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by thwarted 13y ago
Convenience also in that few people want to consume 2 liters at one sitting, so not having a left over, partially filled 2 liter that you have to look after until you get to a place where it can be stored is often worth the addition 50¢.
962.
by thwarted 13y ago
User Agent is the new evil bit.
963.
by thwarted 13y ago
Last sentence of this comment objected to "ether". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7041947
964.
by thwarted 13y ago
What's with the low contrast? #7f8c8d is insufficiently dark to easily read on a white background.
965.
by thwarted 13y ago
What, no WfW 3.11 support? It's almost too perfect... Windows 3.1 only had window resizing via a thick stipple outline of the window border, and the included web browser reflows too quickly, although that's a function of the hardw
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by thwarted 13y ago
It's a measure of efficiency. A company that takes 100 people to produce $100 of profit isn't as efficient as a company that produces $100 of profit with one person. How this ratio changes over time is a measure of scalability.
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by thwarted 13y ago
I've never seen an init.d script that tried to restart something automatically, and attempting to do so within the script itself is folly. Any init.d script that gets into an infinite loop would be deleted immediately. The init.d scr
968.
by thwarted 13y ago
So you get a pass on doing assholy things and don't deserve to be called an asshole if you do assholy things because it's natural human behavior?
969.
by thwarted 13y ago
[painkillers] make you less sharp and restrict your capabilities From one perspective, that's what you get when you outsource something to another that is providing the "painkiller" product or service. You gain agility in
970.
by thwarted 13y ago
I remember reading some blog post that talked about implementing an InnoDB storage engine using a zfs backend, and using zfs snapshot operations. Seemed to be more of an idea than an actual implementation though.
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by thwarted 13y ago
But it that's exactly what you don't want: sharper corners means greater chance of getting snagged on the inside of the cable bends or against other bits. What you really want is data that is all zeros... nice round, rubbery, flex
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by thwarted 13y ago
Not sure why the filesystems are getting blamed for this, many filesystems on Linux support xattrs for storing related data about the file. But the applications and the tools need to support storing and reading and doing something with tha
973.
by thwarted 13y ago
They also hate competition from netflix more than from the others you mention, it's a more complete replacement for their video offerings. So they've never actually browsed Netflix's offering then, huh? Because it's h
974.
by thwarted 13y ago
I had the entire run of, ahem, Commodore RUN Magazine, and had a great time flipping through them as you describe. But when I moved, I didn't consider them worth moving and put them in the recycle bin. At nearly 20 years old, they we
975.
by thwarted 13y ago
Yeah, I'm usually working on some remote machine, and keep multiple tmux instances running with the state of each medium or high level project. I've found I rarely have more than two going at once though.
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by thwarted 13y ago
Think about all the Friend of Friend wire taps. Suddenly the $20 bill you bought starbucks with gets given as change to a drug dealer and you are on a known associate list. While this is not something anyone who values privacy wants, this
977.
by thwarted 13y ago
Is that the point? "In the past" there was a massive plan to build BART lines to all over the Bay Area[0] that never came to fruition. There isn't even serious talk about doing this. Modern companies, which didn't exi
978.
by thwarted 13y ago
It seems that it is currently more efficient to bus people around, using (abusing, some might say) the infrastructure that already exists than to battle municipalities and telcos to provide/get/allow-you-to-install higher speed ne
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by thwarted 13y ago
Nevermind that the corporate shuttles exist mainly because of the transit problems. If the companies that provide the shuttles weren't aware of the transit issues, they never would have provided the shuttles.
980.
by thwarted 13y ago
Personally my take is that the proposed abstractions are too low level to be of genuine use as an abstraction layer across cloud providers Yeah, what vagrant has been able to acomplish so far is an example of this. There are many features
981.
by thwarted 13y ago
Terrorism is pretty scary stuff, it's intended to be scary. I'm not scared of acts of terrorism. I am much more concerned about vehicles killing cyclists and, really, the brain dead response the non terrorists will/have had
982.
by thwarted 13y ago
I won't enumerate all the details why having one person have at least 51% voting power is valuable, because the writeups about stock shares does it better justice, but I will say that I think it's naive to think "we're b
983.
by thwarted 13y ago
The big trick is to respect the people you live with, to have empathy for them, and most importantly to realize that in the long-term you are going to be a lot better off if you adopt a policy of "I'll fix this as soon as I find
984.
by thwarted 13y ago
This line of thought made me think of utility of the monopoly on the ownership of the patent vs the utility of the monopoly on the exploitation of the patent. This is a distinction that I don't think is often considered, perhaps becau
985.
by thwarted 13y ago
But our core APIs are still written like its 1980. Exactly what level of abstraction is good for the "core APIs"? Something actually has to send a series of bytes to be written to the disk, even if a bunch of serialization and
986.
by thwarted 13y ago
I make no mention of PYTHONPATH.
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by thwarted 13y ago
python actually has reasonably good support for this via a single environment variable (PYTHONENV or PYTHONHOME, I think, it's been a while since I looked at this). The problem is that it overrides all the default search/path loca
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by thwarted 13y ago
Imagine someone invented a pill to cure cancer, but kept the details secret and then died; we would lose his invention (a silly example, but it illustrates the point). This is not only a silly example, but a bad one. If society never lea
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by thwarted 13y ago
People write modules for node to an audience rather than to scratch their own itch?
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by thwarted 13y ago
Many people will attribute the "6" in "Perl 6" as the cause, but I attribute it to the "Perl" in "Perl 6". Perl 6 appears to be a sufficiently enough different language from Perl 5, much more than the

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