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by zzalpha 10y ago
Personally, I'm looking forward to five more of these projects springing up, after which someone can great a meta boilerplate framework for abstracting all the boilerplate frameworks. It can have its own meta preset format that transl
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by zzalpha 10y ago
No, that's also a myth: https://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2016/05/09/dehydration... In most cases, thirst is a reliable signal that more water is needed.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
How on earth is Street Spirit not even on the list? Yorke himself had called it "our purest, saddest song.", and went on to say: I can’t believe we have fans that can deal emotionally with that song. That’s why I’m convinced that
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Not sure of the insight, here. "Optimize experiences and be an order of magnitude better" doesn't seem to be especially actionable. The most useful bit seemed to be about building KPIs around core user journeys, but that fee
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I think that's a bit unfair. It presumes git is trying to abstract it's internals in the first place. It's not. Git is unapologetically a tool for manipulating a DAG, and puts that right in your face. This has pros and cons.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
A hypocritically preachy Facebook corporation is much better than an absolutely cynical one. If you ask me, for a lot of these tech companies, this is a false dichotomy: they're outwardly preachy and inwardly cynical. How better to
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Instead of what? Buying into the BS? I'd rather take an honest, measured view of these companies. Many have the potential to change our lives, for both good and ill. Buying into the BS is a great way to short circuit healthy skept
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Link to the actual announcement: https://www.reactos.org/project-news/reactos-044-released
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by zzalpha 10y ago
It's the tech delusion. I don't know a start-up that doesn't have some grandiose vision of themselves as the future saviors of humanity. Uber, Tesla, Facebook, Airbnb, you name it... it's all the same "save the wo
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Your hypothetical business is clearly not built on the requirement of an exit as the only path to success (unless you and I have a profoundly different definition of the word "healthy"). If the business is healthy and you simply
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Right, and not to create a healthy business. I repeat: The valley dysfunction in action.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
And here is a great example of the valley dysfunction in action: why would you found a start-up predicated on an exit strategy?
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by zzalpha 10y ago
The problem is that unless you perfectly specify your tests to provide a complete and formal definition of the interface, GP can produce results that might appear correct but is actually subtly (or grossly) broken. That's an extremely
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by zzalpha 10y ago
A lot of people are demanding it. Heck, some countries like Canada are actively passing things like carbon taxes. But when a large portion of the populace (and thus elected officials) doesn't believe there's a problem in the fi
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Eh, changes like that don't happen at the individual level. Crime is at historic lows not because people decided to be less violent, but because of socioeconomic changes (and possibly the elimination of common sources of lead). Rivers
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by zzalpha 10y ago
That's... kinda how leaks work. Or would you have denounced the Deep Throat leaks that lead to Nixon's downfall as just "unconfirmed rumours"?
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by zzalpha 10y ago
If you've played the game, read the article. Dwarf Fortress is like owning an incredibly ugly dog. Everyone knows it's ugly. You can even laugh at how ridiculous it is. But you can still love it all the same.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Wut? This is fundamentally a monetary and trade policy issue. Are you claiming that, for example, tarriffs on Chinese dumped imports are also equivalent to racially targeted laws?
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by zzalpha 10y ago
GMO crops don't really use more pesticides. Very often less. Nope: http://www.forbes.com/sites/bethhoffman/2013/07/02/gmo-crops... FTA: Overall pesticide use decreased only in the first few
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Honestly I never bought any DLC for my first run through either. Maybe my completionist tendencies and 100% paragon with no crew deaths meant I got lucky...
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by zzalpha 10y ago
That's not true. I never played multiplayer and got the best ending. I believe you need most (all?) of your crew alive, among other things, but it's absolutely doable (I did it by accident... I just assumed that was the proper e
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Eh, I dunno, I've played the whole series twice through and loved it both times. Yes, each game is its own beast, but no one can claim any of them isn't flawed in their own ways. ME1 had mediocre combat and a brutally bad invent
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I dunno, BTC seems a little too unstable as a good hedge, IMO. To me, the real value is being able to make money on volatility, since you can buy and sell shares in this ETF far more easily than you can with BTC... That said, I'm very
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Snaps have a sharing mechanism called interfaces but yes, the software author has to declare they want to use it, no magic there. So, they've reinvented dependencies (though, to their credit, they gave them a different name), one of
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by zzalpha 10y ago
You only get a single duplicate of the library no matter how many things depend on it. Huh? If a snap includes version 1.0.0 of libxyz, and another does the same, you have two copies. If a third snap comes along and uses version 1.0.0 li
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by zzalpha 10y ago
That's only true if they share a run-time/platform snap. AKA, they each have a dependency on a shared snap. If only there was some existing solution for packaging and deploying software where you could declare dependencies betwee
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Yes, you're right, the originator of the package actually has to release PPAs that work on your release. That's a perfectly manageable issue. But don't claim snap's are the only solution to the problem of getting up-to-d
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by zzalpha 10y ago
This is a solved problem with ppa's.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
These discussions are buzzing with activity and are absolutely vital to the future of our community! Well, count me a non-right-winger who'd prefer my HN sans political crap. If I wanted yet another forum where I could be inundated
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by zzalpha 10y ago
And I disagree with your methodology. :) Impulsive or not, humans are bad at estimating. The purpose of explicit shopping lists and cash only budgeting is to, first, cap spending to a predetermined amount, making a budget much easier to

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