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by jogjayr 9y ago
In the context of webapps I'm not sure there's much of a distinction...
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by jogjayr 9y ago
It's a valid use case. Think of something like a thumbnail generator for a directory of images. If you include an image in your application, maybe you also want to be easily pull in a thumbnail for it on a different summary page in you
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Trying to attain perfection is good advice in a professional environment. OTOH for side-projects, especially for people who have trouble finishing things without external motivation, it can be more useful to just get something done . Witho
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by jogjayr 9y ago
In fact I thought willy-nilly cross-thread access was the bane of multi-threaded programming. And also the main reason that immutability in languages such as Clojure is considered a desirable feature in support of concurrency.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Some possible reasons why: 1. Athletic performance is easy to measure. Especially for individual sports (track and field, gymnastics, weightlifting) the numbers are the only way to compare athletes. Not so for programming. If someone invent
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Language is political in India and I don't claim to understand half of it. Probably since the establishment of the republic after attaining independence there's been a tension between Hindi-speakers (who were the plurality of the
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by jogjayr 9y ago
I understood what you meant and I didn't downvote you. I think you were downvoted because that wasn't really an answer to my question.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Can someone who has written novel-length fiction give an explanation of why you need specialized software? I've never written anything longer than a short story (on MS Word or Notepad) back when I used to write fiction. So I am not awa
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> Some people have said that some of the biggest gains in the stock market are just before it drops. You do not want to miss out on these, since that is often where the 9.5% return on stocks comes from. This may sound like a stupid quest
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by jogjayr 9y ago
I thought anyone who finances a new car is underwater as soon as they drive off the lot. Don't new cars depreciate something like 20% the day you buy them? EDIT: I was wrong it's closer to 9% [1] [1] https://www.edmunds
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> Thanks for this! I'll try to reproduce it! Please do :-)! The butter by itself is quite tasty; more tangy than store-bought butter and delicious when whipped with powdered sugar then spread on bread. > it needs to have a partic
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Beg to differ. Here's how my mother makes ghee at home: 1. Heat milk and milk cream (mostly milk cream), let cool, add yogurt culture 2. After yogurt is set, add water and churn 3. Extract the butter that you get from churning, drink t
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by jogjayr 9y ago
I always look at Github profiles when candidates have them. Problem is I'd say < 20% of candidates I've interviewed have it on their resume.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Counter-counter point. My wife went through a graphic design degree without ever buying a textbook (many of which were required for class). She borrowed them from our local library, leveraging the inter-library loan system when needed. It s
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by jogjayr 9y ago
From a practical standpoint though (assuming that every nation decided to work together) how would such a mission work? We'd most likely need a generation ship, given that current estimates of max velocity is in the range of 0.5 to 0.8
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Citation? This is what I found searching "vegetable polyunsaturated": "Polyunsaturated fats can have a beneficial effect on your heart when eaten in moderation and when used to replace saturated fat and trans fat in your diet
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Another note on #1 (which I've also done in the past). Don't your pre-rebase commits remain in the reflog?
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by jogjayr 9y ago
That's not necessarily true. Peanuts and oils from other vegetable sources (canola, mustard, soybean, corn, coconut) are full of fat, cheap to grow and reasonably healthy. Beans, legumes, eggs and dairy are protein-rich and also quite
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Ok I went back and read more: "Data collection was crowdsourced using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) crowdwork platform. Separate surveys were created for depressed and healthy individuals. In the depressed survey, participants were
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Wait so they didn't actually go back and see if the people they identified as depressed had a diagnosis of clinical depression?
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by jogjayr 9y ago
True, I don't know what's inside people's heads. All I know is what they answer on surveys. "More than nine in 10 adults say they already have children, are planning to have children, or wish that they had had children.&
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Most marriages result in children. Most people want to have children. It's not an unreasonable assumption to make that most people who read the article will fall into that camp.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> That works reasonably well, but does it have any UX to speak of? Err...there's some reasonably complex setup there that they've smoothed out. The onboarding for a new Chromecast is flawless; you plug it in, type in your Wi-fi
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Yes! Email conversation threads! I'd forgotten that one. Also a +1 for UX. You might quibble about this but recognizing that fast search is better than foldering is also UX. It seems obvious to us now but maybe it wasn't that obvi
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by jogjayr 9y ago
You're forgetting important Google products where design or user experience played a crucial role in winning. Gmail - the dominant webmail platform that made pioneering use of AJAX; before it you had to refresh the page to check if you
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> This may be fine for vehicles (and even that is questionable now that cars are becoming more advanced and require more expertise to repair), it would be silly for consumer electronics which is a much more dynamic and fast changing indu
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> when you exercise, either it is because the company was just acquired (and the share is immediately sold and you pay taxes on the profit) or the company has gone public and the shares are now tradable, Nope. I'd argue the most com
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by jogjayr 9y ago
You can get credit card with no foreign transaction fees quite easily. It's possible they make it up in the exchange rate spread though; I honestly don't know.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
To be fair that demographic has been traditionally served by the hawala system[1]. It's not obvious to me right now that they'd switch to BTC so easily; of course I could be wrong. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but the relevant 409A valuation is the most recent one done when you exercise your options and taxes on them become due. I think that's the situation GP was referring to, that this approach might help fix.

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