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Possible discovery of Captain Cook's HMS Endeavour Off US Coast(theguardian.com)
61 points by curtis 8y ago|20 comments
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Prototype All the Time(wiki.c2.com)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
John McCain's citizenship was more complicated than most people realize. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause#Jo... .
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by curtis 8y ago
The C2 Wiki is where I first learned about things like refactoring ( http://wiki.c2.com/?ReFactoring ), rubber ducking ( http://wiki.c2.com/?RubberDucking ), and DRY ( http://wiki.c2.com/?OnceAnd
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by curtis 8y ago
I understand why he does it, but the guy needs to relinquish direct control of his Twitter account to some trusted lieutenant who can serve as a sanity check before tweets go out. In fact this might be a good idea for any people on Twitter
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Programmer’s Thesaurus (2014)(wiki.c2.com)
66 points by curtis 8y ago|11 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
I'm under the impression that a higher prehistorical concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere is widely accepted at this point. Higher atmospheric pressure is not something I've heard anything about though. Wikipedia has a nice
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Russian Cyberwarfare Is Much Worse Than You Think(motherjones.com)
42 points by curtis 8y ago|20 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
From the referenced article [ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... ]: > It is possible, however, that giant pterosaurs represent old, flightless individuals of a species that were capa
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by curtis 8y ago
On a tangential note, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the notion that a flying reptile the size of Quetzalcoatlus (believed to have wingspan on the order of 10 meters) could ever get airborne. This has made me wonder if it&#x27
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by curtis 8y ago
> People complain that dockless rental scooters and bicycles block the sidewalk, but I have never experienced being blocked by one. I've certainly seen Lime bikes mostly blocking the sidewalk here in Seattle, and I rarely if ever
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The 2018 Chevy Bolt Makes the Electric Car Feel Normal, and That’s the Point(jalopnik.com)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
This is probably not normal HN fare, but it has a really clear summary of what exactly happened, which I think many HN readers might appreciate.
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Tennis Umpires Are Pretty Unhappy About Serena Williams(motherjones.com)
7 points by curtis 8y ago|2 comments
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Experimental glider smashes record for high-altitude flight(nbcnews.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
The biggest deficiency I found in Jenkins is that GUI-based job configuration is great for simple setups and one-off jobs, but the moment you throw in any sort of parameterization it becomes a real headache. At that point you really need t
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by curtis 8y ago
I am under the impression that the dome is entirely decorative, which does seem kind of nuts given its size.
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by curtis 8y ago
Kim did stay with the vehicle (and his family) for something like a week before going for help. I think this might have been the right decision at that point, because his youngest child was 7 months old and would not have been able to surv
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by curtis 8y ago
I stumbled across this the other day when I was supposed to be working. The geodesic framework is pretty cool, but the architecture of the headquarters building is really cool too. Here are a few images that I particularly liked: https:&#x
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ASM International Headquarters and Geodesic Dome(rs.locationshub.com)
11 points by curtis 8y ago|3 comments
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Volunteers scour drone footage in search for woman who went missing on hike(geekwire.com)
77 points by curtis 8y ago|79 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
The first 15 or so slides from the slideshow are mostly just of the geodesic framework. After that there's a bunch more slides of the associated office building which is pretty interesting if you're into mid-century modern archit
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by curtis 8y ago
Direct link to the slideshow: https://rs.locationshub.com/Slideshow.aspx?lid=053-10059511&...
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ASM International Headquarters and Geodesic Dome(rs.locationshub.com)
8 points by curtis 8y ago|3 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
> If you find yourself on a failing project, squandering tens of millions of pounds and hundreds of man-years of talent, pause for a moment. Think about the fact that almost 140 years ago, civil engineers stopped building bridges that f
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Churches in Kerala(haubitz-zoche.de)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Packard Merlin: How Detroit Mass-Produced Britain’s Hand-Built Powerhouse (2015)(tested.com)
84 points by curtis 8y ago|75 comments
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Museum Visitor Falls in Hole That Looks Like a Cartoonish Painting on the Floor(gizmodo.com)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
I probably won't ever do a homework assignment again, unless I feel like I absolutely have to. It's not just the time involved, it's the time involved plus the apparent necessity for me to ask what the results were. It see
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America's last iron lung users on their lives spent inside obsolete ventilators(independent.co.uk)
3 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments

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