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by jmts 9y ago
I'd hazard a guess that that's because they're farm born fish that have been released into the wild, than because they're in pacific waters. Previously they have simply eaten whatever pellets got thrown into their pen. N
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I'll see if I can break this down a bit and keep it reasonably concise. At a glance, the sort of thing this is doing is key frame animation of vector graphics primitives. Vector graphics primitives tend to be simple geometric shapes (p
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by jmts 9y ago
I did some work with webMethods Flow in a previous job. I hated it. Aside from the fact that it was slow from a point-and-click point of view, the interface was generally slow, and navigation and search were generally tiresome. To my memory
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by jmts 9y ago
This is a reasonable question, though tangential to the original article so you're going to find some criticism among those who miss the nuance. I assume you're not making an argument against climate change being an issue, but ask
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Congestion is a function of the capacity of a roadway, and the number of vehicles trying to use it at a given point in time. I'd suspect that the only thing any given citizen is able to do is reduce the number of vehicles at a given ti
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by jmts 9y ago
In 1675 Isaac Newton wrote in a letter to Robert Hooke "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants". While this is poetic, and shows humility and respect for those who came before him, one should be caref
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by jmts 9y ago
Hey Usama. Nice walkthrough for the uninitiated. It may be worth discussing the pros and cons of this implementation, however. The algorithm you have described runs in O(n^2), or quadratic time. This means that if your array has length n, y
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by jmts 9y ago
A curious thought just popped into my head. Deliveries tend to be time critical. I can't think of many deliveries that would tend not to be. However ocean cleanup struck me as a type of 'collection' that may hypothetically fi
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by jmts 9y ago
I'm not 100% clear on your point. Where does this dependence on megacorp come in? Granted I haven't read the terms and conditions for one of these cards, but I would be surprised if anybody's savings should be held at ransom
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by jmts 9y ago
A paltry sum of money is the first step to a reasonable sum of money. An interest in saving a paltry sum of money is arguably a useful skill for people earning paltry sums of money, as I'd hazard a guess that it should encourage them t
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by jmts 10y ago
This is a reasonable description of the internet filters we have. There is a lot more than just file sharing sites blocked, and they usually specify the category they are blocked under. The others just don't affect me as much. Though m
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by jmts 10y ago
Paranoia surrounding potential IP theft and leaks.
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I thought the same thing regarding legacy sites. My workplace blocks file sharing and image hosting websites, so I've been acutely aware of the impact to UX recently when domains disappear. I can be almost certain now that when there a
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by jmts 10y ago
The amount of ridicule for this post seems rather surprising. This guy had a curiosity and he wanted to quantify it. I'm sure everybody knows that traffic is reduced when school is out. Why should that stop someone from asking why, by
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by jmts 10y ago
Unfortunately Mr Wadlow, I think you'll find that the average guy is, well, average.
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by jmts 10y ago
I live in inner Sydney and I'd go crazy if I couldn't ride. So, I ride an R1 to work every day, rain, hail or shine. Bit of a ridiculous bike to have for a commuter but it's a lot more fun and much faster than any other optio
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by jmts 10y ago
So, how important are these books to you if you're not inclined to read them? I used to read books a lot as a child, but stopped in my teens and have more recently found them more rewarding per unit of time than much of what I find on
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by jmts 10y ago
I've been pondering a self-imposed boycott of websites with paywalls, and ads that interrupt user experience. As time goes on I am valuing my time more and more, and that five second delay mid-read (that costs me another ten to find wh
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by jmts 10y ago
That depends entirely on the company or organisation. Perhaps you can find a not-for-profit that works with recovering addicts? While it may not be monetisable from a sales perspective, it may still have value and draw funding from other so
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by jmts 10y ago
This is quite interesting. I've been living underneath a flight plan for the last few years, and every now and then I've noticed a strange noise that seems to come from the air a few seconds after a plane has passed overhead on ap
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by jmts 10y ago
To this I would like to draw attention to the mention of context in this example, which I think is important and often looked over when naming variables. The context given for maxphysaddr is that of a global variable. Pike also mentions loo
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by jmts 10y ago
I see your point, but I'd argue that even then it's still the wrong the problem. 1. If you don't enjoy maintaining your switch statement, it's probably huge anyway and you need to refactor. 2. If you don't enjoy mai
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by jmts 10y ago
This is ridiculous. Sure, I'll agree, it's a neat trick, but what mindset do you need to be in to come up with such a convoluted solution to such a problem, and the wrong problem at that? What problem does hack this solve? Single
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by jmts 10y ago
Chris from Clickspring [1]. Perhaps a little off topic because his content is not specifically software, but given some other mentions of hardware and inspiration his videos are lovely to watch after a long day of code reviews. He recently
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by jmts 10y ago
Sounds like an opportunity to save it in a file! My $HOME/bin is full of shell scripts containing this sort of stuff so I can avoid retyping them.
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Ask HN: Advice for the travelling developer
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