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by jaza 10y ago
There is no general licence for a "construction worker". There are specific licences for things like "tower crane operator", "intermediate rigger", "advanced scaffolding erector". Similarly, there wou
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The Jobless Games(greenash.net.au)
1 points by jaza 10y ago|0 comments
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by jaza 10y ago
I was also locked out of my Yahoo / Flickr account last year (all I use my Yahoo account for is Flickr, so I consider them one and the same). After 10 years of Flickr Pro subscription without a hitch. Agreed, their support is terrible,
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by jaza 10y ago
I don't think that the Teletransportation Paradox particularly proves or disproves the existence of souls. If Fred has no soul, and if Fred becomes Fred-A and Fred-B at a distinct moment in time (thanks to a teleporter that can copy, n
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by jaza 10y ago
That's right. Pegging a currency does of course have its advantages and disadvantages - in China's case, it's worked out very well for their economy (and for some groups of people in China, though certainly not for everyone).
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Ten rival national top cities of the world(greenash.net.au)
1 points by jaza 10y ago|0 comments
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by jaza 10y ago
Aside from the main theme of what has / hasn't been realised technologically, I also find it a fascinating lesson in how society has changed, that these drawings almost exclusively feature families and extended groups of people en
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by jaza 10y ago
but there is also little point to leaving water underground. Seriously? http://www.actforlibraries.org/importance-of-aquifers/
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by jaza 10y ago
Dilithium crystals, anyone?
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by jaza 10y ago
Great read. Reminds me of an article I read a few years ago (which I now notice includes an acknowledgement of "I, Pencil" in its footnotes), "What Coke Contains": https://medium.com/@kevin_ashton/wh
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by jaza 10y ago
For many years now, I've had one or two NTFS partitions on my dual-boot machine (Win7/Ubuntu), which are regular drives in Windows, and which are volumes mounted with all files set to 777 permissions in Linux. Have never had any p
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by jaza 10y ago
Let China and India clean up their own mess, while we clean up our messes. Near-zero chance that Trump will clean up any of America's environmental mess. Near-certain chance that he will significantly add to America's environmen
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by jaza 10y ago
They'll just run their cash over the border to Mexico, instead of sending it via electronic means. This has already been happening for years, although the vast majority of such cash running has consisted of illicit drug money. No reaso
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by jaza 10y ago
Agreed - this will probably be the Trump administration action that has the worst long-term impact of all. The US might as well not bother turning up to the next global climate change summit (not that Trump will anyway). Unfortunately, thou
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by jaza 10y ago
This was the good-old-days when critical features were crammed in just days before a release We did a quick security review but at the time no one really understood the seriousness or types of vulnerabilities that anything shipping could
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by jaza 10y ago
Could Iceland become the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin (or an alternative crypto) as its national currency? If the Pirate Party wins, this could be one of the numerous cool experiments in government to take place.
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by jaza 10y ago
Great read! Incredibly thorough modelling of all components of the flight ticketing problem space, and of the computational complexities involved. Sets a high bar as an example of how to thoroughly model any search-related problem.
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by jaza 10y ago
Many other areas of law are commonly referred to as a code, for example the "penal code" for criminal offenses. That said, you have a good point: no doubt the tax code is one of the least comprehensible (to laymen) parts of the la
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by jaza 10y ago
I thought about the similarities between law and computer code several years back - see http://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2008/08/legislation-and-prog... Nice to see that Stephen Wolfram goes into much more dep
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by jaza 10y ago
Have to agree: I've used Macs sporadically for over 20 years (never by choice), and I've never liked the UI. I too hate the single menu bar, and I've also discovered that many recent converts to Mac actually don't unders
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by jaza 10y ago
Any plans to open source this? Considering that (a) it's cross-platform since day one, (b) it's an HTTP client for developers, and (c) it's apparently built with the JS ecosystem, seems like the kind of app that should be ope
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by jaza 10y ago
The authors of these music-generators should submit some of the compositions to online music libraries, to song competitions, etc, and see if they get accepted! "A la" what happened, back in the day, with peer-reviewed journals an
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by jaza 10y ago
Perhaps what we need are shopping malls. Aren't they, after all, the modern cathedrals of consumerism? (And aren't they just what we need more of in this world?) :P Shopping malls aspire to be beautiful (primarily on the inside),
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Autosaveify: Automatic AJAX form submission with feedback and styling(github.com)
1 points by jaza 10y ago|0 comments
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by jaza 10y ago
Big thumbs up to cookiecutter-flask. I've built several mid-size Flask apps with it over the past year or so, and I find that it lays a great foundation, for what is in my case a typical setup (e.g. Bootstrap based UI, SQLAlchemy based
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by jaza 10y ago
Makes me think that this article I wrote on my blog several years ago is more pertinent than ever: http://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2010/08/boycott-gps/ Seriously, folks. Turn off the GPS, and start obser
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by jaza 11y ago
I'm a programmer in my 30s. I've always said (only half-jokingly) that my career goal is to avoid management for as long as possible. I decided to be an IT professional because I like spending most of my working day programming. I
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Where there be no roads(greenash.net.au)
1 points by jaza 11y ago|0 comments
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by jaza 11y ago
Google needs to program their AVs to be aware of the universal "law of anything bigger"! http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/headhuntersholosuite/ima...
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by jaza 11y ago
Very cool stuff. I remember my first year of high school - in our first music class, we were taught: "what is music?". According to the teachers, and the dictionary, "music is organised sound". Never seemed like a satisf

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