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by axlee 8y ago
It is one of the most photographed landmarks in the world (with...billions(?) of pictures), so even without a proper 3D scan we probably could remodel the whole thing to an astounding precision.
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by axlee 8y ago
That's how it works in Sweden.
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by axlee 8y ago
Not really, Thinkpads are known for being built like trucks since the 90s.
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by axlee 8y ago
How is Express even remotely close to Rails? Express is a glorified router.
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by axlee 8y ago
Whoever says web is "easy" never had to build or maintain a large web application. The ecosystem is incredibly deep and constantly evolving, to the point where best practices change every six months.
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by axlee 9y ago
Why do Americans get their credit card stolen so often?
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by axlee 9y ago
Basically, instead of having a "User" response built like this: User { name: "Bob" id: 1 } You would have something like this: User { name: "Bob" href: "http://w
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by axlee 9y ago
"Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsically doomed to fail." And yet Python became a thing. In Djikstra's defense, Python's design philoshophy is more about striving to be a "
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by axlee 10y ago
It was a good time to be a COBOL developer.
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by axlee 10y ago
I'm pretty sure IE9 does not support CSS transitions or CSS animations in general. There is also a lack of support of most CSS gradients. Websockets and web workers aren't supported either. A lot of HTML5 form elements are also mi
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by axlee 10y ago
Interesting choices, I would definitely be interested in checking out the code behind it.
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by axlee 10y ago
Looks like Semantic UI. http://semantic-ui.com/
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by axlee 10y ago
Do you know of a good resource to catch up on this "modern" Java for someone who dropped it in the early 00's?
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by axlee 10y ago
> It's like that everywhere in Europe. Nobody says 'see you at fifteen'. Not really? In France it's perfectly normal to say "Rendez-vous à quinze heures" or "Le film commence à vingt-deux heures trente&
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by axlee 10y ago
> Nobody distributes a Windows application that requires the user to go and install some 3rd party library before it'll work. A-hem, DirectX, VC++...?
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by axlee 10y ago
> The point is that families transmit something across multiple (> 5 generations) that's responsible for strong persistent effects on economic success, and it's almost certainly not money (which can be measured and decays fa
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by axlee 10y ago
> My own ignorance had me thinking Switzerland to generally be a more educated and progressive nation than it's neighbouring countries. Switzerland is actually much more conservative than its european neighbours. For example, they w
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by axlee 10y ago
I think a location-based policy at the time of posting is sensible. That's also how international law work: if I smoke a joint in Amsterdam, I am not liable for it back home. When in Rome... I also think that the policy should apply to
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by axlee 10y ago
> I don't mind MY JavaScript. It's everyone else's that drives me bonkers. Tracking down things in JS is a timesuck of epic proportions. Much of the time, it just isnt't any fun. You should look into typescript, it ha
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by axlee 10y ago
I think the issue raised here is that Facebook censors content according to rules based entirely on American values, while parading as some sort of global organization, "connecting the world" type-of-thing. What is morally accepta
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by axlee 10y ago
>So about the same price as a brand new Hilux? Which are already produced 100's of thousands per year and are already all over the place in the developing world. I've got much respect for Gordon Murray but did I miss something
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by axlee 10y ago
I don't see how. Most owners are not taxable residents of the country where companies operates. If I'm personally taxable in the Bahamas, but I make all my capital profits from a company operating in a country with no corporate ta
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by axlee 10y ago
Because corporations thrive purely on the society they are making money from. No company lives in a vacuum. However great and driven Elon Musk might be, he would never have made a single cent if he had started Paypal in Somalia. And what di
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by axlee 10y ago
It was not legal. Ireland did not have the right to give a preferential tax treatment to Apple.
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by axlee 10y ago
Isn't it simply an energy bar?
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by axlee 10y ago
To be able to load a less resource intensive version (i.e. disable animations, reduce refresh rate, remove canvas elements etc...) of a website if the battery is low.
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by axlee 10y ago
> larger populations > more right tail geniuses. > more innovation Only in the right environment. That's why the modern scientific contribution of, let's say, Israel, is an order of magnitude larger than Nigeria's de
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by axlee 10y ago
I am from the nordics but I live in the states.
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by axlee 10y ago
I think people downvoted her because there is no causality link whatsoever between her observation and her conclusion. Also, from an european's point of view, calling SF policies "left-leaning" is quite amusing.
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by axlee 10y ago
Every company says what they are doing is legal until someone figures out it's actually not...

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