justsaysmthng

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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
There's an even easier way. Start calculator on your iPhone, rotate it to landscape to switch to scientific calculator, type 5, 2, x! and observe result: 8.06 * 10^67 Yeah, really ingenious, I know... but still.. Just a couple of hour
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
Cutting 7% staff out of 1000 ... But then it goes on and says "WeWork said it hired 175 people in May and expects to add about 500 employees by the end of the year. The company said it expects to lift the pause on hiring as soon as nex
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
> Understanding the various ways text is used on Facebook can help us improve people's experiences with our products You mean show us more "relevant" ads ? Last time I checked, Facebook's *product" was advertisi
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
Thank you. From what I've read, the idea for The Whole Earth Catalog came to Stewart Brand during an acid trip, so I'm going to try my luck with a deeper question on the subject... The counterculture and the "psychedelic revo
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
Alan, have you actually read all those books cover-to-cover ? In general how do you read ? Do you finish a book even if you don't like the style or subject matter ? Do you read sequentially - one book at a time cover to cover - or do y
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
I'm sorry, I've been away for a couple of hours... What happened ? Why should I (we) block all facebook domains ?
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
Thank you, I'm going to try and use it in my project then.
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
Does Realm support NSFetchedResultsController-like functionality ? I'm currently starting work on an iOS application which will display large lists of data which will be constantly updated on a background thread... I wonder how Realm i
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
Don't be fooled by appearances, obesity is a problem in Europe, too! While the absolute numbers are lower in Europe versus the U.S., they're still very high. The numbers vary from 30% (UK) to 20+% in most other countries (vs ~35%
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
My 5-year old daughter saw it 20+ times. She also has a bow and arrow and Merida's dress. I think she liked it. So I guess it's subjective then :)
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
> The far more aggravating thing is that we tolerate China, choose to do business with Chinese companies and buy Chinese products. A trade embargo (aka cold war) would be a lot worse for everyone involved.. Leads to arms race and threats
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
In https://github.com/alexhultman/uWebSockets/blob/master/src/u... What's the deal with delete [] (char *) head; where `head` is of type `struct Message` ? Is this some kind of performance tric
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
As a person living Europe, who also grew up in a culture were credit was not available, the obsession with credit in the US is very strange to me. Why do people need to borrow money so often ? Is it really so hard to live within means ? And
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
Such (ancient) technologies plus state-of-the-art computing and communication systems is prime material for science fiction novels about highly advanced civilizations. I think we should strive towards that - use the wisdom of our ancestors
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
HFT is a pretty limited and extreme application case. From what I understand - everything is not enough for HFT - network cards, kernel drivers, cables, etc. You have milliseconds (edit: nanoseconds !) to receive, process and push your or
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
Swift solves the "auto" issue pretty nicely - with the help of the IDE: let x = someFunction() Alt-click on x and it shows the type. Otherwise, as you say, the code becomes very confusing and I abstain from auto except in cases wh
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
That's a legitimate worry, but it all lifts during the trip, when you realize that it's totally not about that . This is the reason for the depression lifting, by the way. Depressed people are stuck in infinite loops mostly invol
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
> is a major moral crime And spiritual too. I believe the proverbial "forbidden fruit" in the Bible is actually animal flesh. That's what transformed Heaven, were humans an animals cohabited peacefully, into not-Heaven -
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
If it's true, I wouldn't be surprised at all, just amused. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if other countries do it too. Professional Sport, like the rest of society is corrupt as hell. Cycling, Athletics, Soccer, Baseball .. y
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
My father is currently under treatment (for around 50,000 EUR) He's not an IV drug user, never was, most probably it was a dentist who infected him many years ago. Don't oversimplify things like this, there are lots of situations
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
I don't understand what this word (AI) means anymore. Everyone seems to be doing it, except me. It has something to do with "machine learning" and "big data" and it's done using neural nets, which have been aro
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
From https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution " ... However, C++ itself is a very complex language, and providing good interoperability with C++ is a significant undertaking that is out of scope for Swift 3.0. &qu
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
> I think there is noticeable deterioration in music quality of the top hit during the past millenia. Maybe the top hits, but not music in general. The main reason is, in my opinion, the diversification of styles and the more varied tast
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
Don't do this at home. It looks so ugly because it's dangerous and vice-versa. If you really want to write (and read) code like this: id titleString = ((id ( )(id, SEL, const char ))objc_msgSend)((id)objc_getClass("NSString&
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
Too much noise - all of them opinions and speculation...too many emotions. The fact that Gavin Andersen (and others?) met him and talked to him and then said that he is "the father of Bitcoin"... means that either Wright is a ve
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
... Who also happens to be a cryptographer and a programmer (at least according to the subject matter on his blog ).. He also managed to "sweet talk" and convince Gavin Andersen and others that he's for real... I don't k
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
I believe the guy is Satoshi. People were expecting the next Jesus Christ and now everyone's so disappointed that "Satoshi" is just an average geek with human weaknesses - not the messiah everyone expected. Had he started a U
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
You're right, I'm lumping them together, as per the article: > Then, a text from Viv piped up: "Would you like toppings with that?" That's not a very good UX in my opinion. * > Think star trek 'Computer
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
I have my doubts when it comes to replacing colorful, tactile user interfaces with voice conversations. I don't like the idea at all. I want to interact with my device using a visual interface, which I can "feel" and interact
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by justsaysmthng 10y ago
Thanks for your thoughts, stranger. My comments are a reflection on the outside world. My own philosophy is very different. Our (western) society is built on the premise of avoiding pain at all costs - even if it means exporting it to other

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