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by reality_czech 9y ago
There is more information here: http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/water/factsheet/com/co... If you have old copper pipes you're probably fine. An oxide coating builds up on the pipes over
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by reality_czech 9y ago
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Clojure is dying. One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Clojure community when Lambda Island confirmed that Clojure market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a
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by reality_czech 9y ago
A lot of commenters here are treating this announcement like it is the end of Lustre. It is not. Lustre has a LONG history and a lot of deployments. A partial history: 1999: Lustre is started as a research project at Carnegie Mellon Univ
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by reality_czech 10y ago
I have a lot of friends who live in Sillicon Valley and have kids. They don't live in "microapartments" (those aren't even legal to build, there are space minimums.) They mostly live in houses which they either bought
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Hooray, Unity and Mir are dead! Now the next step is to give people a good migration path to Fedora or Debian.
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by reality_czech 10y ago
An open source project I am involved with had the same experience. We were expecting to get idealistic young people as students who had a passion for the project. Instead, we got people from poor countries who were doing it for the money
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by reality_czech 10y ago
I have tried Rust, Go, Java, SML, Lisp, Javascript, and many other languages. I prefer Go in many situations where simplicity, speed of compilation, and portability are important. Rust is an interesting language with a lot of potential bu
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Cupertino is not "the middle of nowhere." And 12 story buildings are a terrible idea in an earthquake zone with soft ground. The amount of space we use for office parks is tiny in comparison with the amount of space we use for ag
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Wow. Just wow. You think that the media is doing an "excellent job" because they're suppressing news about a possible nuclear incident? And the rest of the post is nitpicks about the grammar of the article? And falsely clai
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by reality_czech 10y ago
It seems like they should publish a directive clarifying this, if they really want to make it clear. In any case, viral licensing exists in the US, which is enough to make the EUPL toxic to nearly all companies.
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by reality_czech 10y ago
It looks very LGPL-like in spirit. It's hard to know if you can use it in something commercial or not, though. The pessimistic interpretation is that if you use it your software becomes a "derived work" of the library, in t
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Parse is just "doubling down on its amazing bet." No failures here!
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by reality_czech 10y ago
You are missing the plot completely if you think the USSR failed because of a lack of computing power. The incentives at every level of the communist system were misaligned. It was all about loyalty, not embarrassing the higher-ups, and n
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Basically, politicians want to be seen as "doing something about the problem" for any problem you could think of. And the tax code is their preferred mechanism. So we have a huge mortgage interest deduction which is supposedly t
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Buy the Winchester Mystery House and start extending it. The haunted house space is ripe for disruption. Eventually, sell the whole thing to Google as their newest campus. Then join the board of YC and spend the rest of your days funding
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Some people work with COBOL on a daily basis. It's still antiquated.
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by reality_czech 10y ago
It's because mercurial is legacy, like darcs, bzr, monotone, and the other zoo of "git-alikes" that were big in 2008. Now it's just like MacOS Classic in 2000: there are a few die-hard zealots who claim that the interfa
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Say goodbye to the boomer celebrities, and hello to the Trump years.
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Actually Australia is a dwarf continentoid.
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by reality_czech 10y ago
OK, that's fair. I think that most of the media believed that Clinton would win. It was actually quite creepy seeing all the glowing tributes to her life, and upcoming presidency. I still have a special commemorative edition of News
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by reality_czech 10y ago
From the perspective of someone who wants to create a narrative, and doesn't care overmuch about the truth, allowing comments on articles is just a nuissance. If they express a point of view contrary to the narrative, you have to wast
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Nobody said that Ramadan was moving-- not sure how you got that from the article. Paying government employees using the Gregorian calendar, and scheduling things such as meetings and events using the gregorian calendar, sure seems a lot li
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by reality_czech 10y ago
1. use the anonymous comment system to post fake threats against yourself and/or racist rants 2. use the comments from #1 to argue that anonymous comment sections should be shut down 3. profit!
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by reality_czech 10y ago
The point is that the media were in a bubble where everyone they talked to had the same views as themselves.
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by reality_czech 10y ago
It's really cold and wet all the time. Non-compete agreements are valid so prepare to be screwed over if you change jobs. You don't have the California code on your side if you want to do a side project-- it will be owned by you
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by reality_czech 10y ago
You need to broaden your horizons. There are tons of things to do in the South Bay. * Rock climbing * Scuba diving in Monterey * Bicycling on the bay trail * Board gaming clubs * Meetups * Wineries * The boardwalk in Santa Cruz You can eve
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Two words: Ballmer Peak.
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by reality_czech 10y ago
The Trump = Racism thing is a media lie. http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wo... Trump gained more of the non-white vote than the last two Republicans to run, has a Jewish daughter,
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by reality_czech 10y ago
I disagree that Linux's macros would be considered "bad style" in other projects. Perhaps we have been contributing to different projeects :) I do agree that there are some object-oriented-like features in Linux, like the us
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by reality_czech 10y ago
China pretty much destroyed the US solar panel manufacturing market. If the US wants to "lead the renewables industry," ironically for you, the only way to do it is probably Trump-style protectionism. Otherwise China will contin

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