elygre

26 ms·

331.
by elygre 7y ago
"You don't need x" is a headline targeting the intended audience, namely people who are about to use x. "Here is when to use x" targets people who don't use x, but should, typically not the audience. "You
332.
by elygre 7y ago
Ask them why they don’t buy DIY-kits for furniture, or assemble computers from individual parts.
333.
by elygre 7y ago
On my iPhone, the setting is “mobile data”, I.e. you can stop it from using cellular data (normally payable), but you can not stop it from using WiFi (presumably free).
334.
by elygre 7y ago
I agree, they didn’t. You may have to use other sources for that.
335.
by elygre 7y ago
According to the announcement, they ban behavior. The “slightly less than half the country” can still use the site.
336.
by elygre 7y ago
Is malice a requirement for taxation?
337.
by elygre 7y ago
It was merged "yesterday", some 28 hours ago, ref https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/pull/553 .
338.
by elygre 7y ago
What, they take leave after the children are old enough that the father-child relationship has proven to be a good one?
339.
by elygre 7y ago
Uber prepared their employees for this: "At least two dozen times, the San Francisco headquarters locked down equipment in foreign offices to shield files from police raids." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/art
340.
by elygre 7y ago
Wouldn't clone keep the entire history of the original repo, while this gives a single initial commit?
341.
by elygre 7y ago
There is whitespace on the sides, but the vertical space is mostly content. No?
342.
by elygre 7y ago
That’s ok. You can go elsewhere.
343.
by elygre 7y ago
Do you have any data to back the assertion that this was about unions? My gut says that it’s more probable that it was the hacker news crowd trying to test the technology, but I have to admit to have absolutely no data to support this asser
344.
by elygre 7y ago
ThatI would argue that an population based map projection would put Jönköping nicely in the middle. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/massive-world-map-redrawn-b...
345.
by elygre 7y ago
I seem to remember an Alistair MacLean book where the secret messages (spy business) were coded in a model train setup. It was then disguised in a set of time tables that, when run, would end up with the train cars in a particular order, an
346.
by elygre 7y ago
From an interview with the soldier [1] (translated by me): "I've been fascinated by war as long as I can remember. I always dreamed of being a soldier, and of experiencing war myself, says "Mike"" The Norwegian forc
347.
by elygre 7y ago
Back in the 19th century, when Ignaz Semmelweis suggested that washing hands was a good idea, he met a lot of resistance. From wikiepedia, "Some doctors, for instance, were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands,
348.
by elygre 8y ago
Fascinating. I submitted the same ticket a month or two ago, with the same initial response. (Now I just stopped holding my breath. Ah, breathing is good!)
349.
by elygre 8y ago
Real programmers have a shortcut on C-x M-c M-butterfly.
350.
by elygre 8y ago
Back in the late 80s, we ordered a $100.000 upgrade for a minicomputer system. The technician literally used a pair of pliers to cut a wire on the board, and the upgrade was complete.
351.
by elygre 8y ago
What about https://github.com/ryantimpe/brickr/blob/master/LICENSE.md ?
352.
by elygre 8y ago
Does this mean that the US is populated by people who don’t mind leaving the weaklings to die on the way?
353.
by elygre 8y ago
While oracle supports raw devices, and have their own reasonably good way of managing that, most installations I see used is files for storage. (Which leaves the question of how oracle handles this unanswered, of course)
354.
by elygre 8y ago
Using a librarian to manage knowledge in an organized organization sounds like a no brainer. They are trained for just that stuff!
355.
by elygre 8y ago
Is C# more open than Java?
356.
by elygre 8y ago
But then the four last sentences say that they don't actually audit so much -- but they will, in five years' time! It’s too soon. Give it five years when you’re stuck in Oracle’s ecosystem and Oracle needs money. Then they’ll sta
357.
by elygre 8y ago
Telephone directories may take quite a bit of work to compile, but perhaps more labor than creativity. I can't off hand think of too many ways to organize such a directory. I can immediately think of many ways to do dates, and so can m
358.
by elygre 8y ago
I also always found it amusing that people thought API design was not creative and protectable. Like, “how many ways can you do a date api”, and then turn around to look at the original java Date api, the Calendar api, JodaTime and JSR310.
359.
by elygre 8y ago
Agree. But generally irrelevant here, since the minke is not in danger of extinction.
360.
by elygre 8y ago
Why did they do what?

More ›