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by dominicr 7y ago
Didymos has an orbit that only very occasionally brings it anywhere near Earth. Only within a few million kilometres every hundred years or so. The small amount of debris produced will continue along the slightly altered orbit, so won'
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by dominicr 7y ago
Car manufacturers are not really accurate metaphors as it is CBP and ICE themselves who are carrying out actions that many people strongly disagree with. Whereas a car company has no control over its customers If Ford were separating childr
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by dominicr 7y ago
Because a work environment and YouTube are very different places. Work decisions such as promotions, product choices, technical decisions, etc... shouldn't be largely driven by facebook likes.
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by dominicr 7y ago
I heard it as a criticism of deciding work decisions based on popularity, with product choices, technical implementations, etc... based on facebook likes, not real deciding factors. Which is very different from growing a YouTube audience.
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by dominicr 7y ago
Or imagine "Taleban drone strike kills 30 farmers in Oklahoma". There would be a reaction!
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by dominicr 7y ago
A single instance of MongoDB and node can handle quite a lot. Anyone who needs this service as a critical component of their product can cheaply host their own version of this or risk downtime/slowness that'd affect their bottom l
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by dominicr 7y ago
I' guessing this is sarcasm as most private transport infrastructure is already "free". Roads, bridges, traffic lights, street lights, some car parks, snow clearing, etc... Even in the US, the majority of education provision
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by dominicr 7y ago
I'll clarify a little: I know basically nothing about the games industry, so my thinking was along the lines of... Many years ago, when social media was just starting, maybe somebody thought "Wouldn't it be cool if we could s
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by dominicr 7y ago
I wonder if the reluctance of the gaming industry to tackle gambling is willful or due to ignorance of the issue. Either they understand the issue but it's their profits at stake, so they'll ignore the potential problems. Or have
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by dominicr 7y ago
Yes, it does cause confusion and can cause people to create an architecture that is too fragmented, resulting in a higher than necessary overhead in support for all those tiny services. I suspect a lot of people who don't like microser
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by dominicr 7y ago
HN is professional development ;)
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by dominicr 7y ago
That's probably good advice for anyone: don't stretch yourself financially, especially on depreciating assets.
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by dominicr 7y ago
I buy second hand cars with some visible damage for a similar reason. They tend to be cheaper and we're not that bothered about any scrape & dents our family adds. Obviously you've got to check that the minor damage doesn&#x27
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by dominicr 7y ago
Microservices aren't necessarily small, at least by definition if not name. They are discrete services modeled around a business domain which are independently deployable and scalable. As such a "microservices" can get pretty
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by dominicr 7y ago
Also similar to "Where Children Sleep", which is exactly that: http://jamesmollison.com/books/where-children-sleep/
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by dominicr 7y ago
Animated gifs, grey backgrounds, tables for layout, frames & sub 100Kb page sizes. I remember those days fondly. A lot of web development was much easier back then but could also be very frustrating trying to get the simplest things to
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by dominicr 7y ago
Accessibility was my first thought. For as long as there's been the web there's been an ongoing struggle between visual improvements and accessibility. One thing we've learnt is that many developers don't take accessibil
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by dominicr 7y ago
While we're at it, can products stop using the phrase "aircraft grade aluminium" to sell trivial items such as forks, wallets and, I kid you not, Post-It note holders. Yes, there are differences in quality possible with alumi
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by dominicr 7y ago
I worked for a year in an incubator in Oslo, full of start ups that talked about “work hard, play hard” & having to put in extra effort. The building was practically empty by 6pm.
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by dominicr 7y ago
> for BMW and BENZ electrical line up to come close to Tesla in quality, range, reliability might take another decade Whilst I admire Tesla's ambition, the work they've done to advance electric cars, plus they certainly make n
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by dominicr 7y ago
I think the control of Singapore's cars is a reason why they can make a shift away from petrol/diesel cars, not against it. Electric vehicles primarily move pollution from the daily usage in dense urban areas, to remote production
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by dominicr 7y ago
We've been conditioned to believe that some evidence is infallible, such as technology based tracking and even DNA evidence. Whilst people might embellish, lie or simply have bad recall, we think technology is near perfect. The reality
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by dominicr 7y ago
One effect of this in the Nordic culture is that often a lot of these holidays are taken at the same time. People take 3 or 4 weeks off at once between the end of June and early August, especially in Norway. Productivity for the company eff
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by dominicr 7y ago
Yep, this is people we're talking about! They'd be balancing 2 chairs on each other whilst randomly stabbing a paper clip in the direction of the bulb's screw, with the power on to be sure it worked! Product designers have to
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by dominicr 7y ago
"For some reason, GE decided not to install a physical reset button" Well, there might be some good reasons not to have a reset button. Without knowing GE's reasons let's brainstorm: - My first thought is that many light
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by dominicr 7y ago
The comment I was replying to was referring to the word's definition in economics, not the current legal standards of specific countries.
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by dominicr 7y ago
What you're referring to is a 'pure' monopoly, which are relatively rare (but still common enough). The wider use of definition in economics is a company that dominates a market to the extent that is has control over the mark
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by dominicr 7y ago
Somewhat related, my brother is a musician (playing what you might call experimental music) and says Japan is an amazing place to play as the audience pays close attention to what you're doing and remains quiet whilst you're playi
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by dominicr 7y ago
I suppose because WSJ covers markets and there are still many places in the world where the number of people who do not own a smart/feature phone greatly outnumbers the current users. In these markets the companies that dominate are un
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by dominicr 7y ago
I'd agree, it's the ubiquity of digital cameras, plus social media making it normal/expected that people will post photos from a trip. In the past photos were mainly for your own use and you'd talk to people about your t

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