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by enko 13y ago
This is a rhetorical question. Of course it could. I've ridden driverless trains in at least three countries - the technology is unquestionably available, proven, and safe. Is it possible politically? That is the real question. Perhaps
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by enko 13y ago
This series is invaluable. I have been programming in Ruby professionally for over 7 years and did not know about Array()! Since then I have been joyfully combing through my repos and eliminating literally dozens of obj = [obj] unless o
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by enko 13y ago
A little too much snark for my taste but this is fundamentally a good point. The same people who would rail against MS's rule-bending are very likely to be the same ones cheering on regulatory disobedience in startups, and frankly the
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by enko 13y ago
That website was so obnoxiously ignorant I at first thought it was a parody, but if so, it is profoundly unfunny. It embeds a video called Why is money being spent on contraception when people are starving? . It features a chubby man on a
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by enko 13y ago
You can download the entire thing as a PDF! That is frigging awesome!
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by enko 13y ago
Have I ever lived with someone who had unwelcome sexual advances made to her at a party? Yep. In fact I myself have been the victim of "sexual assault", to use your rather inclusive definition. I would imagine a large proportion o
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by enko 13y ago
Yeah, "amazing" is not really the word I was thinking of. There's a lot that is strange about this story, and that detail about the boyfriend tying his legs together with a belt is just the icing on the cake. That is bizarr
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by enko 13y ago
Unfortunately CORS is not really doable if you have to support IE and need non-cookie authentication, as my company recently discovered to our sorrow. No custom headers, so goodbye to your X-Auth-Token. That has only been fixed in IE10.
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by enko 13y ago
> a friend who spent a year in Japan remarked that, e.g. policemen carry dictionaries with them I am not at all surprised to hear that. I have family in Japan and have observed many times an inability to remember how to write a certain k
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by enko 13y ago
Yeah, modify to taste. I only wanted to post some example code to show how easy it is to automate tagging. My code won't be appropriate if you don't use master/staging/production branches, either.
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by enko 13y ago
after "deploy:restart", "deploy:tag_release" desc 'Tag release' task :tag_release do `git checkout #{rails_env}` `git tag #{rails_env}_#{DateTime.now.strftime "%Y_%m_%d-%H_%M"}`
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by enko 13y ago
While I am pretty sympathetic to the anti-TPP cause, the video is awful . It started off with ridiculous scaremongering about "frankenfoods", ie GMO foods, which have the potential for incredible benefits for mankind. It even spe
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by enko 13y ago
I really like the story. I recognise it, partially. Downvoting you because your link is to unrelated "Patriarchy 101" nonsense.
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by enko 13y ago
> fully operational by 2065 That's with a late-2020s start, presumably to avoid having to make any decisions within anyone's political lifetime. I view Hyperloop as an extremely optimistic, naive and totally unproven idea. Wake
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by enko 13y ago
Dear Microsoft: Out of ARM and x86, choose one. Just choose one. For the love of god, choose ONE. Can you imagine Apple, or anyone else, deliberately releasing two different tablets, with the same name, which can not run each others' s
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by enko 13y ago
Fair enough. I suppose the entire HN corpus would probably not be that large compared to modern HW capabilities. Still seems to be a bit fragile, though. I am assuming persistence is a periodic thing, making the system vulnerable to eg. p
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by enko 13y ago
Oh, for fuck's sake. Comrade, I look forward to reading your riveting manifesto .. elsewhere .
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by enko 13y ago
You have got to be kidding me. The machine this server runs on must have a lot of RAM!
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by enko 13y ago
> Easy karma, pg. Considering pg can likely award himself arbitrary karma points with a single SQL statement, I think your assumption of his motives is probably mistaken.
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by enko 13y ago
> The only thing that's changed about Zuck is he's learned to not say these things out loud I am not a fan of Zuckerberg, but I don't think you have any right to claim such a thing. People can change. It's good to hea
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by enko 13y ago
I also live in Australia and use Whatsapp all the time. Skype is way too heavyweight. Facebook ... I do not trust facebook at all, and do not wish to tie up my messaging capabilities with them. > Also, everyone I know wouldn't pay f
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by enko 13y ago
It's extremely hard to measure, but stunts like that seem to definitely add to "hype". I mean, it's being posted organically here on HN, isn't it! "Hype" definitely gets sales. It leads to people checking
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by enko 13y ago
Ah, I see what you mean. Yeah, that's a bit obnoxious, especially when it's something as gratuitous as a slideshow or something with CPU-hungry fading eye candy.
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by enko 13y ago
I believe mobile is currently about 18% of web usage market share, and windows phone is about 2% of mobile, so your situation is probably less than half of one percent of users - well below the level where specific support is economically v
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by enko 13y ago
> It's not clear to me how disclosing NSA's decryption breakthroughs benefits the public debate much, unlike previous disclosures Well, that's the problem with trying to keep everything secret. If the majority of these &
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by enko 13y ago
> it's not just numbers on a balance sheet I think you will find that it is, actually. The only thing stopping some deux ex machina reaching down and writing new numbers is a desire to not mess with "the system". But wha
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by enko 13y ago
I honestly have no idea what you are talking about. What conspiracy theories? We are talking about the frigging news. Do you know what a troll is? It's someone who asserts deliberately stupid/annoying arguments to get a rise out o
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by enko 13y ago
> No, it's hyperbole. It's unsupported nonsense. Do you think repeating yourself makes you right? It does not. You've not earned any kind of right to dismiss the matter with statements like that. I actually looked at the a
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by enko 13y ago
I can't tell if you're arguing against me, or the UK government - you know, the ones who detained the partner of a journalist using anti-terrorism law. That is where this connection was made. Of course I think their actions are ou
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by enko 13y ago
I know you think you're being very clever, with your disingenuous "A LITTLE", but ironically it really is only a little hyperbole in the grandparent comment. For fuck's sake, partners of journalists in the UK are being i

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