jarek

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811.
by jarek 14y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you do now?
812.
by jarek 14y ago
You have not yet attained the Zen of HN :(
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by jarek 14y ago
> If you knew you were going to be unlucky, there's very little you could do I believe the startupland term is "pivot."
814.
by jarek 14y ago
Your environment.
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by jarek 14y ago
Now Facebook has lots of brand awareness and decides it could live without any individual blog's widgets. What an unpredictable turn of events!
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by jarek 14y ago
What flag do you suggest we use for es_US and fr_CA? Or how to distinguish de_CH and fr_CH?
817.
by jarek 14y ago
Depends how much sugar you put into them.
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by jarek 14y ago
As jgunthorpe is not located in the U.S., receiving those dollars would involve a manual process and extra fees: https://www.gittip.com/about/
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by jarek 14y ago
If true, that'd say more about the thread than about anything else.
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by jarek 14y ago
Sure, that could work too, it's basically apprenticeship. But it's still not the CS degree's fault or problem that you're learning software engineering on the job.
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by jarek 14y ago
> One piece of the puzzle is that programming education is not very effective. Most computer science programs teach you almost nothing about software engineering, partially because many CS profs know almost nothing about it. And mostly
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by jarek 14y ago
> we're not a company. we're two nerds. Oh, so if you get sued for mishandling personal data or PII it'll be your personal responsibility rather than a company's?
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by jarek 14y ago
"If you live in certain parts of the world, like France, Spain, China, Italy, or Germany, you already are familiar with the joys of having an extensive bike-sharing system readily available. North America is slowly catching on, with cities
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by jarek 14y ago
I understood that it can be locked and trip ended at any 'designated' bike rack (as in its location is in some database), but the rack doesn't need any additional hardware since the bike locks itself. But yes, the wording "ensures that user
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by jarek 14y ago
> Don't you have friends? How often do you ask your black friends if they know how to rap?
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by jarek 14y ago
> Then again, I would not be picking the unlabeled mystery chip if I were concerned about drivers. You would if you knew what the chip was from sources other than the ordering page. Owning a model already is an obvious example but if I
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by jarek 14y ago
Can you point me to the information that specifies whether the 'ThinkPad 1x1 b/g/n' adapter supports 802.11a or the 5 GHz band, and uses the same chipset as the Intel Centrino adapters? I honestly tried looking and couldn't find any confirm
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by jarek 14y ago
If you're a big purchaser ordering a thousand of them, anyway...
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by jarek 14y ago
> Lenovo should just always stick the good one in there I'm sympathetic to this argument - there's always the oddball page in the configuration process that doesn't make sense, like the not-actually-selectable "Selectable SIM" on the cu
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by jarek 14y ago
Where do you live that lab research chemistry, to pick one specific subfield, is more socially prestigious or higher paying than software development?
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by jarek 14y ago
> a) Mandatory bike helmets mean you can't run a bike-share scheme because who wants to wear a much-used sweaty helmet? How can the people running the scheme sanitise them? The idea being tossed around in Vancouver is to have a helmet r
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by jarek 14y ago
Incidentally, Vancouver's bike share is well en route to a stillbirth thanks to BC's think-of-the-children (literally, http://web.archive.org/web/20100829214539/http://www.richmon... ) helmet law. It was first supposed to launch in spring
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by jarek 14y ago
Looks like browser versions newer than newest version they have in the data files get 0 days. https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge/blob/master/data/age-ms... doesn't have IE10 mentioned in the other post, https://github.com/witoff/Browse
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by jarek 14y ago
> I think the "no helmet" thing is just a weird bit of biker culture that's going to eventually die out, much like smoker culture is dying out in the US. Is this a US-only claim, or do you reckon people in Amsterdam and Copenhagen will
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by jarek 14y ago
Unlikely, the list of communities has a lot of unincorporated areas that are formally part of a larger municipality and the results for some of them are correct. Clarkson and Dain City off the top of my head.
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by jarek 14y ago
The server code 8 error appears to come up only for less significant placenames (I don't recognize vast majority of code 8 results), lending some credence to a theory that this error is returned for unrecognized queries. Edit: It has occurr
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by jarek 14y ago
I think "most profitable" and "deteriorating" are perfectly capable of being orthogonal. If nothing else, the profit or its first derivative w.r.t. time could be declining while still being the highest in the world. No opinion on Apple.
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by jarek 14y ago
Good attempt, but some of these results are wonky. Right off the top of the list, the result for Allanburg is actually perfectly right - administratively it's part of Thorold hence why GeoNames came back with that. Dain City is maybe 500 m
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by jarek 14y ago
> However, is it a mission-critical app? What percentage of the userbase actually needs maps on a day to day basis? What did you do in 2005 when your GPS completely failed? It's not "mission-critical," but by that criterion neither is a
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by jarek 14y ago
Not money.

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