nevinera

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by nevinera 14y ago
While I agree, I don't think of things you can find and verify with a dozen sources in an hour online as 'expertise'.
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by nevinera 14y ago
You have to buy cheap houses and used cars; we're not talking about dumpster diving and knitting your own socks here. I'm hardly a model of thrift.
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by nevinera 14y ago
>It's been a really bad idea for many long historical periods. Name a historical period of longer than 15 years in which the market as a whole has lost money relative to inflation. That didn't even happen across the Great Depression.
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by nevinera 14y ago
>This do-it-yourself pension system has failed. It has failed because it expects individuals without investment expertise to reap the same results as professional investors and money managers. It has failed because it relies on people t
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by nevinera 14y ago
And google should give us all ponies. Would you mind defending your expectation that other people and companies will give you extra services for free? Amazon has been very clear on the expected failure rate of ebs volumes and the attendant
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by nevinera 14y ago
>Cloud solutions even with single AZ should not loss data. You mean you think all cloud db solutions should implement replication for you? There aren't very many backup solutions that never lose any data.
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by nevinera 14y ago
>If you have code that doesn't touch the DOM, then sure, you don't have to wait, but those instances are pretty rare in the real world. Bootstrapping backbone models/collections (or any other kind of data model prep) is the main use-cas
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by nevinera 15y ago
I initially thought that the app was an amusing attempt to point out how creepy fb and 4sq are.
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by nevinera 15y ago
I'm pretty sure any evented framework in any language can do the same thing.
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by nevinera 15y ago
You can do a solid best-guess estimate, especially if those images are already in compressed formats.
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by nevinera 15y ago
This headline is implies that it is their shift to digital strategies that is causing the loss, when in reality that shift is mitigating it.
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by nevinera 15y ago
The only vim module I can't get by without.
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by nevinera 15y ago
It's.. vim? Posts about using vim and tmux are pretty obviously not pointed at emacs users.
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by nevinera 15y ago
When people start making decisions about where they need to go based on how comfortable they are at the airport there? There aren't that many places where there are airports that can realistically be said to be in 'competition' with each ot
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by nevinera 15y ago
No, because it isn't the kind of war that can be won. That was my point.
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by nevinera 15y ago
Did the church win the inquisition?
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by nevinera 15y ago
Come on now. He's asking for help on his own forums . If he posted such a request in some general forum you could shower him with derision for treating hn/reddit/4chan/sa as his 'personal army', since apparently you think insulting people
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by nevinera 15y ago
"Why I switched from screwdrivers back to the hammer." Because, while pounding in a few hundred nails with my trusty flathead, I noticed that it was taking really a great deal of work.
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by nevinera 15y ago
It's worse than that - the probability is biased as you say if the sample were chosen randomly , but they did not claim that. Given that the only distinguishing characteristic mentioned is a boolean (engineer or lawyer), and that they only
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by nevinera 15y ago
We exported a lot of it straight into the ocean!
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by nevinera 15y ago
What do you mean by 'significant amount of content'? Inserting html is of course faster than rendering in the client, but the javascript involved here is not slow - I haven't seen anything over 15 ms yet for rendering a fairly complicated
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by nevinera 15y ago
This is an appropriate argument basically any time somebody claims that [insert group here] [insert behavior of an individual here]. Groups of people do not behave uniformly; when they behave in statistically significant ways, it is not
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by nevinera 15y ago
This article appears to be functionally describing emacs.
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by nevinera 15y ago
Does it support stacking?
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by nevinera 15y ago
That's a theme, try the libnotify one instead.
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by nevinera 15y ago
Your readme should include: What problem does it solve? How much effort will it take for me to understand it well enough to use it? It should not consist entirely of a line telling me to read index.php.
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by nevinera 15y ago
Unfortunately, all such efforts are limited by their central assumption - that skill is orderable. This is demonstrably untrue - skill at chess (to use their example) occurs on several axes, the most obvious of which are opening theory, tac
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by nevinera 15y ago
Rails is not actually MVC. The MVC system is asynchronous , as you can tell with a quick look at the wikipedia page linked there - it was intended for desktop applications (though there are a few js frameworks out there that do a good job
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by nevinera 15y ago
One nVidia and one intel, not that it matters. I'm arguing with his blanket claim that 'it still does not work with 2 monitors', not that there are no driver issues on ubuntu.
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by nevinera 15y ago
>Sadly, it still does not work with 2 monitors. I've been using it with two monitors both at home and at work since launch, with zero configuration. The second issue is certainly annoying, but 'it does not work with two monitors' is a p

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