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by ErrantX 14y ago
Also, economics. These toilets currently cost ~$500 more than a "normal" toilet. Of course, you do use significantly more toilet paper with the latter, but a pack is ~$5 and lasts ~ 1 month, so you'd still be looking at, what 8-10 year retu
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by ErrantX 14y ago
This library solves a problem and solves it well. The local storage issue should be left up to other libraries who are designed to solve that gripe. :-)
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by ErrantX 14y ago
> You're not the only one to bring this up and it confuses me why. The gas infrastructure has already been built. It's a sunk cost. EV infrastructure most certainly is not. Back in the day countries had a huge infrastructure for horse-b
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by ErrantX 14y ago
You have to deal with that sort of situation proactively. Ring them up and explain their delays have pushed the project into a period where you have other commitments. Ask how long it will take them to resolve their delays etc. and offer to
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by ErrantX 14y ago
FWIW as a freelancer: where trusted freelance engineers can immediately clone a git repo, start hacking on a technical problem, and upon completion, get paid what they're worth The problem needing to be solved in this field is not exactly
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by ErrantX 14y ago
This is exactly what happened to Literature.SE and a couple of other sites I dipped into (although Lit.SE was my most active, and I was in the top 10 users there before it closed). The moderation was harsh and it led to questions being mund
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by ErrantX 14y ago
There are a number of good arguments. Where does the scope of Wikipedia end? Should there be an article about "saurik"? How do you actively police articles for e.g. defamation (note, we already struggle to handle this problem and it is ge
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by ErrantX 14y ago
I've enjoyed this conversation: but HN is not really set up for lengthy discussions :) (I lose track) so rather than clog it up if you want to chat more feel free to email me!
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by ErrantX 14y ago
The OP has linked to the demo running on Wrapbootstrap (a bootstrap marketplace). The overview page for the editor on Wrapbootstrap is here: https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/bootstrap-live-editor-WB0DFT...
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Ok, fair enough. Britta touches on some of the issues, but not in its entirety. Notability is about a) requiring there be at least one reliable third party source (so that the article has a chance of containing verifiable information) and
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by ErrantX 14y ago
I personally agree with that, as I do not believe that the notability requirement is leading to increased article trustworthiness. I struggle to follow this because Wikipedia doesn't consider "notability" to relate to article trustworthin
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by ErrantX 14y ago
I chose the Medicine project because it is an example where they have identified an issue (bad sourcing can have real world consequence) and built on the Wikipedia sourcing policies to fit with how medicine operates academically. I imagine
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Worse, as encyclopedias--which today pretty much means "Wikipedia" to a very large percentage of the public--are used as reference material for the construction of secondary sources, everything from newspaper articles to books, claiming se
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by ErrantX 14y ago
A journal article would certainly count as a secondary source (unless of course you were talking about the source itself)! And is always preferred over a media report. Now if your argument was that Wikipedia suffers from "recentism", whereb
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Putting my admin hat on for a moment... rangeblocks are fairly rare for the reason you cite. But when used they are deployed in situations where a vandal has been noted to be using IP addresses from the same range. Although you seem skeptic
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by ErrantX 14y ago
As a highly active Wikipedian this article is rather wrong: Wikipedia is far from complete. It has a lot of articles, covering a huge range of topics (and in that sense is perhaps nearing "completion"). But those articles are almost always
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by ErrantX 14y ago
I've got further using that tonight than I got in about 2 weeks learning Eagle. Thank you! A great project.
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Well. In terms of technical difficulty CEcertification is not ridiculous. However it does require not-insignificant amounts of time (writing the documentation) and money (certification).
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Physical things are great. They just haven't been as great a way to start a rapidly growing business as software. The same issue applied to software not all that long ago. As with software, the wide availability of consumer-level, cheap o
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by ErrantX 14y ago
> With a makerbot, a raspberry Pi, an arduino and a shelf full of components From recent experience working on a hardware side-project: these are extremely cool and useful development/indie tools. But when you get to the stage of larg
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by ErrantX 14y ago
On a related note; if you've not seen "Monsters" then you should track it down, a great film! (it should have had a BAFTA but had the misfortune to be released the same year as the even better "Four Lions").
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Recently, in building apps, I've changed how I do accounts. Previously everyone was a "user" and permissions got managed by ACL (yes, yes, I know not the best security model..). Now I give each type of user their own model. So... "customer"
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by ErrantX 14y ago
In certain circumstances (for example; sites with a free service level) it's more like a "Potential Customer".
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by ErrantX 14y ago
I ordered one three days ago and it said three weeks.
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by ErrantX 14y ago
> Learn the language of yours customers. This is something I've really got to work on, I have now idea how business people speak. Not just their language, but their lifestyle and culture. A big portion of my clients are Jewish; this is
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Always charge expenses. Of course, that depends on the expense. Generally I'd say if you need to overnight then it is an expense to charge for - if you're driving for an hour then definitely don't :) (in the UK we can get tax relief for mil
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by ErrantX 14y ago
I think you're simplifying. It's easy to follow an online tutorial; but if that is what a consultant is doing then he is a very low quality consultant. Conversely; I have an engineering background but found it very easy to pick up the basic
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by ErrantX 14y ago
GitHub nails the public code space, with social features. Bitbucket nails the private project space; so for small dev companies they are perfect. I've been a BB user from early on and they have successfully focused on this niche for some ti
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Everybody is bad at estimating tasks. When I ask project managers how long it will take them to get the specification drafted "1 week" means at least two :) I'm not being defensive, I agree with the OP, just think it extends to everyone. Sp
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Same thought occured to me. You can see some to the far left of the second image (the one after the collage). Then if you skip to the final image and note the shelf-unit (at the end of the long table) it snaps into focus - and you can just

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