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by wladimir 15y ago
It probably differs between carriers, but here in the Netherlands it's not very common for Android phones to be customized by the carrier. At least my phone (Samsung Galaxy S2) was not changed in any way. Though if you're paranoid it's prob
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes -- apache mainly has projects centered around Java and C/C++. Flex seems like a re-do of Java (from the VM to the API). Sure, they won't reject a given horse (or cat), but I don't see that much reason for them to actively maintain this.
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by wladimir 15y ago
The fun with young animals for me is seeing how they move and play, the activity, the energy... A picture doesn't convey this as good as a video. Still, I love the idea of the OP's site.
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by wladimir 15y ago
I think we are bumping into a limitation of what can be easily managed in "unstructured" (I would say "dead") text files Yes, I think so too. There are many kinds of relations between entities that we cannot specify just because "dead" te
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by wladimir 15y ago
It's crazy to require that many skills. I guess asking specific "skills" makes sense if you're looking for an expert in a specific narrow area. Otherwise, you just require an intelligent technical generalist that can learn quickly. Maybe (s
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by wladimir 15y ago
Please note that any data you backed up using BACKIFY.COM cannot be retrieved and we recommend you establish an alternative backup service immediately. What the hell? Why not give people some time to get their data out? I know one thing f
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by wladimir 15y ago
Great! Nice, simple and easy. It can even search for negative numbers without interpreting the - as "exclude". A literal search engine, without Google's well-meaning "intelligence" can be useful in many cases.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Everything can be done in C/C++ though, and while it'd be harder, ML is an area where the gain in speed Don't forget machine learning generally involves a lot of experimentation, and this is easier with higher-level languages. Hand-optm
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by wladimir 15y ago
You're reading it different than me. I don't think he's literally wishing for it to pass, or is it really "the bright side" that he is describing. He's just trying to rationalize that the worst-case scenario is not the end of all freedom ye
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by wladimir 15y ago
I guess the reason that they use Kaczynski in the text is because is is very well known with the public. The other thinkers of the same paradigm are probably lesser-known philosophers. After all, going against technology is really unpopular
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by wladimir 15y ago
problems that require technical breakthroughs or research level computer science knowledge, They're not just a plain boring services company. I'm sure that quite a lot of research went into Watson, and I think IBM is betting big on that
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes, the absence of a status indicator is a feature I really like as well. It takes time and attention to keep it up-to-date, which I simply don't bother with, so I am one of those people that is eternally 'busy' on other IMs.
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by wladimir 15y ago
When I needed an open source monitoring solution some time ago I eventually went with Zenoss. Nagios felt a bit clunky. Zenoss had a (IMO) better structured web interface and also more options for log-filtering/monitoring. Also it's based o
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by wladimir 15y ago
Wasn't flex also open source at some point? I remember there was some hype about it a few years ago. At least the compiler and SDK were opened. Back then I played around with it a bit and eventually concluded the new AS was basically a re-d
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by wladimir 15y ago
But what is your alternative? Doesn't checking the return code of every statement also make a tremendous amount of visual noise? I've seen C code where about 80% of the code is dedicated to error handling and corner cases. Before every stat
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by wladimir 15y ago
Same for me. Not that I never sit back to think of the bigger picture, but I've learned to think at multiple levels at once, so I can think of the higher level design while writing code / comments. I'm usually a bit wary about planning with
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by wladimir 15y ago
Possessing communication skills doesn't mean that you want to talk with everyone at every moment of the day. Not only people with lack of verbal communication have use for fake phone calls... It can be used to get out of various awkward sit
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by wladimir 15y ago
...and that the digital economy and the advances in communication technology will make it less important where you live, and where you were born. It is probably naive, but I still have some hope for technology to be an empowering, equalizin
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by wladimir 15y ago
One of the first things I tried was Mercury ☿ and it did work (even first match) - and that's despite my drawing skill.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Looks very interesting! I cannot find any details about its release though, even though the article talks about September 19. Will it be open source? proprietary?
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by wladimir 15y ago
You get the good parts of capitalism by not treating it as the end-all solution to everything, but using it as a tool where appropriate and curbing its excesses where necessary. Seems that what you call a mixed market economy is exactly wha
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by wladimir 15y ago
The inevitable effects of capitalism as taken to the extreme, losing any sense of humanity. Which seems to be where we're going. However, I don't agree it has to be this way. Comments like yours push any form of capitalism into the bad stu
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by wladimir 15y ago
What is simpler depends on which method you know. I'd also use matplotlib in this case, if you already know Python it's great for some quick plotting.
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by wladimir 15y ago
DDoSes and exploits in the TCP/IP stack, whoa... This brings back memories of Winnuke ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke ), Teardrop and follow-ups, when it was easy to crash any windows computer with just the IP.
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by wladimir 15y ago
By the way, despite there being PLENTY of bug trackers out there, most of the people I talk to are not satisfied with the bug tracker they use. I've noticed this as well. In general, there seem to be some kinds of tools which are very per
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by wladimir 15y ago
Heh. The full screen white background floodlighting my eyes didn't really help the experience either. When I need a quiet place to relax I'll go somewhere without screens and keyboards. Then again, the overall idea is good, it's never bad t
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by wladimir 15y ago
This is simply anonymous vile FUD. It does not even read like an honest story. There is also not one reference to a real case, or anything that can be sourced at all. There seems to be a FUD offensive going against MongoDB for some reason.
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by wladimir 15y ago
I agree that premature anything is bad, especially in extreme form, however, your other point needs some elaboration. Isn't simple code inherently more maintainable Verbose, over-simplified code can also be unmaintainable because you lo
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by wladimir 15y ago
The point is that if people send their mail encrypted it is encrypted both in transit and when it is stored on the mail server. So the third party can be anyone, and you don't need to specifically trust them. Also this isn't that big of an
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by wladimir 15y ago
You make it sound like your particular taste is superior. But minimalism is not the end-it-all. It's one of many possible styles. What does it even mean that "most people have shitty taste"? I guess it's easy to agree with that on an emotio

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