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Even the most developed countries are very much quilty of the same. Just a week ago we had a thread about deforestation of the Pacific temperate rainforests. https://news.ycombinat…

If you're interested in how this could be automated, check out Polly[1]. There is also similar framework in GCC[2], but as can be seen from the blog post, there is room for improve…

In Finland, there hasn't yet been a vote about a petition in Parliament. The first petition with enough signatures was submitted in October, and the signatures will first have to b…

Yes, according to the author of Bacon, it is heavily inspired by the JS flavor of Rx, RxJS.

We're pragmatic about FRP and also rely heavily on Backbone. For some cases, the MVC approach seems better, for others Bacon is a better fit. In Flowdock, there is a form that auto…

Bacon.js[1] is another functional reactive programming library for JavaScript. Many similar concepts to RX.js, but the library is much smaller. While Bacon.js might not be the most…

It's proven that people have become very good at ignoring banner ads. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/banner-blindness.html

There are libraries to handle stemming and Unicode equivalence which are easy to add into this kind of boolean search. If ranking documents would definitely mean that some other ap…

As a user, i've been occasionally fristrated with the decentralized nature of Maven. The isn't any single repository which would contain all packages (especially rc/beta versions).…

The fund should probably be marketed as startup decelerator.

They smelt aluminium and generate electricity from geothermal sources. Because of abundant source of energy, Iceland is potential location for many power-intensive industries.

I don't mind the mouse lag in normal use, but it's very annoying in FPS games. I've actually spent a day or two tweaking OS X mouse acceleration curves and whatever settings I coul…

I sometimes listen to ambient-ish classical music while coding. Ólafur Arnalds and Jóhann Jóhannsson have been recently on my list.

Emoji code points (including the pile of poo) have actually been in Unicode since 6.0, but now they've added colored "emoji style" variants for the characters. Previously the stand…

The corporation is a separate legal entity from it's owners, and thus is taxed separately. In step E the good being exchanged is money.

Either that or wait until last version of IE which doesn't support it has died. Might happen in time for HTML5 becoming W3C recommendation in 2022.

Even though Growl 1.3.0 was distributed via App Store with the same price tag, the source code was published at http://code.google.com/p/growl/source . Seems like that practice has…

https://github.com/lautis/lisp-prolog/blob/master/lisp.pl Tiny lisp written in Prolog in exchange for some course credits.

git rebase http://progit.org/book/ch6-4.html

Numbers in commit messages don't really make any sense. I don't understand what value they might have. The narrative of your codebase is hard to follow when large number of your co…

More comprehensive data about income distribution in Finland over time: http://www.stat.fi/til/tjt/2009/tjt_2009_2011-05-20_tau_002_... Statistics Finland provide data about income…

Wealth distribution did become more even from 60s to mid 80s, but after that the trend has reversed.

Military discipline developed from the necessity of training reliable soldiers who don't question critical orders. Military discipline was a necessity to get a company, a battalion…

I would guess that China will provide infrastructure to some african countries in exchange for raw materials. Political stability will also improve as China will support the regime…