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by a-priori 13y ago
I'm also not sold on household 3D printers. Maintaining and operating a 3D printer would be a hassle. But retail-level printers? That's a no-brainer. I'm certain people would be willing to accept a reasonable mark-up to have
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by a-priori 13y ago
I avoid travel to the US where possible. But when I do I opt out of their scanners. I figure that if my privacy is going to be violated anyway to enter the States, at least I want to look the person in the eye while they do it.
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by a-priori 13y ago
Yes, they're called flashbulb memories and they feel 'stronger' and more detailed than other memories. People assume that they're therefore accurate, but really, they're no more accurate than other memories. In fact
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by a-priori 13y ago
I'm a developer who does take on side projects. I have two on the go right now, plus I'm the technical reviewer for an upcoming book. Yet, I agree with this entirely. I think it's silly to expect a "good" developer
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by a-priori 13y ago
Thanks, much appreciated. Sorry about the lack of units. If it's any consolation, I included them in the text surrounding the calculations. :)
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by a-priori 13y ago
Let's see if I remember my high school physics. Making all sorts of assumptions and simplifications here: F = mv / dt (equation of impulse for zero final velocity) F = mg (newton's laws) mg = mv/dt g = v/dt 9.8 = v&
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by a-priori 13y ago
I've seen people bring up basic income when such concerns are raised. I myself am undecided on how effective it would be, but it seems like now is a good time for conversation on the matter to begin. So am I. It's a fascinating
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by a-priori 13y ago
Only 1.2% of the American labour force is in the agricultural sector. The remaining 98.8% of workers are not directly involved in food production.
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by a-priori 13y ago
I don't believe the synchronized(this){} block is entirely meaningless. Essentially it acts as a gate where execution will halt until all other synchronized(this) blocks are complete before continuing. That's not to say another co
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by a-priori 13y ago
Right, clearly they do have the trademark on the phrase. But the mark is limited in scope to things related to "Non-alcoholic beverages, namely, soft drinks [ ; syrups, concentrates and powders for making beverages, namely, soft drinks
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by a-priori 13y ago
No (some things are exempt), yes (food at a restaurant is both a good and a service), and yes (the HST goes to the restaurant, the tip goes to the waiter).
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by a-priori 13y ago
Seeking asylum in Canada would be a gamble right now, unfortunately... Our foreign service is in the middle of a labour dispute.
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by a-priori 13y ago
US also is one of the big bastions of freedoms at least on paper. If you want to know what the biggest issue facing Americans right now, you have just summarized it nicely by this line of thinking. This mythology of the US being a forward
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by a-priori 13y ago
The same way you spot other cargo cults: look at the team's processes critically. Start from the basics, with the Agile Manfiesto. It's well summarized on the Wikipedia page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by a-priori 13y ago
To be fair to your mates, a lot of places that claim to do 'Agile' do a shit job at it. It turns into a cargo cult where they wrap their bad practices in Agile lingo to make them sound good. I've seen that happen a lot at var
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by a-priori 13y ago
They know it's there because when they 'unfreeze' it, the light continues on its path and they can detect it then.
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by a-priori 13y ago
It was in my employment contract the last time I switched jobs. I got it taken out.
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by a-priori 13y ago
Hey Wyatt, I would argue that you need two things for the average person (rather than the independently wealthy) to be an entrepreneur: limited liability and bankruptcy. Without limited liability, an entrepreneur would be saddled personally
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by a-priori 13y ago
Severance serves an important purpose for senior-level employees and executives: it makes it more painful to fire them. This frees a good employee to take more risks, hopefully for the employer's long-term best interest, because they h
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by a-priori 13y ago
You'd be surprised. Just a week and a half ago ago a large section of Lac-Mégantic, a town east of Montreal, Quebec, was levelled by an unattended train that started rolling in the middle of the night. It was carrying a large load of o
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by a-priori 13y ago
I hope, for their sake, that they were banking on some sort of economy of scale where increasing volume would decrease per-unit costs and therefore negate the per-unit loss...
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by a-priori 13y ago
In Canada, we do elections by paper ballot. Yet, somehow, preliminary results are available on election election. That's when the winners are known for virtually every riding and therefore the prime minister is known as well. The final
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by a-priori 13y ago
Or you could do it all by paper. I hate to sound like a luddite here, but there's simply no place for electronics in the electoral process. Paper is excellent for ballots. It's easy to understand (put a mark next to whoever you wa
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by a-priori 13y ago
http://xkcd.com/552/ See the mouseover text.
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by a-priori 13y ago
Rule of law would be a step up from how we're seeing the US behave right now.
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by a-priori 13y ago
Not in Canada. It's illegal here to call yourself an 'engineer' unless you're a licensed engineer. It's a protected term, like 'doctor'. So unless you studied Software Engineering, which there are many sch
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by a-priori 13y ago
I disagree with the term 'more advanced', but there is a huge difference between the invertebrate and vertebrate nervous systems: we have myelin, which insulates the axons and allows signals to travel many times faster. Without my
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by a-priori 13y ago
Honestly? I wouldn't. My first choice would be to use a service like https://www.mongohq.com to manage it for you.
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by a-priori 13y ago
It may be $20k for one project in a year, or two $10k projects, or one $15k project and $5k in residuals (e.g. support). It really doesn't matter. Either way, they're a customer that you estimate will bring in about $20k of revenu
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by a-priori 13y ago
Okay here's a peeve of mine: just because something is in C ("no overhead!") doesn't mean it's faster than something in another language in all situations. As an example, this server uses a thread pool architecture.

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