BetaCygni

Exactly, I can't remember the last time I've seen an optometrist, horrible things could be wrong with my eyes.

I have (as far as I know) perfect eyes. Around bright objects there is a slight halo, best compared to the one you see in video games around streetlights at night. It's much smoother than the one in the illustration in the article and slightly less bright. Bright stars show as dots with tiny lines coming from it with different lengths. Really tiny but still visible. Less bright stars show as infinitely small dots.

What are you talking about? This font is a disaster, everything looks the same.

Couldn't you fix that with an USB sound card? My headphones included quite a nice compact one.

> inadequate options of corrugated metal and ...

Isn't corrugated metal awesome for 3rd world shacks? Drill some holes, attach with screws and seal holes. It's strong, watertight and can go a long time without maintenance.

I'm not sure this is legal, or should be legal. I hope the EU will do something about this.

Yeah, the most annoying thing ever. Didn't they ever attend a real presentation where people actually asked questions about things that were shown on past slides?

Did you read the article? It actually has some nice rules of thumb on how to compare the price of a house to the rent.

Yeah, the early adopters got rich. I think that's fair because they invested in something that was really uncertain at that point. You could even argue that if you buy bitcoins now you're still an early adopter.

Bitcoin itself is less of a pyramid scheme than gold. This is because even when the price stops to rise (or even when it collapses) you can use it to easily transfer value across the world.

If you're interested in a scam, check out Ripple...

It's still well written. I'm not sure how fast the author could churn out good articles when he was feeling good but he is definitely not that stupid now.

Did you actually use HATEOAS? I'm currently designing an API and it's just way too much work and overhead to add links when everyone is just going to hardcode them anyway. Do you have any examples where HATEOAS actually prevents or solves problems? Do you have any tips on how to get people to follow the links instead of hardcoding?

I'm not an expert on meditation in any way, but for me the goal is an inner peace, an inner tranquility that allows me to have a razor sharp focus on the things I'm working on.

Raspberry Pi

It's a type of meditation that allows your mind to wander. Simultaneously you pick up interesting bits of information and you practice your written communication skills by writing clear and concise replies.

Yeah, makes me physically ill. It feels like they caged me by disabling the default action of the scroll wheel.

It does look like fun! Someone should put some designs online to build your own. I would only be using it once or twice so buying it seems wasteful, but it would be a nice project to put together on a rainy day.

Isn't parsing the JSON and converting to your own data format more work than just generating random users yourself?

I'm actually quite happy that the list contains these items. Yes, when overused they are annoying (like everything else) but by itself they are all (except the "general internet comment") valid.

Doesn't the fact that they scored the same on the first tests actually prove that being rich or poor doesn't matter in practice?

If you give someone a problem to solve and then another one of course he will still be busy with the first. For rich people it's a simpler problem so they solve it quicker.

Of course it's possible to end up in a negative spiral. It's up to society to provide for people on a sufficient level that they can lift themselves up if they are able to.

I had the idea that for men the standard deviation was bigger? So you have some guys that are less good at math than the worst women and some men that are better than the best women? Not sure where I got that idea, would be interesting to know some more numbers.

If you're good at abstract thinking everything is the same. Even being the same is the same as not being the same ;). Really a good skill for software design, as you can build a lot of functionality that looks different on the same base and save a lot of time. Your software will also become easier to maintain and to extend.

Thinking "out of the box" is creativity. This isn't the same as abstract thinking, though you can "fake" being creative by seeing things are the same and proposing a solution that worked for the other problem.

It is my experience that purely abstract things are not usable in the real world by real people. They simply won't get it or making it do things is way too hard (inner platform effect). A good piece of software has a abstract core and a very concrete interface.

Other people clearly don't think your job is worthless or they wouldn't be paying you to do it. The reason we don't work less is because we clearly want (and can have) more stuff than we had in the 1930's. If you're happy with the standard of living from 1930 you could probably achieve that with 10 hours of work per week.

> after you've sent data and received no application-layer acknowledgement

This would be the most robust fix. Have the server return "OK" or something after it has processed the data. It could have silently crashed but still accept connections.

Yeah, it's not surprising that any change would make it faster. Plot twist: OP was previously typing the server response BY HAND.

Isn't this just a variant of the known plaintext attack?

And we all know what the NSA is going to use this lubricant for...

Ah, philosophy. My version of this:

Q: Do questions exist?

A: Only if someone asks them.

Q: Do answers exist?

A: Sometimes, when there are questions.

Q: Do answers exist without someone to ask the questions?

A: No

I think it won't change the world because technical solutions rarely solve political problems. Call me a cynic if you wish.

Yes, it is very interesting but I don't think it will be "world changing".