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by wmil 11y ago
India seems like a very poor example. Instead look at Chad. It's had exponential population growth for decades without slowing. It's mostly young people. It's already flooding Italy with refugees. I'm not convinced that
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by wmil 11y ago
This is probably a "cover you ass" clause in case there's an altercation between security and the photographer. It's easy to imagine a low paid security guy resorting to saying "I told you you can't take pictu
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by wmil 11y ago
But will it? The big lesson of 2009 was that ratings agencies aren't trustworthy and investment banks have no problem selling you junk investments. The Dollar Shave Club looks like a prudent investment in comparison. Perhaps it'
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by wmil 11y ago
You're missing a major feature. Text formats don't have any natural integer size limits. That's been a big win for HTTP. It's easy to imagine the original HTTP authors thinking that 24 bits is plenty of space for file
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by wmil 11y ago
"Be suspicious of baroque patch submissions" "baroque" strikes me as a bad metaphor.
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by wmil 11y ago
Common sense can best be thought of as the collection of small facts that people have acquired through thousands of years of observing humans and the results. eg, Folk Wisdom. It's much more useful than you seem to think it is. Look at
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by wmil 11y ago
Two reasons. First, they want to push people to open source small personal projects and contribute to large OSS projects. Doing anything with an open project, even just filing bug reports, counts towards your streak. Second, it's more
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by wmil 11y ago
The LGPL requires that end users are able to replace LGPL libraries with new builds. The App Store creates a bit of an issue, but it's possible to update app libraries if your phone is jailbroken. You might also be able to modify and
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by wmil 11y ago
One of the problems is that linguists care more about languages than people. Turkey switched to the latin alphabet from an arabic script. They found it easier to learn and it helped boost literacy rates.[1] Minor languages die because they
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by wmil 11y ago
I'm actually more surprised that it's a single POSIX app. I would have assumed that there were separate GNU and BSD sudo projects.
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by wmil 11y ago
Ah yes AWT/Swing... the library that Sun refused to give up on, and that basically killed client side java.
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by wmil 11y ago
Has there been any news about the Zenimax lawsuit since last June?
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by wmil 11y ago
They're no where near the screen resolution needed for that.
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by wmil 11y ago
It'd be fascinating if these people would read about bicameralism and give feedback on Julian Jaynes' ideas. On the other hand there's the whole issue with the accuracy of people self reporting on their own psychology. http:
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by wmil 11y ago
It could be considered an exploit in games like Dark Souls where other players can invade. Just pause the game for a few seconds and their connection will drop.
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by wmil 11y ago
Haven't you heard? You're supposed to put in 10 hours a day at the office, then go home and write blog posts for the company, then make meaningful contributions to multiple open source projects. Oh, and drop half your take home p
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by wmil 11y ago
Honestly if they expect you to maintain that code then your salary should reflect the long term damage to your career and sanity.
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by wmil 11y ago
That's not true. These kids aren't stealing necessities. It's more for amusement and status.
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by wmil 11y ago
> focus on compounds; squat, deadlift, bench press, shoulder press, pullups, rows This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but recommending pull-ups to someone out of shape who needs to loose weight is just bizarre. If someone was a beginne
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by wmil 11y ago
Depends on your definitions of 'industry' and 'the people'. Take for example the Canadian wine industry. There's international pressure for Canada to open up it's domestic wine market. In Ontario, the largest
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by wmil 11y ago
Do servers have onboard speakers these days? Can you make them beep in a distinct pattern?
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by wmil 11y ago
It seems like the obvious business model for SourceForge is to allow you get rid of ads with a LinkedIn account, then charge recruiters and tech companies looking for active developers or tech savvy individuals. I'm not sure if that mo
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by wmil 11y ago
Before flash could play video, links that open in the media player of your choice were very common. It was a nightmare. Each media player would try to hijack every link type it knew about each time it ran. But there wasn't full compa
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by wmil 11y ago
Many things in civil law come down to who can afford to spend more on lawyers. Richard Prince probably has a brother or a fan who's a copyright lawyer willing to work pro-bono.
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by wmil 11y ago
Rebinding system shortcuts makes life difficult for application developers. They have no idea if they can use CTRL+L for their shortcuts or not. In-app rebinding also makes life difficult for the developer in the future, because any new fea
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by wmil 11y ago
I'm talking about bad connections, not necessarily mobile. This applies especially to situations that companies like G-Advetures face. In South America they have to deal with perfectly fine desktops, but very high latency internet con
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by wmil 11y ago
That's not the way to help people with low bandwith or very high latency connections. They need more javascript, not less. SPA designs can actually make CRUD apps significantly more useable on slow or unreliable connections.
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by wmil 11y ago
In general, not unless the judge rules the claim was made in bad faith. There are some specific exceptions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney%27s_fee#Who_pays
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by wmil 11y ago
It's in "marketable securities" so not exactly cash but close. The other issue is that much of it is overseas money, so Apple will take at 35% tax hit if they repatriate it.
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by wmil 11y ago
Production of water inefficient crops would shift to states with water, Cali famers would shift to more efficient crops. The US is a big country, there's no need to grow almonds in the desert.

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