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by maze-le 9y ago
New tech stacks can be learned. If it fits the development and product, why not? Even if you have a personal dislike for it, you could still learn from it. I find in-fighting, interpersonal quibbles and ridiculing of co-workers far more ins
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by maze-le 9y ago
A double letter signifies a short vowel beforehand. So the word "Stoß" (impact, jolt) should be written with "ß", because it is pronounced with a long 'o'. If you were to write it as "Stoss" the &#x27
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by maze-le 9y ago
Love it! "Exiting Vim -- Eventually". I have an emacs one too: [0] [0]: http://imgur.com/a/vkOpJ
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by maze-le 9y ago
If one parameter of drakes equation is 0, then the whole equation is 0, because it is just a series of multiplications. And we know for sure it cannot be 0, since we live, and we can theoretically be detected by the electromagnetic waves we
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by maze-le 9y ago
doesn't scale up...
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by maze-le 9y ago
I think this might actually be a chance for the european tech industry. More people will stay here (in europe) + come here to pursue a career in the tech industry. What is needed additionally is a network of investors and vc-people to reali
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by maze-le 9y ago
Nuclear fusion energy is always 40 years before beeing production ready, at least since the 1950s.
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by maze-le 9y ago
Oh my, webdevelopment in the early 2000s. Back in the day we debugged with 'alert()' that was quite the experience... Compared to that the tools today are almost another world.
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by maze-le 9y ago
Reminds me of topojson[0], a GeoJSON extension, that encodes features as topologies, instead of geometries. [0]: https://github.com/topojson
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by maze-le 9y ago
You can implement an minimal ajax interface in js (no jquery) in less than 30 LOC. But I grasp what you mean, it not just that. There are other concerns and requirements and you do not want to reinvent the wheel everytime...
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by maze-le 9y ago
>> but isn't it part of the purpose of criminal punishments to scare away people from committing crimes? The premise: "Harsh punishments are scaring criminals from commiting crime" must be questioned. I highly doubt it
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by maze-le 9y ago
>> You can help the spike subside by making HN look extra boring. For the next couple days it would be better to have posts about the innards of Erlang Interesting concept, but, I (and I guess I am not alone on this one) would have fo
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by maze-le 9y ago
I use the Disconnect-plugin[0] for these concerns. It disables loading (and executing) javascript, cookies and graphics from the most notorious tracking sites. [0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disconn
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by maze-le 9y ago
Gosh, that sounds an awfully lot like ending a nasty drug habit: - Quit smoking. - 1st week, light up a cigarette in a stressful situation, enjoy it... - 2nd week, light up a cigarette and immediateley regret it... - 3rd week, wonder why yo
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by maze-le 9y ago
Then you obviously havent been to Halle/Silberhöhe. But as you said, the difference is the magnitude. The scale of informal economies is certainly higher in Brazil, Honduras or Colombia. While here, even in problematic spots of certain
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by maze-le 9y ago
'1984' was not supposed to be a manual, but a warning...
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by maze-le 9y ago
I have a question: Do you do trials in a controlled environment, where you actually have proper feedback and a distinct comparison between self-described state and machine analysis? Because in my opinion, systems like these are like modern
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by maze-le 9y ago
Have a look at extempore, a lispy live music/notation language and environment. Only emacs bindings, no vim, but impressive preformance nevertheless... [0]: http://extempore.moso.com.au/ [1]: https://github.
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by maze-le 9y ago
>> This push towards elegance is unscientific I think you are right on that one. The Standard Model for example is absoluteley not elegant, it is a huge convoluted mess of parameters and constants (just google for "Standard Model
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by maze-le 10y ago
Not if a significant proportion of the population uses it.
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by maze-le 10y ago
>> The title is misleading as it refers to intellectual property. Technically, you are right, but its not about the right to disassemble the drivers for your JD tractor, its really about the right to effectiveley own that machine. If
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by maze-le 10y ago
Well, if that is the case, the free market is a pureley theoretical concept, that is not realized anywhere in the world. And it cannot be realized, because there is always inevitable some form of information assymetry.
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by maze-le 10y ago
I am not an economist, but I think it is a problem with information assymetry. The cleaning worker does not have many connections to CEOs, to wich he can sell his services, but the middle men have. The middle men can leverage this situation
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by maze-le 10y ago
That is a nice example of why the free market is not neccessarily the guarantor of efficiency.
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by maze-le 10y ago
I once heared a speech from Joe Armstrong, where he considered erlang the only true object oriented language... This was of course a little quip to the OOP community, but it has a certain truth in it. He argued, that the actor model is basi
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by maze-le 10y ago
Facebook/WhatsApp is using erlang for their messaging backend. Erlang itself was invented at ericsson labs, they are one of the biggest suppliers of telco backend equipment.
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by maze-le 10y ago
Ahh, I see, we were talking about different concepts of the multivese then. I'd consider your definition of multiverses still as part of our own universe, just not our observable universe. But I think this is more a question of definit
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by maze-le 10y ago
> existence being coexistence after the discovery of multiverses Please keep in mind that multiverses haven't actually been discovered. They are a very real possibility if the model of inflation of the early universe (and thus etern
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by maze-le 10y ago
Holger Klein has done some very good in-depth interviews with Martin Delius (part of the parlamentary inquiry) about this issue. Sorry it's only in german, but is definitly worth listening if you can overcome the language barrier. [0]:
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Analysing the Use of Outdated JavaScript Libraries on the Web [pdf](ccs.neu.edu)
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