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philf | 11 years ago | on: Minimalist Living: When a Lot Less Is More

I get your point but I think a lot of people overestimate the amount of special gear they need to pursue certain activities. Sure, if you're going to be in the wilderness for days, hiking boots and outdoor clothing are a good idea. A few hours walking through the forest, you're fine wearing whatever.

philf | 13 years ago | on: Hangouts Feature Emerges as a Bright Spot for Google+

Unfortunately I installed Hangout on my phone this morning and basically destroyed most of the utility GTalk had. None of my Google Talk contacts can send messages to my mobile, I can't see them in my contact list (not even people with Google accounts that don't use G+) and for the remaining ones with G+ accounts there's no presence information I can recognize.

philf | 13 years ago | on: Why We Still Believe in Working Remotely

I have a daily commute time of 1h each direction but I travel by train. I've been doing this for 2 years now and intent to keep it this way because I find it a lot easier to focus on reading than when I am at home. When I don't feel like reading I listen to podcasts or reflect my work.

philf | 13 years ago | on: Notch trying jsFiddle

For me, the difference is only visible using Firefox. Chromium even renders the inefficient original version smoothly.

philf | 13 years ago | on: This white powder will kill me one day

First I thought that, too, but he mentions explicitly that tea alone doesn't work for him. So I tend to agree with what someone else on this thread said, that he might need to simply up his intake of nutrients in his diet. Especially protein and fat which produce more stable energy levels.

philf | 14 years ago | on: The trouble with Checked Exceptions (C# architect)

You can work with it or route around it when it doesn't make sense for you or the particular context i.e. it gives you choice. Additionally, I regard checked exceptions as automatic documentation.

philf | 14 years ago | on: The trouble with Checked Exceptions (C# architect)

> You end up having to declare 40 exceptions that you might throw. And once you aggregate that with another subsystem you've got 80 exceptions in your throws clause. It just balloons out of control.

What he completely ignores is the possibility to wrap exceptions to either aggregate them or to convert them into unchecked exceptions.

philf | 14 years ago | on: Damn Cool Algorithms: Quadtrees and Hilbert Curves

The Wikipedia description of Geohashes is a bit odd in that its base32 decoding uses the alphabet with some letters (a, i...) left out instead of simply using [0-9a-v]. Anyone know why that would make sense?
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