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by cgh 7y ago
Years ago, there was a map shop in Vancouver that sold a small collection of old maps. I managed to snag a few before it inevitably went out of business.
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by cgh 7y ago
If you are in CA for a tech job, a good plan is to get established and experienced and then eventually move somewhere else that's nice and cheap and work remotely. You'll continue to earn lots, be able to buy a house pretty quickl
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by cgh 7y ago
Nice, thanks for this. I wonder if they’d like their map back.
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by cgh 7y ago
This is a fantastic resource, thank you. I really enjoy these old hand-drawn maps. I've collected a few myself, including a German map of the north coast of BC, Alaska and eastern Russia, including Kamchatka, unfortunately undated but
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by cgh 7y ago
Great to see they mentioned creatine and carnosine. Creatine in particular is notable for its proven effectiveness as an athletic supplement but it has a host of other, lesser-known benefits[0]. It's only found in animals, although you
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by cgh 7y ago
I came out of knee surgery and after waking up, my first sight was of two female nurses just staring at me hard. I have no idea what I might have said and I don't want to know.
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by cgh 7y ago
Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy fame agrees with you: https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/dont-panic-betelgeuse-is-almos... This guy is consistently entertaining and I recommend his stuff, even if it is hosted on the somewhat ob
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by cgh 7y ago
This can even be done locally if your tests start and populate an in-memory database like Derby. Before anyone says it, I’m not talking about ordinary unit tests, but they can be part of the test suite.
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by cgh 7y ago
How would that help? The article is not about empty homes.
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by cgh 7y ago
Well, she did accompany him for the first five years. She just kept getting seasick. Too bad they ended up divorcing but that's the power of obsession right there. She's featured in this short video: https://www.youtube
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by cgh 7y ago
Really? I might have to take a look at this language then. Making tabs illegal whitespace might very well be a proxy for other good design decisions.
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by cgh 7y ago
If you read the article, he's talking about the ui experience for certain narrow applications, not i/o on '80s 8-bit home computers.
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by cgh 7y ago
His general point is that the point and click interface is a blunt tool and there is room for specialisation. The POS example in the tweet-rant is ugly and non-intuitive but the perfect tool for the job. I'm not sure how I'd impro
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by cgh 7y ago
I agree with much of this mainly because as a teenager in the ‘80s, I witnessed the speed and efficiency of secretaries navigating Wordperfect’s non-GUI. The POS ui in the tweet thread is similar. There’s certainly room to rethink the use o
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by cgh 7y ago
I re-read the four novels some time back (Ham on Rye, Factotum, Post Office and Women) and they were still effective. My reaction to them was a bit different from when I was in my 20s, of course (I'm now 50), and also knowing what I kn
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by cgh 7y ago
I'd add Bloom County in there too. The '80s had great syndicated comics.
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by cgh 7y ago
I live in small-town Canada but work remotely for a big tech company. Quality of life is important to me. I was also able to pay off my house quickly.
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by cgh 7y ago
From the Wikipedia article you linked: “Architects and critics considered it to be excellent work, with one poll finding that professional architects describe Boston City Hall as one of the ten proudest achievements of American architecture
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by cgh 7y ago
You should probably speak to some actual SFU grads about this “uplifting” architecture sometime. Locally, it’s known as a place that exacerbates depression.
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by cgh 7y ago
They aren’t going to put these reactors in actual school gymnasiums. Give your head a shake.
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by cgh 7y ago
It's pretty regional. If you live in a place that has eg a bad climate or limited outdoors activities, it might be harder to find local people. You should probably consider hiring remote workers, if you haven't already. If you are
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by cgh 7y ago
Don't forget Paul Dirac, a true intellectual contemporary of von Neumann.
593.
by cgh 7y ago
I own a biography of von Neumann called "John von Neumann", by Norman Macrae. It is serviceable and gives you a feeling for von Neumann's life, but it is not particularly deep. It does contain examples of the sort of anecdote
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by cgh 7y ago
Did you read the articles (there are two)? They address renewables in depth.
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by cgh 7y ago
Around these parts, "Asian" is shorthand for "East Asian", ie Chinese, etc. "South Asian" is sometimes used for the Indian subcontinent, although oddly enough around here people from India often refer to themse
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by cgh 7y ago
Yes, I agree. Buy a few quality items and hang them to dry. Free-standing drying racks are cheap and can be used anywhere. Your clothes last much longer and you don't waste a lot of power.
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by cgh 7y ago
For those who were unaware, Canada is having its federal election today. Its no-fuss nature is an interesting contrast to the shenanigans of our southern neighbour.
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by cgh 7y ago
Richmond, BC is North America's most Asian city. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-radio-and-tv-18149316
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by cgh 7y ago
> Calling it Raku is a chance to get what the Perl 6 team actually did out into the world without the stench of death following it. "Raku" = "cancer" in Polish. Not a lot of Polish enthusiasm forthcoming, I'd ima
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by cgh 7y ago
I don’t understand how this company employed 1500+ programmers, PMs and data science people. What did they do? I guess not much, as 500 of them got laid off recently.

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