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by sqrt17 16y ago
It's probably a stupid question, but: what's the advantage to coding everything in Python? If you're targeting the N900, Psyco likely won't help you, and there's probably some existing MP3 library that one can wrap (libmpg123)? Also: you mi
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by sqrt17 16y ago
In Germany, StudiVZ (a German facebook clone) was quite notorious for being privacy-challenged, to the point where people started calling it StasiVZ (after the former secret police of the GDR). What happened was that people removed all iden
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by sqrt17 16y ago
You're probably right about the labor-saving techniques. In Germany, you get gardeners with automatic leaf blowers (i.e., faster, but more noise), and with a whole slew of bottom-tier jobs (such as supermarket baggers) missing. The car indu
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by sqrt17 16y ago
Interesting that there is a distinction between (in film) pseudoscience and (in film) psychology, or nuclear and (generic) physics - 99% of anything that is used by a "mad scientist" character is safely grounded in the pseudoscience side of
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by sqrt17 16y ago
Actually, try any ORM. Hibernate for Java, SQLAlchemy for Python or Class::DBI for Perl (never used that last one) would be good examples for ORMs that blend well with the language they're written for. Performance may vary across different
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by sqrt17 16y ago
Most commonly, it would be in /opt/awesomeapp/lib (and the binaries in /opt/awesomeapp/bin) See http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICA... That's, more or less, what /opt is supposed to be. QT and KDE used to be "inte
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by sqrt17 16y ago
> I'd suggest the Thinkpads, by all means, but I wouldn't ban everything else The author specifically mentioned the need for a complicated setup including hard disk encryption. I take that as meaning the development environment includes
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by sqrt17 16y ago
I like Curve exactly for that feature. You can have multiple versions, e.g., with or without mugshot (photos are standard in Europe and considered weird in the US). And depending on whether you're sending this to industry or academic people
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by sqrt17 16y ago
The basic point seems to be this: * The Emotiv business plan seems to be based on some game-console like cost structure where developers would pay Emotiv so that they can release software, with the 300$ headset being sold as a loss leader a
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by sqrt17 16y ago
The one Mason that I knew ten years or so said the membership fee was around 60EUR/month. So it's hardly I-have-a-yacht-exclusive, but you still have to be able to afford it. You may realize that a membership at a slightly-better-than-avera
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by sqrt17 16y ago
It's not quite obvious what the point here is. Many of the cities listed (at least Amsterdam, Munich and Paris) have lightrail lines which can be used seamlessly from the subway. In the case of Amsterdam, the lightrail lines are what you'd
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by sqrt17 16y ago
That's the downside of having VM-based system emulation easily available: People who think that userland scripting is too complex take this complex functionality that occurs in semi-critical areas into C code, possibly into the kernel. Beca
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by sqrt17 16y ago
ad 5): heartily agree. To make people stop thinking "cheap beige box loaded with crapware" when they hear Windows, MS should reinforce the "PCs at Mac pricepoint are just as nice as Macs" image. They did have a "recommend me a nice Windows
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by sqrt17 16y ago
I think "actionable" is the keyword here. Dumping the error messages straight from the tool into a bug report does not tell the recipient (a) how many false positives there are - either code paths that don't occur in the wild or undefined b
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by sqrt17 16y ago
The questions you should ask yourself are the following: * Does it matter if you lose the last 5sec. worth of updates? The last 5 minutes? The last day? If you can lose 5sec. worth of updates, a MongoDB replication pair is just fine. If you
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by sqrt17 16y ago
A bridge that depends on all rivets being perfect is a bad thing. A proof that no longer holds outside of its domain of application is still useful. The trick is to recognize when you need one and when you'd rather use the other.
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by sqrt17 16y ago
In the case of a 3-body solar system, they wouldn't. But as soon as one of these mass dots tries to land (or stand) on one of the other mass dots, you'd see a difference. If you say that this violates the assumptions of the basic model, you
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by sqrt17 16y ago
Any time I meet some of these stuck-up physicists, that's what I'm going to lob into their face. And they'll get even more stuck up, because physics as such deals with (but doesn't control) processes which range more orders of magnitude. An
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by sqrt17 16y ago
I think the logic is simple: Both workers and employers underestimate the impact that not taking a vacation has on productivity. Forcing them to gain the productivity gains that come through the vacation raises the overall efficiency. (On t
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by sqrt17 16y ago
Most people who would have an OpenID-supported authentication method wouldn't know that they do or how to use it. A big "use Facebook/Google/Gravatar/whatever to log in" button makes it easy even for the people who don't have any OpenID bac
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by sqrt17 16y ago
Okay. Blocking perverts is a legitimate cause and being able to ban people effectively is probably easier than implementing feature extraction from video. However, people can make throwaway facebook accounts just as they can make throwaway
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by sqrt17 16y ago
Even though I may use FB connect to sign into a site, I (and I guess many others) would be deeply suspicious of any site that exclusively uses FB connect. At the bare minimum, offer FB, Google and Twitter so people don't feel like they're c
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by sqrt17 16y ago
Yes... the "geeks/techies" he talks about are the normal people. As opposed to the "if its purpose is something I want, and it's expensive enough, it can't really suck" crowd that Apple is able to tap into. The second group of people would
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by sqrt17 16y ago
Well, nowadays you can encrypt and sign sessions and store the signed/encrypted data on your client side (or non-encrypted cookies if you want them to be modifiable from the client side). As long as it's more difficult to fake session data
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by sqrt17 16y ago
> become enamored with a language that has roots that go back to 1957, i.e. Lisp? Duh. What does that punk think that the "60" in Algol 60 stands for? Y'know, the bondage and discipline languages also have an ancestry that goes pretty f
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by sqrt17 16y ago
The EU has $16 trillion yearly GDP. Wouldn't that make China #3? (The Eurozone alone has ~$10 trillion yearly). Don't come with the argument of, "oh they have all different governments and all different languages". State governments in the
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by sqrt17 16y ago
a bloom filter may give you false negatives (i.e., you think you've seen it before, but you didn't). Or do you mean, use a bloom filter (~2-3MB, so that it fits in the L3 cache) and look in the mmapped hash table only if the bloom filter in
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by sqrt17 16y ago
-S is quite useful. For bigger sorting tasks, I usually use -S50% to speed up the speed of sorting. (sort's default memory size must be about 1MB). It may also help to use compression with the temporary files (something like "--compress-pro
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by sqrt17 16y ago
... and if the owner of somerandomdomain.net lets his domain expire, you're faced with the choice of (a) put his SSL key (along with a couple thousand others) on the global CRL, which then grows to monstruous proportions or (b) let the old
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by sqrt17 16y ago
This comes through the interdisciplinary nature of computational linguistics: CS people know that theories and models are just theories and models, and can be mixed and matched to fit your application purpose better. (People love to have pi

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