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by qw 17y ago
RSS. It has been available for years, but has not reached mainstream yet.
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by qw 17y ago
There were better BASIC languages out there at the time. One example of this is AMOS. It was one of the very few pieces of software that I bought for the Amiga, because of the great manual. It was years ahead of qbasic/quickbasic and had a
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by qw 17y ago
I was surprised they didn't compare it to the energy consumption of the Library of Congress
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by qw 17y ago
The new one is much better. Clear and crisp. The top one looks like someone played around with Photoshop. Reminds me of the beginning of the web when it was popular to render 3D logos.
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by qw 17y ago
The problem is that not everyone thinks as you, and will vote based on agreement/disagreement. We need a clear separation of these types of votes.
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by qw 17y ago
The missile will be smart enough to compensate for ship movements.
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by qw 17y ago
That sounds extremely complicated. I don't see the need to emulate checks electronically, when there are good solutions today. Scandinavian business and personal users have no problems with transferring money using online banks. You can eve
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by qw 17y ago
"2x gain in eventual performance" It only takes 2 seconds before JRuby catches up with 1.9.2. That's not long, so unless your program only runs for a few seconds, the wait is worth it
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by qw 17y ago
There could be a fourth option: An advanced civilization has control over our region of the galaxy. Perhaps the reason why we don't detect other civilizations is because the dominant civilization neutralizes others when they get too advance
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by qw 17y ago
One advantage is that you can serve more people at the same time. It is probably much faster to push a button and get a ticket, than fighting a phone system
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by qw 17y ago
I don't think you can consider what goes on in prisons as sex. Most of the time it's rape. It is interesting to observe how Americans view sex in prison as if it was inevitable. If inmates were raped in my country, there would be an outrage
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by qw 17y ago
I don't see the problem. It doesn't use the same colours and it isn't that similar. And the Amtrak logo is only known to Americans anyway.
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by qw 17y ago
It was simple. This is the code he had to use (assuming he used URLConnection) connection.setRequestProperty ("User-agent", "GoogleBot/0.01"); I had never done this before and found it out by looking at the javadoc. I don't see how switchin
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by qw 17y ago
I think you need to distinguish between the religious/cultural definition of marriage, and the legal definition. I agree that we can't force priests to marry in the name of their God, because that's a matter of faith. That decision shoul
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by qw 17y ago
How about a simple program that monitors an RSS feed, and sends each new entry to a person as a mail.
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by qw 17y ago
Coding it is not difficult. The real problem is how to keep it updated. Most of the prices are found on very unstructured web pages that are difficult to crawl. You might even get sued if you provide incorrect information. One possible solu
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by qw 17y ago
The Norwegian government made a similar site in 2002, because they felt the confusion around the "products" made it easier to hide hidden costs. Because no such service existed, they had to make it themselves.
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by qw 17y ago
Hulu seems great. Too bad it's not available in my country...
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by qw 17y ago
That must be an American thing. I've never heard of someone having to pay for incoming messages.
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by qw 17y ago
News sites would probably accept articles from companies if they were paid enough. If we were lucky, they would add a small disclaimer somewhere at the bottom of the article. And they would probably also sneak in comments about a company in
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Three years in Europe with Trolltech(benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com)
25 points by qw 17y ago|6 comments
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by qw 17y ago
But does it take into account the cost of not having the same protection from a welfare system. Poor people in the US may have more money to spend, but what happens when they get sick, or need higher education?
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by qw 17y ago
Another interesting fact is the prison population rates per 100,000 of the national population. US has the highest rate in the world. US: 760 Netherlands: 100 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/law/research/icps/worldbrief/wpb...
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by qw 17y ago
"The contrasting situation in many other countries, where wars from hundreds of years ago are still the basis for grudges today" I don't think they can be compared. The U.S. was a very young country and the differences between the states
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by qw 17y ago
This reminds me of another article that was posted to HN a few months ago. The author speculated that one of the reasons why we have not seen signs of alien life, is that any advanced civilization capable of space travel will eventually cre
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by qw 17y ago
If you have room for it, it is more practical with a separate dryer and washing machine. You will lose the ability to dry clothes while another batch is washing. But if you are single and don't have to do more than one wash at a time, it is
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by qw 17y ago
That wouldn't work in northern Europe for large parts of the year, because of the climate. There are both advantages and disadvantages by air drying. By drying them outside, you get a more "fresh" smell. But if you use a dryer, the clothes
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by qw 17y ago
Norway has historically had one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe. In February 2009 there were 3.9% unemployed. This is an increase compared to previous years. In 2008 there were only 2.6% unemployed. I look forward to seeing your
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by qw 17y ago
(b) most of the code came from existing libraries, APIs, etc In my opinion the "X in Y hours" articles can be useful. If they can make a fully functional service in a short time due to libraries, those APIs and libraries might be of use f
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by qw 18y ago
I don't buy that argument. Basic morals is just a minimum requirement for a society. We need to work together as a community, so for it to work there has to be a set of rules. You can see the same with packs of lions or other types of anima

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