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Ask HN: How did you move from development to being a consultant?
2 points by amflare 7y ago|1 comments
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by amflare 7y ago
It doesn't contribute in that it burns the dirtiest fuels out in the middle of nowhere, both causing the effect to be much more diluted, and allowing cleaner fuel to be used in dense areas. If we reversed it, it would not be a measura
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Nuclear Warfare 101(giantbomb.com)
1 points by amflare 7y ago|0 comments
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by amflare 7y ago
“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed
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by amflare 7y ago
How do you prevent commit timestamps or completed tickets from giving you away?
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by amflare 7y ago
Shockingly, this was published last week. I was expecting a mid-90's/early-00s article. I don't understand why this is an article. Its basically saying "Imagine if the Internet of Things.... wait for it.... had more Thin
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by amflare 7y ago
I don't know if encouraging pedestrians to step into the way of a vehicle is the wisest decision. If a car doesn't slow down, it will infringe on the sidewalk. At least right now, a car under control can travel in a straight line
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by amflare 7y ago
The reason I prefer humans to AI or whatever is that humans are infinitely better at fuzzy searches. I'm not enough of an expert to know what I need to know to get what I want. So I relay on a human with experience to translate for me,
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by amflare 7y ago
The above link is a paragraph and a click-through link. This is the actual article: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/amazon-f...
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by amflare 7y ago
> With cubbyholes no longer necessary, the flat-top desk, with more access to light and air but less privacy, became the standard. So the takeaway here is that we can blame the paperclip for open office layouts.
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by amflare 7y ago
The title is disingenuous. A better title would be "100% test coverage should be the goal". Though that is laughably obvious and would generate no clicks, so I can see why the author made the choice they did. That said, if you hav
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by amflare 7y ago
Okay, but how will they know if the face they found is yours, and thus should not be found?
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by amflare 7y ago
DRM is just digital feudalism.
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by amflare 7y ago
I would be curious to hear more about both of these. I've often thought about setting up a private server, but the set up and maintenance seems like a massive undertaking. And then being able to extract from a display buffer seems like
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by amflare 7y ago
To be clear, this isn't AdBlock/AdBlockPlus, but a random one trying to take advantage of a similar name and logo.
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by amflare 7y ago
So if I understand it correctly, the tl;dr is that we don't like "counting" items in our peripheral vision, so we approximate by mentally tallying how many "snapshots" it takes to see all the items in question?
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by amflare 7y ago
Piracy has always been about the balance between price and convenience. Since Netflix can't produce Game of Thrones, and HBO can't produce Stranger Things, they experience no real competition in regards to _product_. They are sell
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by amflare 7y ago
Its all the same coating, but the strips are dark meat and the filet/nuggets are white meat. At least they were when I worked there.
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by amflare 8y ago
The hover effects are atrocious.
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Ask HN: What tips do you have for weathering a recession?
77 points by amflare 9y ago|104 comments
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Google Chrome fianlly (offically) passes up IE(gizmodo.com)
7 points by amflare 10y ago|0 comments
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by amflare 10y ago
Looks interesting, but I can't figure out where/for what it would be used. Am I missing something obvious?
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by amflare 11y ago
My #1 question is where is the About Page? Even if it's just a small synopsis, I'd like to know what this is, and what it is meant to do.