olau

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by olau 8y ago
My personal yardstick is that code should be as easy to understand and take over as possible. Imagine a future co-worker coming in to fix a bug in your code - that person should ideally be able to say, aha, write a fix, and afterwards nobod
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by olau 8y ago
Then you've surely hit the memory reclaim problem. I checked just now and my GNOME Shell started this morning is using 153 MB memory (resident). There are some latency issues after moving to Wayland, though. Don't have a good link
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by olau 8y ago
What amount of money would you have to invest and for what? Data retention?
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by olau 9y ago
"I spend almost no time fiddling with my system nowadays." And this is perhaps the main difference. You stopped tinkering. You can install a Linux distro aimed a people not interested in tinkering and it will likely just work. &qu
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by olau 9y ago
100% agree. You can see the same happening in management - results from extremely simplified experiments is extrapolated to overarching advice. Interacting with other people is complex and context-sensitive.
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by olau 9y ago
You could put a roof on top of the bike network?
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by olau 9y ago
Ahem, my English book certainly featured a story about a worker kid coming home from school and having some kind of grub "for tea" at 5 pm, i.e. food with tea as the drink. My understanding was that this usage referred to a meal e
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by olau 9y ago
In Denmark, after a war where the southern part of Jutland was lost, a campaign started to farm the heath. There was a hard layer half a meter or so beneath the top soil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardpan so with de
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by olau 9y ago
> With that definition - it's absolutely correct to say that the code should be as simple as possible. Yet, it is humans who need to read it. This is the end goal. If you rewrite the code to satisfy a theoretical objective criteria
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by olau 9y ago
To some extent I think you're right. But the problem, just like with patents, is that there a many kinds of actors in our modern world, including large companies who couldn't really care less. A company like Disney would, I think,
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by olau 9y ago
Taxes is traditionally a heated subject. I think it's unreasonable to express a simple (one-sided) argument within this subject and not expect a one-sided answer from someone. It is truly a complex subject. Now, I expect someone to dis
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by olau 9y ago
I think this is actually how everyone learns! You can't put information into people. You can present it to them, but they need to teach themselves, so to speak. If you have what I think is a good schooling system, it will recognize and
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by olau 9y ago
Richard Hughes works for Red Hat - I think they are sponsoring his time: https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/
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by olau 9y ago
Eh, I'm not an expert on this, but as I understand this project is about firmware that needs to be flashed onto devices. The kind of thing where people in the old days formatted a floppy disk and booted from that. So I think your compa
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by olau 9y ago
I have another example. In web frameworks, there is usually a little bit of boiler plate for each view. You could refactor this completely away, but not without an almost total loss of flexibility and a good amount of readability too. Often
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by olau 9y ago
You cannot build a large API effectively without using it. Programming is tons of details, and you're going to miss some if you aren't programming with your API yourself. It's like building a graphical user interface without
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by olau 9y ago
I find it interesting that you hold the MailChimp API in such a high regard. I use it frequently as an example of how not to build an API. I find it hard to integrate efficiently with it - it got worse from version 2 to 3, although some of
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by olau 9y ago
Yeah, fires are rare but deadly. Building codes for materials and escape routes, fire alarms and similar are preventive measures. For instance, where I live there's a rule for houses that all rooms where people might sleep in must have
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by olau 9y ago
For our first-born I bought a cheap digital fish weighing scale (1 gram resolution, I think I paid 1-2 USD for it) from Taiwan because I found it incredible that the midwives/nursing staff was basing their assessments on either low-res
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by olau 9y ago
12 solid diapers yesterday also seemed a little... impressive. :)
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by olau 9y ago
Care to provide some examples? Having a bunch of happy users doesn't seem like a bad starting point for a business to me.
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by olau 9y ago
Columbine: so you do something to prevent kids from getting bullied and have fewer mass-murdering students as a result? Seems like a good example to me. In general, how can you fix something you don't understand? I've never unders
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by olau 9y ago
> Unlike Ireland Luxembourg also did not hand out tax credits. This seems to be contradicted by the story itself: "Luxembourg gave illegal tax benefits to Amazon. As a result, almost three-quarters of Amazon's profits were not
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by olau 9y ago
I think it's a harsh view of human nature that doesn't allow for individuals to have individual motivations.
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by olau 9y ago
I think you should listen to him. Fusion is still vapourware. For it to ever be viable outside a few niches, it will have to beat fission in price, because it will probably share many characteristics with fission plants (high capital costs,
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by olau 9y ago
Managed to find this talk I watched many years ago on Google Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hAw1z8GdE8 IIRC, the professor explained that if you fall asleep faster than around 10-15 minutes, you're probably sl
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by olau 9y ago
It does sound fun, but apparently I'm still in the wrong country for Robinhood. And to be honest, in this case I would trade some fun for something with a GUI. :)
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by olau 9y ago
How far did you read? The author is starting from a basic state and working up from that with simple examples. Approximately halfway down the article starts considering "The Impact of Net Fund Flows".
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by olau 9y ago
I've been thinking the same. Are there any consumer-oriented products that lets you pick your own index? As in: you select the stocks and their proportion and supply the money/demand money out, and stocks are then bought/sold
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by olau 9y ago
> The gala apples on sale are probably too small to do well in long-term storage. Whole Foods isn't the only grocer selling those, either. When you say "do well", you mean they're not going to generate enough revenue?

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