emilssolmanis

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   by emilssolmanis 6y ago

   Slaves, lots and lots of slaves, many of whom died. Exactly as you'd imagine something of epic proportions being made in the 19th century.
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   by emilssolmanis 8y ago

   Yes, because at least then it's obvious how they make money.
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   by emilssolmanis 8y ago

   Looks like Beanstalk for Kube by Google.
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   by emilssolmanis 9y ago

   I half expected this to be another IoT thing. The car broadcasting some form of wireless signal when it switches gears for some app integration, and the alarm picking that up.
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   by emilssolmanis 9y ago

   Nothing against the article strictly speaking, but can we stop with the "subtle" innuendos to get clicks already? We have enough sexist crap going in the industry as is.
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   by emilssolmanis 10y ago

   So you installed a WP plugin without doing any research and hoped it would make your pages faster by using unicorns and magic, or to quote > Most importantly, I was surprised to find out that instead of redirecting users to an optimized
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   by emilssolmanis 10y ago

   Same here. Spotify finally pissed me off enough yesterday that I just went and cancelled and I'll see how Play works out. It's just far too buggy and I don't remember a day I haven't had problems with it lately.
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   by emilssolmanis 10y ago

   Honestly, I'd extend this to any serious exercise. I'm not a big fan of weights, but I run a lot and it's profoundly changed things. All the research into +20% cognitive, getting tired a lot less, everything you've r
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   by emilssolmanis 10y ago

   After two years in London, insane rent is kind of the default state I assume for any city. Thanks!
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    by emilssolmanis 10y ago

    To be honest, I haven't studied the visa types that deep (i.e., I probably know everything there is to know about the US ones, almost nothing about the Australian ones). I'm an EU (Latvian) citizen looking to get away from the c
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    Ask HN: Contracting in Australia / Sydney

    7 points by emilssolmanis 10y ago|7 comments
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    by emilssolmanis 11y ago

    UK is definitely one of them, and there's a support page listing them. Preordered mine within some 20 mins of it opening and no problem shipping to a London address.
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    Kid's spelling mistake grounds to search house and computers(bbc.co.uk)

    2 points by emilssolmanis 11y ago|0 comments
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    by emilssolmanis 11y ago

    GoDaddy has had a lot of social engineering scandals, I wouldn't ever do any business with them. Been with namecheap for quite a while, had no issues.
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    by emilssolmanis 11y ago

    > [..] on top of tkinter which is one of the most productive graphical toolkits. > .. > [..] on top of Tkinter that is such a great graphical toolkit. Right. About as great as pulling teeth. Not that there's many alternatives,
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    by emilssolmanis 11y ago

    Also happens to parse XML with regexes. Lovely.
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    by emilssolmanis 11y ago

    There's the very obvious UX problem though, that for weight, all you need to do is step on a block of solid material, whereas this has a lot more friction in the process. Not sure that's solvable, but that's been my main reas
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    by emilssolmanis 11y ago

    In any definition, a near miss is a hit. A "near hit" would be what you're looking for... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKdvTecYAM
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    Getting call performance data in a live Tornado application(deliciouscake.me)

    1 points by emilssolmanis 11y ago|0 comments
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    by emilssolmanis 12y ago

    So I got tired of not having any reasonable metrics library, because scales * uses a thread for the decay ticker, which breaks it if you use Tornado with fork() * uses "clever tricks" and gets frisky with stack-frames to figure ou
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    Show HN: Tapes, sane metrics for Python(github.com)

    2 points by emilssolmanis 12y ago|1 comments
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    by emilssolmanis 12y ago

    The whole point of it is kind of moot though, an impulse burglar would just roam the neighbourhood to find a target and one with a specific target has better ways of finding out if the house is empty than 1 inhabitant posting to instagram..
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    by emilssolmanis 12y ago

    Confirmed, also doesn't ask for any permissions or show any pop-up, just a kind of "blocked" icon.
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    by emilssolmanis 12y ago

    London or Remote, Full Time Stack: Java, Hadoop, Storm, Python, Flask, Celery, JavaScript, node.js, Backbone.js, Backbone.Marionette, HBase, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, RabbitMQ Resume: https://bit.ly/es_cv , https
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    by emilssolmanis 12y ago

    While we're at it, we should rename "web servers" to "web attendants".