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by cgh 11y ago
>> It sounds so bizarre that a sitting Canadian government would suggest such a thing I, and many others who didn't vote Conservative, still supported their efforts to enforce a ban on such a regressive mode of dress during citiz
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by cgh 11y ago
1. Not an issue for web services, which is what the OP was referring to. 2. See #1. 3. Neither does Java, although of course it can be helpful. 4. Error handling is certainly not less verbose. None of the above overcome the lack of tooling,
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by cgh 11y ago
Vancouver is unique simply in the degree of unaffordability. After Hong Kong, its housing is the most unaffordable in the world. The elephant in the room is why this happened. Everyone talks about "foreign speculation" but in fact
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by cgh 11y ago
Thanks for posting this. I had no idea this even happened. As you're surely aware, in 1966, Pynchon was still only 29 (an incredible fact, at least to me), so that might explain the lack of subtlety. Another great namer was Mervyn Peak
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by cgh 11y ago
Thomas Pynchon is a great inventor of names. From "The Crying of Lot 49" alone, we have: Oedipa Maas Wendell "Mucho" Maas John Nefastis Stanley Koteks Mike Fallopian ...and so forth. Granted, the humour in "Lot 49&q
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by cgh 11y ago
By every objective measure, we are living in the greatest time in human history. There are fewer deaths per capita due to war, poverty, disease and famine than at any other time.
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by cgh 11y ago
Exactly. To summarize, the major use cases for the "internet of things" are industrial. Think mining, mills, etc.
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by cgh 11y ago
Many of us now in our 40s started on Commodore 64s, Atari 800s, Apple IIs and similar when we were actually preteens. I think starting relatively young is pretty normal for every generation of programmers actually.
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by cgh 11y ago
Python and gcc are free software too. Lots of stability in the world of Python and C. Hopefully you don't think free or open source software is somehow limited to the world of Javascript. Here's why there is so much churn in the J
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by cgh 11y ago
Thank you for doing this. Is there any chance we could see exercises involving lifetimes? I've found this is one of the trickiest Rust-only concepts to really understand.
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by cgh 11y ago
Agreed, but one small pedantic correction: the Linksys firmware was written by Chinese contractors. I know because I had to deal with them. It's also why the open source process took so long - the firmware was a binary blob and the con
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by cgh 11y ago
We have friends in the same area who recently bought a fixer-upper for $1.2 million. You're right, I'm assuming they owned outright but regardless, I'm betting they walked away with a nice chunk of change if they bought more
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by cgh 11y ago
You are right, I shouldn't badmouth Cobol. I've never worked with it professionally but I did have to learn it in school. And let's face it, it's a good career move to learn it as there's going to be a "Cobol c
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by cgh 11y ago
Well, you seem to work with web applications. So no wonder. In my opinion, in terms of fun, interest and challenge web programming ranks slightly above Cobol, for exactly the reasons you state. You mentioned you wrote a game. Game programmi
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by cgh 11y ago
Nobody wears safety glasses to split wood. It's not like there are wood chips flying everywhere. I could maybe see it if you're hammering in wedges or something.
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by cgh 11y ago
They sold their house in Toronto, one of the most expensive cities in North America, and probably made a couple of million or so. The school was only $190,000 plus whatever it took to fix it up. As the article states, the area is a tourism
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by cgh 11y ago
They accounted for that. It boils down to males adopting unhealthy life patterns in retirement (drinking, sitting around and so forth).
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by cgh 11y ago
To elaborate upon this point, let's say I gave you 10,000 calories of sawdust to eat every day for a week. Would you gain weight or lose weight, ignoring the other health consequences?
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by cgh 11y ago
I remember reading Nova as a teenager and being simultaneously fascinated and revolted by how filthy everyone was.
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by cgh 11y ago
Speaking as a hunter, your assertion that northern climates (I live in the north) produce more game is false. Deer populations, to use one example, thrive in warm temps. Also, compare the African savannah and its abundance of game animals t
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by cgh 11y ago
Canada is not a homogenous society.
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by cgh 11y ago
I'll bet Stairway to Heaven has had at least as many listens. And it's still being listened to, not "viewed", every single day. Bands like Led Zeppelin were indeed cultural phenomena that transcended their music - they r
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by cgh 11y ago
Your comment history indicates you're a Javascript programmer. No comment.
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by cgh 11y ago
Agreed, I live north of Vancouver in a town whose name you can probably guess and work remotely for a SV company. I make at least 2x what I'd make in Vancouver, based on various offers and talking to friends. I'm pretty happy with
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by cgh 11y ago
Are you paying people to cook your food and clean your dishes for you?
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by cgh 11y ago
From the linked page: "Before explaining how that program is written, let’s first make a small detour, and introduce the REPL (Read Eval Print Loop) tool, that Elm — like many other functional languages — provides. The elm repl command
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by cgh 11y ago
A good alternative might be to take $1000 worth of food to the local food bank. You don't need to look abroad if you want to make a difference in the lives of the poor.
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by cgh 11y ago
"Better suited for the cloud" would probably be better. It looks like it's meant to work with OpenDataPlane. In general, it's another piece in the puzzle of providing heterogenous compute resources without a reliance on
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by cgh 11y ago
That's why I went into consulting as well: six weeks off a year was priceless to me. But I've recently accepted a permanent role again, with less time off than I've had in years, simply because of the huge salary. It's a
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by cgh 11y ago
Good choice. And if he were still alive, Christopher Hitchens.

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