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811.
by raarts 10y ago
Oh yes I do. Traveling consultant, need a laptop. Run VMs, Docker, many tabs open. Really need 16G.
812.
by raarts 10y ago
I regularly have 50 tabs open on Chrome. Switched to Safari a month ago hoping it would leave me more memory. Turns out my machine suddenly started beachballing, swapping like mad (battery usage up) and crashing. Switching back to Chrome
813.
by raarts 10y ago
How does their system work and how effective is it?
814.
by raarts 10y ago
Being treated as a actual object is something every woman has to deal with. In the real world there are laws and social norms, but in VR apparently nobody steps up if they see it happening. I can see this being a very unpleasant experience
815.
by raarts 10y ago
This line of reasoning can be applied to ANY change. Also HTTP isn't going away.
816.
by raarts 10y ago
> For those who make it to leadership, niceness is also a key to success. A 2015 NBC poll found that most people would take a nicer boss over a 10% pay increase. Doesn't this mean that most bosses are not nice, ergo niceness makes i
817.
by raarts 10y ago
Americans live to work, Europeans work to live. 'Nuff said.
818.
by raarts 10y ago
C#: windows or mono-on-linux Java: keyboard wear Scala: not enough programmers Python: not bad Ruby: too slow Haskell: math grad required
819.
by raarts 10y ago
> In Drupal, every single request compiles a file "common.inc", of several thousands of lines of PHP code. This only proves Drupal is slow.
820.
by raarts 10y ago
For a pretty thorough description of how The Netherlands achieves safe biking, see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0GA901oGe4 "Fred Young, a Landscape Architect based in Seattle, led us through a visual to
821.
by raarts 10y ago
Where is that? Dutch so I'm interested.
822.
by raarts 10y ago
I call BS. The progress that was made in the late eighties/early nineties was much more astounding. Going from character screens to fully event driven, windowed graphics mode was a much greater and more impressive change in a shorter
823.
by raarts 10y ago
> React Similarly on Flux: I implemented an immutable store where only incoming messages change state and changes are distributed to widgets in 2005. Around the same time we started using feature flags in our application. We also did CI
824.
by raarts 10y ago
1password almost completely solved this problem for me. Something like it should become part of the OS. Although I wish the agilebits people all the best...
825.
by raarts 10y ago
Actually I think most people on HN are not average voters.
826.
by raarts 10y ago
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. -- (Not really said by) Winston Churchill
827.
by raarts 10y ago
Actually I think they were too early in the market. Everything is moving towards real-time updates but we're at the beginning of that curve yet.
828.
by raarts 10y ago
How did that work out?
829.
by raarts 10y ago
Which is too much to ask from the average person.
830.
by raarts 10y ago
Note that more and more phone systems record every call.
831.
by raarts 10y ago
There's a book I can recommend: Devops 2.0 Toolkit.
832.
by raarts 10y ago
I see no reason why this would be true.
833.
by raarts 10y ago
From the blog: "Crazy Idea: Clone nanomsg, move to zeromq organization, relicense as MPL, support ZMTP, only new socket types and expose CZMQ API." Did that ever happen? I still like the idea behind nanomsg.
834.
by raarts 10y ago
I regularly have 50 tabs open on my 8G MBA in 4-5 windows. Recently I moved from Chrome to Safari thinking it would save me battery. Well it didn't. Because Safari used so much more memory it started trashing. And I could forget about
835.
by raarts 10y ago
> the problem is that every government agency is using SSNs as if they are good identifiers So much this. Especially with all the data breaches knowledge of an SSN has become meaningless. The practice of taking it as an identifier should
836.
by raarts 10y ago
People did not leave MySpace because they were annoyed, but because something better came along that didn't annoy them as much.
837.
by raarts 10y ago
You should state how old you were at the time.
838.
by raarts 10y ago
Just like PHP :-)
839.
by raarts 10y ago
This photo shows the atrocity of using napalm. The suffering of this girl (any idea in how much pain she is?) is much more important than the hurt feelings of some people about 'showing too much skin'. The OP makes the point that
840.
by raarts 10y ago
No. He is saying the agreement is either stupid or stupidly executed and this proves it.

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