rottyguy

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Fairphone 2 Is the World’s First Modular Smartphone(ktlaz.com)
2 points by rottyguy 11y ago|1 comments
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Magneticum Pathfinder: Evolution of the universe in unmatched precision(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by rottyguy 11y ago|0 comments
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by rottyguy 11y ago
When I was in highschool, I thought the same when opening up a Calculus book. Now, it's looking at stl code :-)
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Microsoft Promises Clang for Windows in November Visual C++ Update(theregister.co.uk)
5 points by rottyguy 11y ago|0 comments
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by rottyguy 11y ago
Anyone else think we're getting a little hyperbolic with the weight of these things? "The first Surface Pro was a sizable 2.0 lb monster tablet which packed Ultrabook class components into a chassis that was over 0.5-inches thick.
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by rottyguy 11y ago
I see a lot of poo being flung towards politicians but I have to wonder why they behave the way they do. The economics of human behavior are they we all, generally, gravitate towards doing things that reward us.
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by rottyguy 11y ago
I'm really surprised it didn't touch on the oncoming xplat-ness of .net in this round up. I feel like this is huge considering how much it connects the technology. To boot, c# is a top 10 language on github even though it's
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by rottyguy 11y ago
AOL had this problem. With paying customers, if you change something in the UI, some segment will hate it and scream and you end up losing customers which is often noticed by corp and immediately remedied. Also, Traders aren't traditi
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Trade in invasive plants is blossoming(ethz.ch)
7 points by rottyguy 11y ago|1 comments
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How much of the world would need to be covered in solar panels to power Earth(businessinsider.com)
2 points by rottyguy 11y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why not use Graph DBs as a general purpose DB?
5 points by rottyguy 11y ago|2 comments
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by rottyguy 11y ago
This is fairly timely as I'm investigating possibilities for our data model and graphdb just popped up on my radar. Are gdb good for modeling multiple types of products? Let's say v1 of product has attributes a, b, c but v2 now
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Why are Brazil’s environmentalists being murdered?(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by rottyguy 11y ago|0 comments
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The hidden inequality of who dies in car crashes(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by rottyguy 11y ago|0 comments
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A Facelift for Shakespeare(wsj.com)
2 points by rottyguy 11y ago|0 comments
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by rottyguy 11y ago
why couldn't you do both?
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by rottyguy 11y ago
But then the article should be titled "Functional vs Non Functional approach to solving xxx" as opposed to c# vs f#. I think the OP was saying you could do it functionally in c# albeit less elegantly.
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Presidential Elections Used to Be More Colorful(metrocosm.com)
1 points by rottyguy 11y ago|0 comments
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How much “ugly” food we throw away(salon.com)
42 points by rottyguy 11y ago|24 comments
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The drug industry wants us to think Martin Shkreli is a rogue CEO, but he isn't(washingtonpost.com)
222 points by rottyguy 11y ago|170 comments
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What More Than 1B Followers of Islam Believes(atheoryofus.net)
4 points by rottyguy 11y ago|1 comments
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10 Most Censored Countries(cpj.org)
2 points by rottyguy 11y ago|0 comments
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Linux creator explains why a truly secure computing platform will never exist(bgr.com)
26 points by rottyguy 11y ago|12 comments
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by rottyguy 11y ago
I'm curious about the viability of the following approach. Can a generic static dictionary be made to be held on the client side such that said compressor/decompressor can utilize efficiently? This would prevent the need to send
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Ask HN: Any pro-tips for a Unix n00b?
3 points by rottyguy 11y ago|2 comments
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The rivalry behind the world’s smallest chess program(kernelmag.dailydot.com)
27 points by rottyguy 11y ago|5 comments
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by rottyguy 11y ago
Well that makes it more complicated. Any idea how I would be able to find these packages (specifically: libunwind8, libssl-dev and unzip) https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation&#x2F
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by rottyguy 11y ago
I'm currently in my first nix job after years with Windows. It's a larger company (15k+ people) and using RedHat for it's linux solution (solaris/aix is also present). Honestly, I don't understand the $$$ argumen
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by rottyguy 11y ago
Actually, the real point is that the average person doesn't need engineering precision which is my original point. Whether it's 60sec or 65sec to xfer a file doesn't matter to them. Engineers always like to argue precision
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by rottyguy 11y ago
I would be surprised if, practically speaking, 8bits <> 1 byte for 99.99% of all general applications. My feeling is that the .01% can do the math so the other 99.99% don't have to.

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