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by rm445 11y ago
It would be naïve for anyone to think that recreating Silicon Valley exactly would be a French goal. Trying to achieve similar success in a more centralised, government-driven way sounds much more plausible. Such an approach has been unsucc
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by rm445 11y ago
He/she probably means grammatical case declension for subjects, objects, possessives and whatnot. _Der_ Hund beißt _den_ Mann. _Der_ Mann gibt _dem_ Taxifahrer _das_ Geld. German has four cases, Polish seven(?), Russian six(?). In Engl
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by rm445 11y ago
More towards the latter, it appears. They're certainly air-launched and parachute-landed. Still I think there's a reasonable case that you should call it flight if they are capable of straight level powered flight while the fuel l
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by rm445 12y ago
Why is it a given that such names are extortionate? Whatever the wisdom (or not) of opening up the top-level hierarchy, there's a place for sites saying things suck. If companies want to engage in the futile enterprise of buying up and
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by rm445 12y ago
In the real world as it stands, there isn't a 100% probability of ridiculously high costs. Plenty of us will go out with a bang in some way, or at least quietly and quickly. (Perhaps that isn't the utopian ideal). The whole system
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by rm445 12y ago
That doesn't surprise me, because I already have a Chromecast. And there are many other instances of small cheap computers too, but my point is this: once you've seen a little device that plugs into a TV/monitor and does stuf
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by rm445 12y ago
I think your list of reasons begins a couple of hundred years too late.
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by rm445 12y ago
Well there's no doubt on the side of the aerospace companies. Anyone can confidently offer to engineer you anything given sufficient time and resources, and a 'plane' that is actually a family of somewhat-related airframes in
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by rm445 12y ago
Fascinating - do you remember it? (As opposed to being told about it / vague memories-of-memories). Are there any remnants in how you communicate with your twin now?
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by rm445 12y ago
Just for clarity, genuinely being incapable of taking anything seriously which sounded like a pop culture reference, would indeed be a tremendously damaging flaw. Of course I don't really believe parent poster has that problem: it was
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by rm445 12y ago
Well done, you've noticed a tremendous character flaw and now you can strive to correct it. Honestly, how are you going to live life if any reminder of pop culture can distract you from a serious subject? And how are you going to inter
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by rm445 12y ago
The middle ground is small group offices, and many (most?) people are fairly happy there. Actual giant open-plan offices can be distracting beyond what's tolerable.
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by rm445 12y ago
That's a very good point - Apple's desktop software is definitely not a highlight in the last few years. What's not clear is: (i) how much it matters - the core desktop experience is very solid, and between web browsers and M
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by rm445 12y ago
And which is a lovely little machine (I'm typing on one now) but severely lacking in vertical pixels.
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by rm445 12y ago
That's only the one example, and the author could have thrown his hands up with the usual explanation that undefined behaviour entitles the compiler to launch missiles at you or whatever. But in fact it's quite a reasonable (the o
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by rm445 12y ago
I read that as meaning that the operators and delivery persons won't hassle you for a gratuity, which is a plus.
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by rm445 12y ago
I don't think it's the opportunity to teach or lecture. The allure of academia comes from a kind of status, intellectual rather than social. So long as you're in the academic world, you're on the path of Newton, Gauss or
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by rm445 12y ago
Carrying expert knowledge to another company is one thing, but disclosure of trade secrets? Not a lawyer, but I gathered that when trade secrets are properly handled, you have legal recourse against an employee (or ex-employee) who disclose
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by rm445 12y ago
It's an unusual feature. Perhaps it calls for a 'go fmt' (nim fmt?) type tool that canonicalises names, to be automatically run on check-in.
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by rm445 12y ago
Good point. I think serious python people (not me, I had to search a bit) would understand the scoping well enough to recognise the gotcha. Turns out the problem is the +=, perhaps it would be a bit clearer if written as: grand_total
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by rm445 12y ago
The magic tape isn't great for general use. The benefit is that it peels cleanly, even off paper. It was beloved in drawing offices back when they worked on paper.
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by rm445 12y ago
You can click through to the author's dome-selling site, they seem to be aimed as a kind of group-fun, beach toy or team-building type of fun project. And it seems the author uses them as a combination point of instruction and ice-brea
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by rm445 12y ago
At present it's a bunch of programs that run on UNIX systems. I guess the Hoon interpreter is a C program that uses readline, talks to the network over sockets and the like. But everything on top is quite self-contained and in principl
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by rm445 12y ago
Hope someone knowledgeable can comment on this. The impression from the short making-of documentaries packaged with Pixar's films, is that they're completely animated, voiced and viewable with very basic working rendering, and the
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by rm445 12y ago
Not sure that's the right number - I worked in a Mac shop (an engineering firm) with 20-30 users with 21" iMacs, served off a single Mac Mini server. If your users are just normal users, iMacs are fine. (Though the Macs did come u
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by rm445 12y ago
Then why not the current p/GB sweet spot, a 3TB disk?
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by rm445 12y ago
Haha, very nicely put. However, what I was getting at was that DOS/Windows permissions were even worse, and not better for it.
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by rm445 12y ago
Blaming UNIX for the virus industry is a stretch. A per-user protection model is better than none at all.
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by rm445 12y ago
Realistically, consumers choose based on the clear numbers, disk space and memory. 1 TB disks and 8 GB of RAM have recently hit the low-ish end of laptops so at least there's that to go on.
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by rm445 12y ago
> How micro is micro? The reference board for Micropython is the Pyboard, which has a 32-bit ARM chip running around 168 MHz and with 192 kB of RAM. It's legitimately the kind of thing that gets called a microcontroller. Quite a bit

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