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by njs12345 14y ago
You can't deprive someone of something that was never there. Consider the following sets of situations: 1: An album is available for $10. It is worth $5 to me. I don't buy it. 2: An album is available for $10. It's worth $5 to me. I pirate
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I think it depends on your use case but Bitbucket is pretty close for simple usage. Of course, it's missing the network effects which make GH so compelling. Having said that, switching costs are low because of the distributed nature of Git
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Slightly off topic, but looks like toemetoch has tripped one of the hellban filters, isn't a spammer, and has no contact info in his profile. Might want to sort that out if you're reading this toemetoch!
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Try http://memrise.com/ for vocab learning - it's really helped expand my French vocabulary quite lot and seems to make it stick well. Doesn't really help with spoken fluency though, for that you just need lots of practice!
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Global push to guarantee health coverage leaves US behind(latimes.com)
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What do you think about the Kickstarter model for music? That seems to work for recorded music even if artists cannot make money from sales..
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For business at least, there seems to be: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20422644
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> Why do we continue to teach Freud and Jung in college English departments? Freud and Jung are taught to English students because their work, while thoroughly debunked, has indeed influenced a lot of authors. Also, at least in the case
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The problem is that there is no way of knowing that the criminal even knows the user's PIN, due to flaws in the chip-and-PIN protocol. See http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2010/02/11/chip-and-pin-i...
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I really wouldn't be surprised. The security group at my university do a lot of stuff on banking security, and from what I've heard, this was one of the main reasons behind the switch to chip-and-PIN in the UK --- the user is now liable whe
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I haven't read TFA, but all of this stuff is commonly done with RAII in C++: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initial... I think the main change C++11 makes in this area is the introduction of std::unique_ptr.
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Sounds like an absolute dream. Last time I went skiing I was wondering if something like this might work, glad to hear that it did for you --- I'd love to try it in the future!
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A diesel bus gets 6mpg --- you only need 10-15 people on one to match even the most fuel-efficient of cars in terms of environmental friendliness, unless you're referring to something else..
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IIRC type systems based on linear types are quite promising for making a version of ML without a garbage collector --- there could be some interesting progress here soon!
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Which part troubles you? A project like this encompasses many areas of computer science from compiler design to kernel programming. If you want to get started with doing bare metal stuff, I quite like this article: http://balau82.wordpress
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Total pharmaceutical R&D costs by the big 20 in 2010 were $96bn. That doesn't seem too much to raise globally, given that the NHS alone spends £10bn on branded drugs each year. It's also worth noting that there are ways of splitting up
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I'm liking http://memrise.com/ for vocab acquisition --- I've got the first 200 or so words of French in my long term memory and it seems to be working well. I've always found vocab learning to be the hardest part of learning a language,
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Looks really good! Nitpick: let's should be lets on the front page..
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_W...
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Joel Spolsky's 'The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)' is a good start: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html Like a few other specialis
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by njs12345 14y ago
I agree entirely. Nonetheless, here's an interesting story about someone being killed by 9 volts: http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html
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I've found that sports are the best way to get cardio as well; a high-intensity game of squash burns 816 calories/hour and is a lot more fun than an hour on the treadmill.
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You'll definitely get one for any finance job, even an internship. Interestingly, they can't compel you to sign, but if you don't sign, they make you jump through all kinds of hoops w.r.t reporting your hours and such and mire you in so muc
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It's certainly not illegal in the UK if the employee signs a waiver when hired: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/WorkingHour... (see "Opting out of the 48 hour week")
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Constant productivity with regard to working time is an assumption of the original article, it wasn't intended as a criticism of your comment.
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The obligatory Office Space reference. You'd hope things would never be that bad at a startup!
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Sounds like you make your time work for you. So do I, I've had plenty of days where the clock hits 4 and I feel mentally drained and know I'm not going to get much done, and I go home. I don't work well in the morning either, so I often com
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I suspect this is where it comes down to anecdote and personal preference. Where we both agree I think is that (for programming especially) it's not as simple as X% more hours give you X% more work done; there are other factors at play here
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> 'But the reality is talented people are able to sustain a high level of productivity at long hours.' This, in my opinion, is the flaw in the argument. I don't think it's true for writing code, unless what you're writing is boilerplate
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Apart from games, there's no problem really. As for native code, you can compile a fat binary similiarly to as described here (if you're using the NDK): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5089783/producing-optimis...

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