qwerta

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by qwerta 14y ago
There is joke that best Win32 implementation is Wine on Ubuntu :-)
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by qwerta 14y ago
Suggestion to use Google Docs for medical records published on Harvard.edu? Ehm...
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by qwerta 14y ago
How about 28 hour day? http://www.limedaring.com/hacking-your-week-the-28-hour-day/
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by qwerta 14y ago
I found it very cynical that man hold in custody has less rights than in regular prison.
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by qwerta 14y ago
Interesting find. I wonder if this would apply to Java program as well. Better test it for MapDB.
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by qwerta 14y ago
It is great way to tax companies like Google and Facebook. 1 million fine for each day they wont comply, or ban in Europe. It's very simple, Watson.
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by qwerta 14y ago
Maybe 2600k@5GHz is practical and theoretical limit for silicon based chips. Scientists were talking about this nearly two decades. BTW: AMD makes low-end chips, maybe it is more perspective line for future development (power efficiency). S
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by qwerta 14y ago
> Practically every interaction with them requires you to tell them your I find it _VERY_ disturbing that government is even asking for such information. Political clime is changing quickly and such catalogs may end easily in wrong hand
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by qwerta 14y ago
It is even worse. There were some publications which already entered public domain, but High Court extended copyright period retroactively. So stuff which was already under PD got copyrighted again. (I dont have link, please add it)
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by qwerta 14y ago
MapDB is still too fresh, so there is no documentation or examples yet. But some people are already using it, mostly for parsing large text files. Previous versions were called JDBM and it has been around since 2001, so it has some solid us
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by qwerta 14y ago
It uses more memory and result number of entries will be smaller. It is database engine, physical laws still applies.
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by qwerta 14y ago
Exactly. If there is too many pointers GC becomes very slow.
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3 billion items in Java Map with 16 GB RAM(kotek.net)
105 points by qwerta 14y ago|37 comments
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by qwerta 14y ago
Income tax is actually very low. In many countries tax is masked various ways. For example there is 'social insurance' and 'health insurance' calculated from income and de-facto is income tax. Also your employer has to pay 'contributions'
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MapDB: Java collections backed by fast database engine.(mapdb.org)
2 points by qwerta 14y ago|0 comments
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by qwerta 14y ago
Dont be a polyglot, it is read to hell! Learn only two languages which are stable, use similar stack and complement each other (C and Lua; C++ and Python; Java and Clojure). And become _best_ at those two.
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by qwerta 14y ago
I have daily job and children. On side I have an huge open-source project. Procrastination was my huge enemy. I solved it by 'will'. TODO lists, monthly shopping, booking everything on time... It is easier than you think.
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by qwerta 14y ago
I always loved when Jamie on Mythbusters pulls out some stuff from his workshop. I have TONS of "junk" and it makes huge difference in my life. Otherwise I would spend 50% of my time searching for stuff I already had, but throw away a few m