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by afandian 4y ago
I can recommend the book "Losing the Signal". https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/433524/losing-the-signal-by-...
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BlackBerry – Official Trailer(youtube.com)
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by afandian 4y ago
I've got a Gemini PDA from the original kickstarter. The Android support (last time I checked) was out of date. The keyboard is good, for the size it is (whole thing is large phone size). I have a Psion 5, and the Gemini keyboard is pr
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by afandian 4y ago
I used to when they were big cats. It’s been downhill since…
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by afandian 4y ago
Whatever the pseudo-logic and precedence, these views have a real effect on real people. The intent is surely secondary to the harm?
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by afandian 4y ago
They might be from countries south of the equator? That would explain them spinning the other way.
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by afandian 4y ago
It's because it's so specific in its targetting of a vulnerable minority group. If someone cheats on their spouse the problem is a betrayal of trust between two people. It's part of a complex web of obligations, urges, and ev
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by afandian 4y ago
"I won't condemn you for an intrinsic quality you were made with, but I will condemn you for acting on it." I think most rational people would see through that, it's pretty flimsy.
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by afandian 4y ago
Not only that, but it enables product owners to actually express the features they want, in such a way as they can be implemented. Without that devs and product owners tend to second-guess each other. I've recently introduced Cucumber
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by afandian 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_acquisition_co...
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by afandian 4y ago
Nope. I was doing business with Google Ireland. For a while we were all in the EU though... But the threatening emails came from Mountain View. This page is all you get: https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/61512
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by afandian 4y ago
Their only legal address is in the US. I'm in the UK, and stopped short of looking for a solicitor who would be able to handle this. I'm still considering filing a complaint with the UK Telecoms regulator 'Ofcom'. The pu
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by afandian 4y ago
Yes, that's very plausible that things could play out that way. But when the stakes are this high, and in an organization as highly staffed as Google, that's pure negligence. Someone designed these emails I'm getting, and des
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by afandian 4y ago
> Can't the allegedly smartest company on Earth figure out some solution to help people in these extreme cases? I was in a different but comparable situation with Google. I closed my paid account, they claimed I owe them money, and
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by afandian 4y ago
The lock-in is true. But it's still worrying.
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by afandian 4y ago
Actually ... it works. I'm calling Clojure from Kotlin in Spring Boot and it integrated very nicely. You have to export the code to make it callable, and I had to write some adapters on the Kotlin end. But very doable for integrating i
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by afandian 4y ago
I'm always interested in hearing about less-than-mainstream uses of DOIs.
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by afandian 4y ago
Always happy to share more details about how we build open scholarly infrastructure! Can do here, or reply with contact details.
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by afandian 4y ago
There's also the risk of not getting that halo effect and passing footfall. There was something similar a few years back, upvote.pub: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16273171 I don't know the reasons for it
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by afandian 4y ago
Take a look at https://web.hypothes.is/
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by afandian 4y ago
I know these are all arxiv.org so far, but if you want to include research papers beyond that plaform, can I encourage you to use DOIs for links? It'll make links persistent and easy to cross-reference with citations and other systems.
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by afandian 4y ago
Can you share your experience? What were the alternatives? Did you consider it against AWS S3?
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by afandian 4y ago
In the UK, the NCT[0] runs courses. I hope there are equivalents elsewhere. They are a few weeks long, e.g. an evening a week. They cover the basics you mentioned, including practical stuff for the parents and the baby around pregnancy, bir
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by afandian 4y ago
It could have worked with a trusted, open broker. I'm sure there could be a compatible sustainability model. I feel like a lot of potential trust was broken by the likes of Facebook and Google.
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by afandian 4y ago
Seriously, I think the answer to this isn't about intensity of feeling (although 100% is never healthy for anything, ever). It's about channelling the GAS into principles, tightening them up, and agreeing on what matters. Then put
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by afandian 4y ago
Bodegas are big in France. Big bagpipes. https://www.cornemusesoccitanes.com/bodega/
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by afandian 4y ago
I wouldn’t use the word ‘lie’ but plenty of Rails code I’ve seen has mystery effects and hard to follow coupling due to monkey patching and the like. Comments please.
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by afandian 4y ago
Thanks! That driver bit is crazy. https://toolguyd.com/milwaukee-ecx-screwdriver-bits/
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by afandian 4y ago
I'm not sure if you mean the union or intersection? I searched for ECX and it returns images of multi-bit kits. Could you link a photo of what you're referring to?
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by afandian 4y ago
Until I heard about Robertson in Canada I had assumed that commodity items like screws and screwdrivers were truly international. Is Pozidriv really not common in the US?

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