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by ep103 12y ago
Updated, thanks!
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by ep103 12y ago
This is what edmund burke meant when he said "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing," and Arendt meant when she coined the term "The banality of evil." But I always thought it was
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by ep103 12y ago
Well, its not often I say I wish I lived closer to Ottawa, but I fully agree with this post, and it was quite nice to see it written down elsewhere.
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by ep103 12y ago
My notes from the video: 1) breaks all compatibility with angular 1 2) there are no longer directives, controllers, $scope or jqLite 3) forces use es6 features that haven't been accepted yet by the community. 4) forces static typing of
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by ep103 12y ago
If google is going to attempt to use angular to get developers to use this (as opposed to just letting it fail naturally, like Dart), then I'm done using angular.
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by ep103 12y ago
Is anyone else simply getting tired of the number of ways google is attempting to (in their words) "replace JavaScript as the lingua franca of web development on the open web platform"? Dart, Angular, and AtScript are just the th
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What's it do, just compiles to js for the front end?
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That's a really bad example. I suggest www.kennedyandoswald.com/
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I think its generally understood that most artificial sweeteners are seen as sugar by the body, but don't actually get turned into sugar in the bloodstream. So it makes sense that it might contribute to diabetes (your body digests it
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by ep103 12y ago
If you're just going out into the woods for a day, its relatively easy to stay safe. You wear certain types of clothes, tuck them into each other a certain way, spray yourself with tick repellent, come home, throw them immediately int
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by ep103 12y ago
Because the only way to learn the answer to that question, is to learn why people are using the other languages, which in turn, likely means researching them and learning them for yourself. To answer your question more on point, the first t
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Couldn't you say this about every industry though? I feel like I could have read the exact same post, with the word engineer literally substituted for any other job name, and it'd still read the same. Is that a fair assessment,
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What Chrome does better is identifying a few key features, and then throwing a multi-million dollar sales and marketing team at it, until enough people think its the best browser again. (then hiding user lock-in as innovative, minimal UI)
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by ep103 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8454456
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by ep103 12y ago
Because the problem is that the encryption is still happening within Chrome, not within linux itself (if I understand this correctly), and the latest build of Chrome for Linux now includes this drm. So the issue is either still 1) W3C cave
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what about distance? Can xim do it with my friend wherever they are?
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by ep103 12y ago
What happened with coin?
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by ep103 12y ago
I believe to date every time an individual has sued about receiving a national security letter, the government has arrange to remove the NSL gag and get the suit dropped, so as to prevent setting a precedence as to their limits or illegalit
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by ep103 12y ago
Yes, but the meaning of left in America is so far off the definition for the entire rest of the world, it is hardly worth considering.
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Is it possible that papers that get the awards help give the scientists new ways of looking at problems, while the papers that are frequently cited are more likely to follow established viewpoints and back it with hard data I can use to jus
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by ep103 12y ago
My high school science teacher told us that he was given the prize for the photoelectric effect because that was a well understood mechanism by the time of the awarding. It was generally understood that relativity was going to be a bigger
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by ep103 12y ago
The rest of his points are spot on, though, as is Bane's reply.
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was there a HN submission of that article?
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Theory: Wallstreet has limited other domestic outlets for their investment money since the 2008 crash, and is therefore investing heavily in tech. This will continue until either 1) more sectors of the economy recover present new and/
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by ep103 12y ago
yeah. I remember some ~7 years ago reading about a research team that stated that they had rewritten many of the fundamental equations of (some branch of) quantum physics to show that they could be written in a completely deterministic man
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What's amazing is that the arguments they're using are already out of date. The argument that these records are only being used for anti-terrorism purposes was shot down by the revelation of the NSA's "google-like inter
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The real question, then, is how step 3 goes. Historically, the US has always cycled between step 2 and then bounced back to sanity around step 3.
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The title alerted you to the news, you can search for coverage on other outlets after it breaks.
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Ithaca, NY has one of these too : )
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I think what he means is even if it turned out to just be thermal energy, then that means this device has the capability of directing thermal energy as a viable proportion source, so its still pretty great : )

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