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by auxbuss 9y ago
I bought a LibraTone [0] and love the thing. With its inbuilt battery, it's a portable hifi system. You can take it anywhere. Sound quality is 5*. Integrates seamlessly with all Apple devices. [0] https://www.libratone.com&#
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by auxbuss 9y ago
After Duolingo, I've been using clozemaster (for Spanish). I paid the USD 40 pa for the audio version. I type responses rather than answer via multiple choice. It's a lot more challenging than Duolingo, and I've learned a _lo
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by auxbuss 9y ago
Only in the US. In the EU, in particular, APIs cannot be copyrighted[0]. Namely: "For the avoidance of doubt, it has to be made clear that only the expression of a computer program is protected and that ideas and principles which under
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by auxbuss 9y ago
Sincere question: Why do you consider this "old fashioned thinking"? (I don't agree that your other assertions are correct, but I'm most interested in this one.)
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by auxbuss 9y ago
And rust (via rustler).
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by auxbuss 10y ago
Raise an issue. José pays a lot of attention to providing great error feedback. And yeah, we've all had incomprehensible messages en route when learning elixir. Things aren't perfect, but they'll only get better when folk poi
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by auxbuss 10y ago
Hi, Take a look at the Building Umbrella Project from elxirconf: https://github.com/poteto/elixirconf-201620 by Wojtek Mach. The source: https://github.com/wojtekmach/acme_bank22 is a great exampl
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by auxbuss 10y ago
I feel that GitLab is the natural home for ruby nowadays. I hope Matz takes you up on the offer sytse.
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by auxbuss 10y ago
re: the kilogram issue: Redefining the Kilogram with the DIY Watt Balance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewQkE8t0xgQ
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by auxbuss 10y ago
There's a name for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
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by auxbuss 10y ago
Money creation is so poorly understood that the Bank of England undertook to clarify[0]: • This article explains how the majority of money in the modern economy is created by commercial banks making loans. • Money creation in practice d
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by auxbuss 10y ago
This is very enlightening. One of things that everyone on HN think as obvious, yet is far from that to most folk; even those with a fair degree of technical knowledge.
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by auxbuss 10y ago
You're not alone in thinking this (and I was one of those Demon customers back in the day :-) ). I've had pub chats with many tech folk over the years about how we might enable this. It needs to be cheap, of course, like 5 USD pa
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by auxbuss 10y ago
It's law rather than semantics. The wikipedia article [0] on Nixon's pardon refers to this specifically: "After Ford left the White House in 1977, he privately justified his pardon of Nixon by carrying in his wallet a portion
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by auxbuss 10y ago
Scrivener is a one-stop shop for this sort of work. Ulysses might also be sufficient. The learning curve for Scrivener is fairly steep, though, by comparison.
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by auxbuss 10y ago
s/close nit group/close-knit group/
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by auxbuss 10y ago
Three months = 60 working days. Two devs, so 120 working days. 300k lines of code. So, 2500 lines of production code rewritten per day. Sustained for three months. No holiday. No days off. And this code was tested to be equivalent of the ol
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by auxbuss 11y ago
This is where, I believe, today's social media get things very wrong in a social context (although I understand that it works for them for selling ads). In real life -- Is IRL coming back? -- we have many social circles and behave diff
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by auxbuss 11y ago
In that case, I've gone back to the store, so it's clear that I'm prepared to do business with them. It's also a social interaction. If the sales person did that of their own volition, then I'd react positively. How
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by auxbuss 12y ago
I got down-voted for this! After n years. Time to sign out from HN.
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by auxbuss 12y ago
The solution is for all road-users to continuously adapt to what's happening around them. Folk who aren't capable of that shouldn't be allowed on the road. Cyclists are not a problem. They are a group of road-users. Equally e
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by auxbuss 12y ago
I tried to tell them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1727208 Nokia had systemic problems that were clear to anyone working with them.
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by auxbuss 12y ago
Failed for me on Firefox with a QuickTime plug-in. Fine on Safari.
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by auxbuss 12y ago
The businesses aren't gambling, in that case, they are hedging. The investors are the gamblers.
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by auxbuss 12y ago
You might be confusing profit with margin. You need margin, in general, but you don't necessarily need profit.
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by auxbuss 12y ago
It's even stronger than that. They also acquire massive cash-flow. And as every accountant will tell you: Cash-flow is king.
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by auxbuss 12y ago
The short course, 'From the Big Bang to Dark Energy'[0], is an excellent introduction. [0] https://www.coursera.org/course/bigbang
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by auxbuss 12y ago
It's interesting to compare the two approaches (and characters) of Feynman and his close colleague (with whom he shared the Nobel), Julian Schwinger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Schwinger#Schwinger_and...
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by auxbuss 12y ago
You can move a company without physically moving yourself. This is not a barrier.
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by auxbuss 12y ago
s/odd/eccentric/ Has a more positive connotation.

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