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Wood: The fuel of the future(economist.com)
3 points by maw 14y ago|0 comments
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Superior Mayan engineering (noahpinionblog.blogspot.mx)
7 points by maw 14y ago|0 comments
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by maw 14y ago
Anyway, I can recommend anyone to live in another culture for some time [...] if you look deep enough [...] you will understand that neither your culture nor theirs is right. Sort of. You'll learn a lot about a different culture and you'
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by maw 14y ago
If security isn't a big consideration (read: you control both machines and the network), you go even faster with netcat. On the receiving machine, in its destination directory: nc -l 6789 | tar xvf - And on the sending machine, fro
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by maw 14y ago
There's a yearly book fair, LéaLA ( http://www.lea-la.com/ ). If you're willing to cross the border, Gandhi ( http://gandhi.com.mx/index.cfm/id/f:corporativo-sucursales ; click where it says Tijuana) is the best bookstore chain in Mexico;
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by maw 14y ago
Yes, it's genitive, but "course in" is more idiomatic English than "course of."
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by maw 14y ago
Although now we make and eat pickled vegetables because we like the taste, pickling was originally developed in order to enable vegetables to store longer. Calling a serializer "pickle" isn't unreasonable.
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Ten Hundred Words of Science(tenhundredwordsofscience.tumblr.com)
1 points by maw 14y ago|0 comments
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by maw 14y ago
Not having a build step at all. That's worth aiming for if you can do it without hamstringing yourself, but it isn't how I would go about it.
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by maw 14y ago
when you're bug-hunting, smaller single-change commits make it far, far easier to track down and kill the bug. This is true, but with the caveat that each of those commits needs to basically work. If you have untestable commits, things w
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by maw 14y ago
Sounds like a reasonable question, actually: is it a good commit message? I'm really not sure, but am inclined towards yes.
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by maw 14y ago
Plenty of people already doing that in Mexico. There are also people who threaten to "wash" your windshield, do juggling acts, and so on. It isn't a line of work you want to get into.
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by maw 14y ago
Iyer conflates a number of things here. Quiet is generally good, but how important it is depends a lot on one's personality, needs at a given moment, and so on. Not being constantly interrupted is also a good thing, but, again, it depends a
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by maw 14y ago
I ask the programmers on my team, some of whom are quite junior and unexperienced, to send weekly status reports with an overview of what they did in the previous week, what they expect to do in the next, and other. Other is usually made u
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by maw 14y ago
Wrong. Someday maybe you'll need to work on code written by irresponsible and sloppy programmers who wrote buggy and unmaintainable code, which you should not perpetuate.
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by maw 14y ago
That's a good point. You really cut to the heart of the matter—no oversimplification here!—and I applaud you. None of our distant ancestors suffered from poor hygiene. Not was there ever famine, and they never fought among themselves. L
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by maw 14y ago
True! And it's also very funny. (But a shade less so than the parents sentence.) Maybe our descriptivist/purist friends should start a campaign to bring back the dative.
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by maw 14y ago
In one case I discourage it as well, because with it you can't write the funniest sentence ever composed: "I would like to thank my parents, Ayn Rand and God." Otherwise, no strong opinion, although I usually use it myself.
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by maw 14y ago
I think you mean Calderón.
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by maw 14y ago
> That said, UTC timestamps since the epoch are one of the more straightforward ways of dealing with time, if you must sully your hands with the foul concept of time at all. Definitely. Leave their rendering to the experts, but to stor
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by maw 14y ago
Maybe you already know this, but glibc and glib are two entirely different libraries. (The similarity in their names is unfortunate.) So be precise when asking for help.
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by maw 14y ago
Pretty sweet how it freezes every two seconds, showing an hourglass. How do they do that?
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by maw 14y ago
Failed the actually does something test. A real pity.
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by maw 15y ago
> Contains the destruction of a historical site. Do not buy this game if poor archeological practices offend you. You know, there's probably the germ of a pretty cool idea for a game in that.
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by maw 15y ago
Chances are they're pushing to the same branch or to the same small number of branches instead of to private-ish branches. This is an easy trap to fall into: lots of people have a hard time getting used to using branches for everything. As
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by maw 15y ago
You're not missing anything. It's dumb. JSLint doesn't find all the bugs in my code, but it does find quite a few. There are several places where I deliberately ignore its recommendations, but all in all I take what it says seriously. I
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by maw 15y ago
Grune is most famous, by the way, for being CVS' original implementor.
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by maw 15y ago
Grey text on a black background. Won't read it. Who thinks it's acceptable to do this?
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by maw 15y ago
It'd surely be nginces (for n. and a., anyway).
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What happens to old and expired supermarket foods(forbes.com)
1 points by maw 15y ago|0 comments

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