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691.
by eCa 11y ago
Workaholism is a matter of input, not output.
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by eCa 11y ago
Equal as in égalité[1], not similarity. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberté,_égalité,_fraternité
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by eCa 12y ago
Regarding 4: It seems difficult [1]. And also [2]. In short: Declaration of independece - easy. Recognition - not so much.. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand [2] http://en.wikipedia.or
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by eCa 12y ago
There is a difference though between shutting down as in 'no more money' and shutting down as in 'I just got a boatload of cash, bu-bye!'. (Shutting down a serious service zero-day is of course inexcusable no matter th
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by eCa 12y ago
There's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-deck_elevator
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by eCa 12y ago
Just use Mailgun[1] and you get incoming mail POSTed to your server for free. I think Sendgrid[2] offers the same too? [1] http://www.mailgun.com/ [2] https://sendgrid.com/
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by eCa 12y ago
> I can't imagine other countries doing it any differently. Just over the border all votes are counted by hand (several times).
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by eCa 12y ago
Probably, since five digits requires 1,369,560 decimals and six digits 14,118,307. Each extra digit seems to require ~ ten times as many decimals.
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by eCa 12y ago
I have a large gamer mousepad, which allows me to have the mouse in front of the keyboard with the keyboard still on the mousepad. Kind of like at the end of [1]. Works much better for me than having the mouse on either side of the keyboard
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by eCa 12y ago
> probably won't see another winter like this Once-in-a-century is averaged over many centuries. Sometimes things cluster. In 2002 parts of Europe were hit by a once-in-a-century flood [1]. In 2013 pretty much the same parts were hi
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by eCa 12y ago
- never, for murder, genocide and similar (but informally 70 years) - 25 years, if max is life - 15 years, if max is more than 8 years - 10 years, if max is 2-8 years - 5 years, if max is 1-2 years - 2 years, if max is 1 year - for sexual c
702.
by eCa 12y ago
Regarding your edit, if I read it correctly that quote is not from Backblaze.
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by eCa 12y ago
Ah, Goodwin's Law updated for the 21st century.
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by eCa 12y ago
While this has its points there is something missing. Why were Tim's (and his group's) projects failing before they sdopted MDD? Were many of them new at the company? Did they have a bad manager that left as they started MDD? If t
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by eCa 12y ago
I think any such scheme should be based on revenue rather than profit, or else Hollywood accounting[1] might be encouraged. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
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by eCa 12y ago
Agree completely re the big specific bricks. I guess this[1] is what you're looking for. Unfortunately, Lego is out of bricks... [1] http://shop.lego.com/en-US/catalog/productSearch.jsp?searchP...
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by eCa 12y ago
Unless they want to be connected to superfish forever, now is the time to publicly distance themselves from it.
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by eCa 12y ago
> Code is meant to be executed first, read second. "Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live." [1] [1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CodeForTh
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by eCa 12y ago
So, either they are using 0.y.z to allow themselves breaking changes whenever, or they are using it as a signal that it's not production-ready, or they are not following semantic versioning. Is there another alternative?
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by eCa 12y ago
> Apparently he considers underlining a sin against typography But only as a way to add emphasis. The last point of the page[1] implies that he is ok with underlining links. [1] http://practicaltypography.com/underlinin
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by eCa 12y ago
In Perl a standard had evolved[1] that is a bit less structured, but designed to be machine read/writable while still being human centered. And if you build your distributions with Dist::Zilla[2] you can use plugins to ensure that you
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by eCa 12y ago
Looks like esalmans image for me on FF35.0.1/Win8.1.
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by eCa 12y ago
There is also Kavorka[1] as an alternative to Function::Parameters, which can use Type::Tiny types in signatures. The next step after that is Moops[2]... [1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Kavorka [2] https://meta
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by eCa 12y ago
Agreed, the video makes it overly complicated. It is very easy to open when you want, never opens when you don't want, and there are no pieces to lose.
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by eCa 12y ago
This[1] is the best battery door design I've seen on a tv remote. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwGvuQFaDE4
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by eCa 12y ago
> heading to L.A. in March
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by eCa 12y ago
That is because it is version 1.0 of Perl 6. The '6' is not a version: 'Perl 6' is the name of the language. Meanwhile, Perl 5 will have its 22.0 release this May.
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by eCa 12y ago
> Distraction from mobile phones also led to thousands of accidents, should they be illegal too? When using any type of vehicle in public areas: Absolutely. And they already are in many places [1] (at least under certain conditions). [1]
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by eCa 12y ago
> Even cooler if they had this in pro cycling. They started with on-bike cameras last season. Not streamed yet, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE97iUvSHk0
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by eCa 12y ago
As a cyclist, it is much preferred to hear engine noice rather than honking horns.

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