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by shirro 14y ago
My 4.5yo has been using iOS since a bit before 2, has his own ipod touch and uses the family 1st gen iPad. He came home from kindy excited by using a PC. I couldn't understand it but now I do. Kids love to learn and he needs new challenges
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by shirro 14y ago
There are plenty of people outside the US, religious or not, who have no problems with science. Religion only seems to be anti-science in the USA and amongst a tiny minority in the Islamic world. I wonder if religion is really the issue. Is
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by shirro 14y ago
If someone (looking at SanDisk) were to make a range of SD cards for servers and lightweight ARM desktops that would be of real interest. Because the current stuff out there for phones and cameras is of variable quality and is about the wor
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by shirro 15y ago
Most people don't need more than 4G per process so I wish stuff like the linux x32 abi became standard. All the extra registers without the huge pointers. Would be handy for squeezing more into a cheap VPS. Not to mention the cpu cache.
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by shirro 15y ago
I haven't used an XOR linked list since my Amstrad 6128. I think probably independently discovered but not sure. It is a pretty obvious thing to do on a memory limited machine. Nice to know people still know about this stuff post the 8 bit
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by shirro 15y ago
There is a lot of good quality stuff that comes out of China but equally there are people happy to risk our lives for a bit of profit. Some of this stuff clearly doesn't meet safety standards and shouldn't be in sale. Here is another one:
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by shirro 15y ago
Only if you are totally ignorant of history. My Australian state wasn't settled by convicts just as the whole of the US wasn't settled by one ship full of Puritans. My state had a planned colonisation by free settlers attracted to civil and
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by shirro 15y ago
One of the advantages of being a member of parliament or a senator is that you have Parliamentary Privilege for anything you say in the house or senate. Perhaps if Assange got in he could leak stuff in the senate without having to pretend t
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by shirro 15y ago
I want to like Minix. I had a copy of Design and Implementation and was going to download Minix when I heard of this new Linux thing, filled a bunch of floppies with an early Linux distro and never looked back. One of AST's arguments agains
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by shirro 15y ago
Yeah and its not like the USA does barbaric stuff like execute people.
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by shirro 15y ago
There is probably some good research in programming languages out there though every time someone goes looking they encounter the ACM paywall. Back to PHP I guess.
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by shirro 15y ago
Well to be fair Javascript is kind of limited so Ryan does not have language support for coroutines unless he wants to redesign Javascript. Even better for node.js would be something a bit more CSP-like such as goroutines and channels but a
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by shirro 15y ago
I am off to store some cash in my car and put all my important docs in a bus locker. BRB.
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by shirro 15y ago
Perhaps I am just cynical. I did not mean to suggest the devs were scammers. But I still believe the ecosystem as a whole reeks of pyramids and other scams and I am sick of reading about it. I also think Scientology and MLM are scams but th
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by shirro 15y ago
Linode compromised! That is important news that concerns me. If the headline didn't mention the BitCoin scam that HN is always pumping would it have made it to the front page? Certainly haven't heard anything from Linode :-(
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by shirro 15y ago
Brought to you by the company that spied on peoples phone calls for years. Facebook may or may not be doing what News actually got caught red handed doing. See these piratey Internet companies are evil; buy more gossip sheets now. Find out
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by shirro 15y ago
I don't understand this headline at all. A wowser is a puritanical killjoy where I come from.
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by shirro 15y ago
There are too many rich shits in this world who have never known responsibility. If you want nice things you have to maintain them. I hope they never have pets or kids. You have to give them water, feed them and clean them all the time. It
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by shirro 15y ago
China is lifting itself out of poverty and they aim to be the most powerful country in the world, not a cheap labour factory. Meanwhile the US is a rich developed country with over 2 million slave labourers (prisoners) living in dormitories
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by shirro 15y ago
Just to turn this around a bit for a different perspective. How many US products are made by prison labour? Who has worse conditions: a Foxconn employee paid a low wage and living in a dorm or a US prisoner deprived of liberty, exposed to v
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by shirro 15y ago
All those unscientific countries still haven't adopted rods and hogsheads. I guess it will just be the US, Burma and Liberia again.
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by shirro 15y ago
Brought to you from a country that has not adopted SI units.
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by shirro 15y ago
I don't think it is a right but a public health necessity. This should never happen in a developed country. Sewerage pricing here (.au) is linked to property value so the poor pay less. Water is charged by the kL and while it may be expensi
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by shirro 15y ago
Living in the southern hemisphere (the one with the bigger ozone hole) and being an import from dark cold places I turn into a lobster with moderate sun exposure. It doesn't always get better heading away from the equator here due to ozone
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by shirro 15y ago
Aussie here. Polymer notes are probably a bit harder to handle for a cashier. They don't flatten well out after being folded up. They have lots of benefits to make up for it. You won't find yourself taping up torn bills as much.
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by shirro 16y ago
From Hurricane Electric: "A utility failure is affecting much of Fremont, CA, USA, damaging some electrical equipment. We are currently working to restore power." https://twitter.com/#!/henet/status/66466691856601088