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find_by_id/find_by aren't "wrong", they're just different. Sometimes you want to fall back to nil instead of raising an exception.

Code from these outsourcing shops is never particularly good. They sell on name, trust and client relationships - the product just has to work, and it usually does. They can't attr…

> Many contracting firms are taking anywhere from 50-75% The only firms I know of taking that kind of cut target governments, which carries a lot of risk and is very high-touch. Th…

> 20 or so years until upload and cloned bodies become accessible That's an... optimistic time frame.

I hope so. Currently, VC money is a horrible market distortion that encourages what is basically dumping - companies with good products and actual business models being starved of …

Take a second to think about what you're saying. You're basically talking about prison revenge scenarios. Do you seriously think the real reasons are ever going to be admitted? "Yo…

You reckon? It's basically surrounding the thing with chicken wire. How expensive could that possibly be? Expense can't be the reason. Maybe the reason they don't do that is becaus…

Thanks for the recommendation! Bought. Probably more than 50% of the books I buy come from recommendations on HN, and I've been rarely disappointed.

> 1. Apparently everyone in Santa Cruz goes to bed early and gets up early. Probably some selection bias at work here. It's possible the type of person who's buying and wearing per…

I suppose it'd be better than being Boeing and going in front of your stockholders to explain why your marketshare is radically down because you refused to conform to the measureme…

The fact that you had to go back to the 60s to find a similar incident helps the GP's point, not yours. And do you have any supporting evidence for your claim that migrant labourer…

> If I'm going to live in a surveillance state anyway Well that's just it, isn't it. I view this kind of thing as absolutely inevitable, but it can happen covertly, with unknown mo…

Ah, that's not totally fair. There's places to go that aren't shopping malls - I miss the hawker centres and food streets, and there's some great walking to be had. That said, the …

Why is this being downvoted? It's exactly right. The distance to beacons is extremely unpredictable. Just holding the phone or a beacon in your hand slightly differently is often e…

Are you talking about yourself? Living in a first world country, access to first rate medical care, not dying of malaria in sub saharan africa? Because you could be. If wanting to …

> Even if I'm fit and healthy age the age of 90, I can't imagine wanting to, y'know, do things beyond care for my grandkids and such. So let me get this straight. If you had the ex…

Well, because it's 1am, and as you say, assumptions. My bad. But less assumption than you might imagine. If there had been massive investment by billionaires in "alternative" appro…

Mea culpa. I didn't read the article. Glad to hear he was supporting medical research. And I didn't really mean to say de Grey had all the answers - I'm by no means a fanboy. But I…

I don't understand these old bilionaires. It seems there's so much work to be done, and possibly a great deal of low-hanging fruit, in anti-aging research. Who's to say what Aubrey…

I think you're being downvoted because your comment was basically offtopic and inflammatory, not because you dared to break some kind of taboo. I'm not at all religious, and your c…

Are any consumer NAS that implement ZFS even available? Sounds like ZFS's proactive sector sweeps across all managed drives would handily solve the problem the article raises with …

AWS allows you to mail drives in for import/export: http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/

Ludicrously difficult? I just ordered it for AUD$32.19 delivered, to Australia, in two or three clicks.

> $200 is just too much to spend when RubyMotion may not exist for version 4 Do you see the contradiction here? I am happy, delighted even, to pay $200 (and then $100/yr) precisely…