stevoski

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by stevoski 13y ago
Too many anecdotes, not enough data.
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by stevoski 13y ago
This seems an overly simplistic discussion of a single chart. Is it ethnic Russians leaving these countries? Why the sudden drop in one year, which seems to represent a change of definitions?
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by stevoski 13y ago
That features list doesn't give me much information. Can you tell me a few highlights that would make me say, "WOW" if I tried them out? (I ask as a IntelliJ devotee.)
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by stevoski 13y ago
Even before Oracle acquired Sun and therefore Java, they had some excellent free tools they developed and which kept getting better. For example, SQL Developer. I've been pleasantly surprised by Oracle's stewardship of Java. They
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by stevoski 13y ago
This article is way inaccurate. It recommends approaches that were maybe important in 1997. It also breaks the "profile before optimising" rule. Currently the Java GC works splendidly with lots of short-lived, small immutable clas
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by stevoski 13y ago
From the article: "Polish Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski was a patriot who showed his love for his country in a very courageous act. He risked his life and the safety of his family to protect Poland from the Soviets during the Cold War by s
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by stevoski 13y ago
Love the name. That sort of pun brings a smile to my face.
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by stevoski 13y ago
Try PyCharm. It works on Mac and Windows and is miles ahead of XCode for Python.
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The Best Name Ever for a Computer Language(blog.pokercopilot.com)
58 points by stevoski 13y ago|33 comments
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by stevoski 13y ago
Can you recommend a particular site?
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by stevoski 13y ago
I liked Hacker News better when it was a place for sharing and discussing start-up based news. Not to say that these other types of articles are not worthy of reading and sharing. But I can get them elsewhere.
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by stevoski 13y ago
The article talks a lot about cities now being the domain only of "one-percenters" and "global elite". This is demonstrably false. Consider the UK. UK's population: 62 million London population: 8 million 13% of the
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by stevoski 13y ago
It is not good manners to tell people that their idea, in your opinion, "sucks". That's why. I wouldn't tell them that, just as I wouldn't tell them that, in my opinion, their clothing, haircut, or other aspects of
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by stevoski 13y ago
The H2 open source java database implements "alter table" exactly as per the description of sql alchemy: create a new table with the new structure, copy all the data across, delete the original table, rename the new table to the o
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by stevoski 13y ago
I'm a New Zealander living in Spain. My circle of acquaintances here seem to be disappointed, frustrated, but not surprised about the recent Prism revelations. I find myself yearning for a non-USA based alternative to Gmail, Facebook,
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by stevoski 13y ago
> "that think they possess the truth and are right about everything" All those things I listed are well-documented. For the sake of keeping my post short I didn't post links to the appropriate Wikipedia articles nor to mai
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by stevoski 13y ago
I agree, as a New Zealander living in Spain. I've been staggered over the last decade or so to hear of the USA performing: * "extraordinary renditions" (kidnapping), sometimes of the wrong person who after months gets dumped
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by stevoski 13y ago
A third of people in rich countries die from cancer. There's plenty of money in it. It is just that unregulated cell growth is an extremely difficult problem to solve.
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The Power of Being in the Top Spot for Google Rankings(blog.pokercopilot.com)
2 points by stevoski 13y ago|0 comments
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by stevoski 13y ago
The only thing I want changed in the way Hacker News rendered is this: make it easier to use on my iPhone. It is difficult to touch the right link on a small screen, and I often go to the wrong page. The voting buttons are just not possible
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by stevoski 13y ago
This piece reads like a press release.
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by stevoski 13y ago
I think a good approach would be to immediately tell the employee that this is stealing and a fireable offence. Either fire them, or give them a warning. That is much better than punishing everyone for the crimes of one (or some).
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by stevoski 13y ago
Do any of my fellow HN readers know enough to say that Angelina Jolie processed the available information of her extremely high risk of breast cancer correctly? Is the mathematics logical? Something I wondered is, that given that 1 in 3 Ame
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by stevoski 13y ago
Lied? or changed his mind?
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by stevoski 13y ago
Even those bordering countries/areas are unclear. cf Golan Heights (which resulted in Facebook being banned by the Syrian government); and the dispute between Lebanon and Israel on maritime borders. Talk about messy...
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by stevoski 14y ago
> One of the major reasons breast cancer prognosis is so good is because it's often caught early. Actually, the OP ("Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer") argued the very opposite.
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by stevoski 14y ago
I _do_ believe in forums as a SaaS. Yes, there are risks, as you pointed out. There are also benefits. The forum service provider rolls out updates The forum service provider applies security patches The forum service provider keeps the ser
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by stevoski 14y ago
Use a paid alternative. Money talks.
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by stevoski 14y ago
He doesn't have a chance of lasting more than a few months, most of which will be painful and with rapidly decreasing functioning. With the type and severity of his cancer, an experimental new treatment will simply ensure that his last days
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by stevoski 14y ago
I could be easily pm'ed via the forum. That would be a professional way to call me. I neglected to mention that the phone call came late in the evening, and on a weekend I think.

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