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mapleoin
13y ago
Submitted too early? The quickstart page is still in Cyrillic.
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mapleoin
13y ago
I wonder if this will lead to tax-heaven countries, the same way we currently have tax-heaven countries or even something which would be equivalent to Switzerland's renown in finance.
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mapleoin
13y ago
Vagrant is a nice tool, but I don't like the closed-open source part of it. There are 289 open issues and 79 open pull requests on github right now. It feels like there is a huge community out there who want to move this project forwar
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mapleoin
13y ago
That's not entirely the point. Most of the news we've seen here during the past years are about people breaking into these apps' (sometimes improperly secured) servers and then suddenly having access to all this private data about millions
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mapleoin
13y ago
Awesome! Thanks for making that opensource!
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mapleoin
13y ago
That's pretty cool, especially if you live in a city which doesn't have cobble stone everywhere. I don't :(
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mapleoin
13y ago
That looks pretty awesome. How do you get your data? Do all those bike sharing services have real-time public APIs that you connect to?
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mapleoin
13y ago
How can I register more demand?
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mapleoin
13y ago
think parallel
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mapleoin
13y ago
you misread computing power as CPU clock speed
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mapleoin
13y ago
> AirBNB increases the supply of housing. It does nothing to demand. That's your error, see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
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mapleoin
13y ago
There is a link on the frontpage about learning emacs right now: http://sachachua.com/blog/2013/05/how-to-learn-emacs-a-hand-...
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mapleoin
13y ago
Google Hangout maybe?
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COSM Beta is Now Xively - the first Public Cloud Internet of Things
(blog.xively.com)
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13y ago
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mapleoin
13y ago
Yeah, sorry, I skipped over the 'notional' in your comment.
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mapleoin
13y ago
> A notional profit of $500 million in 24 hours isn't too shabby. It's not a 24 hours profit. He didn't buy that stock yesterday, nor could he have without making the price go a lot higher than 70$. You can't judge his profit on the sho
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mapleoin
13y ago
I guess interacting with other students, having assignments to complete and having someone else look at them, getting a sense of accomplishment after finishing it etc. That's why I sometimes take MOOCs.
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Web Application Security Guide (from RoR)
(guides.rubyonrails.org)
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mapleoin
13y ago
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Meet the man who retired at 30
(articles.washingtonpost.com)
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mapleoin
13y ago
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mapleoin
13y ago
> It really bugs me that I have to have an Python interpeter on the frontend web machines (cause I would prefer not to have a C compiler there).. You don't need to have a C compiler installed for the Python interpreter to work. I hope y
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mapleoin
13y ago
> Statically linking the world isn't trivial. For our existing Python code bases - how are you going to deal with third party libraries from PyPI? Depends on what you want? You could freeze the pip-requires to always install the same ve
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mapleoin
13y ago
That doesn't make a lot of sense. You don't have to write a monitoring software from scratch just because you want statically compiled bundled libraries. You can do that with any programming language.
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mapleoin
13y ago
Yes, you suggested abandoning coding standards designed for monospaced fonts, specifically maximum line length. While most programmers use monospaced fonts, you are bound to clash with someone and make their lives harder by dropping some st
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mapleoin
13y ago
> Those are coding standards designed for monospaced fonts. They work poorly with proportional fonts, but there is a simple solution: abandon those standards. Do you ever work in a team?
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Bhutan set to plough lone furrow as world's first wholly organic country
(guardian.co.uk)
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13y ago
the dough
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mapleoin
13y ago
The words 'ruby' or 'library' aren't mentioned anywhere on the page, yet this is a ruby library.
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mapleoin
13y ago
> If an adult dog is smarter than a newborn, why the disparity in legal protection? That's a very interesting question to ask. I think in the end, what we are rightfully protecting with our current laws is potential. The baby (or the em
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Stop the Cyborgs was founded in response to Google Glass
(stopthecyborgs.org)
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13y ago
I don't see why the mouse should be tied to the keyboard. They're used for different purposes. We use mice to point stuff in a specific place on the screen. It would be much faster to do that by just putting your finger on the screen (and m
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