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by pippy 13y ago
I found this while trying to figure out what TETRASIL/IMUSIL was: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tetrasil I'm suspect it's just pseudo-science, if it wasn't other countries would be manufacturing the
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by pippy 13y ago
To me the criticisms about PHP are pedantic and is a result of misunderstanding the philosophy behind PHP. The kneejerk reaction language modifications the PHP community made because of the 'PHP sucks lol' meme is detrimental to t
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by pippy 13y ago
Net Applications was taken off the wikipedia page about browser market share because their information sources contained fabricated data. They even admitted in their technical documents. I wouldn't trust any blogspam that references th
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by pippy 13y ago
You're dead right. The major hurdle isn't the technology, it's purely funding. We already have technology far more advanced than the Saturn V, the VentureStar for example could be built using 90's technology, and they we
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by pippy 13y ago
I'd hardly call taking down a website "destroying an industry for profit and domination". The OpenNI Framework source code isn't going to disappear.
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by pippy 13y ago
I once met the ex-CEO of Orcon (a major NZ ISP) who had a near mythical view of Steve Jobs. The way he spoke of him made me realise that humans instinctively apply concepts to shape their world view, even if the concepts aren't made fo
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by pippy 13y ago
Sorry, I updated my comment. I also should have mentioned Mono, but that's a different topic.
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by pippy 13y ago
It's not .NET, .NET is a fantastic framework. The problem here is you're not just selling IIS and .NET, you're trying to sell the entire Microsoft ecosystem. There are so many MS components that just don't work on the Op
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by pippy 13y ago
Mathematics is a difficult subject to teach, not because it's difficult, but because people who gravitate to the field tend to have fewer people skills. Math101 was the only paper I ever withdrew from. One lecturer was an Indian who ba
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by pippy 13y ago
I was under the impression what he posted was a joke.
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by pippy 13y ago
Yes, sorry I meant to type in ARM.
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by pippy 13y ago
This is a ignorant response. The nature of climate change isn't the empirical data; that's simply validation of the various scientific models of the earths climate. To date our models have been fairly accurate and we've been
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by pippy 13y ago
We're getting close to the age where you can buy a off the shelf AMD desktop machine with Linux, a good graphics card, and the same performance of a x86-64.
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by pippy 13y ago
I would assume much of this is done by speculators. iBit, a company that directly connects the bitcoin market with NASDAQ, enables high volumes of trade. Once you have bitcoin all other alt currencies are very easy to trade. Many speculator
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by pippy 13y ago
They can now declare how many National Security Letters and FISA requests they get in increments of 250. That's absolutely ridiculous. It's no better than not stating at all. They also still can't state if the request is rela
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by pippy 13y ago
I've had the exact same experience as the author of this post. Eggs are great if you just want to install a python library. Horrible if you want to modify the library or distribute a program. I personally use a mixture of setuptools an
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by pippy 13y ago
Will this apply to exported phones as well? I would assume that Samsung phones are produced in China and exported globally, not even touching South Korean shores.
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by pippy 13y ago
Sometimes simple is good. Why not print off a few QR codes, and hide them around your house?
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by pippy 13y ago
Sadly the person who wrote this didn't even do the most basic of research. The human genome project pretty clearly defined that while the classic classification of racial groups was wrong, it wasn't far from the mark in terms of g
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by pippy 13y ago
They likely only extended support in the fear another company snaps up their corporate customers. There are plenty of alternative supported distros that would work on older hardware, different methodologies (IE BYOD), or virtualization stra
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by pippy 13y ago
I agree, programmers are drowning in a wash of languages with one coming out every week. We have so many to chose from it's ridiculous. One that isn't even released is even more of a bore. The defining feature with any language is
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by pippy 13y ago
Or more worryingly patenting any potential improvements upon bitcoin, limiting its expansion.
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by pippy 13y ago
I've been very interested in this problem. I ran a community for a few months that wound up being quite popular (40k uniques a day before I closed it down). My attempt to address with problem was to have a min + max time, but most inte
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by pippy 13y ago
Conservatives all over the globe have been using Greece and Portugal as reasons to slash public services. The public figures are well aware that public spending makes up a large percent of GDP expenditure, despite being a fraction of privat
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by pippy 13y ago
You've got to read between the lines with a corporate statement. There are two major issues this one: 1) They're giving no indication that they can't decrypt their customers data. This won't protect customers from the
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by pippy 13y ago
IIRC Sony made far more selling insurance than their entire hardware division.
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by pippy 13y ago
Interesting, I did the same thing the other day. Though I used the method of finding the (possible) three roots of the equation, and then pinpointing the locations of the intersections.
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by pippy 13y ago
Cool! I'll be interested in seeing how you get on with Snake Hill Games. My guess is most artists want a UI friendly app where they can quickly make assets.
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by pippy 13y ago
I'd prefer to see MSIE market share continue to decline to less than 20%. The would warrant not having to make any specific browser hacks to get it to work.
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by pippy 13y ago
I have to agree with this post. Gnome 3.1 is really great, and I feel they've finally moved away from the 95 look and feel.

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