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by venus 12y ago
How clean are the streets on Manus Island? Mopped up the blood there yet from the last time one of our asylum seekers was shot dead? We haven't got standing to criticise anyone about human rights.
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by venus 12y ago
The Australian government is technologically illiterate and will do no such thing. If we're to have any real competition between countries to improve their governance, entrepreneurs have to vote with their feet and actually move to the
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by venus 12y ago
Point taken. However, like I said above, I know a few startups who use python, and the only Windows boxes there are for IE testing. Certainly no-one deploys on it. Academic computing seems to be a different world, though.
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by venus 12y ago
Yeah, they say that every couple of years (eg IronRuby) - it never seems to amount to anything. As with anything MS says, I'll believe it when I see it.
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by venus 12y ago
Well, fair enough then, I take that back. Nonetheless, I know a few python web programmers, and zero of them use windows. I imagine that libraries would be a big issue too, not to mention the native lack of simple things like a proper comma
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by venus 12y ago
I'd say Windows has been a second class citizen for a long time for any of the unix-centric open source languages. Ruby, Python, even node - you're fighting an uphill battle trying to do anything on Windows. I'm sort of amaze
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by venus 12y ago
You're thinking of the intel system: http://iq.intel.com/future-headlight-technology-could-make-r... BMW does have an interesting new headlight system available on the coming i8 which boosts the high beam range using l
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by venus 12y ago
It's not just high, it's ludicrously high. Over the easter weekend in my city, extensive random breath testing of almost 60,000 people caught 58 driving above 0.05 - still too high but orders of magnitude less than the GP's a
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by venus 13y ago
This is an excessively cynical, misanthropic view of events. I know a lot of people who could be described as "long bitcoin" and while there's no doubt a few opportunistic types, most are genuinely excited and actively involv
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by venus 13y ago
The Malaysian transport minister has just denied this article's accuracy at a press conference in KL. Which is interesting. The WSJ isn't just some random blog. I wonder where they got their information.
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by venus 13y ago
Didn't they lose about BTC700,000? Ie, about USD$400M? Which would suggest that neither of those numbers are anywhere near right. Hey, what's a few orders of magnitude between friends?
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by venus 13y ago
Yep.
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by venus 13y ago
To me seeing "requires WebGL" indicates that some sort of check has been carried out and the current browser has failed. Not really good as a loading message, IMO...
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by venus 13y ago
Well what's stopping you? Stop regretting and pick up a book! I don't have much love for C# but if your fundamentals are sound you won't have too much difficulty picking up a new language. 6 months ago I wouldn't have kn
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by venus 13y ago
Fantastic. This release has all the fixes I'd been waiting on before going to production; I'll be deploying this week. Great work ruby-core and thank you as always. Twenty-one years, wow, time flies!
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by venus 13y ago
Yeah, I realised after typing it that there's probably a huge amount of availability bias in my statement. It wouldn't surprise me if Wordpress MySQL deploys outnumber all rails/django postgres deploys combined. And the PHP m
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by venus 13y ago
I am kind of amazed that that works. What's going on - does the baseband have its own IP stack, which it somehow shares to the computer, which then declares its own mini-lan and lets the iPhone on at a higher level such that iOS uses t
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by venus 13y ago
I suppose my main experience is with rails people, and as of rails 4 postgres is pretty clearly the "default" DB, emphatically displacing MySQL. The author appears to come from much more of a node.js angle and so probably what he
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by venus 13y ago
> Postgres has never been popular. [..] MongoDB is replacing MySQL not Postgres I don't know what you are basing that on, but it's the complete opposite of what I am seeing. Postgres is now the default open source database as f
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by venus 13y ago
That is really sad news. Jim Weirich was a real gem. Friendly, approachable and chatty, he didn't have that aloofness so unfortunately common to some "personalities" in the ruby commmunity. In the last couple of years he had
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by venus 13y ago
Very telling that you felt the need to create a new account to make these idiotic comments - you're obviously unwilling to have your real account associated with them. So even you know you're talking shit. Knock it off, why don&#x
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by venus 13y ago
If those projects have prospered enough that rewriting in a high-performance language has become a necessity, then I would say Rails fulfilled its function brilliantly. Rails is a good, probably the best, general purpose web framework, and
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by venus 13y ago
I wonder what percentage of android users even uses SD cards? My guess: pretty small.
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by venus 13y ago
Here is the study: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/03/05/tobac... Here is a (rather editorialised) summary: http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/
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by venus 13y ago
> the health effects of flavorings are still out there This is very true. I have been very concerned with "vapers" I know buying cheap juices from China - to me this is rolling the dice, almost as bad as smoking! You will find
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by venus 13y ago
> the useless and stupid quest for "ease of use," > a very clearly function-follows-form company Your opinions about Apple are, to put it mildly, non-mainstream. I am a frigging software engineer, perfectly able to handle co
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by venus 13y ago
I know what you're saying, and a lot of the time it's true, but it's not like all or even most people would put a monetary value on every single second of their time. Hell, a few weeks ago I started building a model plane - t
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by venus 13y ago
"Leverage is the only way a smart guy can go broke." - Warren Buffett
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by venus 13y ago
Hadn't thought of that. Even if so, I'd say they still failed - the car doesn't look like an old film, it looks like crappy CGI, with a lazy "blur shadow" underneath and wooden-doll driver.
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by venus 13y ago
> All the claims about Iceland doing things differently are useless I don't understand your comment. What Iceland did - allow its banks to default on their debts - is completely different from what eg. Ireland did, ie. nationalise t

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