stewbrew

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by stewbrew 16y ago
So you are forcing people who are neither in favour nor against something to produce false pro/contra votes. There are some cases where this strategy makes sense like questions about controverse topics. Other than that it produces noise. In
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by stewbrew 16y ago
The problem with a comparison of idiomatic solutions is that they rely in different degrees on what's in their libraries. IIRC the shootout tries to avoid this by comparing similar solutions using the same algorithm that are actually implem
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by stewbrew 16y ago
So, the person asking the question says there are no independent studies. The only answer cites two studies about XGA displays and one study that claims that "some tasks can be performed faster". The title of the post on hn is: more is bett
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by stewbrew 16y ago
For apparently no clear reason, nuclear power plants are often built near the border. Usually people on the other side of the border usually don't profit in whatever way from the power plant. The situation may be different if you live on an
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by stewbrew 16y ago
A message telling people to please turn on javascript wouldn't hurt though, would it?
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by stewbrew 16y ago
Who is "we"? If the the author speaks for himself, I have no objection against him moving to Fukushima or buying a house close to another nuclear power plant. I'm sure there are people willing to sell and the price for real estate in those
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by stewbrew 16y ago
This looked like an interesting read. But then they mentioned Rhythmbox and I remembered the one thing I hate about that player: that stupid icon that stubbornly stays there in the notification area even if I don't want to listen to music a
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by stewbrew 16y ago
This would make sense for web apps. For (presumably) many people, ruby still is mostly a sysadmin scripting language. In that case, shorter startup times are often more important than runtime performance. I personally love ruby but I wouldn
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by stewbrew 16y ago
Yesterday I heard somebody who was responsible for a nuclear power plant in Europe speak on the radio (in Europe too). He said they were prepared for a malfunctioning valve, power outage etc. (predictable events) but they weren't actually p
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by stewbrew 16y ago
it's the first post on his blog and we are certain he is no lobbyist. citing foreign experts you happen to know personally somehow is commonly used in popular science literature. a catastrophe not as bad as chernobyl can still be pretty bad
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by stewbrew 16y ago
i like it when scientists say "the situation is under control" after the roof was bombed off.
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by stewbrew 16y ago
let's just hope a loss of power supply is everything they have to worry about. it seems some caesium already got out.
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by stewbrew 16y ago
i find this sort of fetishism disturbing. i much rather like Kurt vonnegut's stance on this: authors are not obliged to finish what they began. he also claimed having trashed quite a few novels.
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by stewbrew 16y ago
it has more to do with corporate affiliations: hg seems to be strong at Google github was done in ruby php ... whatever
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by stewbrew 16y ago
> He overlooks some basic things - like that you can work part time, freelance, or save up your money and then not work for a few years. It seems the authors works as a novelist/writer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ventura . He
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by stewbrew 16y ago
How did you start chrome after exiting the shell?
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by stewbrew 16y ago
I personally find it strange when people compare an android phone made by X with the iPhone and describe that comparison as android vs apple. Unless it were a nexus phone maybe.
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by stewbrew 16y ago
It's your choice to compile a kernel. You could also have just used a distro like ubuntu. I think for a hacker, the difficult part here is to forget about all those tweaks that are possible.