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by nordsieck 15y ago
Once upon a time, it was best practice to keep the swap file/partition (or log files, etc.) off of the SSD in order to keep the frequent writes from wearing out the SSD too quickly. Do you feel like this is outdated advice?
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by nordsieck 15y ago
For equal sized characters (measured in in/cm), higher resolution should result in more readable font. Perhaps I'm biased because I spend all my time in terminals and browsers, but font scaling seems to work quite well for me.
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by nordsieck 15y ago
IMO, the most important feature in a laptop is resolution. The presence of an ssd is a distant second. Sony Vaios are ridiculously expensive; that being said, they offer 1920x1080 in a 13.1" form factor. This completely destroys everyone
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by nordsieck 15y ago
"It costs money to fulfill these deals. 'Losing money on every sale' is not a way to build a real business." I've been looking over the Groupon/etc. deals in my area. There's a reason why almost all of the deals are either low marginal cos
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by nordsieck 15y ago
The author is unfortunately conflating two (albeit related) arguments. 1. There is a difference between a bad decision and a trade-off that you will (probably) have to re-visit in the future. 2. Writing messy code is a bad decision. Irregar
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by nordsieck 15y ago
Seems pretty silly. A child, when rescued from a university pond, returns to a safe stable situation.
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by nordsieck 15y ago
I think your objection is a good one. Horizontal scaling in humans has low efficiency, so it's usually best to max out the benefits of vertical scaling first. That being said, Scott Adams' career advice[1] seems pretty solid. In short, it
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by nordsieck 15y ago
Am I the only one reminded of the Eve Investment Bank? http://news.softpedia.com/news/Eve-Online-Economy-Suffers-70... Does anyone know if they disclosed the address at which they stored their bit coins?