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by benihana 12y ago
> If you formed a union at your workplace, you and your colleagues would get to decide the rules like that. Only if someone before me hadn't decided them first. And even if I decide them, what about the people who come after me?
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> This reasoning was based on the assessment that the cost of fuel wasn’t that high, but the service forgot that B-52s are voracious users of air-to-air refuel- ing. By the time the gas comes out of a KC-135 tanker’s boom, the delivery c
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Ok. And? Oh. I get it. We're supposed to be judgemental and look down on him for doing what he likes. Like we do with people who do drugs. Because this is hacker news, and anyone who does anything physical or competitive is not like us
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Let me save you the trouble of even using the tool: Yep, every email sent from a company to you for marketing purposes has a beacon and link tracking. If you're alarmed by this, you should also know that every website you visit can tra
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The barbecue roll. The Apollo spacecraft would slowly rotate along it's longitudinal axis while it traveled to the moon to help dissipate heat.
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>From what I've heard, if you go into a BMW dealer the experience is usually quite good. It's not - it's probably better than your average Dodge dealership, but there's nothing inherently different about BMW dealers -
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There's a third issue: Playback on spotify sounds horrible, even with high quality playback turned on it. It cannot come close in quality and richness to a VBR mp3. Anytime I really want to feel the music, I have to fire up forbar2000
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>Complex accounting isn't a good reason to pay artists unfairly. That wasn't ever mentioned or implied. The point was, the author doesn't understand how complex his simple solution is.
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I recently re-read Jurassic Park, and he showed a lot of knowledge about complex systems. He details the events leading up to the collapse of the park's control systems, and the local rationality of actions characters take make perfect
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkie-talkie
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Jesus dude. It was just an anecdote. It's a hell of a thing to call that a "tremendous character flaw" based on like, literally no evidence other than your assumptions.
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>Let me repeat that: THERE IS NO WAY TO NOT USE FACEBOOK. Why are you shouting? We know this. People aren't up in arms over this. Not because they don't understand what you're saying, but because they don't care and n
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For me, John Allspaw's article On Being A Senior Engineer[1] lays it all out pretty well. It addresses the issues we all seem to have with this article better than I could. Generation X (and even more so generation Y) are cultures of
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As opposed to downloading and installing a standalone game that is only a game? You still have a usable browser after you play the Firefox game.
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You figured it out. People didn't like the article because they're too stupid to read that many words. Or they were confused by the title. It's not cause the tone is accusatory, or because it rambles, or compares mission crit
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"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"
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They are completely separate missions. Mars is about sending humans somewhere other than the moon. It's less about scientific discovery and more about engineering and exploration discovery - we're doing it to learn about Mars sure
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At this point, I find this whole thing funny. Again. How many times has Apple done this in modern times? Remember the outrage when Apple removed floppy disk drives? Optical drives? Ethernet ports? Remember how mad everyone got when Apple re
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>Interestingly, here in Belgium This clued me in as to why someone might call google 'he.'
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I remember having a Super Nintendo and playing a Neo Geo system at Epcot and being blown away by the graphics and apparent processing power. This thing had arcade quality graphics on a television set! I remember wanting one, but even at the
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> "Bulldozer code" that gives the appearance of refactoring by breaking out chunks into subroutines, but that are impossible to reuse in another context (very high cohesion) > 3. Difficulty writing functions with low cohesi
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I feel like we missed the whole point of the article in this discussion to talk about wallets. Namely: people are lazy and want to do what's easy, not necessarily what makes the most business sense. People want to sell wallets not beca
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> People who get caught doing this need to be prosecuted, and if convicted, labeled as sexual criminals and placed on a register. Ridiculous. Maybe we should prosecute people who talk about overthrowing the government on twitter with tr
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Too many people seem to justify their lynch ochlocratic actions on the internet by saying "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from repercussions."
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Okay, you've made your point that America is backwards and doesn't look out for its workers. Nice one! Do you have anything to say that might help people who happen to agree with you but are powerless to change it, and in need of
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Not as good as talking to a therapist, who is trained to help with these kinds of issues and help teach their clients the skills that can help an individual overcome these issues on their own.
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Ha, that Atlassian tweet was pretty good.
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This is the biggest thing I miss from living in Orlando - back when the Space Shuttle was still flying, a night launch would light up the sky - the SRBs were brighter than the moon. Some of my best memories as a child were a couple of speci
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American fotoball linemen's only job is to run into other linemen. There is no strategy that has them handling the football save trick plays. If you think removing pads will magically make the game safer because Rugby doesn't have
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Because our DNA isn't a literal computer program written by humans in the past 50 years.

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