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painisRelative | 10 years ago | on: Loneliness and Climate Changes – Where I am right now

It keeps me up at night too. I am thinking we should establish a list of all those politicians who have actively impeded efforts to fight climate change. then at least we will have a least for our children to work through when they decide on a fitting retribution

painisRelative | 10 years ago | on: Lodash 4.0.0 is out

why drop bower support damn it!

painisRelative | 10 years ago | on: The professionals (programmers) are self destructing (LtU comment)

the comparisons don't hold sway. Comparing agriculture to programming is not a valid comparison. To farm you need sufficient space, and usually a wholelot of arable land.

To program all you need is a cheap computer and some knowledge. Both are quite obtainable by an interested party.

if you want to farm, well you may run into trouble trying to do that. the capital investment is huge.

So regardless of you opinion of centralisation of power, programming will always be accessible, and in this day and age it also has great leverage. You can access a large market with little capital expenditure. it is attractive for those reasons alone and will remain so for time to come.

i would be more interested in a comparison to building infrastructure. Not every construction project is a greenfield site, often you have to deal with legacy infrastructure. How has the job market progressed in infrastructure building over the last century? Has it decreased like teh agricultural sector, or has it been more resilient. (I suspect it has peaks and troughs much like software employment is at)

painisRelative | 10 years ago | on: Alexa: is this a way of giving voice commands to your apps?

Is this what I think it is? A way of building the voice controlled home automation system of my dreams?

painisRelative | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Need help to Decipher a Line for school assighment

looks to me like the distribution of characters follows the normal distribution of alphabetical characters.. i suspect its a substitution cypher

painisRelative | 12 years ago | on: PHP: a fractal of bad design

Sigh....I grow weary of fashion police. Anyone ever told you that beauty is not skin deep. Some of us like our code warts and all.

painisRelative | 12 years ago | on: Valve Reveals First Gen Steam Machines

Is this the end or the start of the beginning?

painisRelative | 12 years ago | on: Small Objects on the Lunar Surface

oh for crying out loud. gravity is the only force acting on these objects.. of course they are not going to move. there is no wind or vibration. i guess if some micro meteorrite hit them then that would cause them to be displaced

low gravity is still gravity, and you may have noticed that dust particles on the moon also fall back to the surface.

the escape velocity of teh moon is: It is Escape Velocity: 2.38 km/s (5324 MPH) .