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by Pamar 3y ago
I reread the whole series (plus the 5th book, that was written way later) after a 25+ years hiatus and trust me, it was great...
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by Pamar 3y ago
Feng Shui? Which edition?
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Jade mask found inside the tomb of a mysterious Maya king(nationalgeographic.com)
1 points by Pamar 3y ago|0 comments
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by Pamar 3y ago
Yes, this was exactly my point, and thanks for having articulated it better. In my experience "Wow, X provides much better features than Y" works in two cases: a) I am doing product selection, i.e. I am not using Y or anything els
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by Pamar 3y ago
I agree with most of the article, and I will try to incorporate some of the concepts in my future discussions with colleagues and external consultant. I do have some problems with this, though: In practise we never end up walking the desig
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by Pamar 3y ago
https://archive.ph/3uk5J
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The Spy War: How the CIA Helps Ukraine Fight Putin(nytimes.com)
2 points by Pamar 3y ago|3 comments
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by Pamar 3y ago
Sorry: I checked your cv and I can assure that your skills as a developer are at least 10x what I had even at the top of my career. I type mostly from my phone so I am often hasty (and make lots of typos). I assure you that when maybe look
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by Pamar 3y ago
You make a long list of things that you probably had to google on, but you still seem to lack any actual, hands-on experience on how things actually work and mostly important why systems like SABRE take forever to be replaced. Trust me: it
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by Pamar 3y ago
Maybe the problem is that the company or companies you have in mind operate mostly in the service business and are relative recent - i.e. dating back to the 90s at most (e.g. AirBnb). I sincerely doubt that for automotive/manufacturing
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by Pamar 3y ago
I am not sure of what point you are trying to make here. I have been in the industry since late 80s and (surely due to the kind of customers I worked with, so I am not implying that this applies to everyone and everywhere) and I have never
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by Pamar 3y ago
Well, exactly the same thing happened in a project I worked on in mid-2000s. Except it was not AS400 or anything hardware... it was a problem with an Oracle product, and took a bit over one week with higher and higher gurus being parachuted
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British Museum: Valentine Day in 8 items(britishmuseum.org)
1 points by Pamar 3y ago|0 comments
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by Pamar 3y ago
the current fertility rate is falling, though: https://population-europe.eu/research/policy-insights/why-ar... also, take in account that immigrants from poorer countries can usually boost fertility rate of their
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by Pamar 3y ago
yes, but I do not think this is something that people really discusses rationally, either. I.e. I doubt that couples who decide to go childless sit down and say "listen, if we have children our current life is over, just look at Jack a
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by Pamar 3y ago
"Do you feel like you’ve accomplished more than your peers? Led a more fulfilling and liberating life that allowed you to focus on yourselves? Or did that get old past age 40?" I often feel that I did not manage to accomplish en
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by Pamar 3y ago
I was born in the early '60s and I have no children. Economical concerns are surely part of the equation but I also suspect that in Western Culture adults tend to have a more individualistic stance and this could also be a factor. What
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by Pamar 3y ago
But if memory serves the translators of the Italian version removed a whole chapter of it (I might have to check details because I am far from both my author-signed English edition and the Italian one I bought many years later).
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William Harrison's "Roller Ball Murder" (1973) [pdf](instruct.uwo.ca)
3 points by Pamar 3y ago|2 comments
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by Pamar 3y ago
Exactly. Language like Italian, French, German (and more) assign a "gender" to any word. "Chair" is female in Italian, male in Germsn (iirc). And articles like a, the, this, that have slightly different forms for male an
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by Pamar 3y ago
Here is a similar project from the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26529212 (it did not work well)
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by Pamar 3y ago
Hi - first of all... congratulations for putting this together. I have some reservation about the whole concept of making weekends the focus of the whole planning. Maybe it's because I live in Europe, but if one of our Bank Holiday fal
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by Pamar 3y ago
You can get an overview of "Shop Class as Soulcraft" here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8280379
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Ableist Language and the Euphemism Treadmill (2020)(cambridgeblog.org)
2 points by Pamar 3y ago|0 comments
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by Pamar 3y ago
I found this (from Dr. Duvarsula) with a bit of googling: https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/nar...
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by Pamar 3y ago
Actually this is a common pattern in enterprise IT where you need to integrate heterogeneous apps (i.e. at least one of the app is "legacy"). E.g. at my job the main system (the one "selling" stuff to customer and managi
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by Pamar 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240112032236/https://www.econo...
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Just how bad is it in Gaza?(economist.com)
26 points by Pamar 3y ago|9 comments
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Maths can help you win at everything(theguardian.com)
4 points by Pamar 3y ago|0 comments
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by Pamar 3y ago
Not really, no. The example I used (based on this: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/surface-tension-s... ) is precisely to show that if you play with scale too much, you might introduce (or remove) phenomena t

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