bklaasen

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   by bklaasen 9y ago

   Are you based in Dublin? I have twenty years experience as a highly technical tester. I can help you find a meaningful path. Contact details in my profile!
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   by bklaasen 9y ago

   Chandler is on that list! That's the failed PIM desktop software that Mitch Kapor financed as a hobby project and which was the subject of the book "Dreaming in Code"by Scott Rosenberg. Terrific book, shame about the software
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   by bklaasen 9y ago

   For more on the British computer industry and why it was a failure despite being world-leading in the mid-1940s, see Marie Hicks' "Programmed Inequality". It's part of the venerable MIT Computer History series. https:&#
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   by bklaasen 9y ago

   Please add '2010' to the title.
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   by bklaasen 9y ago

   The order in which you install add-ons, such as the provider for Google calendar and Exchange calendar support, matters. I've spent too long jiggering with add-ons to get them to play nicely together. Once I have a functioning setup,I
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   by bklaasen 9y ago

   Originally, they'd been getting the sugar from yeast, but they borrowed enzymes from a soil bacterium to radically reduce the cost of manufacture. From the article: "...making it in large quantities was expensive—about $700 per ki
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   by bklaasen 9y ago

   It's extraordinary how relevant this book still is. Postman was a student of McLuhan, but wrote in a much more accessible style.
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   by bklaasen 9y ago

   I spent one week short of mine months on the walk. I averaged about eighteen kilometres a day. On walking days I'd walk about thirty kilometres. I'd highly recommend it! Europe is very beautiful and very safe. I encountered no has
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   by bklaasen 9y ago

   Depends on the route you take, doesn't it?
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    by bklaasen 9y ago

    Yes! Though I walked from Cherbourg rather than Hook of Holland, I crossed the Alps between Salzburg and Kranj in Slovenia, and walked across the Balkans and Bulgaria.
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    by bklaasen 9y ago

    You can't generalise like that about the whole of Europe - it's a very diverse region. I walked across Europe this summer, from Ireland to Istanbul. Southern Germany is doing fine, but Northern France has been hollowed out. The hu
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    by bklaasen 9y ago

    Yes, they're called "trap streets": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
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    by bklaasen 9y ago

    The URL for the original report is mangled in this article; the correct URL is http://aiindex.org/2017-report.pdf
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    by bklaasen 9y ago

    Well, the previous poster's examples of "really" could be defined like this, based on interpretation of their intonation: "Really?": Convince me; "Really!": I'm indignant on your behalf; "Really
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    by bklaasen 9y ago

    From the article: "I've had some great suggestions around tackling the root cause of data breaches and I'd love to have another opportunity in the future to talk about that, but it goes beyond the specific focus of this heari
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    by bklaasen 9y ago

    Think of it as a reverse insurance policy: investing in your future ill-health.
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    by bklaasen 9y ago

    Speaking of which, I've not grokked jq's functional approach to composing queries. Can anyone suggest a good approach to understanding jq please?
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    by bklaasen 9y ago

    Anecdata: a few years ago I was at a party hosted by an acquaintance who's a town planner. He'd invited a bunch of his town planner workmates. I asked each of them if they owned a bicycle. None of them did. They all had luxury mar
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    by bklaasen 9y ago

    Thank you for this, but I stopped reading at 'synthetic sugar'. (The link points to the correct article on Wikipedia.)
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    The Secretive Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis(esquire.com)

    3 points by bklaasen 9y ago|0 comments
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    by bklaasen 9y ago

    Which generation XPS is that?
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    by bklaasen 9y ago

    Most likely this one: https://youtu.be/EKWGGDXe5MA Check out Feynman's very cool "Thinking Machines" t-shirt. He was working with Danny Hillis at the time.
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    by bklaasen 9y ago

    I've been in that situation, close to closing time. I was alone, many stories down in the depths of the complex, when without warning the lights went out. I've never experienced such utter, black-out darkness. I was instantly para
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    by bklaasen 9y ago

    No, it doesn't - your home provider ought to publish a list of providers with whom they have roaming agreements. For example, here's Three Ireland's page for Germany: https://apps.three.ie/roaming/phone&#
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    From Orwell to Atwood: 14 Visions of a Dystopian America(penguinrandomhouse.com)

    1 points by bklaasen 10y ago|0 comments
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    by bklaasen 10y ago

    Thanks for this! It looks like a very useful way to wrap tests around a large bash shell script before migrating it to Python.
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    by bklaasen 10y ago

    This is how pyvideo[1] accepts submissions[2] too! [1] http://pyvideo.org/ [2] https://github.com/pyvideo/pyvideo/wiki/How-to-Contribute-Me...
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    by bklaasen 10y ago

    Hi - There are probably a few key-words you need to be aware of: Mike Cohn's testing pyramid, agile testing, BDD (Behaviour Driven Development), ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development). Dave Haeffner has a good ten-step program on be
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    by bklaasen 11y ago

    The other missing presentation, "The Augmented Knowledge Workshop" by Doug Englebart, is on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/XD302_86ACM_Prese_AugKnowledgeWo...
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    by bklaasen 11y ago

    Brian Okken of the Python Testing podcast did a nice job explaining the importance of this paper: http://pythontesting.net/podcast/waterfall/