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by regularfry 17y ago
They're mature, but they are also not very good. I still spend ages digging around trying to figure out what should be relatively simple stuff. The documentation around ns in particular is difficult to navigate.
4862.
by regularfry 17y ago
It surprises me that 5/8ths is enough of a difference to be useful, but then I guess it's the way it bunches and forms a ridge that's important for the microfluidics, not the absolute feature size. Hm.
4863.
by regularfry 17y ago
Anyone know what scale factor shrinkage you get out of this stuff? I'd quite like to experiment with optical effects, but I don't know what feature size you can get and I haven't got any expanded polystyrene handy for testing.
4864.
by regularfry 17y ago
I'm a PHP fugitive, so take this with a pinch of salt. 3 years ago I thought Rails was worth the pain of working with Ruby on Windows compared to the problems I was facing keeping myself enthusiastic in PHP. Now you've got the option of dev
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by regularfry 17y ago
Big Freaking Enterprise Web App Development, of course :-)
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by regularfry 17y ago
ACTA has been in negotiation for years . This is nothing new.
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by regularfry 17y ago
> I think you missed the part where the takedown happens without the need to prove anything. Or, in fact, come from the people it claims to come from.
4868.
by regularfry 17y ago
PETA may be a legitimate organisation, but the people involved may well have friends who perform actions which, while it is obviously impossible to condone them, your honour, do support their cause.
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by regularfry 17y ago
At what cost? Of course you can dictate that anything MUST survive by fiat if you want, but when does it stop being worth it? They're imposing quite a heavy inefficiency on an expanding portion of the economy, for what is, in absolute terms
4870.
by regularfry 17y ago
Please stop assuming this is just about America. One of the reasons people are so worked up about this is that the US is trying to force its idea of expression control on the rest of the world.
4871.
by regularfry 17y ago
If you make it a habit to always reverse comparisons, then the assignments stick out that much more, and remind you that it is, in fact, intentional.
4872.
by regularfry 17y ago
I have also written a ton of code, and the times I have made this error have been sufficiently annoying that I've forced myself to reverse the comparisons.
4873.
by regularfry 17y ago
The classic study cited in Mythical Man Month (which I don't unfortunately have handy) said, if I'm remembering it correctly, that it was proportional to lines of code (thus 'wc -l' larger) and independent of the language used. What I don
4874.
by regularfry 17y ago
I can assure you that ASP.NET MVC has its share of copied features. And you know what? That's a good thing. Good ideas should be copied and propagated, and mixed in with whatever makes the next platform unique.
4875.
by regularfry 17y ago
You'd think it would rule Ruby out as well, but no...
4876.
by regularfry 17y ago
It's almost a perfect storm of inconvenient equations. Magnetic field strength drops off as the cube of the distance, so you want to increase the current in the coil, but power loss (and thus heating) in the coil goes up as the square of th
4877.
by regularfry 17y ago
I dunno. I think it could be turned into a "CL's loop macro rocks like NOTHING ON EARTH" post quite easily.
4878.
by regularfry 18y ago
Given that everything's running in one direction, couldn't you manually take up the play in each section during construction, working back from the concrete block, so that the whole thing's at tension when you connect the motor? I appreciat