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by beering 11y ago
Not revenge. Every month sooner that the A-bomb brought the war's end was about 100k-250k civilians saved in the co-prosperity sphere. In the western narrative, the number of deaths the Japanese caused in their own region is rarely com
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by beering 11y ago
Is the war of 1812 not commonly taught? We learned about it and how the First Lady saved some important paintings from the White House. We didn't spend much time on it relative to bigger wars, but I understood it to be a standard part
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by beering 11y ago
What falls under "Cost of Revenue" and "Cost of Sales" in their documents?
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by beering 11y ago
One thing that a local company did was to give a simple programming assignment (given postgres database connection info, create simple REST API using any language). They would switch up the details of the assignment for each candidate (e.g.
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by beering 11y ago
A few years from now, when you want to hack on some new gizmo and you find out that the toolchain is a pile of proprietary blobs that only work on Windows and an old version of RHEL, you can thank the "pro-user" supporters of clan
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by beering 11y ago
There are a gazillion YouTube tutorials for Blender showing you how to make some very cool stuff. Some of the newer tutorials using Blender's Cycles renderer creates photorealistic images without much effort. Just make sure that you ge
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by beering 11y ago
But you know that the gov't is not going to just drop marriage any time soon, so it's good that this is happening. Would you rather continue the (imo) injustice in pursuit of a pie-in-the-sky reform?
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by beering 11y ago
Skimming through the doc, court findings are: 1) Drivers providing their own cars is not a strong factor - pizza delivery employees also drive their own cars. 2) Uber "control the tools that drivers use" by regulating the newness
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by beering 11y ago
Node's regular expression engine will run circles around almost every other language implementation out there.[0] This is thanks to Google's work on V8.[1] Regexes are, maybe surprisingly, one of the few things that Node is good a
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by beering 11y ago
HERE Maps (of Nokia) does street level imagery plus lidar data. Apple could have licensed their data.
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by beering 11y ago
Check out Mapillary. Crowd-sourced street-level imagery. Not really comparable to professionally captured imagery imo.
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by beering 11y ago
> I would definitely be fucked and miserable if I had to do something artsy if that would be what pays... You'd be surprised at how well an analytical mind can approach the problem of getting good at an artsy field. But if you go in
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by beering 11y ago
> dataker is lucky to be interested in one of the few fields left that pays well Who says dataker's interested? Maybe dataker just wanted to make more money and so chose CS. Or became interested after getting into the field. Why doe
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by beering 11y ago
I think that, fittingly, educating high school students about the financial aspects of college, choosing a major, taking out loans, etc. would go a long way. You can try to reform the system, but it'd probably do a lot of good to preve
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by beering 11y ago
> Or maybe, after going back to school, I should have gone into finance, or some other lucrative career. Self-disgust and lifelong unhappiness, destroying a precious young life — all this is a small price to pay for meeting your student
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by beering 11y ago
I'd probably feel panicked and overwhelmed too if I were in way over my head but felt like I had to save face because some hotshot freelancer was brought in. Sometimes it's not the problems you point out, but how you point them ou
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by beering 11y ago
People will probably continue downvoting you as long as you continue to complain about downvotes. Downvotes happen, whether randomly or because someone is having a bad day. Making a fuss out of it is counterproductive.
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by beering 11y ago
I think poster wants to be able to let your tool know that the amount has been paid, which would reset the outstanding balance or something.
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by beering 11y ago
Maybe I come from a different world, but these numbers seem pretty good. If you compare C++ and Go, C++ is 3x-1x faster than Go using more code. For most applications that you'd expect to use Go for, that's decent efficiency at a
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by beering 11y ago
It's not a gift because you only put it up there with the intention of making money. But you are right, they should probably just paywall their stuff instead of fighting adblockers. Then we'll continue to use user-agent and refere
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by beering 11y ago
Have you tried traditional motion sickness remedies, like ginger tablets or Dramamine?
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by beering 11y ago
It would be nice to have a vibrant, mixed city with people of all different stripes living together. So, "white flight" leaves only poor people concentrated in one place, while gentrification can push out poor people who can'
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by beering 12y ago
Reminds me of cronlock[0] which is a bash script that uses Redis as a global lock that you can use across multiple servers. Needing to just download a single bash script makes it easy to drop into an existing project. [0] https:/&#x2F
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by beering 12y ago
Just glancing through the content, it has a much greater than normal chance of getting flagged by readers. So all those flags could be killing it. Edit: I am not certain this is how HN actually works, so it's just a guess.
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by beering 12y ago
Maybe don't take buckets of cash that you don't/shouldn't need? That $XXmm isn't free and is a good way to hand someone a leash tied around your neck. It looks like Get Satisfaction raised $20mm. Why that much? Did
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by beering 12y ago
For people new to NetHack: You can play NetHack just by running telnet nethack.alt.org And you can save games and resume them from another computer, as well as watch other people play!
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by beering 12y ago
> Why? The San Francisco requirement was against my ideals that tech exists everywhere, and that's not how I wanted to build a company. So you have to be in the Bay Area for 3 months. After that you are welcome to be anywhere. If be
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by beering 12y ago
The different types of lightweight threads and thread-like things can differ quite a bit in their implementation and usage. E.g. some are explicitly cooperative and require the function to Yield() to other coroutines. Others, like goroutine
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by beering 12y ago
A more damning criticism of OSM licensing is that it's incomprehensible. Let's say you want to create something based on OSM data. Do you have to make your creation available under the ODbl? You can subscribe to the legal talk lis
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by beering 12y ago
I'm always impressed by how hard people will work for a for-profit company for no pay. Anyone here ever work for CDDB back in the day?

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