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by athenot 5y ago
And also the Buford Hwy Farmers market which still manages to have an impressive array of Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Caribbean, Mexican, Eastern European and even some Western European goods.
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by athenot 5y ago
I'm reminded of that line from Shrek: "Some of you might die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make."
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by athenot 5y ago
"hydrogen truck boom" I'm all for puns, but at some point we need to stop the association between hydrogen and explosiveness. Absent the perfect mix of H₂ and O₂, Hydrogen burns like most other fuels.
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by athenot 5y ago
2.7 Kg/dm³ (Just noticed that Unicode U+3379 is the DM CUBED glyph but doesn't render on the mac, unlike ㎣, ㎤, ㎦)
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by athenot 5y ago
I had a real soft spot for OpenDoc, remembering seeing the demos at AppleExpo in the late 90's. Yes you have to start with what people need and go from there. However, you can also start from what a niche of people need and go from the
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by athenot 5y ago
I've adopted the opposite strategy: instead of constantly fighting against the pleasure in food, I have cultivated it. Expanded the horizons of my palate, chased amazing gustative experiences. The result being that the immense majority
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by athenot 5y ago
Wow this is crazy. But at the same time, it could be an interesting solution for other disputed borders around the world. Leaders are often obsessed with drawing a clean line between 2 areas but reality is a lot more messy and nuanced.
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by athenot 5y ago
I would much rather code for 3 days non stop and then take a 4 day break doing some outdoors activity. I think the "business hours" schedule is fantastic for meetings to discuss but terrible for creative work. The catch is than in
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by athenot 5y ago
> Perl in the hands of a small, very experienced team had the highest productivity and quality I have seen - but I would not want use Perl in a project with higher developer churn and lots of inexperienced coders. This has been my experi
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by athenot 6y ago
Walking allows you to go from point A to point B without profuse sweat, eg. to run an errand or go to work. (When possible, which is rare in suburbia) Walking also allows you to better appreciate the environment, fauna, flora and scenery, e
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by athenot 6y ago
The best stack for YOU to prototype is not the best stack for ME to prototype. It's whatever you are most comfortable in, and can move the quickest. It's the stack where you don't have to re-learn how to do things you know ar
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by athenot 6y ago
Nuance has grown through acquisitions. They basically bought up technologies and slapped a common name on them. But each one retained its one oddities. So you configure one product with INI-style files, another one with XML files, a module
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by athenot 6y ago
This is counter-intuitive but I guess there are cases where throwing away the part and replacing with a new one is MORE environmentally friendly that reusing the part—when it involves not-so-nice solvents. I hadn't considered this be
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by athenot 6y ago
Seeing that Netscape logo is a blast from the past. Out of curiosity I stripped out the subdomain to see where netscape.com goes these days, and it redirected me to aol.com. Ouch, that hurts! Not just for nostalgic reasons but also as a par
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by athenot 6y ago
Lots of great comments about not collecting/retaining sensitive data in the first place. Yes, we need to move away from SSN as a { unique-ID + secret } combo. But that's a non-trivial task. I'm starting to think we need somet
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by athenot 6y ago
Yes. At the same time, the post missed an appropriate case for avoiding environment variables: when you want dynamic configuration for your services, where configuration values can be changed at runtime without requiring a full redeploy of
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by athenot 6y ago
> live stream is currently being hugged to death Perhaps someone should ring the doorbell so it flows again…
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by athenot 6y ago
Cisco Webex | Incident Commander | Atlanta/SJC/Remote | Full Time Cisco is hiring an Incident Commander for Webex. That's essentially a Cloud Engineer who's focused on incidents, with a side of development for tooling &a
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by athenot 6y ago
They have fowl language.
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by athenot 6y ago
Tabloids come at most daily. They don't create patterns of continuous engagement throughout the day (unless linked to by social media). News broadcast is a better analogy but still not as addictive as something that continually reache
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by athenot 6y ago
Same experience, though I never tried to get a discount out of it.
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by athenot 6y ago
I'm not them but I could see how, for some services, having a savvy client who pays attention to these details will result in a cheaper client to service. Perhaps that particular product/service costs more to deliver when clients
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by athenot 6y ago
> Cassandra has basically one usecase: high volume writes, with a few batch reads. Yes. It's also a good choice for horizontal scaling, but only if the other DBs won't do.
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by athenot 6y ago
That begs the question: is there a middle ground between fully interconnected and off-the-grid subsustence?
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by athenot 6y ago
I have a relative who was making these "food" items out of acrylic and resin in art school 20 years ago. She had made a lobster on a bed of ice cubes that looked so real (and was intended for high resolution photography). Another
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by athenot 6y ago
The name let me to think it was related to Cost Plus World Market, the home goods store. https://www.worldmarket.com
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by athenot 6y ago
Since I voted in Georgia on these machines, the process is the following: - get ID validated & ability to vote - get an initialized smart card - insert in polling machine, fill out stuff - submit, get printout from printer - scan printo
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by athenot 6y ago
Webex API is here: https://developer.webex.com/docs/platform-introduction
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by athenot 6y ago
If that's true, then it seems like moat-buidling since Google most certainly engages in user fingerprinting for their own ad platform.
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by athenot 6y ago
Probably could fit. But probably impossible to evacuate within a reasonable time in case of an accident.

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