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Re:Borgo Programming Language on Friday November 29, 2024 @09:05AM (#42273955)
How does it compare to OCaml?
The rate of infection you refer to is probably the rate of detected infections. The true infection rate is probably higher. What else do you suggest than herd immunity? The only other solutions I see is containing the virus, which is very hard at this point, or developing a vaccine, which will also take some time.
Re:Instagram grows to 1M active advertisers on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @06:07PM (#13935445)
I wonder if they have some system in place to notice and counter-act this.
Re:What fossil fuels are doing to our oceans on Thursday March 02, 2017 @02:41AM (#13772336)
Is that so? I recently bought some fake-plastic bags made out of plant matter (not fossilized mind you) in the hope that they would be more environmentally sustainable. As I remember it, googling did not turn up any conclusive evidence to the contrary. Why do you think banning plastics would be a bad idea?
Re:Sugar reduction: from evidence into action on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @07:10AM (#10654755)
While what you say is true, taking public transport makes people move around more: going to/from the bus-stop, changing at connections, standing up in the metro instead of sitting etc.

Here is a study on this subject: http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g4887 Its conclusion: "Men and women who commuted to work by active and public modes of transport had significantly lower BMI and percentage body fat than their counterparts who used private transport."

Also check out the PolarSSL Verification Kit[1], a FRAMA-C verified version of PolarSSL.

[1] http://trust-in-soft.com/no-more-heartbleed/

Re:Why Don’t We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor? on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @07:40AM (#7514830)
Would be nice to have a counter of the number of forgotten songs, updating in realtime.
Re:Ask HN: I'm afraid I will always be a mediocre developer on Sunday October 20, 2013 @04:38PM (#6581364)
The other commentators haven't mentioned the fact that perhaps you could instead try to accept the fact that there is nothing wrong with being mediocre. By definition, most people are. Try to look into why you fear being mediocre? Also, perhaps you just happen to perceive yourself as mediocre? Sometime the want for change is the ill that needs to be addressed, and not the perceived faults in yourself. Good luck however you proceed!
Re:The war on drugs is a broken business model on Sunday October 13, 2013 @05:43AM (#6542018)
As the example of Germany shows, your optimistic claims in the first paragraph seems to be untrue:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/human-traffickin...

Re:How A Used Bottle Becomes A New Bottle, In 6 Gifs on Thursday June 20, 2013 @02:26AM (#5910533)
> (We wanted to take a picture of the furnace, but they warned us that it was so hot that getting close to it could destroy our camera lens. Which makes sense, given that it was hot enough to melt glass.)

In that case, wouldn't the furnace also be hot enough to melt the photographer?

We use something like this called BankID[1] in Sweden to log in to banks and to several other governemental agencies.

[1] http://www.bankid.com/en/what-is-bankid/

Re:Blind patient reads words stimulated directly onto the retina on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @06:22AM (#4836662)
Weirdly enough, I fear losing my hands more. Even thought it is far less likely.
Re:What PHP 5.5 might look like on Thursday July 12, 2012 @11:41AM (#4235101)
Can you tell us more about your experiences with FLOW3? I work a TYPO3-shop, but hadn't had the chance to use neither ExtBase or FLOW3 much, but it looks exciting, at least after some superficial glances.
Re:The Once and Future Visual Programming Environment on Monday May 28, 2012 @05:00AM (#4032551)
Screenshots and more information would be very nice!
Re:If We Told You That, We Would Have to Shoot You on Thursday April 26, 2012 @04:01AM (#3892932)
Of course, doctors should just give the patient whatever he asks for. What does all those years of medical school matter, this guys runs a blog and he has done research before going to the doctor!
Re:Basecamp Next: UI Preview on Thursday February 16, 2012 @06:05PM (#3601132)
Seems like a glorified back-button to me.
Re:Don't use class names to find HTML elements with JS on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @06:35PM (#3507541)
I guess this will be terribly slow in Internet Explorer.
Re:Google Dictionary on Friday December 04, 2009 @06:39AM (#976175)
I've been using ninjawords[1] for awhile now. Looks like they have pretty similar source material, but ninjawords actually feels much faster.

[1] http://ninjawords.com/

Re:New Life and Task Manager on Thursday November 19, 2009 @12:28PM (#950612)
> GT Life and Task Manager > * Secure and Private > * Free Desktop Application > * For Windows, Mac and Linux > * Accessible online and offline

Great, but what is it? What problem does it solve? It may be obvious for you and me, but not for everyone.

Re:Typekit launches on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @09:07AM (#935259)
> [...] multiple bigcorps are moving to ban flash on corp desktops [...]

Do you have any more info on this? Sounds interesting!

My dad was a workaholic, he dived into work instead of working stuff out with me and the rest of my family. Maybe he could give you a few pointers.

Ask HN: Interesting programming languages for presentation

I need to hold a presentation (~15 min) on a programming language of my own choice, for a programming languages course. The language should not be one which all in audience should be familiar with, such as Java, C or Haskell. The language presented should either be: 1) An interesting main-stream language, used in industry etc. 2) Interesting out of an academical viewpoint. 3) Historically...

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