brianpan

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by brianpan 7y ago
Time might not be too hard to define (relativistic effects aside), but the problem is days and years. The reason for inserting and removing seconds is because the rotation of the earth is NOT static and precise. It changes so seconds are ad
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by brianpan 7y ago
He has a blog: https://foone.wordpress.com/ He uses twitter for shorter, quick posts. A "micro" blog, if you will.
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by brianpan 7y ago
Why do you think release notes are "team-centric"? Who do you think release notes are for? https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0/releasenotes/
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by brianpan 7y ago
Past tense is not necessarily programmer-centric. Release notes are generally written in the past tense (with headings like Added/Changed/Removed). If commits are written in the past tense and from the user's point of view th
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by brianpan 8y ago
An image (or picture). I'm no expert but I think it's more like an MRI than a photograph or x-ray. It's not a direct image or projection. It's calculated.
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by brianpan 8y ago
Both. It's basically an accessibility problem. Should screen readers be able to handle some unusual pages? Yes. Should websites design for accessibility? Yes.
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by brianpan 8y ago
It's a rule of thumb. You don't refactor if and only if three duplicates exist.
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by brianpan 8y ago
It's not the payment that was specifically dirty, it's that privatized firefighting was a dirty job historically in America. Like competing companies brawling in the street on the way to a fire, dirty. https://en.wiki
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by brianpan 8y ago
You certainly also can get amoeba infections from swimming. https://www.allaboutvision.com/contacts/acanthamoeba-keratit... If you're a contact lens wearer, you should be careful using them while swimming or rinsi
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by brianpan 8y ago
CGI is not lying. Faking photos as a demo of the camera is lying.
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by brianpan 8y ago
After reading the post, I feel like maybe not everything needs to be optimized for well-defined priorities. :)
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by brianpan 8y ago
Knowing and memorizing are not the same thing. I went to school to learn, not to memorize.
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by brianpan 8y ago
Their pricing seems reasonable. Their website says 1000 calls/day for free.
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by brianpan 8y ago
The first sentence of the article: "The European commission will recommend that EU member states abandon the practice of changing the clocks in spring and autumn, with many people in favour of staying on summer time throughout the year
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by brianpan 8y ago
Do you like DST or do you like evening light? Because those don't have to be the same thing. When I was in France, it was still bright out after 9pm. You'd have to add another hour on top of DST to get that in the States.
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by brianpan 8y ago
And how do you find the trusted technical experts? By using your trusted technical expert expert?
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by brianpan 8y ago
Merges
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by brianpan 8y ago
> By the way, the video itself is super interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCnZClWwpQ Covering up your tracks, eh? Ok, we'll play along. Everybody click on the link provided by Jorge "Totally not int
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by brianpan 8y ago
Hmmm...I feel like these ideas can be refactored into one idea. BRB
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by brianpan 8y ago
I disagree. Hold my beer...
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by brianpan 8y ago
I read it as a general motivational tactic. Everyone else is out to get us. We need to pull together. They want us to fail, let's prove them wrong. From coaches or CEOs. This is essentially newspaper clippings in the locker room.
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by brianpan 8y ago
> Jobs-like "reality distortion field" There's salesmanship and then there's lying. It might feel like a thin line but I think it's important not to conflate the two. Criminal behavior is not just "reality d
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by brianpan 8y ago
"side effects" because this is only a problem if your lhs is not stateless (has side effects).
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by brianpan 8y ago
It means there's nothing about being woke, backpack kid, or Nirvana. The games do feature songs from Barbra Streisand, mornings walks, and coffee from McDonalds.
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by brianpan 8y ago
Because....everything I write on Facebook belongs to Facebook?
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by brianpan 9y ago
This is completely backwards to me. Instead of changing the name because it doesn't provide enough civic value, how about provide more civic value ? Software is increasingly part of our infrastructure. The Internet is becoming utility
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by brianpan 9y ago
You can also go to prison for insider trading. Is this also too onerous for you? What reason is there for leaking information about the company you are currently working for?
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by brianpan 9y ago
I realize we're talking about Teslas, but still, how many people can just stop using their car when they need to go to work or pick up kids? The airbag recall affected millions and millions of cars. How many of those people were able t
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by brianpan 9y ago
Context if you're lost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catan
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by brianpan 9y ago
If they get credit for the Arab Spring, they should get credit for this, too. This is not solving a problem, this is a part of understanding how the world is changing and what is contributing to it. If we don't identify and understand

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