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by iand 9y ago
Those structural engineers benefit from the millions of repeatable experiments in engineering over the past few centuries. It is an extremely well understood subject. Climate science, by comparison, has no repeatable experiments on the scal
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Transitioning to Moby(github.com)
3 points by iand 9y ago|1 comments
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by iand 10y ago
Yes. I use the bookmark toolbars in ff and chrome with icons and no text for common pages (like this http://imgur.com/a/uZBB8 ). My only other use is for groups of pages that I'm referring to or want to come back t
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by iand 10y ago
Or just use mobile.twitter.com in a desktop browser.
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by iand 10y ago
The term walled garden refers to service lock-in where membership and mode of access is tightly controlled. It's not about using an app.
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by iand 10y ago
They often have the most challenging problems around scale, security and performance. The "moral" aspect is a continuum and there are tens of thousands of engineers working in fields that some would call questionable (adtech, inte
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by iand 10y ago
Hopefully a long time, unless you are happy with your spending being mediated and controlled by a third party.
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A New Blockchain-Based Digital Advertising Platform(medium.com)
1 points by iand 10y ago|0 comments
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by iand 10y ago
For an alternate view to the "data is oil" theme, see http://bokonads.com/data-is-fallout-not-oil/
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by iand 10y ago
When you agree to forgo something, you do so because someone else asked you to do it. Otherwise you would say you offered to forgo and they accepted.
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by iand 10y ago
looks at his wired mouse and black laptop
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by iand 10y ago
It's a bug.
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by iand 10y ago
It's sloppy shorthand though because it can be (deliberately) misconstrued to suggest agency and directional purpose.
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by iand 10y ago
Chaining and failing on first error is only useful for the most trivial of error situations. Non toy programs handle errors with retry strategies, alternate algorithms and fallbacks which may all be contextual.
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by iand 10y ago
vertical tabs down the left side (with horizontal text)
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by iand 10y ago
That's what I call a comprehensive commit comment.
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by iand 10y ago
I may be mistaken about the cause. I'm on Linux and use FF without flash. Chromium with in-built flash (or flash emulation?) handles maps fine.
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by iand 10y ago
Excellent, this actually makes Maps usable for me. I don't have flash installed which seems to break place searching on standard Google Maps but not the Lite version.
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by iand 10y ago
The elephant in the room: a large majority of sites just don't have good enough content to support themselves through reasonable advertising. Too many have it 180 degrees reversed: instead of trying to support their content with advert
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by iand 10y ago
I've been working with Go for 4 years and I've not encountered it. Perhaps there was an edge case where it was allowed, but I don't recall it.
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by iand 10y ago
See my other comment for runnable example. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12925765
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by iand 10y ago
Er... https://play.golang.org/p/QyQVFfPIhx
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by iand 10y ago
OK, how many times have you been bitten by it? It doesn't even compile so I doubt you have run into it in real code.
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by iand 10y ago
How do you decorate the errors? In Go I might write a, err := foo() if err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to foo: %v", err) }
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by iand 10y ago
> It's an Asperger profession; smart but artless. Your point was good, it didn't need this poor stereotyping.
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by iand 10y ago
Trying to work out which invasion you are thinking of. Neither Iraq nor Afganistan were triggered by dictators invading other countries. Vietnam was triggered by a dictatorial invasion but the US were essentially invited in. There have been
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by iand 10y ago
So his children can sit in them in the next car.
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by iand 10y ago
I don't think it's a stereotype. In the Middle Ages Christianity and Islam both had strict usary laws forbidding the charging of interest on loans. Judaism only forbade it amongst fellow Jews so they could charge interest to follo
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by iand 10y ago
Anyone here got tips for a lactose intolerant vegetarian? (and I don't mean "eat meat" tips)
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by iand 10y ago
This doc, written by one of the Go team at Google, enumerates the state of BCE as of a few months ago: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vdAEAjYdzjnPA9WDOQ1e4e05...

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