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by Niksko 9y ago
This article is going to rub lots of people the wrong way, I suspect, but it's level headed, well reasoned and well written. Although I ultimately disagree with some of the conclusions drawn at the end, (particularly: > Because cont
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by Niksko 9y ago
Citations are worthless when the reasoning that is citing them is shoddy. If you cite things, it makes the facts that you're referencing true. It doesn't make the logic of your argument true.
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by Niksko 9y ago
IIRC, this was the main reason it took so long. Google require GTFS formatted timetables for Maps, the Vic Government released the timetables eventually but there were issues, much finger printing was done, and eventually it was rectified.
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by Niksko 9y ago
This sort of response REEKS of near sightedness. "The big guys won't go for it. Therefore, it won't succeed". That's a recipe for somebody who isn't a "big guy" to start their business literally this
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by Niksko 9y ago
The data available shows that women and minorities ARE under represented in the tech industry. Corellation does not imply causation, but if you have a limited number of causal factors during the hiring process, the logical conclusion is tha
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by Niksko 9y ago
Comparatively it disappeared. The hype was ENORMOUS in the beginning. That wasn't sustainable, but it would have tapered off much less sharply if the game hadn't gone from fun to shit very rapidly within a month or two as Niantic
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by Niksko 9y ago
Very good question. Clearly they have brand recognition in the industry, I would speculate the this is the only thing they have going for them. It's only a matter of time before somebody cuts their lunch.
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by Niksko 9y ago
Agreed regarding downloading of libraries. I tried to get a python torrent library working in lambda the other day, and I had to manually dig through my /usr/lib to find the right shared objects. Should be much easier than that, I
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by Niksko 9y ago
Presumably they just have dedicated fibre lines between critical infrastructure? With dedicated routing hardware
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by Niksko 9y ago
I've found this a really clear and helpful explanation of blockchain concepts in the past: http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-a...
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by Niksko 10y ago
I assumed that .NET shops sucked, as did a lot of my peers at university. Then I started working at one, and found that C# is a nice language, Visual Studio + Resharper is a joy, and that if you follow sensible architectural patterns you ca
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by Niksko 10y ago
No, I think you've misunderstood. What they're saying is that you can take a JPEG compressed image, decompress to raw pixels, and then recompress with JPEG more efficiently (if you're careful, no specifics on how this is done
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by Niksko 10y ago
I think this is a fair article and it echoes a lot of my sentiments. Something is going wrong over at Apple. No, they're not going to go out of business soon, but I think the sheer volume of criticism they've been receiving (not j
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by Niksko 10y ago
Unless you're gay, a woman, or part of a minority. Then your situation is that the leader of the free world is at best openly dismissive of you, and at worst actively encourages hate towards you.
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by Niksko 10y ago
This refers to out of spec cables, not the incorrect type of cable. As long as your cable is within spec, you wont have issues.
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by Niksko 10y ago
No, don't think so. I think this is a native syntax construct in Ruby.
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Show HN: An ESP8266 based electronic pet(blog.skouf.com)
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by Niksko 10y ago
The point of this post is that even though the regex behaves correctly (input x produces expected output y), you also need to consider performance constraints. Without fuzzing, it's going to be pretty difficult to come up with enough t
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by Niksko 10y ago
It just feels like such an enormous misstep to me, I can't even fathom it. Why not wait until the game was much more polished and had many more traditional Pokemon features before release? Nobody will be playing this in a month unless
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by Niksko 10y ago
But there's no depth to the game. Yes it has a very low learning curve, but there's really very little progression. Even casual players get sick of a game that doesn't progress. At least candy crush gets a bit harder and intr
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by Niksko 10y ago
So far it's given me middle of the Indian ocean and north-west Africa. I'm in Australia. EDIT: Now it's saying somewhere in North America
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by Niksko 10y ago
In theory, the Bluetooth protocol supports up to 7 devices connected simultaneously as slaves to one master device. However in practice, hardware support may be less than this.
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by Niksko 10y ago
Working with Bluetooth on a project last year was a gigantic pain in the ass. Linux support was reasonably good, though with bizarre quirks and changes of tooling between libbluetooth versions. OSX was a total nightmare. The project is curr
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by Niksko 10y ago
Pythonic is just short for idiomatic Python. It's a different language presumably because it introduces some new language constructs that are not compatible with Python. Perhaps they're saying it's 'Pythonic' becaus
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by Niksko 10y ago
Presumably this is handled by the software that is being licensed. Because if all the software does is do a conversion from words to gps coords, they're being taken for a ride.
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by Niksko 10y ago
Not sure what you're talking about. As others have said, I've had fraudulent transactions on my debit card, and my bank called me to let me know, reversed the charges and cancelled the card and sent me a new one.
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by Niksko 10y ago
Whoa, he just photoshoped technical drawings of a DB-25? Surely if you're doing a group buy worth that much money a) somebody in the group buy has the technical skills to do a proper drawing, or b) you can spend a tiny amount of money
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by Niksko 10y ago
What if we wrote a scraper and autoconverter? Is automated editing of Wikipedia prohibited?
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by Niksko 10y ago
Advice please: I tried to wade into the weird and complicated world of web development a few months ago, but eventually I gave up. At first I used a boilerplate (in fact I think it was a previous version of this one), but it felt like I was
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by Niksko 10y ago
Ok, the 'function' part is not useful. And perhaps C was a bad example. Let's say it's Python now, and for some reason I'm still returning 0, -1 or -2. Then 'statusCode' would be a good name for the variab

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