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Re:Indoor farming: Good for cannabis, not so good for food on Saturday January 02, 2016 @12:00PM (#10826746)
Way to project, not sure how you extrapolated all that from my comment. My point is that when a bottom line is involved, you will see only a few options come to dominance once the dust settles. And while home grown efforts do bear fruit, they very very seldom become mainstream.
Re:Indoor farming: Good for cannabis, not so good for food on Saturday January 02, 2016 @09:57AM (#10826345)
Can someone explain the downvotes?
Re:Indoor farming: Good for cannabis, not so good for food on Saturday January 02, 2016 @09:52AM (#10826332)
And all those were done in the absence of capitalism, so they're not apt comparisons.
Re:Happy people don’t leave jobs they love on Saturday January 02, 2016 @09:44AM (#10826304)
I hate to break it to HN, but we are not the norm. We're here because we long for more, and have the skills to make that yearning reality. So while every anecdote in the comments is true I'm sure for that person, for the vast majority of people, this article is pretty accurate.
Re:Show HN: Angular Starter Kit – Typescript, WebPack, Karma on Thursday December 31, 2015 @11:41AM (#10818327)
It's easier to write, test, debug, and maintain. I have apps now that a few dozen files, all <= 100loc replacing systems where the number of files is many more and the file sizes were 2000loc per file.
If a secure server is compromised, then none of this matters. You have to trust someone at some point.
Re:I thought all anti-vaxxers were idiots. Then I married one on Thursday December 24, 2015 @09:38AM (#10788270)
Um, no, she's an idiot, and you're justifying it her stupidity.
This has nothing to do with being vocal about security. Yea, they're helping the technical cause, but if you don't want backdoors in everything, the CEO's need to talk to the public so they're aware, and sending letters and phone calls.
Re:New Zealand court rules Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @11:19PM (#10781925)
Literally, it means testicles, but more colloclially it means bullshit in every English speaking country I know of.

edit: Apparently not. Just messaged my American buddy, and he thought it might be a wig for cows... So, maybe not Americans.

Re:App Developers on Swift Evolution on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @07:24PM (#10781277)
It was very divided 4-5 years ago, predominantly when underscore and jQuery were both champing at the bit to be the top utility library. It's shifted towards not monkey patching, but it's not not absolutely decided for many developers.
For the language, first read Apples Language Guide & Reference. It's free.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/...

I would recommend the iTunesU - Stanford iOS 8 Tutorial series as well. Been a while since I wrote an iOS app, just watched it this weekend to see what was new, and found it to be great.

So science 2.0 will be encumbered by patents... Great.
Re:Show HN: A Werewolf bot for Slack on Sunday December 20, 2015 @05:13PM (#10768494)
But that would eat into my Reddit checking time.
It's almost impossible to open a restaurant for less than 100k, so I don't know what you are going on about. Even if the 50k was free money from daddy, and not a business loan mixed with life savings and a a second mortgage, it's not even in the same realm.
An ad eyeball is an ad eyeball. I'd need to see some very solid metrics showing that eyeballs on old pages aren't as good as new.
Re:Wild bees are recycling plastic, study finds (2014) on Sunday December 20, 2015 @09:01AM (#10767042)
I obviously misread your comment. My bad. Not a good day for commenting for me.
Re:Wild bees are recycling plastic, study finds (2014) on Saturday December 19, 2015 @08:08PM (#10765614)
Ah, I made the assumption that a vegetable oil based plastic would at worst break down or go rancid. And tiny bits of rancid oil wouldn't be harmful. However, if they're using other chemicals to produce these, then it's entirely possible that they would be unsafe. My bad.
Re:Wild bees are recycling plastic, study finds (2014) on Saturday December 19, 2015 @08:38AM (#10763518)
I don't see the issue even if the plastics are invisibly dispersed in the wild. I use styrofoam in my potting soils, for a reason.
This is probably illegal (garnishing for mistakes), so check with you local labour laws before doing this. Though I would recommend against this unless you want employees quitting or stealing from you.
Re:Why can't China make a good ballpoint pen? on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @02:28AM (#10742871)
They don't, and this is the problem. They aren't talking designer.
Re:A Decade-Old Gag Order, Lifted on Monday November 30, 2015 @08:45PM (#10653180)
He said plausible.
Re:The impact of syntax colouring on program comprehension [pdf] on Thursday November 26, 2015 @02:59PM (#10634468)
Low self esteem I'm guessing.
Re:Ways to start eating insects on Thursday November 26, 2015 @01:19PM (#10634088)
Hey, that's great, I hadn't done a deep look for a while. Regardless, my point was more with using it as your only source of protein, which none of these address.
Re:Ways to start eating insects on Thursday November 26, 2015 @07:50AM (#10632729)
Some soy is fine, but if we're talking as completely replacing your meat, it could be too much estrogen like compounds. Hence breasts in men and an increased risk of breast cancer in women. I haven't seen enough studies to definitively rule these out.

Besides, variety is always good. It's never wise to put all your eggs in a single basket.

Re:The impact of syntax colouring on program comprehension [pdf] on Thursday November 26, 2015 @05:09AM (#10632264)
I've been writing code professionally for 20 years, and as an armatur for 30. I can parse code much quicker if it has syntax highlighting. If you don't, that's fine, but it doesn't mean your more experienced or somehow better than those that do. I always hate conversations about this because it always seems to come down to a dick measuring contest where everyone seems to think that more monochromatic the longer it is. It's not. Use what feels right to you.
All of this is literally on the tech specs page. http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs

You can be disappointed, but if you're bitter, it's your own fault for not properly researching. Don't blame Apple, no bait and switch here.

Re:Response to Concerns Regarding eDellroot Certificate on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @08:10AM (#10620449)
No, but I sat across from them, and it never seemed to be an issue.
Re:Response to Concerns Regarding eDellroot Certificate on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @01:47AM (#10619479)
I worked for Dell a few years ago, and this is a complete bullshit response. The service tag takes all of 3 seconds to obtain. The full system specs are revealed once it's entered. At no point is bypassing the customers security a requirement of getting your service tag.
I thought we were already under the assumption that this was what FVEY's was doing.
Re:Working remotely is hard on Sunday November 15, 2015 @09:18PM (#10572263)
The only issue I ever had working remotely was when my (now ex) wife thought I was talking to her while in a conference call.

"I know it's going to be tight, but we'll make it fit".

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