simula67

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   by simula67 10y ago

   It's too awesome to lend itself to such showcasing
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   Linux is the largest software development project: Greg Kroah-Hartman(cio.com)

   2 points by simula67 10y ago|0 comments
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   by simula67 10y ago

   Does he have cancer ?
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   by simula67 10y ago

   Here are a couple of use cases : * Lets say you are Google and you want to test if the site is working correctly every day. You could code up a Python script that opens up www.google.com, searches for "facebook" and makes sure tha
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   by simula67 10y ago

   Not for Springer though, right ? From Springer FAQ ( http://www.springer.com/gp/open-access/authors-rights/faq-ab... ) "I don’t want to transfer my copyright. What should I do? You can choose to publish
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   by simula67 10y ago

   > 120 tabs open at any given time Are you exaggerating ? If not, may I suggest an alternative way to browse the web ? I use multiple virtual desktops. Each desktop logically caters to one task. Each browser window is logically grouped un
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   by simula67 10y ago

   You forgot to mention Xfce
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   by simula67 10y ago

   I had a running theory that the spread of Internet and virtual communities would force free exchange of ideas and bring the people of the world together. I am less inclined to believe that now. Developed and under-developed nations show no
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   by simula67 10y ago

   >In 20 or 40 years, emacs will still exist, as will the hooks and tools you've integrated and built up to support it. > VS, Eclipse, and IntellijIDEA very likely won't. Why do you think so ? Intellij and Eclipse are both ope
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    by simula67 10y ago

    You can disassosciate your interests from google by going here : https://www.google.com/ads/preferences and make it permanent by using IBA opt-out plugin : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail
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    by simula67 10y ago

    I sometimes select the current line that I am reading. This helps me to quickly figure out the start of the next line when I am finished reading the current one.
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    by simula67 10y ago

    I take it that you are not claiming it is not wrong ? Regardless of whether she depends on her husband for money, or if she was independently rich, there can still be conflict of interest.
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    by simula67 10y ago

    Should the children of flagged/dead comments be hidden by default as well ?
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    by simula67 10y ago

    I don't interview well. Technology for me is exciting because of its potential to bring happiness to people. If someone tells me that the product I am working on has a security issue because it does not follow some the security portion
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    by simula67 10y ago

    Security is a forethought, not an afterthought. Performance is a constraint, not a goal.
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    by simula67 10y ago

    The problem is not just with the time it takes, but that most garbage collection algorithms are stop-the-world ( not sure if any of them are truly concurrent ). This can introduce correctness problems. I used to work on a network manageme
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    by simula67 10y ago

    Here is the preceding verse, Mathew 6:2 "So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their re
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    by simula67 10y ago

    Cloud profits are not much ( for AWS around $687M per quarter [1]) compared to ad ( around $7B per quarter [2]). Google has many businesses that has the potential to generate a lot of money like a) licensing technology to car manufacturers
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    by simula67 10y ago

    Do you use Firefox over Chrome mobile ?
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    by simula67 10y ago

    Google develops and distributes Android Open Source OS for free. The costs for these activities are offset by Google's revenues from the other products like Google+. This is Android's business model. Also many phones come pre-inst
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    by simula67 10y ago

    > most would rather not volunteer for a handicap by publishing in other venues. Why not publish in both places ?
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    by simula67 10y ago

    This question http://serverfault.com/questions/587102/monday-morning-mista... was posted to server fault. It has since shown to be a marketing tactic ( http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2016
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    by simula67 10y ago

    > with just one hundred hours of work Yeah, right. Most of the tools and knowledge he used would have taken much longer than that to acquire.
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    by simula67 10y ago

    I held off for a very long time. I realized finally that if it is OK for me to give these details to foreign governments ( for visa ) atleast I should not be so uneasy about giving it to the Indian government which ( at least theoretically
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    by simula67 10y ago

    The reason people want to read quickly is because writers often digress. Maybe the focus should be on writing text that can be absorbed easily and quickly and finding and promoting such text.
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    by simula67 10y ago

    Be careful about drawing inferences about the real world from fiction. In this particular case though there is some evidence that you may be right : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realistic_conflict_theory .
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    by simula67 10y ago

    Did you consider using OneDrive or Google Drive ? Something like http://www.duplicati.com/
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    by simula67 10y ago

    Hacker News has its biases, but that does not mean it cannot serve hackers.
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    by simula67 10y ago

    Or Chocolatey ( https://chocolatey.org/ )
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    Vim is a Game(alexanderw.xyz)

    3 points by simula67 10y ago|1 comments