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Star Wars Novelists Seek Years of Missing Royalty Payments from Disney(wsj.com)
2 points by emeraldd 6y ago|4 comments
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by emeraldd 6y ago
It took building a lisp for me to finally understand them .. I recommend http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introdu...
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by emeraldd 6y ago
This is actually kind of disturbing to me... I didn't think story points were supposed to be used as this kind of metric. Linking performance to story points seems like a complete misapplication of something that is supposedly meant to
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by emeraldd 6y ago
I'm seeing a "this page has moved link" that points to http://amb.osdn.io/ might be worth updating the post...
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NextMind ships its real-time brain computer interface Dev Kit(venturebeat.com)
12 points by emeraldd 6y ago|0 comments
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by emeraldd 6y ago
That's reasonable ... The times I've worked with hour based estimates, we were assigning tickets to people up front and there always had to be a bit of a scaling factor based on who was doing the work. (mostly relative to their sk
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by emeraldd 6y ago
Honestly, I've never found story pointing exercises to result in anything resembling reality. Maybe if it's a task you've already done a hundred times and everyone knows "oh it's just doing that ...". Anytime y
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by emeraldd 6y ago
That's only partially true. Having dealt with these from both sides, I'd say you need to be familiar enough with some language (not necessarily c-style) to be able to write code on the fly ...
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by emeraldd 6y ago
I'd buy it. - 17 years ago I was pretty good with Microchip PIC microcontroller assembly. (Haven't touched it since.) Today, I'd have to pull the datasheets and spend a few days re-reading them to remember much of any of it.
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by emeraldd 6y ago
As the others have said. Also, the `-o` in particular includes the list of potentially offensive options.
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by emeraldd 6y ago
That's exactly the info I was looking for thanks!
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by emeraldd 6y ago
Any chance you can provide a source for this? It would be informative to know a few more details about the situation...
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by emeraldd 6y ago
This is the kind of thing that would make me seriously second guess every selling anything to, working for, or otherwise interacting with Disney. As someone with minuscule experience as a writer this is just down right scummy and all but un
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by emeraldd 6y ago
There's one use case for Ansible that it handles amazingly well that seems to get ignored pretty frequently. It's an extremely useful tool for setting up the same machine it's running on using the local connection type. I&#x2
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by emeraldd 6y ago
It's very jarring to say the least. My first impression playing with Big Sur under parallels was that everything on screen seemed to take up too much space. The corner radius change in particular is enough to really bug me. Though I di
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by emeraldd 6y ago
huh ... Seems like the patents might be expired? https://patents.google.com/patent/US8131597 https://patents.google.com/patent/US6199048
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by emeraldd 6y ago
Somewhat related: What ever happened with the QR Code to url shortener patent lawsuits that were going on several years ago ... 2013ish I think? Is it still risking a lawsuit to use them? Context: https://www.paperspecs.com/
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by emeraldd 6y ago
Would it make more sense to change this to https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/space/science/lattice-confinement-... ? One of the first links from the article. The original is spectacularly badly formatted and interspersed
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by emeraldd 6y ago
I wonder if this boils down to which level of support contract you buy?
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Ask HN: Using Containers for Local Compilation
2 points by emeraldd 6y ago|1 comments
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by emeraldd 6y ago
I can't help smiling at this analysis. It feels like something you'd hear from a sci-fi story engineer working on an rundown ship that just keeps going no matter what ...
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by emeraldd 6y ago
When they started talking about ammonium nitrate, my first thought was of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explos... and the possibility of a shipment of fertilizer somehow getting caught in
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by emeraldd 6y ago
Looks like Digital Ocean is reporting an issue with their upstream provider: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/6wtmldty17g1 As big as this is, any chance a major hub/backbone went down?
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by emeraldd 6y ago
Simple answer, No. Microsofts overall approach to licensing is complex enough that you have to be an expert in their license to even have an inkling of an idea what is permissible and what isn't. The OS layer is just the tip of the ice
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by emeraldd 6y ago
This a thousand times over! WTH is a Quibi and why should I care? That's the question I always asked after one of those commercials. It was like watching someone trying to sell a blank notebook with a fancy cover that wouldn't tak
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by emeraldd 6y ago
On top of that, the advertising tried to sell the platform itself. That might work if the platform already has content people want. Since people want the content, they want the platform. Instead, there wasn't anything there that people
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by emeraldd 6y ago
The concept reminds me a lot of device described in https://www.amazon.com/The-Genesis-Machine-James-P-Hogan-aud... I wonder if the authors have read it ...
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by emeraldd 6y ago
* Do not use `@here` or similar if you can avoid it. * We have a couple of all-sites channels that a restricted on who can post (in practice or effect for the smaller ones) that are subdivided by function. * Use threads and switch to thread
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Ask HN: What do developers think of cloud IDEs?
2 points by emeraldd 6y ago|2 comments
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by emeraldd 6y ago
Honestly, this is probably a big part of the reason I've really come to dislike things like Scrum and what Agile looks like now. My experience has been that these methodologies tend to treat devs as fungible cogs which fits very much w

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