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by lesingerouge 12y ago
Having some slight experience in the publishing and content industry, any title that contains the word "killer" is for me a big fat sign for "bulls#$t". I will still pick trusted recommendations[1] over advertising any
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
I think "bleak" is just another point of view. Thinking back at how the 50's saw science fiction and the future in general, we could easily conclude that what we have was quite a "bleak" version of that vision. The
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
While I was listening to that particular part I had a very distinct feeling that he was reffering to what could be called "nation-hacking". While it's certainly not the only way to change the world, changing laws drastically
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
This is debatable. The universe is not an observer of our existence IF the universe is not a simulation. If the universe happens to be a simulation than there is some external entity or rather the universe in itself, that is some kind of o
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
I don't really understand how buying your own gun/rifle/whatever would be of any help in surviving a war. The last couple of recent wars (think Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc) were fought mostly with "big tech" (airp
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
Agreed. More data is needed to see clearly if on a larger scale this is economically feasible to do. From my little experience with hydroponics, water and land use are the two major wins. Electricity can be a deal breaker but that depends o
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
Anybody have any idea about how they did it? Sorry for the noob question but I can't really figure out how they did it, since the original page loads fine and only after this there's some kind of redirect. And as I can see it only
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
Mandatory: I want to franchise this country! ( http://everything2.com/title/Franchulate )
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
This is Google Wave. The "chatlets" and all the philosophy based on bits and pieces point to that. I remember there was an open "wave" protocol exposed somewhere and an Apache implementation of that protocol, though I ca
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
Just for fun I once thought about using my Lego Next kit to build a bluetooth controlled robotic finger to operate my AC remote. So sorry I never got to it.
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
The article is pretty much a hack-job. Logic 1: the state is funding 10% of your acquisition of a car, thus the state is subsidizing the car seller. Logic 2: the car cannot drive more than 200 miles, thus it is useless. I am amazed that Fo
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
I think you are missing the point of the whole article. This writing is not a piece of news that tells you something you did not know. Rather it works as a "short novel" whose purpose is to create a story around a modern-day pheno
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
Perfect idea, simple and elegant. Though I wonder if there would not be lock conflicts between the file-syncing dropbox does and the file-reading that stash would need.
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
Looks really cool and will definitely try it. Was also thinking about forking it and making it save the key value pairs on a file in my dropbox.
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
Having had direct contact with all the issue of massive crawls (talking about tens of thousands of websites daily), I can say that it depends on the scale and "business-criticality" of the crawl. For the types of crawls that their
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
Not exactly. I am saying that public opinion does not benefit unless the law's involved. If discrimination is not condemned clearly and if the perpetrators can hide behind press releases and teary eyed blog posts, nobody benefits.
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
So bottom-line: the company is not a haven for male brogrammer types, the founders fucked up and please engineers don't let this scandal affect you. Still, there's a bitter taste left here. The whole situation remains somehow murk
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
Even if this is a minor "show-off" project, it's a good reminder for the power of open data. Location services, emergency planning software, tons of other stuff benefit enormously from this kind of openness. [Crazy fun idea]:
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
On the other hand, you would expect consumers to buy hard drives and storing devices. So maybe that will be the way to go for processing power too?
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
Indeed, really cool to see so much similarity with Python. Anybody have any recommendations for a book on Scala? Something to use as an introduction to the language?
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by lesingerouge 12y ago
I believe there might be some interesting results in using the RasPi as a kind of building block for massively parallel computing, but I find that path very hard to merge with the "ubiquitous computing" trend. The later seems so
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by lesingerouge 13y ago
A metaphor for life: impossible to win, impossible to lose. Just a game. Makes me wonder if there's an "easter egg" hidden somewhere.
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by lesingerouge 13y ago
On-topic: I remember my undergrad course in macroeconomics. It was a total and utter mess. Just tons and tons of theories and formulas that could not be demonstrated, but had to be memorized. Most macro-economists suffer greatly from the la