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by qwerta 13y ago
Technically every university graduate produces thesis, those are published and stored in university library. So for many countries this rate is more like 5 in 10.
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by qwerta 13y ago
>For what it's worth the Soviet's response to the Shuttle program was a failure. NASA remains the only one to get a partially re-usable orbiter into use. Strictly speaking Sojuz has some reusable parts, mostly electronics. >
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by qwerta 13y ago
Soviet rockets were more reliable because they did not throw away the good designs, after they were tested. I guess space exploration could be completely different, if Space Shuttle would launch and land without humans. Apollo could be used
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by qwerta 13y ago
There are several holes in this article. >The tribe in Central Europe ate almost exclusively freshwater fish until around 3000 B.C 3000 BC was still stone (copper) age in Central Europe. Agriculture is very hard with stone tools. Also cl
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by qwerta 13y ago
>There's no copying of SIM Cards. I would be careful with such statement :-) Security usually maters on type of card, but top range is pretty expensive. There are number of ways howto 'debug' chip using power consumption,
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by qwerta 13y ago
I know many people who happily left Excel behind. Each localized version stored function names as localized strings!!! So format was not even compatible across the same version.
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by qwerta 13y ago
They asked Neil Armstrong what he would do, if engine on Eagle broke and there was zero chance they would return from Moon. He answered: "I would try to fix it"
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by qwerta 13y ago
Xtend, Haxe and Kotlin works just fine.
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by qwerta 13y ago
Had the same problem. I simply added statement to project readme, that I may forward question to public lists. I refuse to repeat myself and documentation for my project is not ready yet. For private conversation I usually require donation.
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by qwerta 13y ago
> Android ... essentially force you to use Java You can use many languages which compile down to Java Byte code.
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by qwerta 13y ago
Scientific theories do go off. They should also provide predictions and explanations of unknown events. In modern biology even term 'species' is pretty much outdated. Same way we no longer use Newton equations for space navigation
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by qwerta 13y ago
> Evolution as an abstract model is pretty old, but it's not likely to ever be outdated. But it is outdated. Survival of the fittest is gross oversimplification and it is holding back more complex theories, which could provide bette
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by qwerta 13y ago
There are two funny things: - Evolution itself is pretty much outdated theory. Genetics, biochemistry and ethology are light years beyond Darwin. It is like discussing Copernicus while scientists are working on quantum gravity. - Evolution
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by qwerta 13y ago
Interesting project. I had similar hobby project: MapDB database engine. It started as simple data store for astronomical application. I wrote first patch for JDBM (old name) while observing at Atacama desert 4 years ago. I never advertised
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by qwerta 13y ago
New York state has all rights to protects its interest. But they should do it case by case, not by spamming everyone who happened to be on some list.
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by qwerta 13y ago
Why author thinks that UK Paypal account would not get frozen, if someone would complain? Also I have serious doubts UK court would just accept ruling of German court. In software law UK is closer to US.
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by qwerta 13y ago
Why downwote? Oh I see; fixed version: Wine on Mac
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by qwerta 13y ago
There is old joke which is now actually true. The best Win32 implementation is Wine on Linux :-)
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by qwerta 13y ago
NTFS has actual support for hard file links, but only usage I ever seen was for jokes similar to this one.
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by qwerta 13y ago
Yes, bot nobody can ban you from roads because you are black or woman. At least in civilized part of world.
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by qwerta 13y ago
I dont like attitude that programmers have some sort of super powers. Sure you can put your tiny script on github, but there are zillions of half baked repos there (including mine). To change local news you could start blog, podcasts or vid
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by qwerta 13y ago
But roads and other infrastructure are ours. You can not ban someone from using those.
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by qwerta 13y ago
That is different level. I was very proud for dropping the mirror only twice during the grinding :-)
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by qwerta 13y ago
> "Ordinary" people going to Russia ... having details ... leaked This is case everywhere. Do you think NSA will just delete their databases? It is just question when all this data will get connected with Visa Applications, IR
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by qwerta 13y ago
I am Czech and I would not understand what "mirror grounding" means.
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by qwerta 13y ago
So what? London Olympics were tapped as well. At G20 summit in 2009 GCHQ even spied on foreign diplomats by hacking their devices and setting up fake internet cafes.
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by qwerta 13y ago
No pressure, I have long runway and dozens of job offers to fallback to. And I just turned profitable. This is not a rant, I love what I am doing and freedom it brings. I just want to point out that being OS nerd, does not always line up w
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by qwerta 13y ago
I am bootstraping startup which will turn my long time hobby OS project into full-time job. I am almost always tired, cranky and my social life sucks. I think it is safe to say, I would be better man with normal hobby and 9-5 job.
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by qwerta 13y ago
It is sticky, very hard to wash and gets everywhere.
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by qwerta 13y ago
I think Kotlin and Java8 are in different category. For example Kotlin also compiles to JS and it has reasonable chance to become killer web language.

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