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by eCa 11y ago
And chimeras are also created (sort of) by bone marrow transplants[1]. [1] http://genetics.thetech.org/ask/ask208
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by eCa 11y ago
Then it would no longer be free.
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by eCa 11y ago
The Modern Perl book[1] is highly recommended. For web development, check out Mojolicious[2] or Dancer2[3] And Task::Kensho[4] lists recommended modules for various tasks. [1] http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_per
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by eCa 11y ago
> Because PLS Logistics Services does ~$100m a year more than dropbox (PLS rev is $515.6m) and has a growth rate of 42% and no one has ever heard of it. The business version of "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded"
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by eCa 11y ago
> People often underestimate the difficulties of getting a hack to work and overestimate how long doing something correctly will take. Yes. And sometimes one of those people is your boss.
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by eCa 11y ago
When I travelled through Spain back in '99 these were pretty common. They usually turned green when cars had slowed down to the speed limit. I travelled by bike so I didn't trigger them very often.. > Robocars of course would k
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by eCa 11y ago
Yes, we should strive for a world where no-one has to work.
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by eCa 11y ago
One mitigating factor is that it is easier to git blame a codebase than a cobra.
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by eCa 11y ago
Also known as 'be careful what you measure'. You want rat tails? Then rat tails you get.
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Slit-Scan Camera Photography made easy(slitcam.com)
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by eCa 11y ago
> half of each group ... in a silent room For many, the alternative to music is not a silent room. Would be interesting to have that study done in an open office situation with the typical background noice and interuptions.
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by eCa 11y ago
Because of quotes like: > we want people to know we stand for freedom, so we do not accept being mislabeled as open source supporters.[1] [1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h...
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Once in a blue moon == 1.16699016 × 10-8 hertz(google.com)
10 points by eCa 11y ago|2 comments
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by eCa 11y ago
> In autumn, we travel forward in time by one hour, and in the spring, we travel back in time by one hour. It is time that we abolish the biannual time travel tradition.
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by eCa 11y ago
In WADA-controlled sports you can get TUEs[1] to solve that problem. [1] Therapeutic Use Exemptions[2] [2] https://www.wada-ama.org/en/what-we-do/science-medical/thera...
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by eCa 11y ago
I would be surprised if there is no low-speed manual maneuverability with a joystick or somesuch.
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by eCa 11y ago
I have passed the point where I would use any service Google launches, where they keep data I want to keep; and it's not because of Snowden. They are acting like they are a bunch of startup teams constantly getting aqui-hired, with ser
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by eCa 11y ago
All issues available here: http://mydesertmagazine.com/Desert_magazine_archive.html
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by eCa 11y ago
The solar system is to the universe what a grain of sand is to the solar system. "It would be inexcusably egocentric to suggest that we are alone in the cosmos." [1] [1] Neil DeGrasse Tyson: https://youtu.be/JQMuNI
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by eCa 11y ago
> made by an Extremely Massive Corporation who until now you've generally respected. As usual, one's respect for BigCompany is inversely correlated to one's use of their products.
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by eCa 11y ago
> very much not welcomed here While I agree with your first paragraph, I have issues with sweeping statements as to which viewpoints are welcome here. While I, as stated, disagree with melling's opinion in this matter, he is more th
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by eCa 11y ago
But what is true in Perl is well-defined: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsyn.html#Truth-and-Falsehood And modules doesn't have to end with 1;. They must return a true value :) Added: If one really want booleans, there i
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by eCa 11y ago
Which is illegal in the US[1] (and I believe EU, as well), and hence deserves to be reported as spam. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4496688
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by eCa 11y ago
I thought they were speed-up loops... http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop
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by eCa 11y ago
> then you've done half of the work. So that's why the last 20% takes 80% of the time.
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by eCa 11y ago
If you want to make a web app with modern Perl practices, check out Mojolicious[1] or Dancer[2]. [1] https://metacpan.org/release/Mojolicious [2] https://metacpan.org/release/Dancer
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by eCa 11y ago
Cool. The largest solar system model is in Sweden[1], with Pluto being 300 km away from the Sun[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson_
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by eCa 11y ago
No, not even the scattered disc got in. On the other hand - since the Oort cloud is up to 100,000 AUs[1] away from the sun - it would have added a bit of scrolling at the end of the page. [1] 100,000 AUs: ~150,000,000,000,000 kilometres (bi
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by eCa 11y ago
No. Pick the one most suited to your brain/task.
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by eCa 11y ago
While it is very fast, I wouldn't consider that an application but rather a static website. In my view, an application needs to do work, usually dependent on user input. Otherwise, basically every website is an application. The dashboa

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