smegel

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by smegel 11y ago
> Mounting the backup volumes That sounds more like an accident waiting to happen than a single line of bad code.
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by smegel 11y ago
> I don't think there's much effect I felt more reassured when scientists were promising there was no interaction between EMR and organic matter.
513.
by smegel 11y ago
The biggest takeaway from this for me was...so what the hell is EM radiation from my mobile phone doing to my brain???
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by smegel 11y ago
I suspected as much. Those guys who kept jailbreaking time after time seem like good candidates.
515.
by smegel 11y ago
> it is important to note that they operate on very different principles. High fissile vs low fissile equates to different principals? What a load of FUD in an article claims to show some insight on the matter.
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Daily Mail publisher in talks with companies over Yahoo takeover(theguardian.com)
5 points by smegel 11y ago|0 comments
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by smegel 11y ago
It came down at quite the angle.
518.
by smegel 11y ago
> Yahoo Japan switched to Google many years ago What is Yahoo Japan? A completely different company or something?
519.
by smegel 11y ago
Yes, but why?
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by smegel 11y ago
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/716795010751049728
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by smegel 11y ago
That is extremely telling.
522.
by smegel 11y ago
> someone already with dementia Translation: someone who can't be put on trial.
523.
by smegel 11y ago
When the first three leaders named are the top 3 enemies/adversaries of the US/Britain - Putin, Xi and Assad - my own little conspiracy canary started chirping. And the Icelandic PM? The one who really annoyed Britain by defaultin
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Go Proverbs: Simple, Poetic, Pithy(go-proverbs.github.io)
111 points by smegel 11y ago|44 comments
525.
by smegel 11y ago
A lot of them were ".example" which is OK. And others said "WILL remove this in production" - i.e. basically a TODO in code which is quite normal for code in development. Pitchforks down.
526.
by smegel 11y ago
So do more faster? Sounds like something pointy-haired boss would say.
527.
by smegel 11y ago
They are possibly distributing a derivative work without releasing the source code, if it GPL licensed.
528.
by smegel 11y ago
What about their in-house software that links against this software? Or is it all LGPL?
529.
by smegel 11y ago
> Sure you have to write: Map<String,User> userIdMap = new HashMap<String,User>(); instead of: userIdMap = {} but in the bigger scheme of things, is that so long? More like user posts complex JSON object, which takes
530.
by smegel 11y ago
I have a strangely recurring meeting from 11.30AM through 1PM every day - don't you dare try and arrange a meeting in my lunch hour!
531.
by smegel 11y ago
> we have no intention of removing it...if the version is older than 24 hours, then the unpublish will fail We haven't removed it, just disabled it apart from a small initial window.
532.
by smegel 11y ago
That sounds like...machine learning!
533.
by smegel 11y ago
If he's going to troll like this, shouldn't it have 13 obscure dependencies as well?
534.
by smegel 11y ago
> We have a solution for that already - it's called "divorce". And we can't extrapolate that to "just change the things in your life that are making you unhappy", because? I understand there are some life ci
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by smegel 11y ago
> I'm happy every time we can find a pill for solving a problem - because the pill actually works If a woman is depressed because she is stuck in an unhappy marriage with a man she doesn't love...and she then pops a pill and be
536.
by smegel 11y ago
I agree with this, but I also think a lot of "non-real depression" is too easily diagnosed as the real thing. A lot of depressed people could be "cured" by just changing circumstances in their life (not that it is always
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by smegel 11y ago
Maybe "Scala concurrency surprises" would be a better title.
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by smegel 11y ago
If there was ever a webpage that needed a facelift, it would be Jenkins, so hopefully this is not just a backend rewrite.
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by smegel 11y ago
> What concerns me here is that so many packages took on a dependency for a simple left padding string function, rather than taking 2 minutes to write such a basic function themselves. Wait -- code reuse is bad now??
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by smegel 11y ago
Interesting things are happening to GAE these days. They are moving towards custom runtimes using docker that the user can configure...even their datastore API is being replaced by something resembling S3. GAE -> Google Cloud Platform.

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