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by nextw33k 13y ago
That is a very dangerous way to think. Cultural exchange is the key way to breaking down barriers, the more they learn about us and vis-versa the quicker things will change.
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by nextw33k 13y ago
Sony and Microsoft must be laughing their arse's off right now. The whole point of a console is that its cheap and you get revenue from games. You lower the barrier to entry to allow mass market. The re-badging PC gaming as console gam
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by nextw33k 13y ago
Bluetooth gorilla marketing has already been tried, the problem is that you are letting unknown people/software access your attention. Having software to map out your route through a supermarket seems stupid. The device would need to k
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by nextw33k 13y ago
The marketing term for that is: Vaporware.
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by nextw33k 13y ago
There is something to be said for no serious gamers taking the previous generation of consoles. They are cheaper, build quality it better, more titles, more features. I was asked if I wanted a PS4 this Christmas to which I had to honestly r
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by nextw33k 13y ago
No, only the rate of spending has been cut. Outgoings still exceed income. However our deficit is shrinking faster than any other developed nation: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10367430/IMF-Br.
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by nextw33k 13y ago
I think you underestimate how good modern operating systems are at memory management. I have 30+ tabs open (rather than bookmarking) and Firefox hasn't been closed for days. Spending developer time on things like start up and installer
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by nextw33k 13y ago
The order taking part has always been error prone, I would have thought that a fast food chain like McDonalds would have been first for this, their queue-order-collect system seemed more streamlined and ready for a pre-order by mobile syste
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by nextw33k 13y ago
The person that cleaned the table, the person that brought you your food, the person that fetched you a new fork because you stopped one, the person that pointed the way to the restroom, the person who asked if everything was to your liking
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by nextw33k 13y ago
I find it really short sighted to say the IDE should never destroy code. Yes in an ideal world. However we have VCS to ensure our code is never lost. Before and after any refactoring you should be checking in. If the IDE got it wrong I&#x27
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by nextw33k 13y ago
Its not about speeding it up, its about finding a fair test, this would create a worst case delivery scenario which you know someone hasn't messed with. If you can optimise your applications under those conditions you know its going to
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by nextw33k 13y ago
I'd be interested to know more about how you can build a research station without an internal heating? I assume heat from machines or devices is pumped through the building combined with excellent insulation.
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by nextw33k 13y ago
I would like to propose that such things are not allowed on Hacker News. There are websites on the Internet which will tell you if a website is down for just you or everybody. When a website goes down the sysadmins do everything humanly pos
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by nextw33k 13y ago
The really amazing thing about that show is that all the jokes apply to day as much as they did in the 80's when they first aired. I am not sure if that scary or a good thing...
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by nextw33k 13y ago
That is a very desktop application view. As programmers we should consider CPU cycles equating to battery life. Whilst it might not have a big impact, if every programmer thought pragmatically about energy usage then the environment as a wh
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by nextw33k 13y ago
As someone that works cross-platform I can help: 1, Copy and paste with the command box is a huge pain on windows. 2, You have to have focus on the window to scroll (my Kubuntu means I can hover over a window and use the scroll wheel, its s
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by nextw33k 13y ago
Its probably the opposite. Police pick him up for any crime, take him to a cell, look him up on the police database. Find out he's dead and decide not to feed him and just leave him in his cell. He's dead so no need to grant him b
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by nextw33k 13y ago
You kind of missed a point, he's not being judged because he's not liked. He's being judged on the fact that he ran out on his financial responsibility and left the government to foot the bill. His return means that his ex-wi
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by nextw33k 13y ago
That doesn't make sense. They are measuring countries, the EU is not a country. In theory the USA could join the EU. The point is to measure how government policy affects education.
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by nextw33k 13y ago
Sounds to me like we need an option like delete cookies for local storage as well.
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by nextw33k 13y ago
How many people died as a result of the reactors at Fukushima? How many miners die each year from coal mining? Coal directly impacts global climate change and is a crisis which dwarf Fukushima. I don't get your point. However whilst I
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by nextw33k 13y ago
What I find interesting is that the economists tell us that country level borrowing isn't the same as household borrowing. Which must be true otherwise why would governments be able to borrow more? Clearly they can devalue the currency
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by nextw33k 13y ago
I think you are misusing the term sucker in this context. They are getting paid regardless of what happens to other people, that doesn't sound like they are being stupid. The suckers are those that vote red vs blue.
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by nextw33k 13y ago
Which is exactly fundamental to my point and to the article. You have an expectation which you are placing on other. When the author stopped trying to be synchronous with an asynchronous medium he found himself to be more productive and p
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by nextw33k 13y ago
Aarrrrggggggg, out of office replied are the BANE of the internet. Its an asynchronous medium, like the postal service. Its not a conversation on the telephone. Replies are not expected to be instant. Anybody that calls you up 1 hour later
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by nextw33k 13y ago
I remember such a vote on the Iraq war back in Tony Blair's time in office. My MP's re-election literature said he voted against the war on Iraq, so I looked it up and sure enough there were 3 votes in total. He voted twice for th
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by nextw33k 13y ago
To be fair on Dropbox the issue is more than likely to do with the file system watchers. The initial indexing of 300,000 files is going to take some time on a standard desktop PC, then you have to ask the OS to let you know of any changes o
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by nextw33k 13y ago
I cannot believe how many times a project manager has said this to me when asking if I have documented a change. After a while I start to think they are wishing it on me.
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by nextw33k 13y ago
Technically you are correct, however he's still on £342,500 a year pension and £2.7million lump sum for his troubles.
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With that reasoning there is no need to pay these people excessive payments of millions. Since they are not culpable for bad choices (they were not keeping watch), how can they take credit for the good things? These people in my view were n

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