earth_walker

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by earth_walker 4y ago
All industries and professions have the same problem - how do you know your new hire is right for you? So you think that a 6 hour unpaid assignment is unfair. What do you think the alternative should be? Many of the posts here point out tha
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by earth_walker 4y ago
"Jambu Air" (in Bahasa Malayu) is a juicy, sweet/sour fruit from South-east Asia. The Brazilian "Jambu" that the article describes is not the same thing - it's an astringent herb from the Amazon.
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Exactly. There are 'billable hours' and 'non-billable hours'. Work outside of a contract scope is not billable.
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by earth_walker 4y ago
This isn't (just) about landfill space or resource availability. It's a shame that a couple of generations have been led to believe that the only real environmental disaster is climate change. It's certainly a big and pressin
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Though driving an hour to recycle a few plastic bottles is obviously bonkers, I do want to point out that there are more reasons to recycle than just reducing CO2.
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by earth_walker 4y ago
The big North American chains (Starbucks, McD, Tim Hortons, Second Cup, Van Houtes, etc.) push a "dark roast" as their somehow gourmet option. In all cases these are cheap old beans that have been over-roasted so that 'burnt&
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by earth_walker 4y ago
I agree that the Liberal's current push to degrade Canadian's privacy is worrisome - and their excuse is "we need expanded surveillance powers to make sure your privacy is protected..."!?! I disagree that this is a parti
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Careful what you wish for - in all likelihood when that backlash does come you and I and anyone old enough to be commenting here won't be in on the joke. We will be the ones the shock-jocks are trying to shock, as they goose-step thr
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by earth_walker 4y ago
I could have sworn they were Irish just a few years ago...
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by earth_walker 4y ago
While many of these problems are never going to go away, they are absolutely manageable in a humane way. If you look at cities around the world there are many examples that are as large and diverse as an American city, but much safer and cl
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by earth_walker 4y ago
If you look around you and see only criminals, then the only answers you will come up with involve rounding them up, and moving them elsewhere. Those people on the streets that you're 'swimming in' - the homeless, the untre
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by earth_walker 4y ago
I think that really depends on who has access to the AI, and what it will be used for. I've been playing computer games for 40 years, and have seen some highs and lows. But with all the technical advances over those years, the storytel
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Sounds hellish. Is the money really worth living in such a place?
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by earth_walker 4y ago
I don't have much time for gaming these days, and so when I do I want it to be good. So I browse the local buy-and-sell and pick up the classics every now and then. This winter I picked up all three Mass Effects and played the first t
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Just want to say that I loved this interview, it was the first I had heard of your show and I've been a regular listener since. Thank you!
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Partial application and function composition are the meat-and-potatoes of functional programming. Automatic currying is syntactic sugar that can make these two easier and clearer as it gets rid of a bunch of named arguments and lambdas. For
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Elm's developers have been working hard to make better error messages for these cases, and it really pays off even when experienced. Here are Elm's versions for comparison: > myfun 1 'c' 3 -- TOO MANY ARGS ----
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by earth_walker 4y ago
I really like what you've done here, and I think it has broader applicability as an input/editing mode for all sorts of graph-like information. I love the varied export options, my one suggestion is to be able to export or copy&#x
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Apparently you could set up one or two spaces depending on your preference, however recent versions of Word now mark double spaces as an error by default.
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by earth_walker 4y ago
I was taught to use double spaces in highschool typing class (we used electric typewriters with the buffer off). In the ~35 years since I have only ever met a handful of people, all older than me, who did it in practice. I continued through
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by earth_walker 4y ago
What is leisure anyway? Is it just an easy work/not-work split? I'm not sure it's so easy anymore when so much of our off-work activity is either stress-inducing or basically working for free. Sure, we're not darning soc
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by earth_walker 4y ago
For goodness sake, please don't do this! Our only point of control in this matter is at the cash register, and every time you validate their consumer-unfriendly choices, we lose. Here's how it's already playing out: - The dum
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Tim Horton's modus operendi was to find the successful coffee shop in small towns all across Canada, and open up across from them, putting them out of business. I often wonder why it's so loved by small-town Canadians when it&#x27
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by earth_walker 4y ago
I used to live near the first Tim Horton's. A tiny, smokey storefront on the east side of Hamilton. You could taste the cigarette butts in the crullers The coffee was so weak it tasted like the cardboard-and-wax cups it came in. There&
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by earth_walker 4y ago
The use of "design" in the context of the structure and capability of human bodies means precisely "literally designed" to many religious people, including many readers of HN. So I don't think it's out of place
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Why Hindu (the religion) and not Hindi (the language)?
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by earth_walker 4y ago
I'll chime in with some CanCon courtesy of the Northern Pikes: Her ego wrote cheques incredibly fast But her personality didn't have the cash I laughed out loud to my total dismay She ain't pretty she just l
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Whether a word should or should not be used is complex, and usually a matter of context and fashion. As a society we do sometimes decide (try) to drop the regular use a word entirely due to the sheer weight of the history around its use - t
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by earth_walker 4y ago
I immediately thought it was a joke myself - besides the picture of the thinkpad with a bolted on e-reader on a messy desk, the laptop name is "Sodom" backwards and the writer's name is an anagram for "A Sex Tool".
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by earth_walker 4y ago
I definitely do not think it's something to brag about - in the very next paragraph I point out that I believe this was too blunt an instrument. I do think it's worth contrasting with other recent responses to dissent, though, if

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