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by gmac 9y ago
CloudFormation -> RDS + Elastic Beanstalk + Lambda. Formerly Heroku, but now only for toy projects: their approach to pen testing and the insecurity of their Postgres setup count heavily against them, and they're expensive (I keep
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by gmac 9y ago
Running your own RAID on top of a handful of unreliable (probably used) disks is an unusual definition of simple in my book.
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Show HN: Map Marker Awesome(github.com)
2 points by gmac 9y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 9y ago
I'll bite: across the population as a whole, the UK has much better health outcomes than the US despite spending a lot less money on healthcare. Of course, we should be spending more money, and then I expect we'd equal or even bea
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by gmac 9y ago
Maybe this is a regional thing, but I'm British and I'm not sure I've ever heard a first language British English speaker use the word "auto" for a car. I'd have said that was purely an Americanism.
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Yale historian: “pretty much inevitable” Trump will try to overthrow democracy(salon.com)
3 points by gmac 9y ago|2 comments
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Missing square puzzle(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by gmac 9y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 9y ago
For this specific benefit, named parameters are arguably at least as useful, such as in Swift and Objective-C. [someObject doSomethingWithLatitude:55.0 longitude:0.0];
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Statistical Summary of Commercial Jet Airplane Accidents [pdf](boeing.com)
2 points by gmac 10y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 10y ago
... or indeed brick your laptop (as happened to me once with an HP).
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by gmac 10y ago
it is a constant battle against block caps for every title, every product name and every banner I know how this feels. Designing for people with big goals and limited design intuition generally means battling the implicit, repeated guidan
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by gmac 10y ago
For this reason, amongst others, I've made a simple Bash script to install StrongSwan: https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup
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by gmac 10y ago
Me too. It's also extremely flexible, at the cost of not in fact always generating correct LaTeX and sometimes needing a whole lot of debugging. I use LyX because, although I'm a programmer and perfectly capable of littering my te
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by gmac 10y ago
'Legitimate' is too broad. Google defines it as: 1. conforming to the law or to rules. 2. able to be defended with logic or justification; valid. Definition 1: maybe, although even that may be borderline, since these unsubstantiat
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by gmac 10y ago
I wonder whether banks test every £1 coin that passes through their hands. Either way, being rejected by vending machines is probably neither a sufficient nor necessary condition for being a fake, but it's almost certainly correlated.
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by gmac 10y ago
I'm pretty sure I've seen some — rather crude detailing (especially around the edges), sometimes a slightly funny colour, and consistently rejected by vending machines.
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by gmac 10y ago
You can always quit your job if you dislike the choice offered. Right, and find a job with completely different terms, which, uh, very likely doesn't exist. This kind of "everything's a choice" BS really bugs me. There
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Web Scraping for Researchers(github.com)
2 points by gmac 10y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 10y ago
Sure, the private cost of petroleum doesn't reflect the social cost. But you're saying it should be TEN MILLION TIMES dearer?
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by gmac 10y ago
Yeah, I worry that between the less obvious failure mechanics and the sense that Y2K was overblown (probably, ironically, because it was effectively mitigated), the epochalypse may not be all that nice.
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by gmac 10y ago
Cheaper, faster. http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/21/14998464/apple-replaces-ip...
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by gmac 10y ago
Reference? A quick search brought up not much.
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by gmac 10y ago
If you have to pay their engineer, there's surely nothing to stop them charging an inflated price that more than covers the parts cost, no?
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by gmac 10y ago
If that becomes a popular rule then unfortunately it's fantastically easily gamed.
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by gmac 10y ago
Right, it's photorealistic, but the scene content in that example has been carefully chosen to make the task feasible. It's clean and shiny and abstract.
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by gmac 10y ago
Just saying "horrible jerks who do really rotten things for a variety of motivations" might be more effective in helping people ascertain risk. YES. (OT, this was one of the things I most appreciated about Star Trek: Into Darkn
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by gmac 10y ago
> I'd rather see a scheme in which the practice of rule is the province of those trained and skilled in that very specialized profession. Arguably that's what happens in many places. The UK has a large, non-partisan civil servi
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by gmac 10y ago
Agreed, the brevity's the thing. As I felt moved to write in 2014: http://blog.mackerron.com/2014/10/29/great-coffeescript/ And, as you say, array comprehensions largely remove the need for each&#x2
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by gmac 10y ago
Ditto. CoffeeScript made JS almost Ruby-level fun for me. I've now switched mainly to TypeScript, which is also great (so many fewer runtime errors!). But I still miss thin arrow functions, array comprehensions, the existential operato
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by gmac 10y ago
NASA doesn't make these sorts of mistakes https://www.wired.com/2010/11/1110mars-climate-observer-repo...

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