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Delayed printf for real-time logging(embeddedrelated.com)
2 points by smackay 13y ago|0 comments
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by smackay 13y ago
It's because they hate our freedoms - sadly. This only going to result in a giant leap backwards in time to 30 years ago when there was a patchwork of networks (with universities providing the main internet backbone) but now the networ
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by smackay 13y ago
It might be more accurate to state - The move towards complete availability of all digital information for commercial gain seems to be a force of history. Perhaps individuals are just the low-hanging fruit and these are just the early stage
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by smackay 13y ago
I'd say the propensity towards generating myths is going to accellerate for two reasons: first, migating all that data is not an easy task - we barely have an upgrade path for simple data such as images. As a result a lot of it is goin
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BBC plans to launch BBC One +1(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by smackay 13y ago|0 comments
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by smackay 13y ago
Ah France, the land of contradictions, but mostly political posturing. My excellent, French, local, FNAC* store, competes spectacularly well with Amazon and often undercuts them on price - certainly for electronics and probably for books to
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by smackay 13y ago
I think you are reading too much into the statement. It's likely to be a figure of speech so that regular folks i.e. not child pornographers, drug smugglers, terrorists or other ne'er do wells, can feel good about using the servic
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by smackay 13y ago
I think it's easy to underestimate or fail to appreciate the huge number of people who learned to use computers by rote. I have more than one relation who uses GMail by first typing "gmail" in the Google search bar. For them,
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by smackay 13y ago
Unless there is some kind of apocalypse (rinderpest making it to the USA due to global warming) then the decline in meat production might be (relatively) gradual. The main use of antibiotics in agriculture (AFAIK) is simply to aid fattening
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by smackay 13y ago
Quite simple: healthier humans and more sustainable agriculture. From Yahoo Answers: it takes 17 kilos of corn, beans, grains, etc, to produce one kilo of beef in feedlot cattle. Having a large proportion of meat in one's diet is not t
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by smackay 13y ago
At least there is a glimmer of hope (no matter how delusional) that the political process in Europe can be influenced and at some date in the future the monitoring can be turned off or at least put under more rigorous oversight.
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by smackay 13y ago
The only practical approach is to give teenagers the tools necessary to deal with this and make sensible decisions based on their own values and respect for others (as if being a teenager wasn't hard enough already). However, good luck
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by smackay 13y ago
I've tried and failed miserably (so far) to use the tags also. It seems they are optimized for a single use-case: single, magazine-style, pages or blog posts. Anything other than this and it starts to fall apart pretty rapidly. The alt
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by smackay 13y ago
A stolen phone is likely to be covered in fingerprints. A small piece of sellotape and the thief has your world at their fingertips.
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by smackay 13y ago
Damned if they do, damned if they don't. It's really an impossible situation for the companies involved as their actions, as the comments so far state, will be viewed through the biases of the observer. One way out, to appease the
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by smackay 13y ago
My mouse has a scroll wheel which also doubles as the middle button when clicked. When scrolling through text, a little too much pressure and you end up pasting code all over the place. It's a monumental pain in the ass when dealing wi
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Blackberry forms committee to explore possible sale(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by smackay 13y ago|0 comments
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by smackay 13y ago
Perhaps Professor Cocking should have read James Lovelock's "Gaia: A new look at life on earth" first. "The day came for the tropical trial at the field station in Northern Queensland. A culture of P. eegarii was without
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by smackay 13y ago
Impressive or not in a metrics oriented world putting a number on anything, no matter how feeble, is a significant advantage. Mix in all the hyperbole and scare-mongering about illegal immigrants, human traffickers and of course terrorists
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by smackay 13y ago
"In the age of digital wonders, more than ever we are dependent upon the vigilance of citizens of conscience to protect us against Orwellian scenarios of those many wannabe Darth Vadors lurking in the murky depths of the governmental b
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by smackay 13y ago
Synthetic fur is just going to re-ignite demand for the real thing. It might not be socially acceptable (perhaps) and only the wearer would know for sure but that's a battle that should not need to be fought again. Also, historically s
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by smackay 13y ago
It's purely a problem of terminology. An app is just the name for a component which has a somewhat predefined structure - model, urls, tests, etc. The django framework then loads these components and makes the various part of the struc
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by smackay 13y ago
This also works for me for the following reasons: * Simple but quite expressive, covering a large number of use-cases. * Reliable - there's not much in the way of rope to hang yourself. * It's easy to explain to people new to git
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by smackay 13y ago
Most of the political posts are related to the delay (or inability) in legal/social systems catching up with technological change. This is not really new but the frequency of these mis-matches are probably increasing as the technologie
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by smackay 13y ago
I did not see it in a quick look through the site but the most obvious missing feature would be the ability to share book lists with friends. Expanding the loan out feature to support requests would allow you to run your own little library
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by smackay 13y ago
There's an unfortunate view in the learned press that business-like governments such as Singapore and China are able to work efficiently and generally get things done and are generally to be admired (though not always publicly). Combin
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by smackay 13y ago
I think the delay in starting a family is also a big factor. Anecdotal evidence (including personal experience) suggests that older parents are more anxious about their kids since, from a purely biological perspective, replacing a lost one
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by smackay 13y ago
Thomas Paine's deism was rather too godless for a lot of people's tastes, including Theodore Roosevelt. http://atheism.wikia.com/wiki/Thomas_Paine
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Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice(yosefk.com)
214 points by smackay 13y ago|112 comments
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by smackay 13y ago
Hyperbole and wild-eyed speculation aside, the important point is that I think the train of events playing out will have long term consequences. The most immediate one is the balkanization of the internet as countries and regional groups sc

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