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by loxs 14y ago
Don't get me wrong. I have never wanted to poison someone and I can't see this changing. And my knowledge is not unique by any measure. I am sure every physician does have it, or can obtain it easily by revising some of their college textbo
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by loxs 14y ago
The fun thing is that only the dumb poisoners are the ones that usually get media attention. Exactly because they are dumb. The smart ones usually never get caught. Consider someone with a medical degree (like myself). I not only know good
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by loxs 14y ago
I don't know if this is a result of different semantics or biology (actually different colours around here), but: I live in Bulgaria. Terms for yellow, brown, orange and red are pretty much alike English in their semantic meaning. Still, th
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by loxs 14y ago
It's not only about being able to serve lots of users. It's also about availability and geographical distribution. Even if you don't have millions of users, they will gladly benefit from you being split across several datacenters (serve eve
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by loxs 14y ago
Yes, and not even only this. The really big difference is the eventual consistency, used as a core concept in most horizontally scalable data stores. If you once design your application with heavy reliance on hard consistency, you will have
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by loxs 14y ago
From Wikipedia: "According to the 2000 census, among persons five years old and older,[78] 90.8% of Louisiana residents speak only English (99% total speak English)." Ok, it might not be "official". Only "de facto".
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by loxs 14y ago
Thank you for this. I was referring exactly to quantifiable traits.
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by loxs 14y ago
Oh, and not to forget... this is a huge generalization on my side. There are huge exceptions to this, eg. the Baltic Countries.
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by loxs 14y ago
Correct regarding the reasons and wrong regarding the current situation. You will be much more spot-on if you divide between the "former USSR" and "rest of Europe". Former USSR countries are mostly unified by the same language, religion (or
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by loxs 14y ago
Also, I explicitly mentioned that I exclude international mega corps from the equation. When you are big enough, you can open offices in neighbouring countries, or on other continents and you can sell globally. My point is about small-to-mi
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by loxs 14y ago
Well, we are going deep down the rabbit hole now :). Please excuse me if I say lots of stupid things. How far apart are Louisiana and California? How far apart are Romania and Bulgaria? Yet, the two USA states share the same language (at le
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by loxs 14y ago
> The Europe that Americans refer to does mostly use the > Euro, have better-distributed wealth, plenty of consumers, > and ambivalent feelings toward entrepreneurs in most of > its parts. Well, no it doesn't. Italy and Gree
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Ask HN: What is the state of distributed P2P instant messaging?
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by loxs 14y ago
https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A13/
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by loxs 14y ago
See my explanation here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4957817 It might or might not be legal. But because of laws of physics and mathematics it's impossible for them to do it any other way.
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by loxs 14y ago
I think that they have an extremely durable/redundant data store, which is effectively "write-only". You write to some server that replicates its data to other machines, possibly in remote data centres. Read about "eventual consistency" if
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by loxs 14y ago
Agree, it's awful.
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by loxs 14y ago
"For wage earners this isn’t so much of a problem as long as wages inflate as well (which, well, they haven’t)" This, I think is a bit of an overstatement. Although wages may not have inflated too much, compared to, say gold, they have cert
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by loxs 14y ago
I can't really understand the idea of installing "monster" software onto tiny machines. I wouldn't be totally puzzled if this post came from some hobbyist, but it is released by Basho itself. So what's the idea?
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by loxs 14y ago
Correction - July 2010
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by loxs 14y ago
This is one of the reasons I left Medicine for computing... He is not right that doctors are oblivious to these mechanisms. Most of the things he is talking about are very well known to the doctors, but most of them become obvious only when
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by loxs 14y ago
Not true. Especially for games that require skill. For me it's extremely interesting to watch League of Legends pro players. They invent new strategies and create trends like popular champions to play with. I would argue that LoL is (much)
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by loxs 14y ago
Yup, that's a nice reason to go vote at the next EU Parliament elections.
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by loxs 14y ago
Well, maybe the ones that are installed in half of the world's smartphones?
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by loxs 14y ago
His creation is used to run half of the world's smartphones and probably 90+ percent of the world's servers. His other creation (git) is used to develop maybe half of the world's software projects. Having this in mind, I can't really imagin
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by loxs 14y ago
Yup, totally the kind of bullshit Linus gave the finger to... I can imagine how much of this "PR" stuff one like Linus gets to deal with...
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by loxs 14y ago
See my other comments in the thread to find out about me. 1. This is true. Weeks to month(s) is usually enough to learn enough to roughly be aware of the kinds of problems you can solve with a tool. Finding the right and interesting problem
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by loxs 14y ago
Correct. I am talking about people who are not very good at logic and scientific reasoning. People who know how things "are" (because someone taught them so in the university) and don't care why . People who blindly follow "design patterns
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by loxs 14y ago
And also, Python, Riak, Redis. And these are only the tools that I did use with great success. Others are PHP, MySQL (and other *SQL), Java, C#. Of course, once I found out that they are "no good" for finding new exciting problems to solv
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by loxs 14y ago
For perspective, here is my story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4106825 I am no "genius", but I am multi-domain for sure. Read the above link. As I already explained it there... the depth is quite like "master" versus "grand-master

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