Marazan

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by Marazan 9y ago
McMansions are also non-functional buildings. It would be possible to ape the 'incremental build' style of a building that's been around for 100s of years without the aesthetic dissonance and massive space wastage of the ave
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by Marazan 9y ago
With regards to Sturgeon's law unfortunately lots of completely non-functional Brutalist buildings are held up as beautiful marvels. Buildings with flat roofs and piss poor drainage in the West of Scotland (rains a bit) are held up as
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by Marazan 9y ago
I prefer an open office. Thanks.
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by Marazan 9y ago
True fact: saying "I'm not a racist but..." makes anything you say afterwards definitely not racist.
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by Marazan 9y ago
Yeah, there were a huge number of articles in 2006 with a theme of market doom and housing debt and CDOs being the culprit.
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by Marazan 9y ago
No, the amount of energy needed will always be enormous as their is a direct linkage between the value of bitcoin and the amount of energy required to secure the network. Otherwise there will be a point where it is cost effective to attack
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by Marazan 9y ago
If this had been Adobe's focus rather than chucking it at Apache then Adobe would be world leaders in JavaScript app development and we'd all be using their tools.
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by Marazan 9y ago
Haven't read the article yet but back in the 90s/00s there was a thing for using Genetic Algorithms to evolve optimal NN topologies. Edit: Cool, mentions it right out the gate.
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by Marazan 9y ago
Adobe abandonment of Flex has to be one of the most perplexing acts of corporate self harm I have witnessed ( and been affected by). Dominating the Rich Internet Application space and poised to storm corporate apps by levaraging all those F
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by Marazan 9y ago
The swf format has been open for years.
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by Marazan 9y ago
They key thing when using Lego is not to go crazy with variety you need a large number of a small variety of blocks.
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by Marazan 9y ago
We don't require it but inevitably people build fully connected structures due to the ease of pickup and move around.
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by Marazan 9y ago
At the point that Jobs wrote his lie filled "Thoughts on Flash" Flash Player was vastly more performant at HTML5y things like animations, video and music playing than doing it in the browser. I'm not going to defend the quali
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by Marazan 9y ago
Flash, specifically Flex, won the battle and then promptly lost the war as other companies remade the internet in Flex's image. Adobe's sudden and not at all inevitable betrayal of Flex devs was a huge shock and absolutely killed
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by Marazan 9y ago
Companies want to pay the lowest salary for the best worker. Companies think women are not as good workers as men. That is why men are still hired.
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by Marazan 9y ago
Hmm let's see, bank of Scotland to Royal Bank of Canada would be about 30 Canadian dollars of transfer fees.
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by Marazan 9y ago
The grandparent point is based on a false premise.
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by Marazan 9y ago
Oooh, I forgot to mention the transfer time was approximately 3 seconds.
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by Marazan 9y ago
I think Zendo is better with a set of basic lego blocks (1x1, 2x1, 2x2) in 3 colours. It's easier to construct and build things. But fundamentally it is an incredible game in whatever form you play.
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by Marazan 9y ago
I paid £0 to transfer £10000 the other day. I had to split it into two transfers of £5000 but otherwise it was free to transfer between two completely separate financial institutions.
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by Marazan 9y ago
I suspect Mobile Frame Zero ( http://mobileframezero.com/mfz/ ) players would be delighted to get a source of the more esoteric bricks that go into their builds
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by Marazan 9y ago
What economies of scale? Uber distribute the car maintenance costs onto the drivers - making it the most inefficient way to have a fleet of cars. The Uber model is anti-econonmy-of-scale. It is a non scalable human wave approach.
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by Marazan 9y ago
Given their main cost is 'running a mini cab service' it is hard to see what they can cut and still exist.
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by Marazan 9y ago
But not Uber.
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by Marazan 9y ago
Jonesforth is pretty minimal bootstrap https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/jonesforth-git-reposit...
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by Marazan 9y ago
Uber could have not run a loss making minicab service and spent even more on self driving car research.
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by Marazan 9y ago
Do you think Uber has spent 15 billion dollars on research? I have a bridge to sell you if you do.
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by Marazan 9y ago
The "Turning the database inside out" article that's linked a couple of posts up about Kafka and logs in general was the one that made me sit up and take notice and really made me 'get' Kafka and the entries stream
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by Marazan 9y ago
Lots of problems can be understood as a immutable log of events. Kafka is a screamingly high performance, resilient, immutable log of events. It is kind of infectious though, once you have system implemented as Kafka-and-Samza the easiest w
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by Marazan 9y ago
It's like a more extreme and beautiful version of my favoured programming font monofur

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