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by kephra 13y ago
The following idea comes from a SciFi role playing game Traveller™: The maximum sustainable techlevel of an economy equals the logarithm base 10 of the population. Even if a population of 10k-40k people is genetically healthy, they would fa
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by kephra 13y ago
It would be better if this article had been using real Lua code, and not starting with a "class" function. Lua does !NOT! have classes. Lua is a prototyping language, and anybody can handwave an own class system, or go without cla
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by kephra 13y ago
Good alternative to Haskell. Less strict in being functional, and therefore perhaps better suited for real world. Well I learned Miranda ages ago, so Haskell is closer to me.
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by kephra 13y ago
> I used to hate thats good. There are 10 kind of languages: Those nobody use, and those everybody hate. So a coder who does not curse a language has never used it. Now the question what to learn next is depending if you want to learn la
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by kephra 13y ago
I've learned coding in Forth, so my code is often creating a domain specific language to solve a class of problems, and Forth shadow pages caused the documentation to be roughly same size as the code itself. But I normally comment in m
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by kephra 13y ago
Dear Gays, we hate Mozilla, so please use a browser that spies on you like Google Chrome, or deinstall your Linux and switch to Windows Explorer, or install a browser that has problems with 80% of the other webpages.
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by kephra 13y ago
well - web chat with a minified js source. What did you want to show us? Where is the documented source, where is regression test, where even is the license file?
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by kephra 13y ago
> not to have everything symlinked to /usr. an init system should be able to run !BEFORE! /usr is even mounted. Thats the division between /directory and /usr/directory, that /usr is mounted later.
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by kephra 13y ago
My problem with Kaggle is that they are more greedy then Apple, Kickstarter and Paypal together. Apple takes 30%, Kickstarter takes 10%, Paypal takes 3%, but Kaggle takes 50%! I once asked them what the price would be to start a competition
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by kephra 13y ago
imho, a trelock is a much better protection than a 00000000 code.
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by kephra 13y ago
I really dislike sites that have broken CSS that is fixed by JS. I either disable CSS to read them, or I just close them.
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by kephra 13y ago
A bad and cheerish article, imho - seen and expected better in the guardian. > and make "snippets" of it available online. Google does not scan "sniplets" they scan the complete book, they also do not pirate-publish s
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by kephra 13y ago
Some points from Europe: Germany is now forcing to pay every household for state TV propaganda, even those who do not own or watch TV. Greek instead closed state TV stations, because they can not afford them.
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by kephra 13y ago
Thats a great idea. But how to apply this in supper market? You could only check it after buying, and slapping the so called bio-butcher, if he sells you antibiotic meat, with the meat he sold.
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by kephra 13y ago
> Without the drugs that keep livestock healthy in concentrated agriculture, we’d lose the ability to raise them that way. Antibiotics for industrial animal farms are one of the reasons bacteria develop multiple resistances. One should b
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by kephra 13y ago
We often sell our machine learning as mathematical optimization, because ML & AI have bad connotations to industrial customers. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
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by kephra 13y ago
The question "do I need hard math for ML" often comes up in #machinelearning at irc.freenode.net My point here is: You don't need hard math (most of the times) because most machine learning methods are already coded in half a
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by kephra 13y ago
Wondering: Sunset on earth has blue sky and red horizon. Why has sunset on Mars red sky and blue horizon?
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by kephra 13y ago
Thats one reason I nearly never use my smartphone. My old Nokia dumpphone has a battery life of more then 2 weeks. But the Motorola Defy+ will eat a full battery even after shutdown within a week. So it does not even make sense as a water p
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by kephra 13y ago
Googled about it, but crouton only installs Ubuntu in a chroot of same kernel. Thats similar shit as Motorola with 2nd-boot. The question is to free the Chromebook from Google spyware completely, including kernel, device drivers, and OpenGL
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by kephra 13y ago
I wonder what of those cheep Chromebooks are suite to free them from Google spyware? How good or bad is a normal Debian running? Is the hardware supported by 100% free drivers? Can I boot my own Kernel? Is there any site comparing this? Chr
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by kephra 13y ago
I guess your 2nd man in your own company is (nearly) a close friend. So you betray him, if you leave without him. You might talk with him, what he thinks about it.
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by kephra 13y ago
> attractive salary I guess you really mean "hourly rate", because salary means being employed. > i have my own two-man company > They offered shares and assured immediate budget for another developer This sounds like an
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by kephra 13y ago
I would advise to bolster your banking value: Add machine learning and data mining to your skills. Play around with MQL4, and show them your chart. Get hired as a quant and earn tons of money.
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by kephra 13y ago
This might even make sense for me, if: - the display is as bright as the good old toughbooks, means it must be readable in bright sunshine - the system is able to boot Linux - it runs on 12V
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by kephra 13y ago
Thanks - thats new to me - I'll investigate it. But I fear 1-2 years are not enough to be interesting for most people. Thats why those I know used the marriage trick.
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by kephra 13y ago
Munich is extremely expensive, the natives there are right wing and known to be unfriendly to foreigners, who do not speak Bavarian. Recommending Munich to foreigners is like recommending southern US states to black people.
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by kephra 13y ago
Same as in rest of Germany/Europe: Its nearly impossible for free lancers or small business if you are from outside Europe. There is an equivalent to green card in Germany, but thats only for wage slaves. Most Americans I know came as
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by kephra 13y ago
I would recommend my hometown for self employed, small companies and freelancers: Bremen/Germany Bremen was a harbor and shipyard town 30 years ago. Now most shipyards are bankrupt, and the harbor seldom sees big ships. Rentals are rea
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by kephra 13y ago
I would call this nested Makefiles. Recursive Makefile is more what I'm doing with my MakeHereCMS, where every Makefile is a symlink to the same top level Makefile.

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