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by kilburn 13y ago
I just looked it up. The CEO of Ford (Alan Mulally) holds a masters degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering (among others). If you only allow for the term "engineer" to be used to refer to someone who has en engineer
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by kilburn 13y ago
> Again, the burden of proof is on GitHub I can see how "to align with the weaker party" can be a sensible goal for a society. However, in this case it directly conflicts with the presumption of innocence principle, which is an
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by kilburn 13y ago
A bunch of recent Logitech mouses feature an unlockable "free spin" wheel. Basically, you can "lock" the scroll wheel and then it functions as a notched, precise operation for small adjustments. Alternatively, you can &q
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by kilburn 13y ago
In my previous post's numbers, I counted all airplane accidents as fatal. That is, I set the likelihood of surviving a plane accident to 0. I only used the death numbers from car accidents though, so the likelihood of dying in a car
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by kilburn 13y ago
> You get it man. I've always found that statistical comparison with car accidents very lame and misguided. The sheer feeling of helplessness when you are in a plane, and think something is seriously wrong. No, you both don't g
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by kilburn 13y ago
Run your own jabber server using prosody: https://prosody.im/
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by kilburn 13y ago
I'm under the impression that this doctor's argument is against wrist rests, as in the padded thing you put in front of the keyboard to rest your wrists on. Instead, the comment you are replying to speaks about a wrist brace, as i
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by kilburn 13y ago
Your only "mistake" was to switch to a different measure when giving the percentages. Your calculations are actually fine, because you explicitly label them "speedup". However, this can confuse a non-thorough reader beca
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by kilburn 13y ago
This can be done today using kvm's memory ballooning. Essentially, you install a driver in the guest VM and it takes care of (1) reclaiming RAM from the guest OS when the host OS needs more; and (2) providing more RAM to the guest if n
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by kilburn 13y ago
I may have an explanation for that. Gmail is very good at detecting waves of spam mails while the wave is being sent out. Basically, a (bunch of) hacked server(s) start sending SPAM mails. After some messages google realizes that these serv
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by kilburn 13y ago
I have a special "don't care" mail account whose mails are delivered to its own folder (included in the shown stats). I do get a spam message in that folder very occasionally (as in once per month), but it's really far
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by kilburn 13y ago
This isn't necessarily a good idea. The type of SPAM you receive is different than the type of SPAM I receive. Moreover, it is very possible that I do (not) consider some messages as SPAM whereas you do (not). It is true that it takes
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by kilburn 13y ago
That kind of code doesn't explain all the different ways of accomplishing the piece's goal you tried and why they were lacking. Some random developer comes at a later time, thinks this code is more complicated than required, refac
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by kilburn 13y ago
Obviously, I would prefer to work with this guy than with someone more interesting but clueless. However, this doesn't mean that I would be happy doing it. On the one hand, you present a very idealized case: how can she engage in (tang
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by kilburn 13y ago
Why do you link "enticing colleague" with "doing whatever with that guy after (instead of) work(ing)"? So your competitors hire the boring guy and get that feature one week earlier. You hire interesting people and they f
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by kilburn 13y ago
I don't know about you, but I spend approximately one third of my awake time at work. One third of my conscious life. I'm going to make sure that I enjoy that time, and having enticing colleagues has a lot to do with that in my
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by kilburn 13y ago
Replace "coffee shop" by "software conference hall" and "specific lib" by "current log4j/junit/whatever very common library you want". Suddenly it's a lot less targeted attack. Moreov
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by kilburn 13y ago
The rule in my book is pretty simple: opt-in is perfectly fine, opt-out is shady at best, and morally wrong. This applies to every service and/or subscription, from mailing lists to purchases. This case is a clear "opt-out" c
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by kilburn 13y ago
Hard drives are tricky little beasts. On the one hand, cheap disks are much more prone to start operating slowly when they begin to fail, instead of transitioning directly from working to not working (or setting themselves as failed). On th
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by kilburn 13y ago
> Don't let your babies die, but really try not to have them if you can't afford them. This is outrageous. Parenthood is one of the most (if not THE most) meaningful parts of being human. Financial issues should NOT take this a
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by kilburn 13y ago
Yes, but you shouldn't ever see single-line if s in go, because gofmt forces all of them to be multi-line. This is one of the strong points of go (whether you like it or hate it): gofmt imposes the same formatting rules for everyo
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by kilburn 13y ago
Totally Off-topic, but you can get free certificates from StartSSL [1]. I'm using one of those for my personal server and I've had no issues at all. Firefox and thunderbird recognize the CA by default, so I guess Firefox OS should
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by kilburn 13y ago
I reply here because I can't reply to the below comment. The claim in wikipedia says that it has more general affinity to the gallo-romance group than to the ibero-romance group. I may be wrong, but I read that as "it is more simi
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by kilburn 13y ago
> It is a bold exaggeration to say that catalan is as different from spanish as portuguese or french. Sources? Being a lazy guy, I turned to wikipedia [1], where it explicitly says: > Despite being mostly situated in the Iberian Penin
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by kilburn 13y ago
I totally agree with you, but this is a chicken-and-egg problem. Unless someone starts demanding such standards, the challenge will always be there. Letting the administration be the pioneer in this front is sensible both morally and practi
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by kilburn 13y ago
This website is very wrong. Firstly, there are no such thing as "different versions of Spanish" in Spain. People from different regions speak with (sometimes very) different accents, but it is the same language. Everyone can under
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by kilburn 13y ago
You are missing a point though: this is the public administration side. They can (and should) demand any document sent to them to be formatted in a public open standard (such as ODF). If anyone, it's the companies interfacing them that
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by kilburn 13y ago
I think it is worse than that. To begin with, it makes no sense (to me) for an order to have a single product by definition. This is what I think you quickly spotted. I understand that the author does not have an "Order" because t
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by kilburn 13y ago
Yes it is, more or less. This functionality is badly broken (by default) for international users. As the poster above you said, the ` key changes place in different keyboard layouts. I'm using a ISO/Spanish layout and the day I d
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by kilburn 13y ago
Long time (european) OVH customer here. We've had some 10 servers there for ~4 years. TL;DR: The hardware is cheap. You _must_ have spare servers and plan for failure because they _will_ fail from time to time. Avoid dealing with their

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