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511.
by rue 16y ago
Because the way above is more natural.
512.
by rue 16y ago
Treating the symptom, rather than the cause. A valid approach in some circumstances.
513.
by rue 16y ago
Maybe because U.S. "3G" is very slow in most areas?
514.
by rue 16y ago
Frankly, "contents" substituting Java for JVM are pretty worthless. Notwithstanding, the article seems to be either confused about what it wants to fork, or it does indeed want to fork Java in addition to the JVM. Either way, not a stellar
515.
by rue 16y ago
And the article title asks someone to fork Java .
516.
by rue 16y ago
Well, we still have monarchies and much of the wealth even in modern countries is concentrated in the hands of the heirs of the aristocracy, robber barons and various lineages tracing back to pirates, warlords or other coercive thieves. Boo
517.
by rue 16y ago
> USA has 'none' ... which seems right, as I can't recall the Constitution authorising the Federal Government to mandate employment leave. The United States is also bound by international treaties and agreements it enters into. Consti
518.
by rue 16y ago
> I've always thought that the people who gave a damn were the ones who instinctively understood that energy given is not energy given away. It's energy given and kept. To keep this somewhat in line with conservation of energy, energy
519.
by rue 16y ago
Yes, I have a similar experience with Eurosport's player. On my regular Macbook Flash streaming is somewhere around 80-90%, Silverlight manages at about 50%. I probably would not have subscribed to it if Silverlight had been a requirement a
520.
by rue 16y ago
It is not that well-explained, actually. Checking for output-ready status is quite often a waste of time. An exceptional condition does not necessarily mean an error (TCP OOB messages, though rarely used), and it is likewise unnecessary f
521.
by rue 16y ago
Reflectors are better than nothing, just. An actual light source is so much better it is not funny. LEDs are cheap, plentiful and actually safe.
522.
by rue 16y ago
"ruby-full" did not exist for a long time, nor does it still provide everything in the normal distro. So far as I know, that is, I may be wrong since I stopped paying any attention to what Debian does a few years ago.
523.
by rue 16y ago
You are probably napping for too long. 20 minutes is best because you are not hitting deep sleep and may catch some REM (20 mins is also not incidentally the polyphasic sleep prescription).
524.
by rue 16y ago
Are you running it?
525.
by rue 16y ago
Seems decent enough, I should reintroduce to Scala. The website does not degrade well, though: no JS == no code listings.
526.
by rue 16y ago
> Hell, you can take photographs of people and things on private property as long as it's readily visible from public property and you're not trespassing on the private property. …In the United States. EU is a little different in this
527.
by rue 16y ago
This, slightly exaggerated as it may be, poignantly raises the Fermi paradox proposition that most advanced civilizations end up destroying themselves and how narrow the "right" path sometimes is.
528.
by rue 16y ago
Living in a capitalist world is frustrating but not redeemable in the near future. What do you do, other than computers? A "hobby" may seem like a lame suggestion but in reality, hobbies is all we have apart from people (and those are harde
529.
by rue 16y ago
> For each online presence, I decide if it will be professional or personal, and then try to make sure they don't overlap. Similar reasons; I usually try to have my not-directly-related presences separate from eachother to the extent
530.
by rue 16y ago
Yes, you do. Helmets can be replaced, heads not so much: http://yfrog.com/0shelmetij
531.
by rue 16y ago
Bad advice, no need to lie about the situation.
532.
by rue 16y ago
It would be nice to differentiate between "laying off" and "firing".
533.
by rue 16y ago
All people are slightly different.
534.
by rue 16y ago
Hm? I have combined and separate Visa- and MasterCard-branded chipped cards. Insofar as I know, they work as credit/debit normally does.
535.
by rue 16y ago
Possibly because someone thought it would be "anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intelle
536.
by rue 16y ago
Of course. I think Cesar picked up "divide and conquer" from his experience with COBOL.
537.
by rue 16y ago
I do not understand what you are arguing about.
538.
by rue 16y ago
> Network effects are what I hate & love most about the tech industry: why is it that something beautiful always has to be ruined once some player becomes big enough to dominate the space? Well, that is definitely a good reason to
539.
by rue 16y ago
One component of the discussion is getting rid of copyrights altogether, so I fail to understand your point.
540.
by rue 16y ago
> You can't know that without knowing where I live. Yes, I can. It is an absolute measure. Yours may well be well above the average for the region or even the nation, but it is still not good. Mind, slightly tongue-in-cheek since esti

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