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by epo 10y ago
That is a different argument and may or may not be relevant. Really, read Mythical Man Month, the problem with large teams is that their size leads to internal communications overheads, politics ...
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by epo 12y ago
Only if they start making programmable RPN calculators again.
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by epo 12y ago
It is not about reversing obesity, it is about long term weight reduction. Different problem.
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by epo 12y ago
Very sloppy writing. People diet, they lose a bit of weight. People stop dieting, they put the weight back on again. The fundamental problem is the abundance of overly calorific food in many societies which the final comment hints at, ever
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by epo 12y ago
Your caricature of what MF is like is so grotesquely at odds with my experience that I would suspect that you are exaggerating or making it up. Metafilter, by and large, has an informed, intelligent and very helpful community. There are alw
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by epo 12y ago
In my experience, there are two types of vegeterian: those that just get on with it and the smug evangelising types who feel it necessary to preach at the flimsiest opportunity (e.g. what have leather shoes got to do with diet?). A balanced
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by epo 12y ago
But wishful thinking is a powerful influence, it triggers all sorts of internal processes which may indeed be more powerful and beneficial than medicine. Similarly, religion is nothing more than placebo, but that has influenced (and perhaps
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by epo 12y ago
Apple make very smart acquisitions and have a track record in creating markets where others have failed to do so. They are also good at spotting opportunities in existing markets. That said, I think this is a deception to get Samsung to do
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by epo 12y ago
Cue all the people irately claiming that sampling is artistic. Anyway, somehow who gets to be a billionaire just "by putting his name" on consumer items has got something going for him, even if it just luck.
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by epo 12y ago
Citation required for such a handwavy assertion. Beats is a fashion brand and those are notoriously ephemeral. If Beats want to sell they may know the game is up, but then so would Apple.
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by epo 12y ago
Who not only never paid for them but are probably paid to wear them.
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by epo 12y ago
"I'd call a trick something that is not part of the documentation core .." I'd call this particular definition a pedantic, artificial nitpick invented soley for the purpose of picking nits in the post. If on the other ha
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by epo 12y ago
Fairly trivial article which fails to state its primary assumption: it is talking about mass-market FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) which want immediate success. This is why we have tens of varieties of instant coffee but no 'cold co
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by epo 12y ago
Oh dear, the children are downvoting you. This is the inevitable consequence of an educational system where copying and pasting from the web counts as original work. These people actually believe that copying is being creative.
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by epo 12y ago
You thought? Just not very hard, clearly.
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by epo 12y ago
He isn't being cynical, he is reacting to pretentiousness and pomposity, and quite rightly too. And of course developers do not have a monopoly of such self aggrandisment.
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by epo 12y ago
The problem isn't ledger is that you have been spoonfed by GUI applications which do all the work and thinking for you. If you bothered to read the documentation you see all this clearly laid out. Ledger requires you to do your own thi
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by epo 12y ago
These days if you have them in your address book you can just start typing their name and then pick from a list.
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by epo 12y ago
Do pay attention. This sub thread started with a mention of Apple.
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by epo 12y ago
Automated tests are automated checklists.
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by epo 12y ago
Their proposed market is the original market for Pelican books: intellectually curious people with the attention span to read a non-trivial book. If you think that TED talks are anything like reading a serious in-depth non-fiction book then
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by epo 12y ago
The audit occurred because testing revealed the presence of a problem. Shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted is no vindication of open source.
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Apple Says iOS, OS X and “Key Web Services” Not Affected by Heartbleed(recode.net)
34 points by epo 12y ago|14 comments
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by epo 12y ago
The patch prevents future attacks. Replacing certificates and advising users to change passwords prevents exploitation of any previous successful attack. Google have not done anything about previous attacks, but nor have they said such atta
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by epo 12y ago
This does not say if there had been a risk of certificate theft (sorry, sharing) prior to patching and so is completely useless. I want to know if and when I need to change Google passwords. Ditto Amazon, Dropbox ....
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by epo 12y ago
Subletting rental property means you are abusing your landlord's assets, almost certainly violates the terms of your lease and probably violates their insurance policies. Eviction is an appropriate and proportionate response.
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by epo 12y ago
If you scan or skim then you miss stuff. You have no idea whether or not what you missed is important because you didn't see it. And so comments by people self-importantly declaring themselves to be more effective by scanning/skim
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by epo 12y ago
Has Washington state been on the news in Europe a lot recently?
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by epo 12y ago
What use is replication if the data itself has been mangled by MySQL? The significant arguments against MySQL revolve around it doing a poor job of enforcing data integrity. You go on to claim he hasn't bothered to read the documentati
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by epo 12y ago
Ill-informed and condescending. Radiator thermostats are very common (whether they work or not is another matter), boilers also have a maximum temperature setting.

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