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by cyberferret 7y ago
No doubt that a majority of casualties were on the death marches or working on railroads and bridges. My dad and his friend used to actually drop food parcels to allied prisoners working on repairing bridges in his area. (He also dropped f
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by cyberferret 7y ago
True that. Both my parents grew up near a POW camp in Malaysia during WWII. They said that yes, when the Japanese occupied Malaya, the treatment of the allied prisoners by the Japanese guards was brutal and cruel. But they also said when
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Why is it, when reading this article, all I can picture is that meme of the SS officer saying "Wait a minute... Are WE the baddies?". I am starting to interpret a lot of things I took for granted in my younger years with a differe
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I just transited Alice Springs airport on my way to Melbourne yesterday. I noticed that the new 'boneyard' in the desert next to the airport had a bunch of brand new Singaporean SilkAir 737-MAX8's parked there in 'mothb
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I absolutely love what Katarina and her crew have done with this, and indeed I have used them in a presentation deck I created, but unfortunately, I think this model has resulted in this artwork becoming a bit of a cliche on SaaS websites r
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Dr. Nitschke is from my home town right here. He was so close to getting voluntary euthanasia laws enacted in the Northern Territory, but the government backed out in the end. I remember watching him demonstrate V1 of his 'machine in
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Thanks! This was the key sentence missing from the original link. I hadn't a clue what I was supposed to be looking for, but this is the minimum info needed to get started. (NB: Solved it in a few minutes after I think 8 queries - tho
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by cyberferret 7y ago
> that is, highly-custom trendy screenshots probably “pop” a lot better in a portfolio than a better-functioning app that looks more ordinary. I think you hit the nail on the head here. The designers that have worked on my site seem to
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean it as a general swipe at all designers, and I am sure you are great at what you do. Specifically I am talking about the advice such as "Tell me what this does before I click on it" in the article. I tend
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by cyberferret 7y ago
This article is a good reminder. When I started out my programming career many years ago, these things were fundamental in the way I created software, however things seem to have gone downhill in recent years. The reason? The pressure in t
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Don't most air to air (or surface to air) missiles operate on a similar principle? The explosive warhead itself is not usually what destroys the enemy aircraft, but rather, the warhead is set to detonate within proximity of the enemy
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I've stopped reading books and blogs from company founders who have never had to weather a storm. If I hear on a podcast intro that "Company X has been profitable since day 1 and have grown 100% per year for the past decade"
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by cyberferret 7y ago
The title is a bit misleading IMO. The company was in a state of flux before they pivoted and rebranded as Segment as far as I can read (when they had a different name). The actual company 'Segment' seems to have been on a grea
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by cyberferret 7y ago
This is my problem. I think faster than I can talk, and sometimes I am a whole sentence ahead in my brain than what is coming out of my mouth. As well as making me talk faster and harder to understand, a lot of times people I am talking to
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Curious to see if that would work for me. My main problem (as well as talking too fast), is that I tend to set my jaw too stiffly when talking, so I am not moving my lower mandible too much. In fact, I actually tend to smile when talking,
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by cyberferret 7y ago
The page made me giggle when scrolling down, but the 'user testimonials' actually made my LOL. Especially the JIRA one.
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by cyberferret 7y ago
One of my favourite shows growing up. Hard to believe it was all done 'analog' and no CGI. Adds rawness and charm to the whole thing - Kind of like 'Thunderbirds'.
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by cyberferret 7y ago
As a kid, I still remember the day that my dad was helping me with my Maths homework. On one tricky problem, he unconsciously started muttering the numbers out loud, and I was surprised to hear him saying them in Tamil (he is from Sri Lan
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I think the big factor here is that "she" didn't sell her music herself per se. The record label, which got all rights to her music from the contract she signed, decided to sell the rights to her music to another party. She
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I was surprised to learn recently (my son is just beginning his career in the music industry) that a lot of artists out there don't own the legal rights to their own music once they sign with a label. It is I guess similar to the case
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Some of my earliest memories as a child was watching my dad working on a huge model railway set that he built when I was only about 3 or 4. We had an entire room of a house dedicated to his train hobby. Strangely, when we moved house, my
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by cyberferret 7y ago
This looks great. I am primarily a Logic X guy, but my son uses Ableton mainly for his live act (looping). This announcement has prompted me to dive a little deeper into the Ableton world to see what it is all about. I know Logic has fairl
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Never understood why the 757 wasn't more popular?? It had the best performance in its class while still being economical. Maybe back in its day there was too much overlap between it and the 767, but from talking to pilots who have flo
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Consider this scenario: Loyal and long time high performing Gitlab employee Bob, is happily married to Su, who originally hails from China. They live and work in the US. All good. Until Su's ageing parents back home succumb to ill he
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by cyberferret 7y ago
While I acknowledge the pragmatic approach taken by the company to protect their user's data, I am curious as to how this will play out over time. Factors such as longer term travel or working vacations to these countries by their empl
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Maybe a coincidence, but Cirrus Aircraft announced their SafeReturn Emergency Autoland on their Vision Jet series today as well [0]. Looks pretty impressive. A passenger can just press one button on the roof behind the pilot, and the airc
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Great effort, and I applaud your efforts to try and come up with a solution in this very crowded space. For me, simplicity in a CRM is not the factor that will make me pull out my wallet. After all, your current feature set I can already d
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I cut my teeth on dBase II back in the day, and built my first consulting and development company on the back of that, then moving on to Clipper, FoxPro and Clarion and other tools over time. I always managed to skirt around Access wheneve
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Still? It has been a while since I have done any Apple platform specific native development, but I remember about 5 or 6 years ago writing an iOS and OS X app for communicating with an audio modelling device, and the documentation for CoreM
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I can't read the article because of the paywall, but have they also factored in the future cost of lawsuits and compensation payouts to airline operators of the 737 MAX for loss of revenue from the grounded jets? The loss of passenger

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