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by nirai 13y ago
sky map with higher resolution: http://server7.sky-map.org/v2?ra=17.243&de=-38.586&zoom=2&im...
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by nirai 13y ago
performance performance performance. And it is not just about direct user experience either. Even if a given app may be written in Python it will probably drain the battery faster, since for each bit of work that would have taken X cpu cycl
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by nirai 13y ago
Now we need a human way to write Ruby in Python.
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by nirai 13y ago
Turns out it is also quite easy to generate total and utter crap by writing about C++. It is reasonable to speculate that C++ is more popular with beginner programmers than C, and that this may significantly affect the characteristics of a
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by nirai 14y ago
When slamming an author of an interesting article over nonsense, hang your head in shame.
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by nirai 14y ago
I think he meant that it is better not to worry about the code since it will stink no matter what you do...
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by nirai 14y ago
Right, we are back to the days when taking ones photo was like stealing their life.
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by nirai 14y ago
planetguy, how do you know if you really have conscious control right now or just imagine that you have? I'm not joking either. The article mentioned the Hindu dream-yoga, the practice of which was meant to make you ask such questions on yo
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by nirai 15y ago
1) There is a whole bunch of messages by Stallman in that thread. 2) That discussion triggered me to install the do-not-track-plus extension in Chrome. Thanks Stallman!
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by nirai 15y ago
As a guy who have been using VIM on linux for several years I say this: Check out Komodo Edit! It has made a huge leap since it started. It is an awesome editor for dynamic languages - particularly Python, JS, HTML, etc... It simply does so
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by nirai 15y ago
+1
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by nirai 15y ago
Git's growing popularity is not an artifact of some packaging decisions by Debian. See Google insights for search: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=0-5&q=git%2Cs...
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by nirai 15y ago
Let the snake eat its own tail: https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/#url=https_3A_2F_2Fd...
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by nirai 15y ago
Komodo Edit is a really good Open Source editor I recently stumbled into. It gets all the basic editing functionality right (and I am saying this as a VIM user). For any thing else, I believe the OS is the IDE. An OS is in particular an int
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by nirai 15y ago
more likely, as 10^-20 is more likely than 10^-30? when was the last time you have read python files of installed 3rd party software to find viruses and trojans? and even if you bothered, by simple obfuscation you would need to be an expert
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by nirai 15y ago
why not infect .py files directly?
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by nirai 16y ago
I think the monkey problem is not a mathematical problem at all but a metaphor to the set of all authors excluding Shakespeare.
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by nirai 16y ago
you can not have infinite number of monkeys since there is a finite number of bananas.
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by nirai 16y ago
Received 100% from Rotten Tomatoes top critics: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the-social-network/?critic=c... Never seen that happen before.
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Cyber wars(economist.com)
2 points by nirai 16y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft linked to BP oil spill(theinquirer.net)
4 points by nirai 16y ago|4 comments
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Ars on apple(arstechnica.com)
1 points by nirai 16y ago|0 comments
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by nirai 16y ago
why not optimize such scenario's at application level? It is possible to implement a trivial and transparent cache as decorator and apply it to particular bottle neck functions. 0 development effort, 0 running overhead, 0 maintainability is
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by nirai 16y ago
USB drives or memory are in the range of 10MB/s write and 15MB/s read. Since you need to both write & read to transfer a file, you are looking at about 7MB/s file transfer which is about 50Mb/s (wireless order of magnitude). Combined wi
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by nirai 16y ago
The part where Aditya explains their 3 moto and in particular, moving fast / not being afraid to break the site - bring it down, may account for the recent chain of privacy fiasco. Breaking a site is not just about down time, it may also ha
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by nirai 16y ago
By your logic, a person winning the lottery should cap at 100K and say no thanks, I rather not piss of my friends family and colleges. Most likely the public interest in this project will die out within 1-3 months. Hopefully they will not r
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by nirai 16y ago
Why would Google "donate" senior talent to a project which at this point is basically just some videos and badly designed logos for download? Comments here are as insane as the amount of money these guys collected.
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by nirai 16y ago
Shutting it down? are you for real?
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by nirai 16y ago
Truth is Google Docs is utterly broken and unusable. Google Beta corp is fond of releasing promising but half-arsed products, indefinitely & conveniently labeled Beta, and they seldom demonstrate any urgency to fix and improve them.
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by nirai 17y ago
Mozilla should get their act together before its too late. Once they loose their mind share it will be over. Firefox on Linux is freezing and sluggish.

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