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by eCa 11y ago
(But productivity would suffer.)
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by eCa 11y ago
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by eCa 11y ago
The problem isn't that you have to use/extend existing code, the problem is that it isn't documented. I'm guessing there is a lack of knowledge sharing between the developers. Like others have said; instead of writing th
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by eCa 11y ago
Why write Viñales, San Sebastián and Île de Ré, but not Skåne, Malmö and Korčula? Sloppy editing.
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by eCa 11y ago
> take my parents, for instance, who refuse to get into a car not driven by a human. I think people are doing lots of things that they couldn't imagine doing before those things existed/became widespread. How many people would
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by eCa 11y ago
One upside is that after 9.0 is released he can update that post with U+1F926.
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by eCa 11y ago
> Probability theory tells me that a single number like this is meaningless That is true. But when considering that the ten warmest years since 1880 all have occurred since 1998[1] it is no longer a single number. I'm guessing after
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by eCa 11y ago
> Another reason would be speaking English and not French Just an aside: Only two countries on the top ten countries for asylum seekers have English as an official language[1][2]. [1] http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624
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by eCa 11y ago
The title and first paragraph are somewhat at odds with each other. Copy-pasting a bit leads to this: > Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilemma of blocking > the parts of the web that slow down your Inter
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by eCa 11y ago
Yes[1], very handy. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_mile
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by eCa 11y ago
Think of Perl5 and Perl6 as American English and British English. Both languages are English, but essentially they are different languages but with a similar foundation. > Confusing? Almost certainly. Agreed. I don't know if it woul
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Blue Beanie Day(bluebeanieday.tumblr.com)
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by eCa 11y ago
> For a second, I get scared. [...] Where are my movies? I have a similar situation in Win8.1. I have an external hard drive that sometimes go to sleep. When I wake it up by trying to view its contents in Explorer, Windows shows a friend
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by eCa 11y ago
> Several M’s have wings, Prague and Bucharest among them [...] Considering how the alternative Prague Metro 'M' looks[1], I'm pretty sure it's meant to be an arrow. [1] https://c2.staticflickr.com/4&#
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by eCa 11y ago
John Oliver (Last Week) on public defenders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USkEzLuzmZ4
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by eCa 11y ago
But climbs you don't get payed for can be just as (or more) rewarding/challenging.
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by eCa 11y ago
Yes, a Perl one-liner: perl -E 'map { say } map { { 3 => "Fizz", 5 => "Buzz", 15 => "FizzBuzz" }->{ sub { my $val = shift; (grep { $val % $_ == 0 } (3, 5, 15))[-1] }->($_) } || $_ } (1
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by eCa 11y ago
There is a reason for having a maximum of twelve passengers: http://www.stunningyachts.com/articles/reference/faq.php#12
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Triangulation Episode 225 – Larry Wall(twit.tv)
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by eCa 11y ago
> it never occurred to us that people could be seriously harmed by others' knowing details of their lives. Recommended viewing: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/
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by eCa 11y ago
Automation. I recently found Rex[1] and will give it a go to see if it eases some of the pains. [1] http://www.rexify.org/
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by eCa 11y ago
> Jia has one of those improbable-sounding but strangely common rags-to-riches stories of modern China. Born to modest means in Shanxi province in 1973, the third child of a teacher and a housewife, he landed a job in the local tax burea
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The Keyboard Waffle Iron(thekeyboardwaffleiron.com)
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by eCa 11y ago
Revenue in itself does not answer that question. Blackberry (formerly known as RIM) has a revenue of $3+bn. Not doing really well.
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Launch: Basecamp 3(signalvnoise.com)
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FastMail acquires Pobox(blog.pobox.com)
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by eCa 11y ago
Meanwhile, Northern Europe has just seen one of the driest Octobers for a long while. Large areas has received less than five percent of normal precipitation. Stockholm has never had so little rain in October since measurements started back
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by eCa 11y ago
Apart from everything else in the OP; from the email he received: > I wanted to reach out personally [...] So personally is going the way of literally, which literally does or does not mean literally [1]. [1] http://dictiona
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by eCa 11y ago
Yes, but VAT is not part of your revenue.
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I am a non-engineer who has used mm/cm/dm/m/km all my life. For me, 1 km is not necessarily 1000 m, and 5 cm is not necessarily 50 mm. In everyday use using only the smaller unit implies a precision that usually isn&#x27

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