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by olau 11y ago
So you don't imagine you being the one home with your children, day in and day out? Life with children is demanding. It's a bit more complex than what you allude to. Not that I'd recommend not having children, I love mine and
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by olau 11y ago
I think you have to separate joy of the tech from practical matters here. Regarding the practical matters, it looks like they are three orders of magnitude from being on par with the three-blade vertical design. So while this idea may be wo
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by olau 11y ago
If you find yourself starting a sentence with an excuse, it's a good sign you are on the wrong side of polite behaviour. He's 77 years old.
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by olau 11y ago
"I do believe there is often some bias against candidates who had extraordinarily long tenures at one company" I think that's interesting, because I was recently involved in a hiring process where we had the opposite view - l
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by olau 11y ago
> The need for baseload generation is not going anywhere. Yes, it is. Baseload is a principle you can take advantage of to introduce massive plants that need to output at 100% almost all the time, like nuclear plants. There's no int
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by olau 11y ago
Please provide sources. This is not true for the country I live in for new generation. I read somewhere it's not true for Australia either. People are sometimes fooled by sunk capital costs of old power plants.
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by olau 12y ago
Energy consumption != electricity consumption. Regarding France, that argument works both ways. And whatever advantages nuclear may or may not have, that doesn't matter if it's too expensive.
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by olau 12y ago
I think you'd benefit from looking at some actual data. In practice, wind is predictable enough. You don't need baseload. It's a concept that makes sense when you have power plants with flat output profiles. What you actually
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by olau 12y ago
Do you have a reputable source for that? Fruit is definitely good for more than its vitamins. Also, we are not monkeys anymore, but monkeys eat a lot of fresh raw fruit. Arguably they climb trees while doing so but eating like a monkey seem
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by olau 12y ago
At the time when XMPP was getting standardized and was still mostly known as Jabber, I started implementing a Jabber chat client with a friend. The problem with XMPP isn't that it was based on XML. No, what made it annoying was that th
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by olau 12y ago
While I agree strict consistency is probably overkill in many if not most situations, the problem with not having consistency is that it potentially makes the application logic much more complicated. Take the database of customers - so if y
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by olau 12y ago
I've so far prevented that with a system. So read books go in the corner, and we only pick up books from the shelf. When the shelf is empty, or near empy, the read-books stash moves into the shelf again. Never had to argue about it, th
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by olau 12y ago
No. The GNOME foundation is managing the funds of the outreach program (which doesn't have anything to do with GNOME, really, except it started there), so when some of the sponsors (think big corps) of the outreach programme didn'
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by olau 12y ago
Just in case people are wondering about the horror story: use ngettext which is a function in the gettext library.
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by olau 12y ago
Wages: so I just googled the average Chinese wage and the first answer I got was around $5000. you don't think a difference of an order of magnitude in wages could explain the difference? Regarding waste in administration: I'm sur
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by olau 12y ago
The nuclear dream. Is it coming back - or not? There was an interesting article some time ago: http://thebulletin.org/2013/march/how-close-us-nuclear-indus... Unfortunately it is now paywalled. I personally doubt
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by olau 12y ago
Wages are lower in China. You can't compare the costs directly.
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by olau 12y ago
Are you really extrapolating from ONE data point? In some sense systemd is more stable in that it's fixing some longstanding bugs with sysvinit, but of course it will have some bugs of it own. If you don't want to deal with that,
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by olau 12y ago
For XHTML to win, we'd have to lose our history. Yes, it would have been simpler in terms of parsing, but I'm glad practicality beat purity. Everytime I see a CDATA section in some old code, something inside me dies.
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by olau 12y ago
I don't think that's really a fair comment. Red Hat has always focused on the enterprise - home users didn't slip past them, they were never the focus. The original success of Ubuntu was really incremental improvements - they
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by olau 12y ago
In case anyone's interested: You've got it mostly right. Warg was sentenced to 3.5 years. The sentence was appealed on the spot, but they're not going to release him as they think it's likely he's going to flee the
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by olau 12y ago
Did you go through the Emacs tutorial? Emacs allows you to use basic commands like any other editor, but to be blazingly fast you need to use the controls explained in the tutorial (plus some extra stuff that you can pick up later). The tut
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by olau 12y ago
"Knowing the benefits of this approach, I don't understand why anyone would want to reject it." It's always difficult to have these kinds of conversations in the abstract, but for me it's a slightly cumbersome distr
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by olau 12y ago
There was a prototype salt power plant in Norway that eventually was abandoned: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statkraft_osmotic_power_prototy... The competition in energy generation is fierce. For those wondering how th
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by olau 13y ago
Or simply a symlink: wget ... tar zxvf ... cd myproject ln -s ../django-debug-toolbar-xxx/debug_toolbar
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by olau 13y ago
Chill out people. The man is saying that the pure object-oriented model and the pure functional programming model have corners where they are lacking. He's not saying it's a bad idea to write object-oriented programs or pure funct
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by olau 13y ago
With hetzner.de, you get 20 TB/per month included with a dedicated server and then 2 EUR/TB after that http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex40 So not free, but not as expensive as
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by olau 13y ago
On tabs vs. spaces, read the old classic: http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html tldr; don't use tabs. I read that piece many years ago and thought who cares, but I've later changed my editor to never use
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by olau 13y ago
Population density: sure. Hills: that's not really true if you have a bicycle with a gearing system. You can get a cheap new one with 7 speeds for about the same as a smart phone. That's enough to get past most hills with some but
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by olau 13y ago
You are confounding two things now too. One is legitimate concerns that would lead to refusal to entry or questioning or similar. The other is pointless harassment due to problems with the system. The OP gave examples of the latter. Hopeful

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