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by saturn 15y ago
These days all variables created by me, in any language, are in descriptive_snake_case. I just can't see any reason to use anything else.
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New energy storage device could recharge electric vehicles in minutes(physorg.com)
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by saturn 15y ago
> I learnt that it's in my interest to make a consolation point toward people with opposite opinions in public places Well, you've just been shown the opposite. By dismissing your own argument - by claiming it is just a matter of random
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by saturn 15y ago
> just practice smiling at strangers This is excellent advice. Actually, give anyone you interact with your dopiest, most shit-eating grin possible. HOW YOU FEEL: Like a fucking idiot HOW THEY FEEL: Wow, this guy really appreciates this
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by saturn 15y ago
> it will kill you if you drink it raw Sorry, but this is total nonsense. I knew many a chem student with access to pure ethanol (not to mention the wits to manufacture it). They are still with us (as are the photos) So, pure alcohol/et
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by saturn 15y ago
Well, the iPod certainly dominated in Australia, at least. I have to think for a second to even remember another brand of mp3 player. Ah yes .. the Creative Rio, or Zen, or something. I have never actually seen one in real life. I would als
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by saturn 15y ago
I have found that doing a class in theatrical improv to be a fantastic exercise for removing social inhibition and gaining skills in group dynamics.
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by saturn 15y ago
Rackspace support has plummeted horribly from a few years ago. They still charge a huge premium, and act like prima donnas, but they are just not worth it. I didn't mention softlayer because I did not want to look like a stooge but yeah, th
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by saturn 15y ago
I came up with that theory because I couldn't think of anything else that explained my 2 hour waits to get a new instance. Not the other way round.
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by saturn 15y ago
You mean availability zone. Well I guess me, Reddit, Foursquare, and plenty of other sites just got lucky in the bad availability zone. Ah yes, here's the classic AWS apologist pattern in full effect. You don't use EBS! Of course you don't,
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by saturn 15y ago
The cheapest zone, yes, so presumably the most popular. And who doesn't use EBS? You sound like you think I'm being unfair. Why? Plenty of sites were badly affected by that outage; it precipitated a lot of self-examination at some companies
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by saturn 15y ago
75% of motor vehicle purchases were "Made in America"? That is astonishing. Unbelievable, even.
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by saturn 15y ago
Huh? North Virginia was down for something like 30 hours in April. I had some instances in there. Hardly "incredible luck". And it was not just me: http://www.google.com.au/search?q=AWS+Virginia+outage
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by saturn 15y ago
Hm. Well, I don't like them. It's subjective, you might disagree. But off the top of my head: 1. Contracts. They want 1 years minimum contracts for any dedicated servers. For truly gargantuan orders I could understand this but for one puny
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by saturn 15y ago
As someone who has put a considerable amount of resources moving things into cloud computing - I wanted to believe. But I have changed my mind. Cloud computing scales the efficiencies, yes. It also scales the problems. And because of this,
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by saturn 15y ago
Well, at the risk of further downvotes, I think that's totally irrelevant. No-one is down at the soup kitchen asking what the volunteers have to say about intellectual property reform. It is a complicated topic and the personal altruism of
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by saturn 15y ago
While slowpoke's rudeness is to be deplored, you set yourself up for that. Attempting to tie your survival (ie whether you eat) with a political concept (support, or otherwise, of the current intellectual property regime) is a pretty poor a
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by saturn 15y ago
Dude, don't put me on the spot like that. I'm not going to judge your bloody photo. What is this, hotornot.com? That said, you're pretty young, and your awful diet has evidently not caught up with you yet. When it does, I predict a swift re
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by saturn 15y ago
No offence, but only an American could make the argument that because their weight has stayed "only" between 95kg and 100kg that they are living proof that people can eat what they want and not get fat. Unless you are a bodybuilder, which I
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by saturn 15y ago
You were hoping for a list of companies where psykotic has friends who have shared their confidential salaries with him/her, usually small web businesses with a max of 5 or so programmers, so you can ring up and demand your $200k job? That'
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by saturn 15y ago
Bloody hell. I guess I didn't realise they could make quite that much. Yep, that outpays all but the most exceptional programmers all right, I stand corrected.
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by saturn 15y ago
Isn't it the case that if you want to get rich as a GP or specialist you have to start your own business, too? Also known as a practise? It is known that you'll never get rich working for someone else, but that applies to all trades and I d
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by saturn 15y ago
> The worst physician's salary averages about $50K more than the best programmer's salary. Nurses get paid as much as programmers I was all primed with a fiery response about how good programmers in hot markets should be pulling more th
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by saturn 15y ago
Indeed, how were SpaceX and Scaled Composites able to do so much with such limited resources, 30 years later and having benefited immensely from NASA's pioneering work? NASA could definitely be run better but let's compare apples to apples.
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by saturn 15y ago
Yep, matches up with my experience pretty well. Around 2 or 3 years is a good sign that the place isn't a terrible place to work, and also that it's not full of make-work existence-justifying lifers. A bad place to work can actually be fun
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by saturn 15y ago
Not so sure about this. Good programmers can change jobs very frequently. I know many people who have never stayed at the same company more than a couple of years. That's just part of their ambitious, challenge-seeking nature, the will to i
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by saturn 15y ago
I share your concerns about data security etc, and I didn't make the decision lightly - in fact I used to host my own git repos (raw git, not web sites like gitorious). However, my trust in them grew in time and when genuine rock stars like
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by saturn 15y ago
Well you're just going to have to un-grow out of that delusion because in the real world absolutely nothing is free.
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by saturn 15y ago
That's what I considered doing. And then I thought about the amount of time I'd have to spend setting up and maintaining that server. And what if I wanted to give my friend access to some of my projects. And what if I wanted to give a clien
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by saturn 15y ago
This makes no sense. Firstly he says that he refuses to use anything with a command line .. then he says "accessible HTML isn’t that hard, really". Well, that's text based isn't it? How can you condemn text based control in one context and

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