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by timmaxw 12y ago
The Ruby and Python clients will block if you try to fetch the next change and there isn't one available. You can prevent this by using a separate thread for the blocking request. The node.js client uses a callback. We're currentl
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by timmaxw 12y ago
Yes, this is new functionality that will be released as part of RethinkDB 1.16. RethinkDB 1.16 is expected to ship in a couple of weeks.
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by timmaxw 13y ago
Incidentally, those aren't the most basic can openers; it's possible to make a can opener with no moving parts. Search for "swiss army knife can opener" to see some pictures. Personally, I first learned to use the simple
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by timmaxw 13y ago
> Would these results hold in a matriarchal society? I wrote up the following response and then realized that I was answering a different question than the one you asked. The following is an investigation of whether the tendency for chil
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by timmaxw 13y ago
This is only tangentially related to the article, but 507 Mechanical Movements is available as a website: http://507movements.com/ Some of the movements have been animated as well.
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by timmaxw 13y ago
> we have no laws and few social structures that force men into programming or prevent women from doing it We have plenty of social structures that discourage women from programming. Programming first arose as a profession in the mid-20t
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by timmaxw 13y ago
I speculate that re-posts get voted to the front page because the users who are voting on them didn't see them the first time around. The fraction of HN users that see a post on average depends on how long a typical post stays on the f
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by timmaxw 14y ago
I think that Mac OS X unredirects unoccluded windows; I've noticed windowed computer games suddenly getting much slower when I move another window in front of them.
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by timmaxw 14y ago
I think you were confusing orbital inclination with axial tilt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_tilt
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by timmaxw 14y ago
I think the loophole was that insurance premiums were tax-deductible, but insurance payouts were not taxed. Wikipedia has an explanation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate-owned_life_insurance#... , but I don't fully understand it.
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by timmaxw 14y ago
(Fish fish fish) fish. Fish which are fished by other fish themselves fish something unspecified.
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by timmaxw 14y ago
These are fun. "Fish" works too. Did you know that fish buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo fish? I think that any sentence of the form "(buffalo|fish)+" is valid in at least one way.
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by timmaxw 14y ago
Prosthetics that improve performance should be banned from the Olympics. If prosthetics become good enough that completely-natural athletes can't win medals, then athletes who haven't lost limbs (and aren't willing to have an "accident") wi
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by timmaxw 14y ago
What's the point in having so many top-level domains? I can see the value in having country codes, because otherwise there would be an international (probably US-dominated) authority that imposed its power on the Internet, but why any beyon
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by timmaxw 14y ago
Warning: at least one of the images is not "family-friendly". Are the images automatically collected?
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by timmaxw 14y ago
* Dividing or multiplying a fahrenheit temperature is meaningless, because 0ºF is arbitrary. * Ideally, you want separate types for absolute temperatures and temperature-deltas. Absolutes cannot be added, multiplied, or divided; subtracting
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by timmaxw 15y ago
What did SOPA have to do with privacy? I'm only aware of provisions for shutting down websites accused of copyright infringement.
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by timmaxw 15y ago
Chrome allows you to set up multiple user profiles; each one is isolated from the others. Like Incognito mode, it's per-window, not per-tab. I have one for GMail, one for Facebook, and one for everything else.
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by timmaxw 15y ago
I've used Lua for a couple of personal projects. My main objection to it is that accessing an undefined variable or member returns nil rather than throwing an exception. If you make a typo, you don't find out until you try to call or perfor
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by timmaxw 15y ago
There's a bug in your definition of SORT. The OP complains that it's easy to write imperative and functional programs that contain bugs; I don't think that declarative programs are fundamentally better.
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by timmaxw 15y ago
It's true that some pirates would have paid if they hadn't been able to pirate. But that's not the whole story: sometimes getting media for free makes people more inclined to buy it or related media later. I've heard on Hacker News that fre
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by timmaxw 15y ago
I can't open the link either. But your link doesn't seem to refer to the same article. Google's cache is from November 30th, and the article was posted today.
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by timmaxw 15y ago
> they'll just find a new revenue stream I find it interesting to model gang violence as a market. If drugs are made legal, the demand for thugs will go down. If the supply of thuggery is elastic, then former gang members will leave gan
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by timmaxw 15y ago
The problem is with the US patent system, not with the patent trolls. The benefit to society of granting a patent is that it gives companies an incentive to do R&D. The cost to society of granting a patent is that other companies have t