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by capisce 13y ago
"Australian scientists have found a way of hugely increasing the efficiency of solar panels while substantially reducing their cost." Did you ignore the part of TFA that was about cost reduction?
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by capisce 13y ago
While being able to use significantly cheaper silicon of poorer quality, was the breakthrough as far as I gathered.
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by capisce 13y ago
It's not just the virtual key layout that's inefficient, the physical key layout is also terrible, such as X being to the right of S, or C being to the right of D, making them awkward to reach with the corresponding finger on the home row w
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by capisce 13y ago
People with RSI would probably be happy to switch from keyboard and mouse to a BCI. "I can't think of a single thing I could control with my brain, that I couldn't do more accurately, and consistently, with my hands, voice, etc." Your brain
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by capisce 13y ago
> 40 hour work week is a lie. Its a damn lie and is a lie. How so? As a Norwegian software engineer that's not my experience. Btw, Norway actually has a 37.5 hour work week, the 40 hour quoted is including half an hour of lunch each day
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by capisce 13y ago
40 hours is still too much: http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/21-hours
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by capisce 13y ago
"Developer" ultrabook but still with an uncomfortable left slanted keyboard layout. When will we see a programmer friendly laptop with a symmetric keyboard layout like the TypeMatrix or TECK? There is no redeeming quality to the left slante
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by capisce 13y ago
The web should take a cue from QML when it comes to creating self-contained and reusable components: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtqml/qtqml-documents-defin...
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by capisce 13y ago
Similar to how America used to disrespect foreign intellectual property back in the day: http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/khan.copyright 'The U.S. was long a net importer of literary and artistic works, especially from England, which im
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by capisce 14y ago
Yeah, that condescending tone of superiority struck me as at least as bad as the original (unfunny) joke.
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by capisce 14y ago
Well, he didn't call them out by name or post pictures of them or anything at least.
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by capisce 14y ago
In the same way Lisp or Haskell enable us to solve entirely different problems from writing directly in assembly perhaps, since you avoid having to deal with all the mundane details and can reason about your program at a much higher level?
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by capisce 14y ago
Which is indicative of performance.
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by capisce 14y ago
I suggest your girl might be happier by practicing for example stoicism rather than by wanting material possessions such as diamonds.
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by capisce 14y ago
But as soon as you leave you are free to do whatever you want, and the current employer also benefits greatly from the knowledge you gained at your previous jobs (which might be a large part of the reason they hired you in the first place).
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by capisce 14y ago
The most desperate needs are hunger and thirst, necessary to survive. Doesn't sound like an area were a lot profit can be made though. I'd say the highest potential to turn a profit is from those with the most money to spend frivolously.
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by capisce 14y ago
Experiences consistently rank higher than possessions when it comes to providing happiness. Regarding the term, quoting the Wikipedia page on consumerism: "Consumerism is a social and economic order that encourages the purchase of goods and
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by capisce 14y ago
> And for god's sakes, people need to stop citing that research about work motivation. It gets used so far out of context that its lost all meaning. How so?
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by capisce 14y ago
Only if the injured party can afford expensive and not necessarily open-and-shut legal action.
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by capisce 14y ago
I was not aware from the original post that the project had actually been taken down, and now thanks to pyre's comment I know a bit more about how the DMCA takedown process works. It seems to me that the process is quite vulnerable to Denia
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by capisce 14y ago
Sure, but once the text is cached in a layer that layer might be rotated or scaled or similar, in which case subpixel antialiased text would cause ugly artifacts. Keeping subpixel antialiased text in the layer and re-rendering the layer wit
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by capisce 14y ago
You dislike wanting to provide free value for others being part of the reason for writing / releasing open source software?
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by capisce 14y ago
Altruism can be part of the reasons for writing new open source code too. For example in a specific case the set of reasons can be that it's fun, it's a learning experience, it markets the coder's skills, _and_ it provides free value to oth
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by capisce 14y ago
> Actually, the quintessential open source project is a developer scratching his own back. That's not particularly altruistic. He wrote the software to scratch his own back, and now he needs a reason to release it as open source for oth
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by capisce 14y ago
Don't forget altruism, wanting as many as possible to benefit from a valuable project, making the world a better place in the process. Should it not be the considered the best reason?
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by capisce 14y ago
So you're saying those working closely with Steve Jobs thought to themselves "man, that guy should pick a new polo shirt every now and then".
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by capisce 14y ago
So what do you do instead?
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by capisce 14y ago
Take into account that commuting has a strong negative effect on happiness: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kirsten-dirksen/happiness-rese...
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by capisce 14y ago
While hunter-gatherers spend only 10-20 hours a week on obtaining food, how is farming an improvement on that? http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html
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by capisce 14y ago
If you live alone, why not move closer to the office?

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