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by jt2190 7y ago
> the asynchronous “always on, always connected” style Nit: I've always heard this called synchronous , since in this style work is performed immediately, rather than queued up to wait for execution at a scheduled time.
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by jt2190 7y ago
Here's what we know: * Will open in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, 2008 median household income was USD 93,720 [1]. I don't expect a discount-type store. * The Wall Street Journal says they're working on more
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by jt2190 7y ago
Something about this reminded me of Hunter S. Thompson’s campaign for Sheriff of Aspen, CO: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Aspen
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by jt2190 7y ago
Some of us remember running applications from the command line. These were not the “does one thing well”, POSIX compliant, programmer/admin facing tools you still find in *nix these days. These were typically very limited, weird REPL s
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by jt2190 7y ago
> Like, how do I know any of those links aren't the NSA? No communication channel can be guaranteed to be 100% secure in the broad sense, i.e. even One-Time Pads can be stolen, recipients of messages can be watched to see what they’
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by jt2190 7y ago
To save you the click through: > This may be a great obscure fact, but it is not an example of European regulations gone mad. To keep track of where all the trains are on the Swiss rail network, there are detectors positioned around the
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by jt2190 7y ago
Lately I’ve been thinking that a lot of code style debates center around an explicit versus implicit axis. Imperative is more explicit, and, in one sense, easier to see what’s going on since it lays everything out step by step. On the o
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by jt2190 7y ago
Related: In 17 days the door closes on StackBlitz’s payload of a RaspberryPi server hosting 1000 web apps [1], so if you’ve got something you want in orbit, act now. > the plan is to broadcast a public wifi hotspot that passerby aliens c
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by jt2190 7y ago
Original blog post: Einstein Analytics and Go by Guillaume Le Stum https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/07/how-salesforce-convert...
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Certainly a book on this topic should be far more interesting than this article makes it look, so rather than dismiss the book out of hand I took a look around. After looking briefly at the companion site for the book [0] (not much there),
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by jt2190 7y ago
> This makes graphs a superior data structure. I'll read this generously and assume you meant to say that graphs are an essential data structure, i.e. we can use a graph to represent the more specific data structures used by vario
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by jt2190 7y ago
Amazon led a USD 700 000 000 investment round in Rivian last February. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/02/electric-truck-startup-... (Edit: change amount from thousands to millions)
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by jt2190 7y ago
Sorry if I wasn’t clear. The bus runs Portsmouth NH -> Newburyport, MA -> South Station. (No drive to Portsmouth necessary.) The train is on the Newburyport/Newbury town line, so not quite the center of town... but that’s a qui
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by jt2190 7y ago
This is very true. I commuted from Newburyport MA (20 minutes south of Portsmouth NH) to Boston by bus for a few years. (My other option was MBTA commuter rail, which was further from my house and ran into North Station, which was farther
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by jt2190 7y ago
> ... [W]orkers tend to spread out geographically during an economic cycle’s later stages, economists say, raising questions about how these cities will fare in a downturn. Workers are usually more confident—and employers more lenient—wh
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by jt2190 7y ago
Perhaps: Thresholds of violence: How school shootings catch on, by Malcolm Gladwell https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/thresholds-of-... Gladwell interviewed about the article on National Publ
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by jt2190 7y ago
Patients would call my wife’s office after hours and leave their number with the answering service for a call back. After hours calls were triaged into three groups: Emergency, tell patient to call an ambulance; Urgent, get patient a prescr
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by jt2190 7y ago
There currently seems to be a big hole in this approach, which is that rich jurisdictions need to be aligned with poorer ones to work in concert toward these goals, otherwise rich jurisdictions can just “pretend” they’re meeting goals when
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> The book... says there are four main forces... that enable decoupling in mature economies: > * the efficiencies driven by capitalism > * technological progress that has allowed us to “dematerialize” our consumption (by, for insta
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by jt2190 7y ago
Yeah, I think that the newspaper example obscured her larger point that converting machine-readable data into human-readable data and then using text parsing is both error-prone and unnecessary compared to just using tools that work directl
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by jt2190 7y ago
My understanding is that lion prides are territorial, but the herds they prey on are not. The prides with prey in their territory eat; those without starve. This sounds similar to the “preserve” system that you’ve hit upon, except that the
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by jt2190 7y ago
Point 3 seems to redefine “rewrite” as “partial rewrite”, which is essentially in the spirit of “never rewrite the [whole] code[base] from scratch”. Am I missing something? Edit: Clarified quote of original rule.
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by jt2190 7y ago
> At the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, visitors can see a case filled with the fearsome homemade weapons that Canadians trench raiders plunged into the faces and chests of their enemy: Meat cleavers, push daggers and spiked clubs. I saw
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by jt2190 7y ago
I'm more troubled that we might be banishing perfectly good features for the flimsiest of reasons. Take, for example, JavaScript's double-equals == versus triple-equals === comparison operators. (I already know you have a strong o
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> But in the USA there are no celebrations on April 19th, which is a bit surprising. The heroism shown at the battles of Lexington and Concord are forgotten... While not national holidays, there is certainly remembrance and celebration
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Forgive me, but just to clarify... There is no “fallback” communication channel for your team to use?
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> Big business has done an excellent job of systematically destroying trust in the customer at every step of every process. This is a really interesting point. Even though we should test our assumptions about the reasons for the price in
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by jt2190 7y ago
I heard something similar, I believe reported by the television news program “60 Minutes”, but the report I remember was about the Phalanx missile defense system not recognizing the Exocet as an “enemy” missile since it was a NATO weapon. E
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Even retail establishments with staff and security systems balance the extra costs of these “loss prevention” measures against customer convenience. The goal is never perfect security but sufficient security. Large retailers typically s
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This feels relevant here: "National Park Service Typefaces" https://www.nps.gov/subjects/hfc/nps-typefaces.htm

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