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by venus 12y ago
find_by_id/find_by aren't "wrong", they're just different. Sometimes you want to fall back to nil instead of raising an exception.
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by venus 12y ago
Code from these outsourcing shops is never particularly good. They sell on name, trust and client relationships - the product just has to work, and it usually does. They can't attract and keep top devs, who don't want to work on b
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by venus 12y ago
> Many contracting firms are taking anywhere from 50-75% The only firms I know of taking that kind of cut target governments, which carries a lot of risk and is very high-touch. They need a fancy office and a lot of overhead just to stay
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by venus 12y ago
> 20 or so years until upload and cloned bodies become accessible That's an... optimistic time frame.
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by venus 12y ago
I hope so. Currently, VC money is a horrible market distortion that encourages what is basically dumping - companies with good products and actual business models being starved of oxygen by cashed-up competitors who simply give products awa
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by venus 12y ago
Take a second to think about what you're saying. You're basically talking about prison revenge scenarios. Do you seriously think the real reasons are ever going to be admitted? "Your honour, I didn't shank him because I
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by venus 12y ago
You reckon? It's basically surrounding the thing with chicken wire. How expensive could that possibly be? Expense can't be the reason. Maybe the reason they don't do that is because the guards want their phones to work.
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by venus 12y ago
Thanks for the recommendation! Bought. Probably more than 50% of the books I buy come from recommendations on HN, and I've been rarely disappointed.
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by venus 12y ago
> 1. Apparently everyone in Santa Cruz goes to bed early and gets up early. Probably some selection bias at work here. It's possible the type of person who's buying and wearing personal fitness monitors is also the type of pers
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by venus 12y ago
I suppose it'd be better than being Boeing and going in front of your stockholders to explain why your marketshare is radically down because you refused to conform to the measurement system 95% of your customers are using. It's a
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by venus 12y ago
The fact that you had to go back to the 60s to find a similar incident helps the GP's point, not yours. And do you have any supporting evidence for your claim that migrant labourers are any worse off in SG than they would be elsewhere,
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by venus 12y ago
> If I'm going to live in a surveillance state anyway Well that's just it, isn't it. I view this kind of thing as absolutely inevitable, but it can happen covertly, with unknown motives, no transparency, no checks and bala
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by venus 12y ago
Ah, that's not totally fair. There's places to go that aren't shopping malls - I miss the hawker centres and food streets, and there's some great walking to be had. That said, the single best thing about Singapore is tha
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by venus 12y ago
Why is this being downvoted? It's exactly right. The distance to beacons is extremely unpredictable. Just holding the phone or a beacon in your hand slightly differently is often enough to make the estimated distance change by 10m. And
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The unspoken truth about managing geeks(computerworld.com)
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by venus 12y ago
Are you talking about yourself? Living in a first world country, access to first rate medical care, not dying of malaria in sub saharan africa? Because you could be. If wanting to live a very long time makes me hubristic then hell yes I&#x2
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by venus 12y ago
> Even if I'm fit and healthy age the age of 90, I can't imagine wanting to, y'know, do things beyond care for my grandkids and such. So let me get this straight. If you had the exact same physical and mental ability as yo
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by venus 12y ago
Well, because it's 1am, and as you say, assumptions. My bad. But less assumption than you might imagine. If there had been massive investment by billionaires in "alternative" approaches to anti-aging like deGrey espouses, I p
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by venus 12y ago
Mea culpa. I didn't read the article. Glad to hear he was supporting medical research. And I didn't really mean to say de Grey had all the answers - I'm by no means a fanboy. But I think his approach deserves a lot more atten
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by venus 12y ago
I don't understand these old bilionaires. It seems there's so much work to be done, and possibly a great deal of low-hanging fruit, in anti-aging research. Who's to say what Aubrey de Grey et al would have been able to delive
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by venus 12y ago
I think you're being downvoted because your comment was basically offtopic and inflammatory, not because you dared to break some kind of taboo. I'm not at all religious, and your comment annoyed me also for its obviousness and vag
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by venus 12y ago
Are any consumer NAS that implement ZFS even available? Sounds like ZFS's proactive sector sweeps across all managed drives would handily solve the problem the article raises with conventional RAID.
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by venus 12y ago
AWS allows you to mail drives in for import/export: http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/
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by venus 12y ago
Ludicrously difficult? I just ordered it for AUD$32.19 delivered, to Australia, in two or three clicks.
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by venus 12y ago
> $200 is just too much to spend when RubyMotion may not exist for version 4 Do you see the contradiction here? I am happy, delighted even, to pay $200 (and then $100/yr) precisely because I know it is going to keep the company aflo
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by venus 12y ago
I have to say I have trouble taking comments like this seriously. $200 is "a lot of damn money"? Are you kidding? This is a professional tool for software developers. You do know you'll need a $100/yr ADC membership to e
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by venus 12y ago
I wonder if you could add a condition to a document's license, CC or whatever, forbidding it being hosted behind any kind of pay- or signup-wall?
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by venus 12y ago
Exactly my reaction. > I'm [..] a man pinning screaming woman to the ground in a public place I can just imagine how this goes down. You grab the perpetrator, wrestle her to the ground violently. You have to lean deeply over her to
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by venus 12y ago
I wish this wasn't the case, but as a man, there is no way I am getting involved in a fight between two strange women . No way. There is no upside for me and unlimited downside, in fact that downside is virtually guaranteed. This is t
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by venus 12y ago
> we're going to have a more attractive policy than our opponents Going to have? In 2 1/2 years it's going to be much, much too late. I am astonished at how little scrutiny the coalition are getting as they take a wrecking

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