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811.
by sprash 13y ago
There is no problem of overpopulation. The population growth is declining. This means we hit peak population between 2050 and 2100. Also there are enough resources to allow a decent life for everybody. It is all just a matter of distributio
812.
by sprash 13y ago
I still don't understand why people don't just go to Europe: http://www.studyineurope.eu/tuition-fees I didn't pay a single cent for my education...
813.
by sprash 13y ago
Not in the world. Only in the "Land of the free".
814.
by sprash 13y ago
All of these tools were not necessary if Networking were file based, like the /net FS in Plan9. It is the first major occasion where Unix went in a completely wrong direction. The second one was the X server.
815.
by sprash 13y ago
Could some Debian dev please step up and package Textadept. Thx!
816.
by sprash 13y ago
Dynamic typing has advantages and disadvantages. E.g. Static typing violates the DRY ("Don't repeat yourself") principle concerning code reuse whereas compile time type checking reduces the effort for testing (but for very si
817.
by sprash 13y ago
Indeed, but that would mean to write the majority in Go and glue it together with Python instead of just outsourcing small performance critical pieces as described by OP.
818.
by sprash 13y ago
That won't help you much with concurrency problems, however "multiprocessing" does.
819.
by sprash 13y ago
I worked for 12 month in the UK and I met a lot of people that absolutely hated everything about Europe, the EU or the Euro. And this was before the crisis. I think it depends a lot on the age and the amount of consumption of Murdoch media
820.
by sprash 13y ago
OpenGL commands sent over the network can be executed on the local graphics card via GLX.
821.
by sprash 13y ago
> other than being able to deliver messgages when the sender is offline. This is exactly the point. Most people can not afford to run a mailserver 24/7. With Bitmessage you only have to be online very shortly every other day.
822.
by sprash 14y ago
For that you have UZIX ( http://uzix.sourceforge.net/ ) or the predecessor UZI.
823.
by sprash 14y ago
Work, after all, is mostly about getting shit done. If there is a shortage of female engineers they are probably overvalued which also means I could hire equally good or better men for less money. Does the little gain of prestige make up fo
824.
by sprash 14y ago
But sometimes the right notation can make things simpler and easier to understand. (e.g. Einsteins Four-Vectors)
825.
by sprash 14y ago
The average man is pumped full of a hormone called testosterone. This leads them to take more risks and have a generally more aggressive way of doing things. This fact has been scientifically proven over and over again. In a fast moving mar
826.
by sprash 14y ago
So Apple basically was Steve Jobs. Time to ditch some stock.
827.
by sprash 14y ago
Hopefully never. All the new changes might make Python better in the view of a computer language consistency fetishist (or maybe for web apps). But for practical purposes in data analysis things got worse not only because of the broken back
828.
by sprash 14y ago
Compared to QT much more rudimentary, simpler and way less features. Also it is written in C, not C++. However rendering should be much faster. As long as the E-libs are installed your apps should work just fine on any system/DE. I haven't
829.
by sprash 14y ago
From a developer standpoint E17 is the best Desktop Environment you can dream of. Try to write a simple app with the Elementary toolkit and compare that with writing a Gnome app. You will immediately notice how much better E17 libraries ar
830.
by sprash 14y ago
Sure, you have to buy a ticket to win the lottery. But it changes nothing about still being a lottery.
831.
by sprash 14y ago
This is the old story of "if you work hard enough you will be just as successful" and it is of course bullshit. There is an easy proof for this: Income distribution. The income distribution would be a Gaussian distribution like intelligence
832.
by sprash 14y ago
Sorry but I have a degree in nuclear physics, working a full time job and can't even afford a car. Something tells me those people just had a lot of luck!
833.
by sprash 14y ago
Mostly kids of rich fucks... go figure.
834.
by sprash 14y ago
The great fallacy here is the notion that you would sell more without piracy. Piracy at least brings you publicity. Even if you would somehow be able to ban all piracy, in the best case you still would only have that one sale out of 10. Pul
835.
by sprash 14y ago
It works perfectly fine on Linux. You need Python2, PyQt and Sqlite for it to use though. (run: python2 pybitmessagemain.py)
836.
by sprash 14y ago
Much easier to use is Bitmessage: http://bitmessage.org It works similar to Bitcon, is decentralized and does not rely on trusted third parties (e.g. for signing). Whitepaper: http://bitmessage.org/bitmessage.pdf
837.
by sprash 14y ago
Seems to be a very old list or it might tell you this: If you start a new project, don't use C++. http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/ tells you everything.
838.
by sprash 14y ago
So it turns out that all the "UFO" sighting descriptions near Area 51 were pretty accurate after all.
839.
by sprash 14y ago
Looks similar to the art of Klaus Bürgle from the 1960s: http://www.retro-futurismus.de/buergle_weltraum1.htm
840.
by sprash 14y ago
I really tried to use it but the disrupted work flow caused by the necessity for pixel perfect mouse aiming was headache inducing.

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