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by falsedan 9y ago
> the "joke" It's "hilarious", you're missing out on "a witty insight" about "valuable programming skills". alt post: it's as much of a joke as xkcd's "I understood
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by falsedan 9y ago
What about a smart card then?
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by falsedan 9y ago
Same question but now the browser is using local storage?
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by falsedan 9y ago
Why does this need an app? Looks like it would work just as well with a browser extension reading the QR code.
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by falsedan 9y ago
…is the answer 'the downvotes module'?
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by falsedan 9y ago
Which python module lets me declare object methods like: method foo(bar): self.do_foo(bar+self.baz) ? Because I get tired of all those selfs
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by falsedan 9y ago
Perl has a core function called 'unlink', which maps directly to unlink(2). Same for stat, rmdir, link, etc. They're good for when you want something more than what the coreutils give you, but don't want to compile some
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by falsedan 9y ago
CPANTS is the bane of my existence as a module author, it's also extremely rad to automatically get a test failure report for every possible combination of platform/language version.
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by falsedan 9y ago
This is difficult to explain succinctly, but biochemical processes can set up periodic events with a fair amount of accuracy. For instance, your heart beats roughly once a second when in a resting state. Some of these processes use physical
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by falsedan 9y ago
Reini, aren't you the sole dev working on cperl, the fork you set up because you disagreed with some of the patchs perl-porters accepted/rejected?
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by falsedan 9y ago
Ok Airlines can't publish their inventory because they agreed to only allow GDSes access to that data. Getting access to the GDSes as a small startup is extremely difficult, and the obvious value-add (searching many possible trips) is
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by falsedan 9y ago
"Shaking My Ear"
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by falsedan 9y ago
> makes it kinda difficult to legitimately bootstrap your ID when you're a minor (or if you're an immigrant Or a slacker: I somehow scraped up 100 points to get a passport, then didn't have photo ID to collect it from th
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by falsedan 9y ago
Love too get downvotes with no comments/feedback. Is this about the dead white men? I take it back. I didn't mean it. I changed my mind. I never meant for it to be taken this way. of all the possible interpretations of my words, I
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by falsedan 9y ago
> pay a few dollars per flight segment per query/booking/inventory update The airlines own the GDSes but carriers are a commodity now.
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by falsedan 9y ago
Yes, this article is terrible; it wastes the reader's time with pointless minutia, uses too much rhetoric, and doesn't get its facts in order. > writes for El Reg
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by falsedan 9y ago
Thanks for explaining 80000h to me.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> When we notice an inconsistency within ourselves, we generally “eschew” it, whereas “if we really were inconsistent machines, we should remain content with our inconsistencies, and would happily affirm both halves of a contradiction”
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by falsedan 9y ago
Shortcut to the top-rated 'issues': > Risks from artificial intelligence > Promoting effective altruism No mention of poverty, health, education, war.
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by falsedan 9y ago
We have a special themed mailing list which it is customary to send a humourous message and appropriately-themed animal picture to.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> but the big ones like booking.com take everything they can, and they can take a lot. You mean, take as much as is offered? The hotels are free to let the rooms sit idle & refuse the bookings; they wouldn't pay these commissi
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by falsedan 9y ago
> these sites are nothing more than ads You got it: they're traffic funnels that you pay per conversion.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> they'd get together and form an industry working group, and design simple, standard data formats and querying/booking APIs, and then make all their data available through them Are you familiar with SABRE/AMEDEUS? The f
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by falsedan 9y ago
> Lol Who is this comment addressed to? The article doesn't make these claims, and you didn't reply to another comment.
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by falsedan 9y ago
LEGO Group marketing is on another level.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> novel The problem & solution seemed trivial, not novel: tallest structure with _these four_ pieces (get them on their sides) vs. _any four_ pieces (hmm what is the longest piece, will it be stable on its side, can they be stacked
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by falsedan 9y ago
> context of education Oh, advancement through self-education? There's practically zero pedagogic content on HN. Or in this submission! How did the father guide his daughter? Through examples & showing a restricted subset of t
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by falsedan 9y ago
My opinion is 100% genuine and stupid. i don't read the comments.
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by falsedan 9y ago
Slamming my nerd card down so hard the whole table spins around It's hacker news, not motivational team building shared insight news. I'd expect a GA solver which selected the four pieces which could be constructed into the talles
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by falsedan 9y ago
Oh, I missed the context. I agree 100%

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