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by thras 17y ago
Zed's not special. People who write code should be rewarded for their work: "the labourer is worthy of his hire," after all. This is why BSD-style licenses in a world where multimillion-dollar companies make a killing off of the code you wr
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by thras 17y ago
C++ concepts were designed to put constraints on templates. If you pass your class to the sorting algorithm, it had better be comparable using the less than operator, etc. Basically a tool to write better libraries that give better compilat
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Concepts have been dropped from the new C++ standard(search.twitter.com)
2 points by thras 17y ago|3 comments
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by thras 17y ago
What has Zed gotten out of your Mongrel use? And what have you gotten from it, financially?
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by thras 17y ago
A long article about energy, energy-density, and how the current "green" solutions are unlikely to work. No mention of nuclear energy. Because it makes too much sense to think about nuclear, one assumes.
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Has Silicon Valley Peaked?(parapundit.com)
4 points by thras 17y ago|2 comments
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by thras 17y ago
You are not reading what I write. Human growth hormone is why humans grow vertically. I never said it has any effect on obesity. To grow vertically, you need to eat. But the cause of that vertical growth is not the eating. Eating is the eff
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by thras 17y ago
"Weight management is about calories consumed versus calories expended." Yeah. That's about as useful as saying that alcoholism is caused by over-drinking. There are all sorts of diseases and conditions that cause obesity, and we know for a
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by thras 17y ago
If the insulin affects your fat tissue to increase energy pick up by the tissue itself (which we know it does), the result will be hunger. That hunger will lead to a) increased food intake, b) lower activity levels, or c) breakdown of other
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by thras 17y ago
You forgot progressive lipodystrophy. Also, people still take insulin today and still gain weight from it. They're called 'diabetics.' And if a person has a huge fat store (and if fat is really just an 'energy battery') why should there be
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by thras 17y ago
After being fat from early childhood, I lost 160 pounds by eating 900 calories a day. Eventually I got down to the weight I wanted (normal weight for my height) and was running 5 miles a day. I couldn't take the diet any more. I'm a fellow
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by thras 17y ago
To be fair, most people running 4.3 are running 4.3 with RHEL back-patches or something similar. That's what distribution maintainers are for -- there's nothing less secure than trying to remember to patch all your individual programs yours
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by thras 17y ago
I count 4 ninjas in that photograph.
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by thras 17y ago
Interesting. Because when we were looking at signing up for the university version of Google Apps, they expected us to do our own tech support. Is it different for the corporate version?
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by thras 17y ago
Sure. Tell me how I can pay to use Gmail?
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by thras 17y ago
Out of beta? More importantly, who do I call if I have a problem with my Gmail account?
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by thras 17y ago
The same thing that separates a good plumber from a mediocre plumber.
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by thras 17y ago
"I think a fair-er comparison is of Noble prize laureates by ethnicity or country where they were born. You probably will see a lot more even distribution." Ha. You seriously believe that, don't you? I'm impressed almost. In the U.S., 13% o
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by thras 17y ago
I don't know. Every time RoR slows down under barely any load, I swear to myself that I'm going to right C++ on Rails and do it right.
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by thras 17y ago
Well, if we're talking "programs" as opposed to administration glue scripts, I see very few fields where performance doesn't matter. It matters for online apps. It matters for GUI applications. It matters for games. It matters for scientifi
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by thras 17y ago
This article is silly. The real reason for the rise of C++ is that "C with Objects" fit the metaphors that GUI libraries need a lot better than C. And in the end...it's not such a bad language. In the real world, you only use a small part o
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Kindle DX Screensaver Backgrounds(thras.homeunix.net)
1 points by thras 17y ago|0 comments
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by thras 17y ago
Do degree holders earn more or are the kind of people who get degrees the kind of people who tend to earn more?
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by thras 17y ago
I've noticed a few of those articles myself.
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by thras 17y ago
I did not say you claimed any benefits for the Western diet. I did not say that I did not know where you came up with your number. I know you didn't see a reference. For that, you'd have to read my post. 4th paragraph, 2nd sentence. You app
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by thras 17y ago
There was no gene flow from the Americas to the rest of the world during that time period. So unless you're Native American, it doesn't really matter. More importantly, 10,000 years is enough time to see some evolution, but when we are talk
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by thras 17y ago
Insulin is tied up in fat metabolism and is a necessary molecule to move FFAs into fat cells. Inject a person with insulin and they'll gain weight fast. The rates of the growth of many types of cancer seem to increase in the presence of ins
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by thras 17y ago
Are low-GI carbohydrate really "good" for you? Or are they not as bad for you as high-GI carbohydrate? Is chronically elevated sugar the problem or chronically elevated insulin? There's good evidence that both are very bad for you. And in t
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by thras 17y ago
Oops. Turns out the Keyes hypothesis (fat = harmful) was awful science based on cherry-picked data. High-carb is actually the killer, and it's not a coincidence that has our diet got higher and higher in simple carbohydrates, our obesity le
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by thras 17y ago
But it must be good since I see that same comment so often.

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