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by gaius 8y ago
Michele I always upvote your posts, you are a solid contributor here, ignore the haters upthread.
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by gaius 8y ago
the culturally lassez-faire tech industry, which introduced casual fridays to the world. Casual fridays were invented by stuffy British stockbrokers who wanted to escape quickly to their country pursuits for the weekend without having to
873.
by gaius 8y ago
you could say experimenting is technically impossible. You could but that hasn’t stopped anyone so far
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by gaius 8y ago
compete head on with Mercedes Tesla’s brand is strong enough that they can charge Mercedes level prices with poor quality interior fittings. Sit in a Tesla, it feels like a car costing half as much. If Mercedes can maintain their user exp
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by gaius 8y ago
It would be like learning BASIC. If I had an opportunity to do Real Work in BBC BASIC I would jump on it
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by gaius 8y ago
John Harrop himself posted on reddit awhile back that he hadn't personally used OCaml in a long time when someone asked about the book on the OCaml sub reddit. His username starts with jdh I think. Honestly though, scientific computin
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by gaius 8y ago
What’s the downside to that strategy? It seems like a no-brainer at first glance
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by gaius 8y ago
It’s more like they are dangling over an abyss and the person holding them up lets go.
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by gaius 8y ago
Trader A makes $10m in year 1 and gets a $1m bonus. She loses $10m in year 2, and gets no bonus so the firm is down her $1m bonus. Trader B makes $1m in years 1 and 2. That’s too low to trigger a bonus, but his firm is up $2m. The system do
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by gaius 8y ago
Yes, I’ve never smoked cigarettes but I’ve always envied the way smokers could always just take a few minutes to gather their thoughts whenever they wanted. And smoking as a social activity cuts out all class and other boundaries.
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by gaius 8y ago
The military has strong incentives to penalise not taking vows seriously, in general
882.
by gaius 8y ago
But holy cow how disposable do you view people to just up and remove them out of your life because of a disagreement I’ve never de-friended anyone over a disagreement over particular policy but I have erased people from my life whose styl
883.
by gaius 8y ago
Facebook masquerades as facilitating relationships between A and B whereas A and B really only have relationships with Facebook itself, at least on their platform.
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by gaius 8y ago
Second, when I did go back, I realized I was just endlessly scrolling - a behavior the UI encourages - looking for anything interesting in the sea of memes, selfies, and nonsense. You pull down... something spins... sometimes you get a re
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by gaius 8y ago
Holmes tried to be the heroine. Holmes tried to convince people she was the heroine, which is not quite the same thing I suppose they could also make a movie about Fiorina, boldly destroying jobs and shareholder value at a rate no one had
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by gaius 8y ago
If you send files to a law firm they will print them anyway and bill you an exorbitant amount, like £1/page. So that that was them saying fuck you to the lawyers!
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by gaius 8y ago
Katniss was a heroine to the viewers. Holmes is not a heroine to a anyone. And she exploited the “strong female” narrative all along the way, undermining other women.
888.
by gaius 8y ago
JIRA out of the box is fairly sane. The problem is it’s so easy to customise and project managers go crazy with statuses and custom fields and mandatory transitions.
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by gaius 8y ago
Very surprised she would take on such a reviled role, she hasn’t historically played villains has she? I think that movie was planned at a time that Holmes was still believed to be tragic and delusional rather than a cold-blooded conwoman w
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by gaius 8y ago
Back in the ‘90’s we used to say the e in email is for “evidence”
891.
by gaius 8y ago
Well, it’s the intent, I don’t know how effective it really is. But that’s where cold-towel-on-forehead comes from.
892.
by gaius 8y ago
large socially-important infrastructure companies should not play politics I predict within a year the platform vs publisher issue will be resolved legislatively if not done voluntarily.
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by gaius 8y ago
Cold towels on the head is to lower brain temperature while allowing the fever to run elsewhere. Brain tissue is much more susceptible to thermal damage than the rest of the body.
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by gaius 8y ago
Yep, Turkey buying an S400 system from Russia. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41237812
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by gaius 8y ago
None of the British carriers was sunk during the Falklands war Yes and no. The Atlantic Conveyor , a makeshift helicopter carrier, was sunk, taking the UK’s Chinooks with it, leading to the famous “yomp” across the island. But you are ri
896.
by gaius 8y ago
The JSF is down to one engine, which if redlined, will down the whole fleet Not to mention that for UK and Europe, pork-barrel politics means those engines can only be serviced by one country that is increasingly distancing itself from th
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by gaius 8y ago
With a golden parachute and his pension fully intact? That is conspicuously absent from the article but it is usually the way. And no bar in being a director of another firm. The executive class are a law unto themselves. What happens to th
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by gaius 8y ago
That is where they are getting the money not from the voters. They will say whatever they can to get votes then turn around the day after elected to ask their patrons what to vote for. Exactly this. The Clintons went from stony broke to a
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by gaius 8y ago
The true military technique for falling asleep easily is to march 15 miles carrying a 100lb rucksack first
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by gaius 8y ago
But how do you kill the modern web? There’s no actual need for a page to be 10Mb to deliver 5k of text and a 50k JPEG. Esp not on mobile.

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