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by pasta 8y ago
Yes there are exceptions, but I was talking about the average. The number 2 comes from the current world wide trend. In developed countries the fertility rate tumbles down but stops at around 2. So it is believed this is the average bottom.
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by pasta 8y ago
That's because it has to do with the death rate of children. On average most woman want two children. But when a lot of them die they will get more (average of 6 around 1800). The combination of enough food, education and good health c
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by pasta 8y ago
I strongly believe that compunding knowledge is also helping to create good software. And I think software companies should give a team the opportunity to invest time to know more about the subject. For example when you write WMS software y
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by pasta 8y ago
Also from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6894244 And from Aaron Swartz (2006): http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
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by pasta 8y ago
At the moment I am playing 'Cities: skylines' which it one of the best city cims at the moment imho. But the real question is: does it simulate what we know or what works best? Ofcourse I think it simulates what we know which migh
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by pasta 8y ago
Well I find myself not using the app store anymore because it's useless to find apps. There are no filters and no way to order results. Top downloads sometimes have worse scores than indy apps that only have a hundred downloads but wor
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by pasta 8y ago
Some suggest that a company should not exceed Dunbar's number (150). They say that when a company grown it should split up and work together as two companies to be productive. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar
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by pasta 8y ago
True. A good minimum might be 0.5 * normal font size.
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by pasta 8y ago
The examples of GuiLite and those of Littlevgi (posted in this thread) all look a little outdated and messy. And I can understand this. Most programmers aren't designers. But if you know why it looks outdated and messy it can help to c
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by pasta 8y ago
"Praat" = speak (in Dutch)
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by pasta 8y ago
Pixel perfect is not possible in HTML/CSS. Stop spreading this. But it is very possible to make websites look very good and inline with what was designed. But good luck making an input, button and select the same height. It's just
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by pasta 8y ago
Trust is gone and it will be the end of the big Facebook (website). I think Facebook (company) is lucky with Instagram because that's where the people are going right now.
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by pasta 8y ago
Loss of control can result in anger.
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by pasta 8y ago
Static shocks can do damage. Some weeks ago I was sitting at an office where everything was static (I think they did not ground the power outlets in the desks properly). Every time I sat down I got a big hit. But one time my laptop crashed
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by pasta 8y ago
I sometimes feel this also a language or tool problem. For example an integer. In most languages and tools this is a primitive. But most of the time we need a specific type of integer, for example a positive natural number. You can use a un
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by pasta 8y ago
Which is already blocked by 40% of the users via ad-blockers. Edit: some report even over 70% that block GA.
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by pasta 8y ago
In the Netherland, France, Belgium and other EU countries they started selling ugly food again. They are sold very cheap like 'outlaws' or expensive as 'real bio'. What I understand is that we have 3 visual classes. Some
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by pasta 8y ago
Yeah I'm also watching this for multiple years but there is not much progress in e-ink. I would even like it on my mobile. I don't need a brighter screen I need a readable screen. But right now I like my ultra-wide monitor for pro
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by pasta 8y ago
Indeed we need more research. For example a lot of coral is dying and most researchers suggest this is due to rising temperatures. But now some new research suggests that coral can handle the change in temperature but they die because they
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by pasta 8y ago
What I read is that most outbreaks spread a kind of linear while Ebola spreads exponetial. That's what is scary about Ebola. And ofcourse the fact there is still no cure.
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by pasta 8y ago
China is not a developing country. I don't know where you got that idea. China is the second-largest economy.
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by pasta 8y ago
The embedded movie shows some more details (the bottom of the lake is at 1098 meters) but still not a single picture of the 'plankton' they found. For the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean
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by pasta 8y ago
Some weeks ago I had to choose a PHP framework and ended up with Laravel vs Symfony. I started the project twice in both frameworks. And while Laravel might be the most popular one I would say you should go with Symfony 4. Laravel just has
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by pasta 8y ago
Wow, EDNS is a DNS extension mechanism first published in 1999. So I can imagine after 20 year it is time to move on. When I first read it I thought it was some kind of 'new' tech.
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by pasta 8y ago
At the moment I am readig Factfullness from Hans Rosling [1]. He is very positive about the changes of the last (100) years. Bill Gates is one of those people who contributed a lot to these positive changes. [1] ISBN: 978-12-50-12381-7
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by pasta 8y ago
Did you ever use the hockey puck as mouse? Yes that's from the Steve area... Steve made Apple great but it's an illusion to think a company will grow forever. Steve was also lucky to have Apple in a time where a lot new stuff was
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by pasta 8y ago
I have been working 24, 32 and 40 hours for longer periods of time. While 24 hours is great for personal time I felt like I got out of touch with my company, collegues and work in general. 40 hours a week is just 'getting those 8 hours
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by pasta 8y ago
On Android location != GPS. For location also Wi-Fi is used. So GPS can be turned off but they can track your location by looking at the available Wi-Fi spots around you.
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by pasta 8y ago
My comment was a little unclear. But I think sometimes people just take lock-in for granted. As for Fusion 360: once your producted is manufactured you can just export the 3D data. This will loose all steps to create the model but I think p
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by pasta 8y ago
Because the workflow CAD -> CAM is very very good in Fusion 360, people just take it for granted. Sometimes locked(in) software is just better than open alternatives. It's like Photoshop vs Gimp. Yes, Gimp can do most of what Photos

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