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by jvdh 16y ago
What was annoying was that the last two paragraphs were on . . the second page. Don't get me wrong, I know about spreading pages over multiple pages is supposed to help increase page views. But this was just so ridiculously short and uneven
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by jvdh 16y ago
Progress really smacked me in the face when I bought a C64 emulator a couple of years ago. What used to require a large keyboard with extra room for the computer, a large diskdrive, an expansion slot and a drawer full of floppies now comple
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by jvdh 16y ago
True, but the risk of getting injured in the Cold War was significantly lower than what we see today in warzones.
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by jvdh 16y ago
Vietnam war ended 35 years ago.
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by jvdh 16y ago
You joined the military and had a much lower chance of being injured or killed than the person of your parent's generation who was forced to join the military whether they wanted to or not? I have no idea what you're talking about here. 2
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by jvdh 16y ago
I doubt whether this is the actual reason that Prolog was killed off. AFAIK during the 90s there was still research going on with Prolog and parallelization. However, this seems to have been killed off during the end of the 90s because of l
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by jvdh 16y ago
My thermodynamics is rusty as well, but from experience I can say that using a central heating system where hot water is pumped through feels a lot better and seems a lot more efficient than an electric heater.
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by jvdh 16y ago
I live in the Netherlands, we have an abundance of water here. The point is not the availability of water, it is the availability of fresh water. Most of the time it takes a lot of work to treat water in such a way that it suitable for co
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by jvdh 16y ago
It seems that the art of building efficient houses is contained only in Europe. The houses in the US all seem to be made of wood, without much insulation. "Problems" that that causes are all dealt with using "efficient" heating or air condi
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by jvdh 16y ago
I think it's a great idea, but before I would start using this, I'd like to at least try to understand your business model. How is this supposed to make money?
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by jvdh 16y ago
You might as well just link to the blog entry directly: http://brainspl.at/articles/2010/08/13/4-years-at-engine-yar...
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by jvdh 16y ago
I completely agree. Itunes really is a terrible way to manage both an iPhone and an iPad. The result of a sync is always a bit of a surprise these days... I don't even want to begin to imagine what it must be like for a family with multiple
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by jvdh 16y ago
If this indeed proves P!=NP then i would think it would make a bit more top lists than just Top Science Stories 2010.
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by jvdh 16y ago
Lions are carnivores, their teeth are specifically targetted at tearing and eating meat, which is why they have large incisors. Cows are herbivors, their teeth are flat, and have no incisors at all. Humans have a combination of the two, and
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by jvdh 16y ago
that site can slurp some stuff out of your address book. More specifically, it can slurp some stuff from your personal address card that you've set in AddressBook.app This hack does not allow you to get the address of someone's mo
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by jvdh 16y ago
You can't really compare the two. If you want to compare you'd have to look at GNU/Linux. Attributing that success to just the genius of Linus goes a bit too far.
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by jvdh 16y ago
Your job as a software developer is to prevent viri, identity theft, spam and scams. Journalists are looking for scandals, stories that score lots of eyeballs.
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by jvdh 16y ago
I completely agree with you. The problem is that 90% of the general public does not.
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by jvdh 16y ago
On the one hand I completely sympathize with the author. As a parent myself I would not wish this upon anyone. On the other hand, the author is a journalist, exactly the people who are the cause of this type of witch hunt. If you would leav
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by jvdh 16y ago
Second hand evidence, but what I've heard is that you'll know pretty quickly whether you have a response or not. Cramping pain, nausea, diarrhea, feeling miserable, you name it. And this was just from eating a small treat, not even a full m
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by jvdh 16y ago
> HTML tags lea͠ki̧n͘g fr̶ǫm ̡yo͟ur eye͢s̸ ̛l̕ik͏e liquid pain Just reading that makes me wince.
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by jvdh 16y ago
Link is broken now, should be: http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.7.html (Which is actually from the future! "Python 2.7 was released on July 7, 2010.")
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by jvdh 16y ago
True, but almost everyone he came into contact with knew about the failure, knew it 'happened sometimes', yet still did not know how to fix it! Reading this, I almost get the impression that it's an elaborate attempt to fail in the most mis
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by jvdh 16y ago
Space? (Sorry, I just couldn't resist.)
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by jvdh 16y ago
Like Paul Graham said in July 2009[1] The trouble with the Segway is that it makes you look smug. This thing will make you look even more so. [1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/segway.html
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by jvdh 16y ago
If you're going to allow ferries, why not include trains? That's obviously much faster and more direct.
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by jvdh 16y ago
It's the other way around. Buck Rogers is the fictional character, and Buck Rodgers is the IBM manager.
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by jvdh 16y ago
People still die climbing the Everest. Just last year there was a team where at least two teammembers died, and one made it back with a severe case of frostbite who now has to live without his toes. [edit]My bad, that was not Mt. Everest, t
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by jvdh 16y ago
Figures including their title and label should mostly speak for themselves. The title implicitly promises the viewer a comparison of different countries. This graph is a prime example of how not to present that data. The linked article expl
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by jvdh 16y ago
Ah, now I understand that glaciers actually are made of a different kind of ice! I've seen glacier ice on numerous occasions, and it has a very blue tinge, unlike normal ice. I now understand that that is probably one of the other ices that

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