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by geoffmunn 5y ago
If a crypto coin transaction has passed through a wallet which is known to be held by a scammer (or Russian govt), you can blacklist that coin. Tumblers help, but takes away credibility.
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by geoffmunn 5y ago
People seem to think that it’s easy to create a SWIFT alternative (one that gains acceptance) and that Putin is logging into Coinbase to buy bitcoin. Neither is going to happen.
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by geoffmunn 5y ago
That's what I've been wondering. If this drags on for too long and becomes too costly for the Russians, what are the odds that Putin gets rolled?
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by geoffmunn 5y ago
I've always assumed that Gmail gave Google the opportunity to see how people actually type (use words), so they can link topics together and improve their search capabilities. The value of this would exceed the cost of email I would im
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by geoffmunn 5y ago
Select * is lazy and gives future developers (or even yourself later on) any hints about your intention for the query. Never use *, you’ll thank yourself later on.
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by geoffmunn 5y ago
At a very large bank here in Australia & NZ, all XML messages going through the main message bus had a trailing space character appended to the end, which broke XML validation on the receiving endpoint. So the solution was for all endpo
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by geoffmunn 5y ago
Iframes were a non-standard IE-only feature that also had accessibility issues and obviously wouldn't work in Netscape. They were very handy for a variety of scenarios so it became part of the spec, but I think most self-respecting web
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by geoffmunn 5y ago
It really bothers me when people try and pass off bamboo-based fabrics as being natural. It's called rayon and it's about as synthetic as you can possibly get. For those who are interested: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by geoffmunn 5y ago
I find the concept of a black dwarf to be fascinating. Like you said - none have existed yet, and any absorption of matter as it floats through space will prolong its radiant heat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dw
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by geoffmunn 5y ago
Any chance of getting Snow Leopard? That was the most stable version I've ever used.
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by geoffmunn 5y ago
I bought down one of Australasia's biggest banks for 8 hours when I requested a backup of the production database for a test cycle we were about to start. Unfortunately the database structure had changed and the backup script hadn&#x27
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by geoffmunn 5y ago
In New Zealand, immigration send details of selected individuals to US Homeland Security for further analysis. The reason it goes to the US is because we (NZ) don't have the resources to do what the US does. Homeland Security specifica
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by geoffmunn 5y ago
I asked my dad about this a while back - he spent his entire career in civil engineering and he said almost exactly what you just did. Basically; modern concrete is far better, but often not built that way.
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by geoffmunn 5y ago
Mince pies are definitely a thing in New Zealand (and Australia to some extent). They come in all sorts of varieties - plain mince, mince and cheese (yum), steak and cheese, mince and potato, and then some exotic varieties like butter chick
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by geoffmunn 5y ago
As a New Zealander, it pains me to see how Aboriginal Australians were (and still are) treated. In NZ, we're not perfect, but holy moly Australia is 50 years behind us.
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by geoffmunn 6y ago
Using em and ex is definitely the best way of doing relative font sizing, but the reason is something I don't think people properly understand. 1em is the width of a capital M character. 1ex is the height of the capital X character (of
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by geoffmunn 6y ago
I asked my parents about this, and they said that peanuts weren't common back then - they were expensive and a luxury so as a result we didn't have such widespread visibility of the problem.
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by geoffmunn 6y ago
Being able to forgive yourself. You're not perfect and mistakes will be made. Becoming a father showed me that I've sometimes said and done stupid things in front of a very impressionable small person, but all I can do is to promi
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by geoffmunn 6y ago
As a developer, I've found that the Agile methodology is great for weeding out bullshitters. A decently run sprint planning session with a retrospective at the end will highlight who didn't actually do anything. The killer feature
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by geoffmunn 6y ago
Flashback: I was on Actrix which charged $5 per megabyte. Downloading Netscape Navigator 2 nearly bankrupted me. I used to browse the internet with images disabled, which ironically gave me an appreciation for accessibility issues which ser
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by geoffmunn 6y ago
JavaScript style sheets were proposed by Netscape but didn't get any further adoption and were then dropped. These days it seems that CSS has evolved to support a lot of the features that JSS supported. https://en.wikipedia.
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by geoffmunn 6y ago
But given that it's so small, what would the gravitational forces be if you made a shell with a 100km radius? Or pick a number - surely at some point it might be practical to build something.
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by geoffmunn 6y ago
I've been wondering - if the black hole was very small (I've read elsewhere that it would be grapefruit sized), would it be possible to build some kind of box around it so you couldn't accidentally go into the event horizon?
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by geoffmunn 6y ago
Be prepared to accept that you might not actually like CS, and there could be something else that really takes your fancy. This happened to me, and several other people I know. Life can take you in some interesting directions!
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by geoffmunn 6y ago
I really love the idea that pure mathematics and nature are the same thing. On a philosophical level, our daily lives are the expression of the differences and inefficiencies of our systems compared to an optimal end-state. Also, sometimes
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by geoffmunn 7y ago
Of all my friends from back in the early 2000's, we've all pretty much had the same life arc. Some people got jobs as lawyers, some at banks, some were in a band, some were social workers, and then there was me - no fancy job, no
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by geoffmunn 7y ago
I graduated from university at the exact moment the dot com bust occurred, and the job market went from fizzing to non-existent in the space of a few weeks. I ended up working at a local charity, and then entering into a business incubator
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by geoffmunn 7y ago
This was taken from another angle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTAx8r_090o
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by geoffmunn 7y ago
I worked in a supermarket for several years and this happened all the time. I could never figure it out, but basically some people would change their mind and dump things right where they were standing. Normally this isn’t a big big deal -
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by geoffmunn 7y ago
I had Subway for lunch for over a year until one day I thought a bit too much about how the pork riblet sandwiches were extremely uniform in appearance, and I didn't like the way it was obviously processed to death. Subway is ok, but y

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