dermotbrennan

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by dermotbrennan 10y ago
Some sites are a combination of content (blog, products etc) and a login area with a complex UI. A SPA works well for sophisticated user interfaces but is overkill for content that is just for reading. But then you have to decide is it wort
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Ask HN: What is the best way to future-proof a website build?
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by dermotbrennan 10y ago
Or even for ships and planes. Whats more likely in the long term, that cargo ships will be powered by batteries or that they could be powered by a compact fusion reactor?
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by dermotbrennan 10y ago
Intel would agree with that - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-Tock_model
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by dermotbrennan 10y ago
Energy diversity and energy security are important. On the one hand, global trade can strengthen relationships between nations and make war less likely. On the other hand, look at how Russia uses the threat of turning off gas supplies to pr
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by dermotbrennan 10y ago
ISPs could at least give customers warnings that they have been compromised. Not everybody will heed those warnings of course...
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by dermotbrennan 10y ago
Release candidate to me means "We think this software is pretty much done. Does anybody in the community think otherwise?". You don't expect new features or breaking changes. That wasn't what happened during angular2 dev
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by dermotbrennan 10y ago
Manchuria is close to Beijing and is a relative easy area in China for armies to travel through. It's not mountainous or particularly forested/swampy. Japan invaded through Manchuria in WW2 so it makes sense for China to have as b
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by dermotbrennan 11y ago
You could insist that addicts use the government-provided drugs in a clinic. Don't just hand it to them.
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by dermotbrennan 11y ago
Can someone explain to me why they can't just put a huge net around/under the rocket so that even if it does tip over, it can be safely caught and recovered?
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by dermotbrennan 11y ago
I'm Irish and out of interest I looked up the area of Hokkaido to see how it compares to the island of Ireland and they're actually pretty close - Hokkaido is 83,453KM2 with a population of 5.5M versus Ireland 84,421KM2 with 6.3M.
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by dermotbrennan 12y ago
"When you tell other men that you were at this battle, everyone will think you are cool, wish they had been here too and question their own manhood!"
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by dermotbrennan 12y ago
If you put '/' at the end of the internal address it will resolve it correctly. Although I switch between both browsers a lot so I don't always remember that trick.
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by dermotbrennan 13y ago
I think there's some value in the goal of having a common interface and set of features across desktop, mobile, xbox, server. People would like that. Microsoft haven't achieved that there yet but it's still a worthy goal. I t
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by dermotbrennan 13y ago
Livestock produce methane which is a greenhouse gas and contributes significantly to global warming.
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by dermotbrennan 13y ago
It's ultimately unknowable but I think it's possible to have a very secure system. You just have to take a holistic approach and look at everything in the stack from top to bottom, keep on top of security updates and use the right security
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by dermotbrennan 14y ago
The problem is that languages and especially libraries change too frequently. A doctor can learn the name of every bone in the body and that knowledge will for the rest of his life. In programming, there are very few things that will still