains high precision within it's point-of-view by having a very permissive definition of "depicts," wh
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by julian37 15y ago
Fair enough, burgerbrain (wish there was a friend list here on HN.) Let me try again. How to be a regular: Be a decent human being. Be a nice guy. Treat staff with respect. If you're getting good service, tip well. There's no need to memo
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by julian37 15y ago
Summary: brown-nose and get favorable treatment at restaurants. EDIT: Sorry, I'm not usually that harsh but in this instance I felt it was called for. To those who are downvoting me, please explain how this is not a concise summary of the
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by julian37 15y ago
If you're referring to the "oversubmitting" algorithm, a) this appears to be turned off by default (line 1535) b) if turned on it only applies to new users (lines 1539, 1540) (Disclaimer: this is the first time I'm looking at the source, pl
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by julian37 15y ago
the indictment alleges that the conspirators would disable only a single link to the file, deliberately and deceptively leaving the infringing content in place I might be reading too much into this, but to me this sounds like ten people u
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by julian37 15y ago
I'm with you, this smells of feature creep. I don't see a big benefit over serializing the result set on the client. This is literally a one-liner if you're using an ORM or something like PEP 249. The new constraint allowing you to ensure
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by julian37 15y ago
This is very exciting. On a related note, the number put forth by the study (at least one planet per star, on average) is roughly consistent with Drake's 1961 estimate that half of all stars will have planets, and stars with planets will ha
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by julian37 15y ago
This was posted a number of times before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2570269 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=513935 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=86419 And also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1811104
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by julian37 15y ago
You're conflating encapsulation, OOP and open source. Encapsulation can be done (and is a good idea) in any programming paradigm, OOP or not. For instance, in C you can use the static modifier to not expose a function to the outside worl
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by julian37 15y ago
I notice the lists are mostly games. I wonder if that shows Linux's lack in entertainment compared to other platforms. I'm arriving at the opposite conclusion: not too long ago it used to be that the only game available on Linux was TuxRa
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by julian37 15y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3433424
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by julian37 15y ago
You're welcome. However, the checksum doesn't work out for "X-Cnection": >>> sum(ord(c) for c in "Connection") 1040 >>> sum(ord(c) for c in "X-Cnection") 952 I suspect that in this specific scenario the
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by julian37 15y ago
See here for a likely explanation: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=81954 http://www.nextthing.org/archives/2005/08/07/fun-with-http-h... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1913284
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by julian37 15y ago
Great read, thanks for posting this. The £100m that Eastman donated to charities over the span of his lifetime translates to roughly US$ 7 billion today, assuming 1926 money (which is when he made a £800k donation to London hospitals for th
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by julian37 15y ago
The dot after the tld is optional (if you don't need to specify a fully-qualified DNS name). Try for example: http://news.ycombinator.com./item?id=3438428 EDIT: I learned something new today, adding the trailing dot can be a good idea:
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by julian37 15y ago
Good point. Adding multi-threading while keeping the existing elisp compiler would definitely improve responsiveness, maybe enough so to turn the issues I mentioned into non-issues. That said, the proposed approach has the potential to ki
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by julian37 15y ago
I use Emacs daily for 80% of my work and its performance is not an issue. Speak for yourself. I also use Emacs daily for 80% of my work and while performance is OK, I would definitely welcome any improvements. Areas where I notice subpa
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by julian37 15y ago
Sorry for replying to myself but I forgot to mention the most amazing detail about Schneider's design: the article was also talking about how you can keep the lasers, cooling, power adapters etc -- basically, everything big and noisy -- in

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