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by jbarham 8y ago
This article reminds me why I cancelled my Economist subscription years ago. But gotta love the obligatory shout out to Richard Florida that pops up whenever the media covers the tech sector in Canada! Question: If there will supposedly be
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by jbarham 8y ago
I use Google Docs and noticed that one apparent dark pattern Google uses with Chrome is that you can print directly to a printer from Google Docs in Chrome whereas with Firefox (and presumably any other non-Google browser) you're force
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by jbarham 8y ago
Nah, don't bother reading it. The importance of Benjamin's essay has been vastly overrated by academic art theorists. As proof I would point out that the very first image in the linked article is Hokusai's iconic "Thirty
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by jbarham 8y ago
> Why aren't more people going to there rather than Vancouver or Toronto? 1. You need to speak French 2. Winter is brutal (forecast for next 10 days, and it's only October: https://weather.com/weather/tenda
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by jbarham 8y ago
> If what makes AMP fast is the restrictions on size, JS, and CSS, and you know this and want to conform to this, why do you need to use AMP? Why not just develop your site like this anyways? Maciej Cegłowski (aka idlewords) recommends e
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by jbarham 8y ago
Someone send this article to Armin Ronacher (creator of Flask, Jinja, etc.) so he can understand asyncio since he wrote a much longer and more detailed article explaining why he doesn't understand asyncio (previous discussion at https
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by jbarham 8y ago
Do you know French and love winter?
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by jbarham 8y ago
> I can'd do encrypted endpoints on localhost, which means 90% of my API can't be tested locally. Having to deploy to the actual service seriously adds to my code-deploy-debug loop! Try using ngrok ( https://ngrok.com
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by jbarham 8y ago
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 in VirtualBox on a Ryzen 1700 and haven't encountered any issues.
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by jbarham 8y ago
> I recently replaced my ADSL connection with a LTE flatrate for 20 EUR a month that allows 20mbit down and 6mbit up Jealous! Here in Australia I'm paying A$70/month (~44 EUR) for 12/1 4G home broadband service. Still bett
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by jbarham 8y ago
The Canadian federal government uses a lot of COBOL. My first job out of university in 1996 was maintaining COBOL programs that fed data from Revenue Canada to the CPP. My first task was to rewrite a COBOL program originally written in 1972
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by jbarham 8y ago
It's the CADT model of software development: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
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by jbarham 8y ago
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/02/09/the-econ... lets you play around with comparing house prices vs income and rents. In Australia (where I live) and Canada (where I'm from) house pr
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by jbarham 8y ago
3.5% in the US is probably adjustable rate. 30-year fixed rate is around 4.66% ( http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/ ). Note that, AFAIK, the US is the only country in the world to offer fixed 30-year mortgage rates. Here in
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by jbarham 8y ago
I've witnessed this myself. In 2009 the company I was working for in Calabasas, California, laid off a lot of people. Since I rented, I was able to end my lease and move to a new job in Orange County. Colleagues who had bought and were
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by jbarham 8y ago
> When property values increase, so do rents. Maybe, but probably not at the same rate. Broadly speaking, rents are tied to incomes, house prices to the availability and cost of credit (i.e., interest rates). Average income places an upp
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by jbarham 8y ago
> My understanding is that people within the Soviet Union (including within the Communist Party) saw that conditions in the West were better and became disillusioned with the Soviet system Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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Announcing Early Access to DigitalOcean Kubernetes(blog.digitalocean.com)
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Reminds me of the performance artist Chris Burden who in 1971 had a friend shoot him in the arm with a .22 rifle. But at least he had the guts to have himself shot vs. a dog. In Docklands, Melbourne, there's a public sculpture that any
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by jbarham 9y ago
PhaseOne's Capture One is gaining some traction against Lightroom in the photography market, especially since Adobe basically forced Lightroom users to a subscription-only model.
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by jbarham 9y ago
Will be even more interesting when RISC-V becomes a contender in the HP space.
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by jbarham 9y ago
NSQ: http://nsq.io/
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by jbarham 9y ago
Monthly cap is 200 GB. I typically use 50 GB/month, so it's effectively unlimited.
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by jbarham 9y ago
http://www.speedtest.net/result/7112084631 is my 4G home wireless "broadband" plan's speed in suburban Melbourne, Australia. Basically 10/1 Mb which is not great, but still much better than what I w
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by jbarham 9y ago
DJB: http://cr.yp.to/
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by jbarham 9y ago
> I used to ride it several times a week on my vfr. The real rollercoaster starts north of whistler: the dirty dusty duffy lake road. Small world! I've ridden that very same road on my VFR several times: http://www.jbarha
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by jbarham 9y ago
http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/prosupport.html
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by jbarham 9y ago
Is 100 million "killed, aborted or neglected" girls exaggerated? Or do you have better sources than the Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/15606229 (Note that article is from 2010, there have been many
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by jbarham 9y ago
> Wireless bandwidth is inherently shared between everyone, wired is dedicated. False. NBN FTTP connections use GPON which is a shared connection ( https://www.nbnco.com.au/utility/glossary-of-terms.html#g ).
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General Motors executive says Elon Musk's self-driving claims are 'full of crap'(theage.com.au)
3 points by jbarham 9y ago|0 comments

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