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Could your steamer be ported to Lucene? Might get more usage there.

I'd encourage you to maintain and publish your list of search engines. Even if you aren't supporting them.

The list has value on its own, especially if you maintain it.

Does no one else just talk simultaneously?

I only do this with friends I am familiar with, but it's quite efficient to respond to things in real time, without waiting for people to stop.

What they have written is they are going to force a change. It's very clear. As soon as we have moved most people over, we will force you to move. You don't even have to read between the lines, it's explicit.

"We won't force it for two years". We are gonna force it in two years.

"We won't until the vast minority" we will as soon as most people have moved.

I'd bet employee would have to pay back if fired.

So much of performance is memory access now. The instructions can be fine and the access pattern wrecks you.

Don't most of the computation as to the total energy of the event assume the event radiates equally in all directions?

Isn't the amount of energy drastically smaller if it's a focused beam?

Why do we assume spherical and not, for example, a directed attempt to communicate, the back end of a starship drive pointed at us, or just a natural phenomenon the is unidirectional.

It's interesting the the article thus shows the same kind of selection bias that they were complaining about.

Interesting that they don't mention amazon bestseller lists. I believe the amazon lists are purely mathematical. (Why do I believe this? Because I haven't heard any author complaining about it. Whereas everything in the post about NYT is common knowledge. )

How much more money is an app user worth, compared to a web user?

It must be substantial, as sites like yelp are actually unusable on mobile web, as they constantly try to install the app.

It seems like it's better to lose a customer than to have them on web.

The distinction is a good one, but the word "engineer" has a long history and varied uses. The guy who runs a train is an "engineer", is he licensed? (maybe he is).

It would be better to create a specific term, like "registered professional engineer (RPE)" that is unique, rather than trying to limit the usage of a common word. This is what I think most places do.

The fact that misspelling need to be turned in open search does not mean anything "failed". If you want spelling correction, turn it on, don't call it failure.

This needs more informative title.

so, doesn't look like it's finding the cheapest. You should probably check against amazon as a sanity check. (I was ignoring shipping, here)

Do you take shipping into account?

24 FPS can look "off" to an audience, too.

As someone who hates 24fps, because it looks way too jerky, and not lifelike, the sooner we lose 24FPS, the better.

SQLite's maintainers have a choice. They can spend their time coding, or they can spend their time explaining, over and over again, why they don't want to do a distributed database.

I can see why they don't take contributions.

Both are valid concerns. But I feel that "dying of something that could have been treated, if found earlier" trumps both.

You can get them from various online retailers, but marzipan does not travel well. Leave it in a warehouse that's not designed for food storage and it's going to go bad very quickly.

Not to mention it's about 65$/pound from local retailers.

It's hard to take anyone's marzipan seriously, if all the marzipan they sell must be flavored with something. 90 percent of their "marzipan" products are covered in chocolate. If your marzipan is good, other flavors aren't necessary.

Chocolate covered marzipan, yuck!

While I totally understand his point about excessive intervention, ignorance is not the answer. You absolutely can say "no" to doctors.

Of course, with tests that are of themselves dangerous, that's another issue. Skip those if the risk/reward is too high.

Getting diagnosed too late is much worse than having to say no.

I dislike sites, like phys.org, that don't have a proper "opt out" from tracking.

I encourage people to not visit them.

First one I got was "the time traveler's wife" which does exist.

I suspect that basing synthesized actors based on real actors is a transitional thing. Studios would rather create actors. So they own the actor outright, and not pay royalties.

I know nothing about on deck.

Something I have learned in life is never waste time on events pitched as "meet interesting people". Interesting people don't go to that kind of event.

Go someplace interesting people have a reason to be.

What happened to the promised mosquito killing laser?

It's been twelve years.

It is almost never used. People draw occasional diagrams, but that's it.

This is correct. The only difference between this and commercial software is the user expects a fix for free. No commercial vendor is going to revert an important change for a customer giving them zero money. If you are paying them millions, then sure.

Open source can be the same. Offer Reem millions, your problem will likely get fixed. Even a low bug bounty might work. But, exactly like commercial software, people won't break lots of users to fix one user without a lot of motivation.

Don't just record successful companies. You can't figure out what actually matters if you don't compare to failed companies.

If ten successful companies do something, you'll think it's a good thing to do. But what if one hundred failed companies do it, too?

I don't think it matters if it's legal. If they succeed in charging anyone, most people will respond with chargebacks, which their bank will likely support, in this case.

The only case I can see them getting money is if someone actually is using FogBugz, and is willing to pay, in which case it's fine.

That was an unexpected blast from the past, since I wrote the software he's talking about at his first software company.