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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
There is some discussion on why the Postgres team dislikes query hints here: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/OptimizerHintsDiscussion But perhaps I also have some practical advice to try. I had a similar issue: I have
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
A lot of undefined behaviour cannot be identified at compile time. For example, adding two signed integers is undefined if it overflows, but perfectly well defined if it does not. A safe compiler will have to add checks to guard against und
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
> but you'd need a company You absolutely need a company, and a chat with an accountant before you start singing contracts with and paying partners who create content for you. If you just wing it, there's a good chance that you
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
With a more complex search perhaps? Facebook parses and actually works with queries such as "single [gender] friends of friends of friends who live in [X] and like [Y]".
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
So you are looking for a device that contains a laptop body, screen, keyboard, touchpad, speakers, battery, battery charger, RF antennas, and enough processing power to decode and display the video stream arriving over radio? My guess is th
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
It runs at 1/10 speed because it's interpreted bytecode, and it allocates a new PyInt object for each number in the loop. You can get it back close to native speed by adding a type annotation and compiling the python file with Cyt
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
The good news is that from Android 6.0, permissions will be more dynamic: https://developer.android.com/preview/features/runtime-permi... Apps can ask for permissions only if/when they are actually needed for
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
I guess that most of these are a science journalism thing: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd051809s.gif For example, there was news recently about a breakthrough discovery of a -70C superconductor. The m
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
I have installed Breeze which seems to be very similar. But I rarely end up using it. Its top-bar menu is too slow to use, and I can never remember the hotkeys for positioning. The interesting part of this solution is realising that for ter
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
Would that reduce the centralisation though? An independent miner with an average affordable rig might find somewhere on the order of one block per year on average . This means that due to variability, a good proportion of miners would not
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
Part of the mystery is due to the radical change in the flight path. It was supposed to fly North from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. But for some reason, the plane was turned around, and flew towards the Indian Ocean instead of China for at leas
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
> you will likely never ride with the same Uber driver again. In theory, having your "own" driver would not be a bad thing. But the main difference is in scheduling. With taxis and Uber, you want a car to show up in 10 minutes
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
I haven't tried getting commercial transport insurance, but my gut feeling based on moves and mailing items says that insurance claims in moving cargo are way more common than in moving passengers. With passengers, the only real risk
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
Besides this, I don't see why they would need to convert their status. There are almost no restrictions on running a non-profit, beyond not having "owners" or paying dividend. The restrictions only apply to non-profits that
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
The problem isn't in reading, but using the wifi key. The app promises to keep the wifi keys secret from other users: > "... credentials are added to the database so that everyone else on the app can also use that hotspot. User
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
I don't think upsert has taken so long because of the community and processes, but because the Postgresql team has high requirements for it: http://www.depesz.com/2012/06/10/why-is-upsert-so-complicate...
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
Even if the Estonian corporate taxes are extremely favourable, and paperwork is quick and digital only, then one thing to still keep in mind is that whichever country you live in may impose additional taxes on the personal income after you
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
RFC6238 TOTP (popularized by Google Authenticator) should fit your needs well. * It is an open algorithm based on http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6238 * Both the server and client work completely offline based on a pre-s
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
All of the complexity of bitcoin (including having and paying miners) comes from the requirement to be completely distributed, with no authority that could refuse to include "bad" transactions. But if you're not signing any b
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
From the linked website, it seems that they expanded applications to overseas embassies a few days ago, so visiting in person might no longer be necessary. Out of curiosity, what was your motivation for applying? It seems to me that the onl
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
Joining or building a team doesn't have to be a choice between becoming an employee or a manager of employees. A few of the most successful freelancers I know have formed 2-3 person partnerships. All of the partners were individual fre
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
I'm very doubtful of drone delivery until battery tech advances at least 10x. In dense, built-up areas there is no space to land. You can't fly between buildings and land on a sidewalk in Manhattan, and where would you leave the p
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
> Yeah, no doubt somewhere along the way someone made a negotiation mistake Is it really a negotiation mistake, rather than a result of growing valuation? The point of stock options is to grant and receive them early at a low price. Ther
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by ProblemFactory 12y ago
> It won't work, the theory goes, because when congestion reduces more people start driving, until the congestion reaches equilibrium again. While this sounds plausible, it doesn't follow that building roads or adding buses is
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by ProblemFactory 12y ago
Is there any reason why you don't want to meet? People meet people who they do business with all the time. The only issue to keep yourself aware of is whether their human contact expectations (support, meetings, custom development) mat
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by ProblemFactory 12y ago
You should investigate this further based on the expected user demographics of your app. I would expect that most people who post on Hacker News avoid all social login as much as possible for privacy reasons, while many other user groups ma
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by ProblemFactory 12y ago
Note that Dennis Ritchie already received the Turing award in 1983 for inventing and writing UNIX. In fact, more than half of the Turing awards are for practical inventions and software: work on programming languages and compilers, TCP&#x2F
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by ProblemFactory 12y ago
I have been looking for tools to solve the same problem for a while now. Based on documentation, the most promising approach seems to be to use Couchbase Mobile/Lite in the app, Couchbase Server on the server, and link them up with the
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by ProblemFactory 12y ago
Thanks for the idea. Looks like there is someone out there already trying to download and install remote shells: access.log:89.207.135.125 - - [25/Sep/2014:12:30:00 +0000] "GET /cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi HTTP
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by ProblemFactory 12y ago
It's a good idea to host user-uploaded files on a completely separate domain, since older browsers are terrible at security: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2012/08/content-hos... For example, it&#x2

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