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811.
by fergie 9y ago
If that is the case, I have over-represented the pool of professors, which strengthens the point
812.
by fergie 9y ago
Its a bit unfair for professional football to be portrayed as an unreasonable aspiration pursued by naive working class kids. In actual fact the UK currently has around 4000 professional footballers, many of whom will play for a couple of y
813.
by fergie 9y ago
I just followed that link, which led to a page containing another "previous discussion" link, and then a couple more, and ended back on a slashdot article from Monday August 28, 2000!! Shazam has always been a pretty amazing produ
814.
by fergie 9y ago
I actually didn't, there was no team.
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by fergie 9y ago
I second this. I worked at a university for a few years, and lots of people were jealous of my private office in a distant building, but I just found it socially isolating. That said, I did get a lot done.
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by fergie 9y ago
This should probably be seen in the light of the recent strife in the node.js community that has led to a forking of the codebase into Ayo.js.
817.
by fergie 9y ago
The extended family put the word out and people came to them. Presumably they paid a fee so that winners would get a larger payout.
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by fergie 9y ago
This was the 80s-90s, and it could well have been as you say.
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by fergie 9y ago
Years ago I had a friend who's father made a living smuggling cigarettes (and probably other stuff) from Northern Africa to Gibraltar. He laundered his income by buying winning lottery tickets.
820.
by fergie 9y ago
Is Oakland OK or is it really sketchy? Getting mixed messages.
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by fergie 9y ago
Why would this investment makes sense? Can anybody ELI5?
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by fergie 9y ago
Mirror?
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by fergie 9y ago
Yes, its my impression that the tide is turning, particularly in urban areas that are walkable, and a lot safer than they were 20-30 years ago
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by fergie 9y ago
Yes of course 'urgent care' exists outside the US (assuming that you mean A&E). One of the most baffling things about this whole debate is the assumption by some Americans that socialised medicine is somehow lacking. It really
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by fergie 9y ago
"Why did IE5’s HTML Components never quite catch on? Despite what you might think, it’s not because of a lack of open standards" Actually thats precisely why it never caught on. Source: I was front end developer at one of the big
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by fergie 9y ago
Bugzilla
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by fergie 9y ago
Not a gigantic fan of async/await for the reasons that others have mentioned here, but that said it provides the only sane out-of-the-box way for JS to handle loops that contain callbacks/promises.
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by fergie 9y ago
You can still use X to run a local GUI hooked up to a remote machine, and 15 years ago that was pure voodoo magic.
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by fergie 9y ago
What are the benefits of reviewers over automated testing? My workflow (which I believe is pretty standard) is: * Write code * Verify that tests pass locally (including stylistic tests, linting) * Submit pull request * Pull request triggers
830.
by fergie 9y ago
https://github.com/fergiemcdowall/search-index/ - its a lib for making embedable, torrantable, load-into-the-browserable search indices. Pretty modest downloads so far, but I love hacking on it.
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by fergie 9y ago
Yes, cars, alcohol and food are _much_ more expensive in Norway, mostly due to taxation, and to a lesser degree the high cost of labour. Norwegian income tax is subject to a lot of deductions, so in practice people will never pay the full w
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by fergie 9y ago
No. Norway has extremely high salaries, and income tax that is pretty much equivalent to California (about 1/3 of your gross salary after deductions), in fact Norway is one of the easiest countries to become rich: https://ww
833.
by fergie 9y ago
> Facebook ... has a pretty substantial moat by way of users 'punishing' each other for leaving What do you mean by this?
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by fergie 9y ago
Odd that a service which relies the newest tech and coolest music is cutting offices in SF and London.
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by fergie 9y ago
Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/product/market-data/
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by fergie 9y ago
It looks promising- but does it come with Linux?
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by fergie 9y ago
Thats a good idea- I do have an old Air kicking around, but it seems a shame to lose a mac in order to gain a Linux. In any case I would like something new and purpose built.
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by fergie 9y ago
Define great.
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Ask HN: Linux laptop with MacBook-like build quality
45 points by fergie 9y ago|86 comments
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by fergie 9y ago
A professional basketball player earns entry to a guild of high ability players after a lifetime of competing against their peers. Since they must continually prove their worth in a public arena, and they are competing against such a high p

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