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by gampleman 6y ago
As someone who just had to purchase a 7 seater to fit our fourth child, I think there is a stronger effect there, except of course one wouldn't see a temporal change there as cars haven't routinely accommodated more than 5 passeng
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by gampleman 6y ago
A public hearing having (excluding a few for the family of the accused) no seats in the court room for the actual public is not a public hearing, but a secret one.
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by gampleman 6y ago
I think they serve different use cases. I love Vega-lite for exploratory analysis and for quick prototyping. You can get fantastically complex visualisations very quickly with it. But for building "production" visualisations, I th
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by gampleman 6y ago
So if the problem is that TikTok is gathering too much invasive data on US citizens (and supposedly siphoning it to China), and their defence is basically "So what, it's legal and everyone else is doing it too!", then isn&#x2
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by gampleman 6y ago
> There has never been a case in human history where one group of people voluntarily gave up their wealth, status and privilege to another group of people. Wealth transfer always leads to violence. The Velvet Revolution comes to mind. Of
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by gampleman 6y ago
I suspect that rents might even go down. One of the reasons that rents are so high is that many people are forced to live in cities (i.e. high rent places) to have a chance at a miserable job. Freeing them from that could also foster more p
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by gampleman 6y ago
As a consumer of Apple products I am not too keen on any of these suggestions. I agree that developers for Apple's platforms would like these and perhaps there is some trickle-down effect for consumers. > 1: Enable users to set defa
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by gampleman 6y ago
I take a bit of issue with the "accidentally". Having been in the deforestation-stopping business for some time it has been blindingly obvious that most approaches that were being taken were completely futile until socio-economic
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by gampleman 6y ago
A really undervalues idea in software development is architecting software for rewriting it in the future. If you make your software small and well defined, then it becomes a reasonable investment to simply rewrite it from scratch. This is
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by gampleman 6y ago
I suspect that a rather large percentage of Google's revenue is this kind of protection money: bid on your own brand or even your organic link might not even fit "above the fold". The fact that ads are more and more similar t
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by gampleman 6y ago
A lot of these discussions also sound like lockdown measures are "free". But in reality it's about balancing two unknowns. On the one hand we don't know how dangerous the virus actually is. If you look around you can fin
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by gampleman 6y ago
I think the lack of auto layout is actually a pretty significant part of the problem. It is an unsolved problem in data viz on how to layout complex graphs in a way that humans can parse. That also means that most humans are not very good a
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by gampleman 7y ago
My wife was* one of those rare people who just went ahead and asked people whatever was on her mind. This had a curious effect as I often internally winced and thought "you did not just say that". Sometimes I had the impulse to ap
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by gampleman 7y ago
I think Firebase is a much nicer version of this in the sense that it essentially eliminates the backend altogether and allows the client to talk to the DB directly. It is definitely not for every project, but if your project pretty much on
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by gampleman 7y ago
While I agree with you, I can also appreciate that intelligence/law enforcement agencies are not keen to go back to the alternatives. HUMINT is a nasty (in the moral sense), dangerous, and expensive enterprise. Would you rather train f
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by gampleman 7y ago
Personally, I think this article is full of a kind of techno-utopianism. For example with the smart phone revolution the technology has been deployed extremely rapidly to billions (!) of people. In less than a generation we've gone fro
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by gampleman 7y ago
Location: Edinburgh, UK / Nicosia, Cyprus Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Elm, JavaScript (et al), D3, Mapbox (and other web GIS), Haskell, Ruby Résumé/CV: https://stackoverflow.com/story/gam
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Lo-Dash Extensions – Extending Lo-Dash for Fun and Profit(eng.rightscale.com)
1 points by gampleman 12y ago|0 comments
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Property testing in JavaScript with quick_check.js(eng.rightscale.com)
8 points by gampleman 12y ago|0 comments