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by jlg23 8y ago
> It's just a globally-known tourism business vs. a globally-known shopping business. One could also say it's a designation for a globally known, huge geographic area.
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by jlg23 8y ago
when people talk about "women in tech" they usually don't mean secretaries but women doing mathematics, engineering and programming. PS: The best secretary I ever had was male; some of the smartest CS-folks I know are women.
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by jlg23 8y ago
These "problems" are not specific to open source projects: Whenever you provide a service of some kind, very few people will thank you, most will just use it and another very few will be very vocal about where, how and why you ar
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by jlg23 8y ago
1) Where did you get that number from? 2) How do you expect people to implement laws to protect the environment if you don't start with yourself?
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by jlg23 8y ago
While I heard many stories of pilots who could get out of dangerous situations due to "extra training/knowledge acquired in their spare time", the big question is how many pilots did not get into dangerous situations because
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by jlg23 8y ago
This is the 2nd of a series of 3 articles: Part 1: https://wearethemutants.com/2018/07/03/days-of-the-dolphin-c... Part 2: https://wearethemutants.com/2018/07/18/days-of-the-dol
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by jlg23 8y ago
Technically there is no difference. In a closed universe both compile down to the same. The difference lies in the approach to software design[1]. [1] If I could be more specific, Mr. Kay would have been so 30+ years ago.
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by jlg23 8y ago
Privacy concerns, oh please? Around here (Southern Morocco) we send a photo of the filled out tourist card to the Gendarmerie with WhatsApp! Name, Date of Birth, Passport Number, Profession.... Just in case you thought it could not get any
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by jlg23 8y ago
The idea is not about having the same apps but the same environment. Convergence also means selection of default applications for the target device or, if apps are actually this configurable, selection of appropriate compile time flags.
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by jlg23 8y ago
Wait, this is HN! Figuring out how to use things in a way they were not intended to be used is the very essence of hacking ;) I seriously wonder how much of engineering and architecture progress humanity made exactly because there is a gene
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by jlg23 8y ago
For #2, you realize that the same problem applies, right? Locals in poor areas will always prefer a few years of selling out to tourists to long term sustainability: kids need education now, you want to rainproof your house now or in essenc
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by jlg23 8y ago
According to this study, it does not compare too bad: https://www.firechief.com/2017/03/14/are-wood-frame-high-ris...
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by jlg23 8y ago
A little further down in the document linked: "This does not apply if only one branch of a conditional statement is a single statement; in the latter case use braces in both branches:"
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by jlg23 8y ago
That was 6 years ago.
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by jlg23 8y ago
It's just a few keys that change. If you stick to one layout per task/language, muscle memory will take care of that.
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by jlg23 8y ago
The author was literally not the target audience. Unless you are already touch-typing, there won't be much of a benefit: * all keys are equally easy to reach when you hover your finger 10cm above the keyboard while searching for a key
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by jlg23 8y ago
> I get it, figuring out how to get our software working can require a lot of thinking, but compared to most of the people out there its a sweet gig. Stop complaining. "The worst part is there is hardly any time for resting the mind
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by jlg23 8y ago
You pointed out one aspect: the in inconsistent concentration of intoxicants. You are missing another crucial point: time until onset of the effects. It is much easier to consume a lethal dose of mushrooms than ethanol before your body viol
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by jlg23 8y ago
Or for the emacs users: talk to your M-x doctor ;)
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by jlg23 8y ago
This sounds a lot like the initial rejection of TCP/IP.
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by jlg23 8y ago
> Is that from other experts with a very close understanding of the specifics, or random people online? These groups are not mutually exclusive, membership can only be assigned by a domain expert and is finally irrelevant if the other is
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by jlg23 8y ago
> but individual practitioners think they're immune to sleep deprivation, exhaustion, and other simple well-understood aspects of the human condition. It's appalling and tragic Those I know do understand the effects of their wo
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by jlg23 8y ago
Can we xor that with some atonal ambient music in the video for some kink?
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by jlg23 8y ago
> Every feature has a cost. Not just cost to develop, but cost to maintain. A generic implementation that handles any orientation could just be the implementation with lower development and maintenance costs? > surely it’s clear why n
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by jlg23 8y ago
> Maybe I’m being naive or self-centered, but why should kids have to do chores? To learn the value of honest, dirty work. It is not about skill or intelligence, it is about sacrificing the one finite resource you cannot buy, for the sak
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by jlg23 8y ago
From the article: His group’s paper runs down a wish list of quantum chemistry simulations that sufficiently robust quantum computation should be able to tackle. Such problems include designing next-generation batteries, optimizing solar ce
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by jlg23 8y ago
I call that Darwinism at work: The author of this surprise disqualified itself for any job that requires trust or at least a minimum of cultural sensitivity [1]; the users of this disqualified themselves from any work that requires attentio
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by jlg23 8y ago
>Sure Mozilla doesn't have your passwords, but they know who you have passwords with. Do they? I just skimmed the source and could not find anything that hints at that (and implementing it the way you said it is makes for much more
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by jlg23 8y ago
"Face value"? Try "source value". What exactly is your problem with an opt-in service?
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by jlg23 8y ago
The point is development time. Even in time critical applications the majority of the code is not time critical, you only optimize the small part that really matters.

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