wynand

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by wynand 15y ago
Still holding out strong I see :). Permit me to explain how I see this. You may disagree strongly with me but I hope to convey why your comment aroused so much passion. I don't see Amit as considering himself to be more important than anyon
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by wynand 15y ago
Andrew, your comment is correct when literally interpreting dictionary definitions but misses the spirit of the situation. If we take the current criticisms (of your comment) as being morally representative of the general population (probab
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by wynand 15y ago
Please avoid personal remarks. It's alright to disagree strongly with someone else but mutual respect is one of the attributes that keeps HN an open and interesting discussion forum.
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by wynand 15y ago
I found it neither confusing nor hypocritical. My take-away is that with an educated work-force and working market, a city can improve its productivity by allowing density to increase. Cities that don't do this - typically cities with well-
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by wynand 15y ago
I have respect for people that can deliver, regardless of what they use. The allure of cool tech is strong but tech doesn't make products: people do. I cannot see what is wrong with your using plain PHP if you can get the job done faster (a
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by wynand 15y ago
codedivine has a point and it's even admitted in this posting: "we expect the initial performance to be abysmally bad (maybe 10x slower); however, with successive improvements to the locking mechanism, to the global program transformation i
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by wynand 15y ago
I'm using the Scipy superpack ( http://stronginference.com/scipy-superpack/ ) on Lion and Matplotlib has given me no trouble so far.
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by wynand 15y ago
As a counterpoint, I have heard complaints about the Chinese political regime from a number of Chinese students here in the Netherlands. Yes, I have also run into those who see no problem with (or even approve of) the censorship. But there
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Trickles - Stateless High Performance Networking(cs.cornell.edu)
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by wynand 15y ago
I don't fully understand. Is your app written in AppleScript?
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by wynand 15y ago
My Emacs history only goes back 5 years. A number of days ago, I downloaded Textmate and started playing with it. In the beginning I almost wanted to just delete it and go back to Emacs. But as time went on, its simplicity became increasing
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by wynand 15y ago
The tabloid presses seem to have blunted Occam's razor. I have used AirBnB in the past and have come to realize that a lot of renters lose enthusiasm in time and simply don't respond - sometimes they respond half-apologetically after a week
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by wynand 15y ago
I have some pretty strong feelings about IP (I oppose software patents and I think copyright terms are too long) but I suspect that IP will become more sophisticated and pervasive. Robin Hansson has a post about what he calls "IP+" ( http:/
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by wynand 15y ago
You're right - DNA methylation is inherited (see epigenetics). So DNA alone does not give you enough information.
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by wynand 15y ago
Right, but we have to limit ourselves to the upper segments of the smart phone market. If we include the cheapo Androids when talking about smart phones then Apple's relative market share may very well drop in the coming years (unless they
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by wynand 15y ago
I remember I had difficulty contributing to Kickstart since I'm in the Netherlands. Is there someone here that can set up a Paypal account for this gal? I'd happily donate a few $.
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by wynand 15y ago
New Mac user here (I've had mine for less than 12 hours now). Caveats upfront: I'm a long-time Ubuntu user and I'm a programmer, so I'm not exactly a parental-class user. The most confusing thing for me was to get my Mac onto our university
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by wynand 15y ago
If I had to give a name to this approach, I'd call it "adversarial debugging". It's an excellent technique for software improvement, as it somewhat mirrors an evolutionary game. You have your prey (your software) and a predator (the chaos-l
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by wynand 15y ago
There is a relationship between exercise and weight but not nearly as big as people like to believe. You're right that diet has a much bigger impact. I had to dig out this paper the other day because someone that I was talking to did not wa
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by wynand 16y ago
I don't know enough about economics to give a qualified answer but let me try. All currencies are vulnerable to feedback loops but governments can do things like change the interest rate to encourage/discourage spending. I don't understand
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by wynand 16y ago
I read some criticisms of Bitcoin (including those from a previous HN post about Bitcoin) and one of the biggest criticisms from an economics perspective (if I understand correctly) is that the Bitcoin network is at the mercy of positive or
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by wynand 16y ago
I hope an American lawyer can answer this (or at least someone with a good knowledge of the US legal system). What can an individual (even one outside of the US) do to effect change in the software patent landscape? Who needs to made aware
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by wynand 16y ago
I'll hazard a possibly bad answer. MVC is not inherently OO - it's more about sending messages which, although a feature of modern OO (Alan Kay even said that he should have called OO Message-Oriented programming), is not its defining featu
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Confessions of a procrastinator(nature.com)
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by wynand 16y ago
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative-to-200-lines-kern... is also about this story and how to set up this scheme in Ubuntu and one commenter mentioned that he used a similar approach in Suse.
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by wynand 16y ago
Perhaps but I think it depends on who's writing it. I love Python and haven't touched Java in years but my colleagues who use Java seem to write programs that are maybe around 3 times longer (this is a ballpark figure). I get the feeling th
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by wynand 16y ago
I remember some months (maybe more than a year ago) when there was a story about a Doom-style engine in Javascript and someone commented how sad it was that with all this powerful technology, we're getting excited about 1990s style graphics
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by wynand 16y ago
Not in my case. My HTC Desire was untouched by Vodafone in the Netherlands but still required rooting with unrevoked.
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by wynand 16y ago
It also doesn't help that until recently, the Dutch freight trains weren't well coordinated with the commuter trains, sometimes leading to unnecessary delays. Standardization seems like the easiest first step to pull off. For a given route,
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by wynand 16y ago
I cannot understand why Microsoft keeps on trying to play catch-up with Google and Apple. They have a tough fight ahead if that is to remain their approach (even with all of their resources). There are a few brights spots for them - Kinect

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