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JohnDoe365··on Getting things done
> It turns out that I as a human can do a lot on my own!

Reminds of

> If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly

http://www.chesterton.org/a-thing-worth-doing/

JohnDoe365··on Why drug prices in America are so high
Because it's a largely unregulated market.
JohnDoe365··on Twitter: A Clusterfuck of UI Mistakes
> This is probably the most embarrassing feature missing on twitter, meaning the inability to click a notification and hide it

What would you do with ad? Probably hide it as so would do 95% of other twitter users? Sure, this would be sane behavior for me and a vast majority, but not good for the twitter sales department which is likely to have a hard time anyway.

JohnDoe365··on Rosetta catches dusty organics
That blurry something on the inner side of the lens turned out to be an ... ant?
JohnDoe365··on SILE, a typesetting system inspired by TeX, reaches 0.9.4
Directly to one sample:

https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/blob/master/examples/sim...

The sample directory:

https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/tree/master/examples

JohnDoe365··on SILE, a typesetting system inspired by TeX, reaches 0.9.4
I think that explains it nicely:

http://sile-typesetter.org/what-is/#sile-versus-tex

> At this point, the parts of TeX that people actually use are 1) the box-and-glue model, 2) the hyphenation algorithm, and 3) the line-breaking algorithm. SILE follows TeX in each of these three areas;

JohnDoe365··on Washio on-demand laundry service shuts down operations
There is nothing wrong to see actual people. What would you do with your free time gained from not doing "administrative" tasks like seeing the laundry / buy food?

1. Work more (for your boss)

2. Spend money on XYZ so that at the end of the month your account is cleared and you have to work more --> 1.

JohnDoe365··on Use It Too Much and Lose It? The Effect of Working Hours on Cognitive Ability [pdf]
From what do you come to the conclusion that older people are doing worse? Worse in respect to what?

The paper more or less confirms from the cognitive domain, that we are working to much. Upto 25 hours are the best. This interestingly coincides with claims from others, eg. UBI folks, to work less for increased productivity. Seems we are getting more and more factual prove that eg. redistribution of wealth should be done not by increasing taxes but by getting more people into the workforce in exchange of others working less (and earning less).

JohnDoe365··on Introducing the free Microsoft R Client
Companies have to understand that instead of mainly targeting the head buyers / CxOs reps in the companies they have to target the ones that really understand and work with their product. As big company investions have to be justified, CxOs can no longer buy what they want without justification.

They have to sell the quality of their products to the users which will then convince the CxOs who are going to do the investment.

JohnDoe365··on Introducing the free Microsoft R Client
What I can say is that SAS allows you to get quicker at visualisations and analysis without actually knowing what you are doing. R requires you to think before and ask the questions you would like to get from the data.
JohnDoe365··on Excel: Error when CSV file starts with “I” and “D”
Kudos for standing up and saying "Hey, may be my fault"
JohnDoe365··on The VoltAir Project
I wonder what backend infrastructure Google is training from the input generated from the uses input
JohnDoe365··on Andl, a relational language that is not SQL, is coming to Postgres
No example how it looks like?

> The language handler plandl is a DLL written in C, which calls a C++ function, which in turn uses COM to start up the CLR runtime and load the Andl Postgres entry point. Similar capabilities can be provided for Mono

Seems like a lot of boilerplate

JohnDoe365··on Software Licenses and Failed States
While the metrics might be, let's say, questionable as it would make more sense to consider only repositories with a minimum number of followers, a minimum number of commits and the like, the statement

> So, if you are like me and you don't care about all the intellectual property antics, here's my project, feel free to use it. If you are the kind of moron who wants to have their legal ass covered, go screw yourself.

still holds a lot of truth.

JohnDoe365··on PostgreSQL Parallel Aggregate
Analysing open data portals. PG holds status data on retrievability of links. Depicting the evolvement of such an open data portal over time is possible with custom datetime columns and window fucntions, it's just tedious and error prone.
JohnDoe365··on Leaked documents show strong business support for raising the minimum wage
It's a vicious circle. Increased wages will result in increased consumption and contribute to making the rich richer while flooding the poor with goods with built-in obsolescence. It would be much better to learn living with much less than we do now and teach the one who try to deprive our workforce that they are dependent form us.
JohnDoe365··on GitHub is down
What about BitTorrent DHTs?

Or dat http://dat-data.com/

Or Camlistore? https://camlistore.org/

JohnDoe365··on Sailboat simulation in WebGL (2D Wireframe)
Worked for me in Chrome on Windows, doesn't work with FF 45.
JohnDoe365··on Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?
A galaxy is a living creature. See it that way?
JohnDoe365··on The Unix Time-Sharing System (1974) [pdf]
> We will not attempt any interpretation of these figures nor any comparison with other systems, but merely note that we are generally satisfied with the overall performance of the system.

Will write that in one of my upcoming research papers and see how it turns out.

JohnDoe365··on PostgreSQL Parallel Aggregate
Would love to hear more on your usage as a graph database, especially in light of http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
JohnDoe365··on PostgreSQL Parallel Aggregate
I miss bi-temporal queries/support most. Unfortunately there is little in place as of now in that regard. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/runtime-config-rep... are the humble beginnings.
JohnDoe365··on Systemd vs. Docker
Or they can move to a steam engine which are much more stable, secure, and tested than cars consuming gasoline.

Embrace the change, it's for a better future.

JohnDoe365··on Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
Alright, was with Firefox
JohnDoe365··on Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
Not available for me, menu item grayed out. Austria/Europe here. Language is set to English/USA.
JohnDoe365··on What 50,000 watts of RF energy sounds like through a jumper cable
The pictured parabola antenna likely has a gain around +20dB. Would that change your calculation?
JohnDoe365··on What's holding back the world economy?
24 hours and mens necessity to get some sleep. And it's time for a new truly disruptive technology past micro optimisations.
JohnDoe365··on Will Bond (Package Control) Joins Sublime HQ
But you understand that Postgres also went a long way and is Open Source?
JohnDoe365··on Visualizing Concurrency in Go
Take that: https://github.com/divan/blog/tree/master/static/talks/2016/...
JohnDoe365··on The Electric Car may be entering its “cell phone” period
Current oil prices make electronic cars a total personal economic loss.
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