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by beachy 3y ago
In the book "soul of a new machine", one of the engineers burns out. > He went away from the basement and left this note on his terminal: "I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter t
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by beachy 3y ago
Author is a tech-savvy Android user, so no.
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by beachy 3y ago
I'd like one of these for snorkeling. The experience depends a lot on weather conditions and micro-geographical factors. 1) underwater visibility around land masses is dependant on precipitation and swell conditions over the previous f
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by beachy 3y ago
That tired old Picasso story only works because the customer was not told up front how long the job was going to take. As a consultant, you are typically billing by the hour (or day) and you will most likely be giving the client some kind o
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by beachy 3y ago
> Is there a reason the magnifying glass is always on the USA to make changes? The great majority of countries are too small to make a difference. Some large countries are too corrupt, or perhaps even stand to benefit from climate change
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by beachy 3y ago
I was at a barbecue when climate change came up. A lot had been drunk and people spoke freely. One Dad cried, and said he couldn't believe it, because of the future effects on his kids. It was a powerful and enlightening moment.
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by beachy 3y ago
When your CV already has enough shiny new stuff in it, and you just want to get the product built on a stable, future-proof platform.
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by beachy 3y ago
In our applicant tracking product, we had a close date by which candidates must apply for the job. Early on there was a bug due to timezone handling where the job would close an hour too early. No big deal one would think - the job is open
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by beachy 3y ago
> I've been around long enough to remember several supposed "raptures" that were going to happen. What are you referring to? If it's some hysteria affecting the members of an opt-in religious group then that's ha
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by beachy 3y ago
Off topic but your comment makes me think of Nick Drake. He died at 26, before even knowing he'd achieved anything, his music barely listened to, probably feeling a failure. Posthumously he's one of the world's most acclaimed
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by beachy 3y ago
Atmospheric CO2 has increased by a third just since I've been alive. It's difficult to overstate just how quickly we are destroying the planet. I spend a lot of time snorkeling and I tell my kids to really take in what they see be
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by beachy 3y ago
People who are unable to build their own car are not all cretins.
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by beachy 3y ago
To be perhaps even more anal, after construction scaffolding is taken down, stored, transported to a new project and then used again.
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by beachy 3y ago
> That said, you raise a point I see a lot - your site is too "plain" to need https. Personally I think this argument is outdated. In the early days, sites would often be mainly http, then the payment part would switch to https
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by beachy 3y ago
Begging for a second hand.
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by beachy 3y ago
Aha. Poor writing for sure on my part. Specifically (from Vince's account) there was no ditch or anything separating the lion from the visitors - just a chain link fence, alongside a hedge. Looking through the hedge, Vince and his wife
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by beachy 3y ago
In this case there was no ditch, merely a poorly maintained and hardly lion-resistant fence but interesting point!
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by beachy 3y ago
No, though as a country we're still heavily skewed towards the"adventure" end of the adventure tourism scale, and you can only sue operators for the most egregious violations. (Not that visiting a wildlife park should be cons
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by beachy 3y ago
> Tokyo Disneyland also has beautiful integrated water features that were totally incomprehensible to my American litigious-society self. Wait, there’s no railing here? How is this even possible?! Americans need to be conscious of this w
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by beachy 3y ago
Yeah, gloves are off for something so performance sensitive, and that also has to be backwards compatible with eons of older Windows versions. Who cares if it's not more intuitive. That said, certainly there should be some decent docum
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by beachy 3y ago
> what is HNs obsession with disabling JavaScript? 1) Disgust at sites that use JS for gratuitous purposes, absurd scrolling, stupid visual effects. 2) A kind of chest thumping "I was here long before Javascript was a thing, laddy&q
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by beachy 3y ago
You mentioned malicious conspiracy, not me. It's just business and I'd do the same if I was in charge of AWS.
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by beachy 3y ago
> I find that it would be super strange if I had to prefix my internal methods with DELETE or PUT based on do they remove or add to some Array. Using that logic, why do that in APIs. It's true that POST ends up being a bit of a gra
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by beachy 3y ago
AWS and Azure would slit their own throats before they created a way for their customers to pool instances to save money. They want to do that themselves, and keep the customer relationship and the profits, instead of giving them to a middl
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by beachy 3y ago
I find it so offensive being given only two choices - "yes" or "maybe later". I salute your "fuck off" energy.
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by beachy 3y ago
You could be on the right course but still unsatisfied with your achievements. This is probably pretty common.
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by beachy 3y ago
For people who will not get divorced this is a good idea (as long as each has some slush money). For people who will get divorced this is a bad idea. For people who might go either way, if you come into the relationship with similar amounts
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by beachy 3y ago
> We built an operating system called GSD (get shit done). This internal tool emphasizes frequent written updates... Operating system .... Those words don't mean what you think they mean.
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by beachy 3y ago
I used to think like this but external factors such as interest rates are real and most companies need to react to them. Take two hypothetical companies. One is conservatively run, never takes on anyone that they might need to let go. The o
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by beachy 3y ago
I marvel at the resources available to FB that they could release such a far reaching capability as an experiment.

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