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by w0utert 14y ago
So if all the negativity and people complaining is what made you hate HN so much you are leaving it, why do I have to read about it on... HN?
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Well I think they would if you actually tried, but anyway, this is going nowhere. I was just making the point that gold has always had value, and has outlived every form of currency that has ever existed, and will continue to do so, just be
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People who I assume know much better what they are talking about (space agencies, scientists) have already commented on these wild space mining fantasy you are referring about. It's a ridiculous idea that is nowhere near technical or econom
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You realize that 'money', in whatever form, shares that property with gold, right? Money only exists because it isn't really convenient to barter bushels of wheat for sheep, just so you can barter said sheep for the apples you need, but the
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by w0utert 14y ago
What does it matter why gold and silver became 2 of the most reliable stores of value. Fact is they are both in limited supply, they both are labour intensive to 'produce', they both have a tradition desirabilty, and they both have been use
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I don't think that many people are interested in preserving their wealth until after 3000 AD, so let's forget about science-fiction scenarios.
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This is all besides the point I was trying to make. It doesn't matter if and how government can stop Bitcoin trades or whatever. It's about what happens when governments simply deem Bitcoins illegal, preventing legitimate use. It will under
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> You actually unintentionally explained what you don't understand. Fiat currency is a problem because it can be so easily manipulated by the governments behind it. Just like the dollar, bitcoins have value only because people believe t
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> [..] bitcoin needs to increase the amount of users using it to be more useful. Inevitably, this means the price of bitcoin will rise. I'm not so sure if this is 'inevitable' since bitcoins in itself have no value at all. I know the sa
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by w0utert 14y ago
I suppose that would be possible, if the built in GPU has local video RAM and such. You wouldn't nearly be consuming the bandwidth compared to sending raw video to the display. I do think it would be a little too complicated though, it's pr
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by w0utert 14y ago
Adobe seems to be pretty much clueless when it comes to Flash if you ask me. They never bothered to make a solid version of the plugin for Linux and OS X until the whole Flash-on-iOS debate started and Flash really didn't need more bad pres
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by w0utert 14y ago
That's exactly what I think will be the future: AI-assisted cars, not AI-driving cars. But I don't think it will progress beyond that, for the simple fact that I think it's either all or nothing. You cannot build a car that drives itself so
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Good points. Without any statistics about the frequency and nature of situations where the human driver still has to intervene, numbers like '300K miles without an accident' are meaningless. For all I know the Google cars might have had a n
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by w0utert 14y ago
Only the very latest XQuartz version actually works on Mountain Lion, so if the guy was still relying on an old, Apple-supported version, his current X11 installation would not have worked anyway.
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by w0utert 14y ago
Things can be horrible in many different ways. C++ is definitely horrible in some ways, but when used properly, it allows you to do stuff you cannot do with most 'less horrible' languages (if any). Going C++ is a very valid tradeoff for man
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by w0utert 14y ago
That's just pure BS. If you want to get your photo's out of iPhoto, all you have to do is select them, and drag them to wherever you want to have them. If anything, iPhoto is the poster child for applications that do not need hierarchical f
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by w0utert 14y ago
Agreed. For example trees of source code seem to fit the hierarchical structure very well, because it can (almost) map directly to projects, modules, submodules and classes, and conveniently separate them from e.g. build products or configu
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> The ways something can be abused are not arguments against proper use of it. While true, the rate at which things are abused appears to be highly correlated to how convenient or user-friendly they are, or how well they solve the probl
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by w0utert 14y ago
The original article wasn't very good, but this response is even worse. It appears the author is lacking any form of creativity to think beyond the idea that folders are the only paradigm for ordering files that could possibly work. In prac
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by w0utert 14y ago
Interesting approach, but like some others I'm wondering if this is the fastest and easiest way to do this kind of thing, especially since you are working with a tile based grid. Probably a combination of 2d portals and raycasting would do
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by w0utert 14y ago
Gson: JSON parsing is native since iOS 5.0, but there's also a number of open-source alternatives (json-framework comes to mind) Guava: As the description says, this is basically a collection of core components: "The Guava project contains
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by w0utert 14y ago
Scrolling through the list of most active libraries, many either have iOS versions/alternatives or duplicate things that iOS has built-in by default. Also, let's not forget that you can also use any C or C++ library on iOS as long as it has
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That was interesting and fun to read, never thought about the User-Agent string and why it's so messed up.
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> Additionally, I'd love to take a few years off and spend more time with my family. Being tethered to a job, regardless of how much it pays, will not allow me to do that. Making a shitload of cash will. This pretty much sums it up as f
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by w0utert 14y ago
I have never used it, but supposedly Windows PowerShell is pretty good. But Windows 9x/XP/2000 don't have it, and no matter how great the shell features are, it's severely crippled by the fact that Windows has never had anything like your t
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by w0utert 14y ago
> I think jwz's point is that he prefers having his old code run very slow through a compatibility layer rather than having to port the same not-so-important old code over the new APIs. If that's what you want, just write it yourself on
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by w0utert 14y ago
> All your points can as easily be stated for Gnome 2.x, XFCE or OS X as well. Only that windows UI is in my opinion vastly superior just because it is consistent and well thought out compared to the rest. Half of what you are saying is
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by w0utert 14y ago
I have to disagree. The traditional Windows interface is full of undiscoverable hidden stuff, inconsistent and illogical ways that make doing simple things hard, the start menu was never a good UI paradigm to begin with, the taskbar has alw
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by w0utert 14y ago
Hardly any arguments in that article at all, besides 'if you use Windows 8 long enough you will eventually learn how it works' and 'stop complaining, Windows 8 is the future'. Windows 95 and XP/2000 didn't actually have a user-friendly inte
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> This seems absurdly paranoid. Why is it, on the face of things, more likely that the LIDAR-packing robot which is scanning 360 degrees hundreds of times per second got into a fender-bender than that the human engineer who sometimes ha

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