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by 100k 9y ago
Charles Sheffield wrote a novel based on this premise. "[H]e devotes all his energies for a decade prior to his freezing, in becoming an expert primary source on the musically notable people of his era. Assuming that if you become the
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by 100k 9y ago
This is really cool! When I was a kid, I read a book about Eugenia Clark ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenie_Clark ) who defleshed a dead animal she found as a kid. I found a dead bird and tried to do the same using
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by 100k 9y ago
Congrats Bill and Rich, and good luck at Chase.
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by 100k 9y ago
I was happy to back this and glad to see it get fully funded. I hope others will still contribute as the author will be able to work on Magit for longer.
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by 100k 9y ago
I started using magit this year and it's been well worth learning. I can't remember if I read any specific documentation, but Magit has pretty good integrated help. Type M-x magit-status to launch it. This will show your git statu
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by 100k 9y ago
Using Magit has been one of my best workflow improvements of the last year. I'm happy to back its continued development.
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by 100k 9y ago
Yeah, the article doesn't address the Twin Cities, but it meets his criteria: - 3.5M metro area population - Very high education levels - Diverse population protected by strong civil rights - Major international airport (Delta hub; 16t
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by 100k 9y ago
I have had the same phone number for 15 years, and I have been getting A LOT of robocalls lately. I tried stopping them with NoMoRobo on iOS. It worked OK, but it can't match "Unknown caller" or blocked numbers, which made it
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by 100k 9y ago
There's a good treatment of the politics of Louisiana's environmental catastrophe in "Strangers in Their Own Land": https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-Their-Own-Land-Mourning/dp/... The author ta
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by 100k 9y ago
Utility is a concept from economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility You can think of it as "how much benefit I get from a thing". What he is referring to is diminishing marginal utility, which is that
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by 100k 9y ago
Still plenty of time for an "incredible journey" post by the new owners.
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by 100k 9y ago
Google was a major step up, even when it had less than a billion pages indexed. I remember trying to find programming information on Alta Vista. It was possible but there was a lot of clicking "next page".
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by 100k 9y ago
I agree with the sibling comment that this is an unfair summary of Rails' evolution and impact. I gave a talk about this when Rails turned 10: http://www.recursion.org/looking-backward/ It's hard to overstate
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by 100k 9y ago
One thing it gives you out of the box that is difficult with the other Homebrew options (there is also https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/overview ) is a standard macOS application that you can launch with Sp
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by 100k 9y ago
This ignores the context that emojis came from. All of the people depicted were light skinned. Emojis didn't start neutral and gain ethnic skin colors. They started light-skinned and gained a neutral color -- and the choice to select o
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by 100k 9y ago
The University of Minnesota did a study on cross-device emoji interpretation. https://grouplens.org/blog/investigating-the-potential-for-m... Many of the really common emojis have very different emotional connotations
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by 100k 9y ago
Congrats! Can you talk about how Mux's focus differs from your previous efforts in the video space?
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by 100k 9y ago
She could take a look at the most hyped startups of 2008 (when the book was published) and see where they are now. Most will probably have failed by now, and there will be some interesting stories there!
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by 100k 9y ago
The New York Times published a visualization of estimated number of extreme temperature days over the next 80 years which may be useful for you. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/20/sunday-revie
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by 100k 10y ago
Yeah that's a good point. When the system is too big there's no way you can run it all locally. The angle I'm coming from is an application that's fairly new and still small and is changing rapidly with lots of cross-cut
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by 100k 10y ago
Yes, the tooling is weak. Now, let's convince the engineering managers to spend a bunch of time building tooling to start everything together and fix service discovery on localhost. Turns out, they'd rather build features. I&#x27
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by 100k 10y ago
I heard second hand that this really happened at Living Social. Engineers would write services in whatever they felt like (sorry, I mean, "the best tool for the job"), then get bored and leave. Heck, this was even a fad for a whil
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by 100k 10y ago
We did this at my last gig. The application was monolithic[1] but ran in multiple environments: web application, API, admin, backend workers. It worked quite well. The one downside is we had to load all the code (it was Rails) so processes
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by 100k 10y ago
I agree. In the system I'm currently working on, they can't. I think it would be possible to implement, but no one has been able to take the time (or, perhaps sees the value in it). (OTOH, I kind of doubt developers at Google or F
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by 100k 10y ago
I know microservices are successful in many organizations but one downside I've experienced from the microservices hype is starting an application with microservices. It's very difficult to get the system boundaries correct while
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It comes from ancient folklore (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_name ). I mention Earthsea here because Aphyr is referencing Ursula K. Le Guin specifically.
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In Le Guin's Earthsea series, magic is based on knowing the "true name" of a thing (this gives the wizard/witch power over it). The K language ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)
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Like the Manhattan Project?
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One of my college roommates got a job there after graduation. He's still there 15 years later.
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Sadly, four years of "heroic effort at failing startup" doesn't look as good on the resume as "worked at Google".

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