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by nnq 13y ago
I always thought that lies seem so "costly" (as in brainpower sucking, stress etc.) because I never learned to lie well. And I always thought that instead of teaching my children to be honest I will teach them to lie well from ver
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by nnq 13y ago
> Not creating the situation where cancer will eventually win is also a no-go, for other reasons. What are these reasons?
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by nnq 13y ago
You kind of forget who you're talking about. One doesn't just say that to John Carmack :) For a team of new-comers, without both real engineering experience and real business experience, maybe the consequences of the Facebook acqu
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by nnq 13y ago
Because the heart and circulatory system accumulate damage and fail first in very old age. Yes, the risk of cancer fall a little with old age (or at least the speed of progression - most of the very old that die of heart disease and stroke
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by nnq 13y ago
Don't bother with those immortality consequences scenarios until you see a real general working treatment for cancer (something way more than "it cures 80% of the cancers in 80% of the cases"). If you live long enough, you
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by nnq 13y ago
Yeah, this is what you get if you use metrics to find a "common ground of preference". But this is the primitive way of doing it. We already know the better way to do this, thanks to things like Howard Moskowitz's research an
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by nnq 13y ago
To know that the returned function can keep state? And if it does, to easily scan for side-effects via modified state? And to do this without carefully reading the entire body of the closure? It's a little bit like a "poor man&
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by nnq 13y ago
==> jokes aside, they are pulling in a very different direction from the one of the core PHP devs... this alone makes me expect less from the entire PHP system as a whole. They just made the PHP equivalent of Perl 6 vs Perl 5. But at lea
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by nnq 13y ago
What worries me is the large list of 'unsupported PHP features': http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/hack.unsupported.php . I know they can be considered bad practice, but in practice you use at at least a co
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by nnq 13y ago
Why not Passenger?
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by nnq 13y ago
> "People you may also know"? Really? One of their objectives is to keep expanding their user base. This feature is crucial to be in a visible place on the screen. Also quite useful for users that have just joined Facebook. A
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by nnq 13y ago
Maybe I exaggerated a bit and I wouldn't have considered it "incredibly bad" before having the latest version to compare it to, I agree. But the "photo/visual" vs "text/reading/verbal" switc
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by nnq 13y ago
You don't even need metrics to figure out that, for example: > The old design was worse for many of the things we value and try to improve. Like how much people share and converse with their friends. [old design: http://i
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by nnq 13y ago
I guess they really want to fail: - if nobody pirates this, it means they've completely failed at producing good art/music - if somebody pirates this, it means they've completely failed at implementing their artistic/m
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by nnq 13y ago
Almost nobody calls it AltGr, it's just the goddamn "right Alt key" :) ...and yes, it has a different key code from the left one, even if in most software it works just like another Alt. The clever thing is how some internati
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by nnq 13y ago
They don't want now, but wait 'till Facebook does "their magic" on them :) That "networking effect" stuff is not buzz-speak, and they know how to wield it. Plus, gaming and socialization go hand in hand - it&#x
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by nnq 13y ago
Do you work for me?
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by nnq 13y ago
I think a better process than brainstorming would be "idea brewing" (made up future-buzz-word :) ): 1. Making the concoction: tell people about the problem they need to solve and about where to find good infos on it (and hopefully
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by nnq 13y ago
Yeah, but your data is the only reason why you are valuable to you provider of free or cheap cloud based services. If they can't use it (even anonymized), they will have no incentive to provide free/cheap stuff to you :) Imagine t
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by nnq 13y ago
I followed these rules of thumb for laptops that run Linux well and didn't have any problem 99% of the time: - no ATI graphics - low end models that are manufactured and sold in high volumes (so if you encounter a problem you'll
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by nnq 13y ago
Jobs had his famous 'computers as bicycles for the mind' metaphor (I guess this is the origin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA_jypfKfAA ), and this is how we geeks see them. The problems are that: 1. computers to
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by nnq 13y ago
One problem with BI is the potential future overpopulation problem making it unsustainable even for rich countries. The solution is quite simple though, but I don't guess people would accept it: if you have more than two children per f
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by nnq 13y ago
The thing is that there's huuuuuge road between 'kind-of-working prototype' and 'something deliverable to the client'. And it takes very different kinds of people for the portions of it. A "brilliant never-fini
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by nnq 13y ago
It's sad how this sounds so plausible and valid... because even today, we are incredibly bad at managing (or making use of or integrating into a team...) brilliant people and we fail to make use of them and we let them fail because
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by nnq 13y ago
Python and mod_python were available and working back then. The mysqldb python module too I think. Guess somebody just didn't like python :)
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by nnq 13y ago
why do people keep saying that mysql is easier to install and configure postgres? maybe you can find more results when googling for "mysql install" or something, but it's just a bit different, not harder. (...now, I don'
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by nnq 13y ago
Is there any positive perspective on this guy too? In this interview ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTIp9ebXAh0 ) he kind of makes sense with `restructure to concentrate on shareholder value` and `restructure for short term
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by nnq 13y ago
off topic, but did anyone pay attention the Juniper deception force adds they sport? This line of one commercial just blew my mind: 'the less they know, the safer they are' ...can a security oriented company actually get away with
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by nnq 13y ago
Isn't it incredibly obvious that hierarchical structures, even when they start o get a hint of tyranny, offer more freedom to the individual than "structureless" ones?! (my definition of "freedom" here is "fr
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by nnq 13y ago
I propose to show our sympathy towards the nice people at github by just forgetting this non-story ever existed. Or, it existed, but it was a whole different story, that had nothing to do with sexism and more to do with another woman being

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