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by athenot 7y ago
> GW Autobahn Rule 3: Slower traffic stays to the right! As in the US, whenever possible, move into the right lane. Most German drivers are good about this, but some non-German drivers are not. Having driven both in Europe and the US, th
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by athenot 7y ago
Yup, and I can confirm with another data point. When the whole organization buys in to the remoting experience, it can work. Where I'm at, the default assumption is remote; be it home or another office since we're so distributed.
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by athenot 7y ago
A DSL can be immensely useful in terms of useability. But it is not trivial to be done right. You need to define a consistent grammar, make sure it's intuitive to your users and free of all sorts of fun bugs that happen when odd cons
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by athenot 7y ago
I wouldn't call Firefox unsafe. But Safari's sync for bookmarks, passwords, tabs, handoff... is really the killer feature. I use Firefox as my "virgin" broswser for testing or when I need to manually override proxy setti
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by athenot 7y ago
> Many of these institutions are selling shoddy products to gullible buyers. Your point is about universities or higher learning institutions and is spot on. But I'd say that even applies earlier on, starting in middle school. I dis
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by athenot 7y ago
The article does point out that this is exacerbated by the very small windows of opportunity when it comes to weather. Meaning there are only a few days of the year where conditions become acceptable and then everyone rushes on those days.
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by athenot 7y ago
The article mentions "designed top speed of 600 km per hour". But then a bit further it mentions "Now the prototype has achieved static levitation and is in good condition" (emphasis mine). That leaves me wondering wha
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by athenot 7y ago
> Case in point? We’re still alive. But we die younger than Europeans: 78.6 years in U.S. vs 82.4 in France or 83.3 in Italy. I've always thought this was mostly because healthcare systems over there better tackle preventable deaths
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by athenot 7y ago
I see this also as a move to avoid a confrontational relationship between employees and management, which happens so easily in France—especially with highly political unions. In the US, I would say an analogy is Delta Airlines which has bee
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by athenot 7y ago
In the case of Apple, Tim Cook has spent quite a while working with Steve Jobs so he's no stranger to collaborating with a loose canon and could probably handle Musk pretty well. Just speculating, of course.
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by athenot 7y ago
> As someone who has worked on large scale saas, I say: there is zero, 0, ZERO, 0.00 chance of that data every actually being deleted Unless that is built by design. I happen to also work on a large scale SaaS where we take this stuff ve
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by athenot 7y ago
The rule of thumb is that people congregate where the food is. Since the food is usually made in the kitchen, that becomes the default location.
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by athenot 7y ago
> I would guess this author does not cook. I believe you are correct: Nothing is more maddening than trying to read or watch television in the tall-ceilinged living room with someone banging pots and pans or using the food processor 10
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by athenot 7y ago
The difference between NIH and vertical integration is in the result. When accounting for cost of effort, does it end up inferior to some third-party solution, or does it allow for a more efficient business process? Most of the time, you&#x
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by athenot 7y ago
SpaceX is vertical integration taken literally.
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by athenot 7y ago
curl will error out if the chain of trust is invalid, unless you override it with the -k option.
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by athenot 7y ago
That is also the poem in the conclusion of the article: Whenever you’re called on to make up your mind, and you’re hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you’ll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No—not so
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by athenot 7y ago
> This box robot (…) doesn't ever call in sick. Any machine eventually calls in sick when it undergoes maintenance and failure. Of course the failure modes are different than with human labor, but the point is machines also fail.
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by athenot 7y ago
> The thought of one more trivial task in my day completely paralyzed me for weeks, but I felt increasing anxiety and the depression worsened. Wow, this describes a few recent events for me. Thanks for sharing!
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by athenot 7y ago
Even better are foldable bins made of cloth—I think mine are reinforced with cardboard or semi-hard plastic inside. They stay open when loading with groceries, and don't roll around in the trunk of the car.
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by athenot 7y ago
But in the same area for 1 runway + required buffer, you can fit A LOT of train platforms (also including required buffer, which is essentially nil).
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by athenot 7y ago
Why do you need an internal database ID? I've gone the route of a random number only (similar to a UUID but encoded in a way similar to Youtube video IDs). I used to do the auto-incremented integer but once I got into database sharding
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by athenot 7y ago
This reminds me of Knuth's stance on email: I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I'd used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one l
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by athenot 7y ago
I have been putting thought into a social platform that would truly be for users and not just a gamification of attention. - First it would have a cost, either in money to pay someone to develop/run the platform or in time/knowled
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by athenot 7y ago
Same observation here. That's what cemented my realization that facebook isn't for me, they just want my comments in order to generate "engagement", not actually be useful. It's my content and they make it nearly im
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by athenot 7y ago
Anecdote but by 12 I had a favorite wine category and by 16 a favorite beer. Growing up, my dad drank every day with dinner , and the value of taste and enjoyment was what I learned out of wine & beer, along with the knowledge that too
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by athenot 7y ago
I still have Prime but more and more I find myself buying from other online sources. Either because the selection is better or the price is better. But that made me realize: Amazon's profit lies with AWS, the infrastructure that was or
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by athenot 7y ago
> for most people that is now their social lives Until recently I always though that FB is most people's social media lives but the way you phrased it made me pause and realize that FB, for more and more people, is becoming the f
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by athenot 7y ago
It looks like developers were just another group used by FB for their own purpose, when convenient. In this case, developers were the "growth hack" doing a big part of the legwork of increasing FB's value and stickiness to en
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by athenot 8y ago
The headline mirrors the article's portrayal of the quest to find out the truth. If the article was just a few paragraphs long, I would have felt slighted. But as such, it read more like a mini-novel/documentary.

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