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by _0nac 7y ago
It's all relative. I spent six years at university without ever taking a single taxi and I still consider Uber rides a luxury, because I can also take the bus for a quarter of the price or bike for free. Also, as the OP mentions, the
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A Working Game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
6 points by _0nac 7y ago|0 comments
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by _0nac 7y ago
If you can't wait for their teaser of " In a future post, I’ll cover the migration process itself ", the GCP site has a hands-on tutorial of migrating an app which may prove interesting: https://cloud.google.com&#x
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by _0nac 8y ago
That initial A320 flight was a demo flight for journalists where the pilot was intentionally pulling stunts like flying very low in front of spectators. Turns out he was flying lower than intended and basically plowed into the forest at th
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by _0nac 8y ago
People who don't signal wealth tend to like to think so, but it's been fairly exhaustively demonstrated that signaling wealth with visibly branded clothing does get you better treatment in all sorts of things, including job inte
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Is It a Duck or a Rabbit? For Google Cloud Vision, Depends on Image Rotation(reddit.com)
260 points by _0nac 8y ago|88 comments
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A Newly-Generated Create-React-App 2.1.5 App Has 1,568 Dependencies(twitter.com)
276 points by _0nac 8y ago|126 comments
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by _0nac 8y ago
Please have a read of the article before downvoting: it's not some random neoliberal "unions are evil" rant, but a very coherent explanation of how seniority-based pay works and how the system is set up to ensure senior pilot
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by _0nac 8y ago
Two words: unions and seniority. Here's a good intro: http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines It's also worth noting that this is largely a US-only phenomenon. It has led to a lot of junior
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by _0nac 8y ago
Interesting, but how do you keep this up to date? These requirement change constantly and the only reliable source I'm aware of, Timatic (which is what airlines use), is copyrighted and quite tightly locked down. Wikipedia does crowds
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by _0nac 8y ago
Shallow typing? Seriously? Next you'll be telling me you use Dvorak. Deep hyping is where it's at and both flopnar and ropjax excel at that.
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by _0nac 8y ago
This is totally obvious submarine astroturfing. Christine is a paid shill of rilkef, whose VC fund lead investors drink the same brand of organic kombucha as Zuckerberg. Don't be fooled: flopnax, not rilkef, is the consensus way to d
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by _0nac 8y ago
Totally unsurprising if you've ever worked with Oracle. The layers upon layers of legacy cruft are plainly visible even in simple things like the GUI installers.
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by _0nac 8y ago
I see a lot of moaning about inefficiency here, but here's a point of comparison. During the Bubble years in the late eighties, when many rural areas were feeling left out, there was a scheme to give basically every municipality in Jap
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Bash Infinity: Standard library and boilerplate framework for Bash(github.com)
507 points by _0nac 8y ago|109 comments
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by _0nac 8y ago
Which is why we should immediately un-mechanize mines and bring back hurriers and trappers! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrying https://thoroglove.wordpress.com/2015/03/12/trappers-hur
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by _0nac 8y ago
Many of the spellings seem to be historical and/or purposely antiquated.
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by _0nac 9y ago
Well, it goes both ways: EK, being essentially a monopsony customer, is also in a great place to squeeze more concessions from Airbus. That's why the two sides are currently engaged in a game of chicken, with EK pulling what seemed li
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by _0nac 9y ago
Nit: Western (black) tea is 紅茶 hongcha , lit. "red tea". Chinese black tea refers to fermented teas like pu-erh, which are not the same thing.
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by _0nac 9y ago
The friendly article notes that both Japan and Korea likely acquired the word long before the Silk Road. Relevant random factoid: it's possible to tell when many Chinese words were imported into Japan based on the pronunciation, which
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by _0nac 9y ago
The major exception is Monaco, although this is only hypothetical since they haven't actually issued any cards. It's also, ahem, a house of cards for its investors, but that's another story told on my blog: https:/&#x2F
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by _0nac 9y ago
Oddly enough, in stuffy industries not adhering to the dress code is a strong social signal that you're good enough to be able to flaunt it. I used to work in telecoms consulting, which is fairly buttoned up: usually dress shirts, slac
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Photos of Soviet control rooms(blog.presentandcorrect.com)
268 points by _0nac 9y ago|67 comments
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by _0nac 9y ago
Curious: How does that differ from GCP's Cloud Endpoints/Apigee Edge -> Cloud Functions -> Cloud Datastore? Disclaimer: I work for GCP.
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by _0nac 9y ago
Today there's a simple solution: the Internet. Youtube, Coursera, Reddit etc provide resources and communities for any topic imaginable to an extent unimaginable when we were children. The depressing part is that the schools our kid
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by _0nac 10y ago
Did you mean "poached"? You can't pirate people...
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Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabricate Charges(aclu.org)
383 points by _0nac 10y ago|155 comments
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by _0nac 11y ago
Note to the uninitiated: All Daily WTF stories are more or less heavily disguised to protect the guilty and edited to read better, so they shouldn't be taken as gospel. In particular, there is no company called "Æxecor", alt
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by _0nac 11y ago
"Tatsu" is the verb stem and would not be offensive alone; in fact, like most Japanese words, it has plenty of homonyms including 竜, "dragon". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%9F%E3%81%A4#Japane
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by _0nac 13y ago
In case the name doesn't ring a bell, The Design of Everyday Things is an extremely readable introduction to usability, and an absolute classic in its field: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Thi

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