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by virmundi 10y ago
I'm replying to the general concept that it's a lot of money for a campaign. It's really not. While it's a good amount from a specific person, this specific person has a lot of money. Hillary has multiple people over a m
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by virmundi 10y ago
I appreciated this even though it hit me a bit (I like pomodoro timers). There are some disturbing trends in the startup world. I think the goal is actually burnout. Can't prove it, but it seems like most of the trapping mention are de
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by virmundi 10y ago
I don't think that the person is being lazy. I've tried my hand at Android. I will continue to do so. I don't like it for the reasons enumerated in the post. The whole damn thing is a hack at this point. No one has a good gen
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by virmundi 10y ago
And it's called Communism. Marx is right in this general sense. Now we'll see what happens when the consumer base is decimated too. Capitalist might have all of the infrastructure but no one can buy.
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by virmundi 10y ago
Kind of depends on what the 10 GB is. For example, on my project, we started on files that were about 10 GB a day. The old system took 9 hours to enhance the data (add columns from other sources based on simple joins). So we did it with Had
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by virmundi 10y ago
I think it depends on how much you treasure battery life. Electron based apps suffer from poor battery life due to the Chromium unpinning. JS is resource intensive compared to C++. You can probably get an extra 20-35% battery life out of Su
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by virmundi 10y ago
Don't forget that they will probably command a higher wage too. And they will probably take time off for family since they have one.
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by virmundi 10y ago
To take issue with your later points: a lot of resource pressure is due to humans being to stupid to not throw away their resources. Take California for instance. They have two really big environmental issues: drought and fires. LA purposel
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by virmundi 10y ago
Similar real line: Does it still eat battery like a mid-westerner at a buffet? I've thought about using underlying tech for a desktop app. I don't know how easy it will be to sell given that it would drain battery at probably 1.5
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by virmundi 10y ago
It's a little dated, but here's a Forbes article that discusses a decline in Western oil consumption (not necessarily from fusion). http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2012/12/03/what
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by virmundi 10y ago
Not to get too political, but I think that the US tends to have the policies it does to prevent the all out collapse of the Middle East. If you think it's a shit storm now, just wait until they have nothing. Few of those states investe
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by virmundi 10y ago
I think a lot of this could be covered by two principles that are often quoted but over looked. The first is, KISS, keep it simple stupid. The second is single responsibility. When I design software, I apply both of these to every facet of
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by virmundi 10y ago
Things tend to come in waves. I can't prove it, but I think it's due to an, "Oh, yea. That exists." mentality. There were a few articles around social apps the other day that made me almost submit a "What happened t
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by virmundi 10y ago
On a small number of cores Erlang does this. That's why actors can be in the thousands and still performant.
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by virmundi 10y ago
Lost efficiency. If you want a semi-persistent relational DB, you can use BerkleyDB. There are also embedded DBs for Java, and probably other languages. If you do this, you're not wasting RAM for the VM and the guest OS. The DB gets it
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by virmundi 10y ago
I enjoyed this topic while researching New Data: a Field Guide [1]. In my research I've come to really enjoy ArangoDB. It has good support for documents, performance, relational data queries and basic graphs. Without doing the research
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by virmundi 10y ago
I know there is a sense of biting irony here, but it really a valid comment for relatively static sites. Look at the Git based systems out there. If you can generate your site without a tier, generate it without a tier.
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by virmundi 10y ago
They run better over short distances. Bipedal great apes do better over long distances. This is proven both by experienced hunters and myself as I hunt down my cat for kisses. After just a few minutes, she hunker down and accepts her fate s
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by virmundi 10y ago
First to your lack of focus. I had the same issue. I jumped around various languages like Scala and Closure and D. I would jump around background products like Mongo or Arango or PostgreSQL. Probably for the same reason for you: novelty dri
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by virmundi 10y ago
But that applies to everything. The commodity markets are more reasonable. When trading an etn you don't have to take on the contract risk directly. You still have to worry about contango, but not the contract. Did I predict the blowou
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by virmundi 10y ago
For shorting oil over a month or two, it's fine. The market doesn't get much more information than what we have on the news. Oil tends to move with violence. That's covered in the news. Gas inventories and oil glut is covered
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by virmundi 10y ago
While I realize the power of compound interest is real, those at 45 can get into commodities trading in IRAs. ETNs allow people to short or long a commodity. Paying attention to the tax forms helps reduce end of year non business related ex
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by virmundi 10y ago
True? There isn't much point to this statement. Many people will be dead within a few decades presuming that few is any number between 3 - 6. That doesn't mean I or they shouldn't plan on achieving a comfortable life between
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by virmundi 10y ago
Organic farming is a scientific field of study. It can meet the demands of the present population as well as future growth [0]. It is a viable option against GMO. Rather than having the scorched earth policy of GMO, organic seeks to balance
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by virmundi 10y ago
Yes it is more natural than GMOs. GMOs take genes from another creature, and inject it into the plant. We take known poison producers and inject them into our food because those poisons are helpful in combating some pest. The actionable dat
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by virmundi 10y ago
This is the guy we should make a movie, not a documentary, about. It's gets better. He steals the boat, goes North after helping his family, become a Northern army official, comes back with another gun boat and kicks ass. Then he'
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by virmundi 10y ago
I can tell you what not to do; I really mean this. Don't drink. At least not for a while. It could lead to suicidal ideation. Then it's possibly a literal death spiral. You're depressed that you don't get anything done (
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How Toby Spribille Overturned 150 Years of Biology about Lichens(theatlantic.com)
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by virmundi 10y ago
But you're presuming that mostly suicidal is an nonfunctional mode. If a person has been depressed for 15 years, held loaded weapons to their head while they cried, and have a good way to kill themselves, it's good to be good does
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by virmundi 10y ago
Yup.

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