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by bklaasen 8y ago
I've simply ponied up for the extra RAM myself and neither asked for permission nor forgiveness. The €70-odd it cost was worth it to me. I left the RAM in place as a nice surprise for whoever inherited the laptop after me.
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by bklaasen 8y ago
CamScanner[1] on Android does a very nice job of this kind of work. I'm not associated with the product, just a longtime satisfied user. [1] https://www.camscanner.com/
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by bklaasen 8y ago
> In my opinion, people should be more involved with the quoting of the previous message. Perhaps the customer could highlight the part of the previous message they want and have that become the quote. Or maybe a button when we write an
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by bklaasen 8y ago
Office365 maxes out at sixteen characters.
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by bklaasen 8y ago
Daniel Dennett's "Breaking the Spell" is worth your time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_the_Spell:_Religion...
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by bklaasen 8y ago
The infrastructure for digital cameras to succeed was already in place.
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by bklaasen 8y ago
That's just evolution. The offspring of octopus mothers that died next to the nest also got eaten so didn't survive to reproduce and pass on that trait.
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by bklaasen 8y ago
I recommend John Berger's "Ways of Seeing", available on YouTube. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ways_of_Seeing
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Has opposition to ISO 29119 really died down?(clarotesting.wordpress.com)
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by bklaasen 8y ago
That's a team-wide failure to understand business value.
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by bklaasen 8y ago
The interview on YouTube. It's an hour and 27 minutes. The audio quality seems excellent. https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=dDsWTyLEgbk
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by bklaasen 8y ago
When is Linux support coming?
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by bklaasen 8y ago
Is there a name for this cognitive bias?
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"struh-TEK-uh-ree".
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by bklaasen 8y ago
"Go and sit upon the grass, and I will come and sit beside you." What a genius.
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by bklaasen 8y ago
An extraordinary long-form piece about a child who'd been born deaf (perhaps of Latino origin, growing up in the streets of a US city) and was then abandoned by his parents. He hadn't learned to speak. As an adult he was given he
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by bklaasen 8y ago
Tristan Gooley was interviewed on the Rough Guide podcast late last year: https://pca.st/RvTf I found his approach to staying oriented fascinating.
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by bklaasen 8y ago
There was a similar catastrophic failure at RBS back in 2012, which took a month to recover from: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_RBS_Group_computer_syst...
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by bklaasen 9y ago
Many urban, educated folks in Serbia see Putin as a better ally than any European leader.
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by bklaasen 9y ago
Nuitka, the Python compiler, fits the bill here: http://nuitka.net/doc/user-manual.html#overview
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by bklaasen 9y ago
https://github.com/dflemstr/rq/blob/master/README.md
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by bklaasen 9y ago
These kinds of exercises are useful in the practice of learning how to think. A commenter on the "Ask HN" question about good resources to learn about systems thinking mentioned the need to have a good understanding of stateful sy
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by bklaasen 9y ago
European companies that exchange PII with US-based companies in order to provide features to their customers and value to themselves are terminating those contracts and turning to EU-based companies. Even though many US-based companies are
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Watir comes to Python as Nerodia(watir.com)
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by bklaasen 9y ago
Amazingly, youtube-dl works very reliably in Termux[1]. I can't see that surviving a transition to headless Chrome. [1] https://termux.com/
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by bklaasen 9y ago
See Nathan Ensmenger's "The Computer Boys Take Over" and Marie Hicks' "Programmed Inequality". https://youtu.be/4vCDHJ4-D80 https://youtu.be/WTLJ7saIV3o
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by bklaasen 9y ago
It's been shown that when a baby grips the finger of an adult, the adult tugs the baby's arm if they think the baby is male and hold their hand static if they think the baby is female. I can't find the paper, though.
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by bklaasen 9y ago
High-profile testing consultant and angry man James Bach watched the video and decided the product was bullshit. He didn't try it. http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/1768
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by bklaasen 9y ago
It's a bug. You just see a single straight line from the first letter to wherever your finger is and the keyboard fails to guess the word.
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by bklaasen 9y ago
Looking forward to it! Shout here if you have trouble getting in touch. Testing can be a satisfying and fun career choice, but in order to grow you need to find a way through the thickets of self-promotion by high-profile consultants and fo

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