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by arnon 6y ago
It's easier to clean, and less likely to stop working in a high-oil/spill environment like a hob...
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by arnon 6y ago
I agree, they weren't very good lawyers. They'd prefer we don't do anything to reduce the risk.
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by arnon 6y ago
On the topic of overengineering: My modern sensibilities mean that I'm always surprised that toilets and taps work when there's no electricity. Most of what was once a "trivial" design decision has become computer-contro
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by arnon 6y ago
I've struggled to understand AGPL before, and our lawyers advised us to avoid it because they didn't fully understand it's implications either. This is super useful!
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Pascal Rides Again, Nvidia Launches the GeForce GT 1010(tomshardware.com)
2 points by arnon 6y ago|0 comments
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Datacenter infrastructure is still only partly cloudy(nextplatform.com)
4 points by arnon 6y ago|0 comments
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by arnon 6y ago
624 comments further on HN, on top of a 1280 word essay about why GNOME has no thumbnails... And unfortunately this will change nothing, because of the immense amount of protectionism and self righteousness of these idealistic projects. I w
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by arnon 6y ago
If after 5 years you still need to spend millions of dollars to acquire a single customer - you have failed to reach product market fit. If your customers aren't talking about you positively to others in the industry (even when asked t
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by arnon 6y ago
Lots of factors go into it. The routes, air traffic control, politics and "respect" in the cockpit, maintenance procedures, weather, age of aircraft, etc. Developing countries have it bad on most of the fronts. However, sometimes
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by arnon 6y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25699338
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by arnon 6y ago
Alright. Point taken.
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by arnon 6y ago
I wish we could layer the other years on top of this to see the differences
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by arnon 6y ago
Understood, and as I mentioned, it was a 737-500 that is 26 years old.
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by arnon 6y ago
26 year old 737-500. Weather is pretty bad in the area right now.
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by arnon 6y ago
Earlier discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25647652
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by arnon 6y ago
We already had that last year here in Denmark :) https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/12/danish-bank-is-offering-10-y...
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by arnon 6y ago
This is a very badly written article and I'm not sure why it has so many comments and points. There is no real content. No real impact is mentioned. It says they used Mac Minis which they had to reduce the sound quality to use. OK. &qu
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A Coding Challenge That Sucks Less(peka.la)
2 points by arnon 6y ago|0 comments
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by arnon 6y ago
I know many 80 column purists. Most also write great code, but all of them write impossible to read notes and e-mails everywhere else.
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by arnon 6y ago
"Had we had more funding, we would have taken the time to rewrite our app in Haskell instead." Salty...
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by arnon 6y ago
For most people, 15GB can very well be a lifetime.
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Excel is for amateurs. To properly screw things up, those amateurs need Access(theregister.com)
1 points by arnon 6y ago|0 comments
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by arnon 6y ago
Paywall. Alternative link?
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by arnon 6y ago
"Our data is a mess!" is such a common problem with "NoSQL" / "Data lakes"
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by arnon 6y ago
tl;dr: It's the same device as before in terms of processing, but with less RAM and fewer connectivity options (and therefore cheaper)
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by arnon 6y ago
For most companies, "big data" is when they can't fit the data in a single Excel sheet anymore.
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by arnon 6y ago
Oh great, another alternative that seems to not really fix anything significant, while creating a slew of other things that will be criticized. It just shifts problems to other areas, which some may find even worse.
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by arnon 6y ago
+1 for The Challenger Sale https://www.amazon.com/Challenger-Sale-Control-Customer-Conv... . It really made me better at handling customers, even as non-sales
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by arnon 6y ago
I obviously had help :) I had an electrician come and perform this step. The house was disconnected from the source, and then a "thumper" was used: https://megger.com/portable-fault-location-system-stx40- 2000
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by arnon 6y ago
That's an incredible story! It's amazing what you can discover when you start back-tracing issues like this. A few months ago, my house started having intermittent failures. It turns out that some road works caused one of the phas

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