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by pepr 14y ago
Somewhat improved, but especially in the notebook space it's still far from optimal. This is not necessarily fault of the commnunity - laptops often have custom hardware (e.g. NVIDIA Optimus) that simply doesn't have driver support because
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by pepr 14y ago
That would suggest US medical research companies are not properly compensated by their European customers. I don't think that's the case :)
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by pepr 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that a Swiss or UK physician does equally good job as his counterpart in the US.
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Bitcoin blockchain forked between v0.7 and v0.8 nodes due to BDB bug(bitcointalk.org)
2 points by pepr 14y ago|1 comments
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by pepr 14y ago
I have a setup like that, I get more spam because of that of course but Google is really good at filtering it. And especially in conjunction with priority inbox, it's a breeze (and very convenient).
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by pepr 14y ago
1. Chargebacks are only necessary because of the pull nature of the US banking system. I haven't even heard about chargeback until I came to US from Europe. Bitcoin is push, no chargebacks are necessary because nobody can take your money. 2
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by pepr 14y ago
So basically you think that if the French populace had a lot of guns it would help them fight off Wehrmacht? It might help the resistance a little bit but otherwise it's useless. And even more so against modern armies.
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by pepr 14y ago
And don't forget Japanese - in the sixties and seventies, they were copying technologies exactly like Chinese do today and everyone was afraid they're going to overrun the whole world.
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by pepr 14y ago
I kind of hoped for an actual torrent tracker rather than central site that can be easily taken down. But never mind :)
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by pepr 14y ago
Great writeup, but I have a comment on deploy: do you mean that "play start" can be used for production? Because otherwise, Django has runserver for development. It just shouldn't be used for production.
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by pepr 14y ago
I'm curious, are other Java implementations (e.g. OpenJDK) really that bad? I mean, quite a lot of influential/resourceful companies are behind it, are they unwilling or unable to improve it?
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by pepr 14y ago
Nice. BTW, there is a similar site: http://hnhiring.me/
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by pepr 14y ago
I'd be very interested to hear a ballpark estimate how much data they're storing in their PostgreSQL instances. Any word on that?
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by pepr 14y ago
But that would increase prices for programming work to the point where some projects simply would not make financial sense. So there would less projects and therefore less non-programming jobs associated with those projects.
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by pepr 14y ago
I'm a foreign graduate student doing my Master's degree at a relatively well-known university in Texas and I really don't feel like a slave. The pay is modest (15K/year for 20h/week) but it is sufficient to live comfortably and occasionally
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by pepr 14y ago
It's somewhat sad given the circumstances, but this reads as one of those Chuck Norris lists.
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by pepr 14y ago
Nice to see this, used to do this with just Inkscape -- somewhat more work :).
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by pepr 14y ago
Well, I think we all agree that this isn't what RMS imagined (by a LONG shot). This is a kind of compromise, a merging of Free Software ideals with practical implementation how to translate Linux into a "consumer OS". The sad fact is that y
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by pepr 14y ago
Actually, yes in my viewpoint pretty much every billboard is spam. I've yet to see a billboard that informed me of something useful to me personally. (Let alone at an appropriate time! Is me driving on a highway an appropriate time to let m
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by pepr 14y ago
Well, they would first impose it and then somebody sues them and it starts bouncing around various courts for the next 5 years. It would take some serious time until there would be a final ruling.
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by pepr 14y ago
Well, that's for now. How is it going to be in 3 years? Is this just a grace period? Obviously it affects new signups first, they can't just cut off everybody and force to migrate to the paid version.
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by pepr 14y ago
In my experience (coming from former communist country, now living in US) it's a bit amplified by the fact that these competitions are significantly more popular in those countries than they are for example in US or Western Europe. It just
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by pepr 14y ago
You actually don't need separate emails for this. You can use (name+tag@provider.com, Gmail supports it and others too I'm sure). Or you can use your own domain (Google Apps makes this really trivial) and have the part before @ be the siten
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by pepr 14y ago
Well, I'm not a big fan of Skype but I tend to use it for longer calls with family overseas (US<->Europe) because I experience quite significantly better video/audio quality. Few months back (it's fixed now I think) I even had freez
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by pepr 14y ago
Agreed. It's a triviality but git add -p is one of the main reasons my commits in Git are cleaner than in SVN. It's also one of the advantages I cite when advocating for Git.
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by pepr 14y ago
Well, let's be honest with ourselves. If they won't be free from the original source, they will eventually be free from other sources. The important thing is that the material will exist and it will be available for anyone to learn from. Th
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by pepr 14y ago
Guys, just out of curiosity, what school are you studying? I'm Petr, I did my Bachelor degree at CTU FEE (CVUT FEL) and I'm doing my Master's in US.
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Replacing findbigmail.com with simple Python script(github.com)
2 points by pepr 15y ago|0 comments