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by 46Bit 14y ago
I'm from the UK, and despite having interests in government I paid little attention to our immigration process until I started to look into that of the USA. The problem is simple to sum up: highly skilled workers aren't going to sneak acros
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Very true. The question is whether the government saw sense and scaled back it's unsustainable future drive, or whether things just stalled. I'm still undecided.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
This did seem quite surprising to me as well - I think they might have let it go if it wasn't quite such a high rate of ascent. 2000ft/min could easily give them a final altitude way above what they'd expected.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
This is the big change between now and Kittinger's jump in 1960: private, truly non-governmental* companies can and will achieve incredible things just to market some sugar water. * I see a distinction between companies like SpaceX and thos
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by 46Bit 14y ago
They've mentioned that even something like acquiring a replacement balloon would take weeks, let alone the men and materials involved in such an effort. I doubt the funding or will is there to go for it, at least without another level up of
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by 46Bit 14y ago
The launch would be to an orbit that would decay in a short-ish time (perhaps fairly elliptical?), since SpaceX wouldn't want to leave the second stage up there long term as yet another large piece of space debris. Talking from the knowledg
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by 46Bit 14y ago
I have to admit though: Netflix's (Silverlight) player is remarkably stable compared to anything I've ever tried in Flash.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Exactly. People seem to be designing entirely consumer focused experiences around a problem that's main pained group and largest collection of cash is the upper echelons of corporations.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
The website works terribly. You can use it, but it's far slower to pan than the old Maps app and you seem to have to tap a few times for half the interface to function properly.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
It's at all UK airports with these, I believe. On the flip-side I've flown several times since the introduction and never been singled out for forced irradiation so it's not certain you'll be made to do it.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Besides which the pilots might well crash the plane somewhere harmless in the meantime rather than becoming a flying bomb.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
I hear you. People often seem to think I've done a lot for my age, whilst I'm thought strange for not necessarily agreeing. I think the big thing is that most people don't have that interesting a life until after college, and many of those
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by 46Bit 14y ago
The first issue you'll run into is that the graphite grains they are using "several tens of micrometers grain size graphite powder" [1]. It might not be straightforward to make that from a pencil, but you could buy the powder online. I've n
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by 46Bit 14y ago
This is how it should work. This is why people try to make friends with their bank manager: the working relationship helps the bank know who the hell they're dealing with, and so means they can communicate better and have goodwill. That Pay
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Got a link on that?
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by 46Bit 14y ago
I'll retitle this to "Ways to Prove Yourself as a Young Vapid Celebrity". There's negligible here about entrepreneurship, or much else for that matter.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Control, safety and building a brand.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Awesome. Will this allow us to load images into canvas without security errors?
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by 46Bit 14y ago
That RoR isn't typical for government is much of the point. They've been spending 20x too much for one-tenth of what they should have: moving to traditional web tech is a pretty brilliant step forward. As regards scaling, it's a valid conce
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Thanks for this, enjoy hearing about Github as a company. > I'm also quite sure the number counts deploys across all of our applications. For instance, deploying a change to github-services counts as two, since I have to deploy changes
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by 46Bit 14y ago
I'd love to hear the backstory behind this. Company hackday, or a day spent shipping a major set of new features?
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Worked out pretty well for some people in the past.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Common problem on the AirBNB site. I've experienced it on a client site in the past as well. Indonesian detection may be over zealous.
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What I shouldn't tell you about hackdays(46bit.com)
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by 46Bit 14y ago
From just the book title, I'd like to point out that we have something known as Quantum Mechanics nowadays.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Not quite. A wave going left forward in time is equivalent to a wave 'going right' but backwards in time. Since it is further right in the past than now, it is actually going left. There's a lot of similar effects in Physics, especially wit
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by 46Bit 14y ago
I didn't know about the wheel morse code - that's pretty awesome. I'd loved some technical detail about what exactly the beacons are? Javascript, images, special characters...? The CloudFlare page isn't exactly informative in that regard.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
It depends on what you consider a player, in my opinion. I admit that 95% of the users who open a PC game may not be playing a copy they purchased, but in all likelihood most play it for about 5 minutes. Just as with pirated iPhone apps, wh
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Agreed. Although one option would be to require all two year old children to escape a refrigerator or die trying, in order to evolve out of this problem.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Thanks for the heads up - could you email us some more details (contact@dreamforge.me)? It seems to work fine in Firefox for us so we'd really like to get to the bottom of this for you.

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