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by cgh 8y ago
The JVM. I know this is the boring answer but the tooling and performance combination is tough to beat. It's why Twitter themselves switched to the JVM (a mix of Scala and Java).
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by cgh 8y ago
I imagine this service would appeal to people who want to remain anonymous to local law enforcement. Pornhub realises there is a huge untapped market in eg Islamic countries, for example. Regarding the coffee shop thing: I was walking past
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by cgh 8y ago
I was objecting to the phrase "only americans in US consulates", when clearly it's not. Kind of pedantic, I know. That said, asserting that it's not "beyond the realm of possibility" that this phenomena might a
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by cgh 8y ago
No, Canadians were also affected. https://globalnews.ca/news/3956401/eight-canadians-sickened-...
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by cgh 8y ago
That guy has a serious axe to grind and isn’t a credible source.
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by cgh 8y ago
At the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, where I've stayed in the past, wifi wasn't free. I've heard that's changed but I haven't checked the website to confirm. Rooms are roughly 300USD/night.
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by cgh 9y ago
Netsweeper is not a US company.
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by cgh 9y ago
Germany has less than 5% of Canada's land area and more than double the population. You could pretty much drop the entire country into a Canadian forest.
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by cgh 9y ago
This is in Canada, a country that is not exactly known for mild winters. I grew up in a place that sometimes hit -20 to -40 degrees C with huge amounts of snow in similar houses. It comes down to insulation and waterproofing.
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by cgh 9y ago
My friends in game dev do not consider Unity to be a AAA game engine, not by a long stretch.
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by cgh 9y ago
You are correct, particularly in an industrial environment with lots of sensors etc. These are typically on a closed network, which gives us the Network of Things, or NoT.
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by cgh 9y ago
Vi is an example of the Lindy Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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by cgh 9y ago
I’m envious. You essentially worked in the presence of a dying race of wizards.
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by cgh 9y ago
They are epidemiological and their goal isn't to really prove anything but to generate new hypotheses and provide hints for directions of research based on the correlations found. Unfortunately, the popular press doesn't tend to d
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by cgh 9y ago
Yeah, that's the one. I'm not normally one for nostalgia or memorabilia, but I spent a LOT of my youth poring over that thing. I think it eventually got tattered and my mom chucked it when I left for university.
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by cgh 9y ago
I wish I still had my copies of The Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide and The Commodore 64 Inner Space Anthology (published by The Transactor magazine). Such incredible resources. I taught myself assembly when I was twelve or t
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by cgh 9y ago
I’m a rockclimber. It’s what I enjoy doing most so I fixed my life in order to climb more. In particular, I got remote work and moved to a climbing town. Now when I have a two hour break during the day, I dart out for some bouldering, which
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by cgh 9y ago
Your doctor was right. Meat is the healthiest stuff you can eat. Throw some liver in there as well and you are covered.
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by cgh 9y ago
Saturated fats are not bad for you. Listen to the science, not biased websites.
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by cgh 9y ago
Thomas Pynchon is a counter-example. "V." was published when he was 26 and was nominated for the National Book Award. Here is his "headshot": http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2013&
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by cgh 9y ago
> crushing the frantic penguins There are no penguins in the Arctic (Antarctica only) so nothing to fear.
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by cgh 9y ago
Yes, very true. I suppose the internet just amplifies something that's been around for decades. To add to your examples, it amazes me that people favourably compare Russia's fixed elections with the failings of the Electoral Colle
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by cgh 9y ago
The US plays a unique role in the world and has not played it perfectly, that's very true. But it is nowhere close to being the primary villain of the 20th century. I would indeed say you are naive to think so. Every generation everywh
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by cgh 9y ago
In my experience as a non-American, a lot of younger Americans have adopted a sort of dark, distorted view of history that casts the US as a villainous entity. For these people, any suggestion that other states, particularly non-Western one
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by cgh 9y ago
Maybe a big part of the solution is self-driving flying cars? Of course they would use Tesla batteries. And let's not forget to use Fuschia, while we're at it.
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by cgh 9y ago
It's having "skin in the game", in the sense that Nassim Taleb uses the phrase. The trust goes both ways and both of your reputations are more or less equally at stake. With a bank, the stakes are not symmetrical.
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by cgh 9y ago
Vegetarian propaganda would say so. But Western societies are far from the biggest meat-eaters out there. Do the Maasai and the Inuit suffer from inordinate rates of Alzheimer’s? The common factor in the diseases you mention is sugar.
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by cgh 9y ago
By asking people to buy what they are selling? If they aren’t selling anything, why the expectation of remuneration?
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by cgh 9y ago
To add to this, Webex also has excellent desktop sharing. I use it many times every day. That said, the phone is probably the best friend of the remote developer.
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by cgh 9y ago
Bigger companies often have good remote work policies. On the downside, these companies are rarely cool by the usual HN metrics and aren't normally mentioned here except dismissively.

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