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by yason 10y ago
The secret of success could very well be first defining success.
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by yason 10y ago
I don't know much about wind turbines and the behaviour of moving volumes of air with regard to airfoils but there's one point I picked off of the article. If I were to put my money either in the most advanced big-farm wind high-t
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by yason 10y ago
They should shut down access to the whole internet in Brazil, then. It happens to be full of companies, forums, services and data networks which probably don't give a rat's sit-upon about what the law in Brazil or any other countr
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by yason 11y ago
What I gather from the article is that one of the parties, more on the right, called for ending the experiment. Parties call for things all the time. I would assume this is just a public outcoming: to stop the trial would probably need a si
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by yason 11y ago
A very interesting article. It made me look up some facts, actually. In Finland, there are 218 public swimming halls. There are 313 administrative districts (communes, towns or cities) in the country. Thus, practically even the smallest of
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by yason 11y ago
The API allows blaming the right cog in the machinery. Now everyone gets a Get Out Of Jail Free card because they can blame the kernel, filesystem drivers, userspace libraries, application developers, disk controllers, and whatnot, and thus
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by yason 11y ago
Since you brought up that detail I just wanted to remark that this is an interesting example of truth vs value. Most people don't know what sort of experiment it was. Now that you did mention it, I'm quite sure I've heard at
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by yason 11y ago
This could never happen in the old times when you paid taxis with cash. Nobody knew who you were and where you travelled to from where. At some point, there will be people who don't recognize that sort of notion of privacy: it will be
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by yason 11y ago
A very spot-on claim. Your exposure to this largely depends on the circles you (have to) socialize with but you can observe little bits of it everywhere. I would guess individuals would tend to avoid this kind of behavioural control and thu
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by yason 11y ago
Obviously running a TOR node will attract interest. It can be debated whether acting as a TOR router/carrier should impose on the operator at least some requirements to divulge connection logs to the authorities -- not that TOR would a
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by yason 11y ago
And this would be all right if the pay would correlate with the possibility of enjoying this "graduation", much like CEOs get paid a lot for their work and paid a lot when sacked supposedly because the risk for a CEO to get fired
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by yason 11y ago
I am happy to see copyright raising its ugly head in circumstances that might concern the general public as well, not only hackers and hippies in the bit-sharing underground. Maybe in a few decades people will realise it doesn't make a
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by yason 11y ago
They say that making money is easy but only so if it is the only thing in your life. If you are willing and able to make tradeoffs that help you to focus on what is financially lucrative, then it's probably easy to find the highest pay
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by yason 11y ago
Where might you need navigation on short trips? I assume you can just turn the navigation off in a BMW so that it doesn't prevent using the rest of the functionality.
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by yason 11y ago
Everyone is winding down during a Friday. After Friday noon, everyone is avoiding to start anything that will take hours. That's why they can leave the office. On the other hand, when we've had company parties at the office, I&#x2
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by yason 11y ago
Reviewing is switching gears as well. When you're coding you can't just jump into a code review mode for a moment. It's not a culture issue, this is IMHO inevitable for any work environment that requires deep concentration a
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by yason 11y ago
It might cost you personally, but not always. Sometimes you have to drive crazy things to the point of lunacy that is their logical conclusion, to make a point. The case of encryption heavily underlines the nature of information itself whic
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by yason 11y ago
var newState = drawManuel( drawBackground( processInput(state))); This isn't how functional programming must work to be functional programming. The point is always to write as much as possible in func
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by yason 11y ago
how satisfied I should be with the status quo depression I'd be pretty damn depressed if I were thinking in terms of how satisfied I should be with the status quo. A person needs more than having his/her needs taken care of -- w
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by yason 11y ago
I don't really care enough to self-censor and I often play a game of negative karma with myself here. To motivate myself to finish the comment I know won't be taken well in the average I first remind myself that the point of my co
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by yason 11y ago
All that is probably true, but the thesis has one flaw. While the benefits of sexual reproduction tend to be subtle and become evident only over many generations, its costs are heavy and immediate. But isn't the "flaw" alre
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by yason 11y ago
Funnily enough, not just the fact that users and developers need to care about drive letters, the drive C: itself is called drive C: because drives A: and B: were reserved for floppy drives. And I don't think many machines have had flo
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by yason 11y ago
Skipping taxes and using cash is only a problem if it's too widespread and the government really has genuine trouble collecting money even for the most basic needs of the society. Luckily, using cash to evade taxes is practically only
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by yason 11y ago
I've never had credit card debt (I just pay back once in a while, or every few hundred euros, to keep the balance out of red) but I've found good way to categorise my spending using credit cards. For example, I use one of my cards
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by yason 11y ago
What if the question was phrased as what is the real reason we wake up and dedicate some conscious time for our mind? Surely, because in the physical world we live we need to arrange for some time to deal with the unavoidable practical thin
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by yason 11y ago
Why are people downvoting this in masses? Not seeing photos of your dead friends does NOT help you get through the sorrow any faster. Mourning will take the time it will take, but "tidying up" dead friends off your Facebook sugges
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by yason 11y ago
Work is a good excuse around which to build your life. The excuse approaches perfection in occupations such as programming which is getting paid for what would basically be your hobby. And―as any excuse―it is, as lovingly ever-favoured by y
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Passive investment probably hurts the economy of active investment business.
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Finnish is nice for this as well. The grammar is mostly about inflected forms so you can keep things together in a single word, you can most often find a way to write words together, and even creating completely new yet understandable words
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by yason 11y ago
Surprisingly many demanding applications such as high-end mobile games are essentially single-threaded (=there's one big main thread and then a number of helper threads with only a fractional load), and thus produce asymmetric loads an

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