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Don't get locked up into avoiding lock-in(martinfowler.com)
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by jweir 7y ago
Apparently not the first time Stallman has had a visit to Microsoft Microsoft Welcomes Richard Stallman (2005) http://suseroot.com/rms.php
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by jweir 7y ago
We have been using for about 3 years now. Myself and the two other devs enjoy working in it more than the other languages we use (Ruby, Go and vanilla JS). Upgrades have been pretty painless, and each new release brings a new level of ease
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It is true. Elm has taken some syntax away and native packages, and made the language better by being simpler and error free (I have never had a runtime error). Upgrades since 0.17 have been pretty easy too - there is automated tooling tha
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One thing that sticks out is how many airports the US and Canada have and how few China has. Does anyone know if the data is incomplete for China, or is this accurate?
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Twitter isn’t accepting any more money from “state-controlled news media”(mobile.twitter.com)
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Who is We? Actually I think I get it - we had kids in NYC too. But we left and I find the stories in the article to be rather alien now. Kids running free from house to house and playing on their own. Is that really so rare outside of some
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White and Wonderful? Microplastics Prevail in Snow from the Alps to the Arctic(advances.sciencemag.org)
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Prices went up from a lack of wind and capacity. If you think solar is the solution stop and think. Solar occurs during peak demand. You will need more solar then demand. That is a lot of solar. Also when it gets really hot the wind often s
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Texas Power Prices Briefly Surpass $9k Amid Scorching Heat(bloomberg.com)
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But wait! Maybe grasslands and grazing are better than forests - UC Davis study: https://climatechange.ucdavis.edu/news/grasslands-more-relia...
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FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon(bloomberg.com)
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This kind of research is very difficult(impossible even) to perform. A more likely outcome will be in 10,20,30 years there is an increase or decrease in some disease and it is linked to getting the vaccine for X. And to make it even more co
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The Reason Renewables Can't Power Civilization Is They Were Never Meant To(forbes.com)
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One Giant Leap: Celebrating Space Exploration 50 Years After Apollo 11(christies.com)
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Edmunds examines costly side effect of safety tech: repairs(m.phys.org)
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by jweir 7y ago
If you sell a product, with known harmful effects, and you do not warn the buyer, are you not liable? In other words, is there a liability issue? Any lawyers care to chime in?
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Pipeline Operator [Ruby 2.7](bugs.ruby-lang.org)
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Excel is not a competitor to our SaaS - it is an interface. Original our service was web and email only (energy market financial data). But we quickly learned our clients want and need that data in CSV so they can build their own tools. So
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by jweir 7y ago
Yes. I reversed the two - been over 20 years since I worked with em. MS DOS Deluxe Paint II and Deluxe Paint Animation are correct. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluxe_Paint https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2
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Double Dragon for Virgin Games https://www.mobygames.com/game/double-dragon___ I don't think I did any art for it – as I recall I calculated sprite x,y offset to hand off to the programmer for the motion. Pretty h
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by jweir 7y ago
A correction. We didn’t use graph paper for the art work. Maybe be very first artists did, but not any I know. The tools were pretty good. Deluxe Animator II and Deluxe Paint - both for MS DOS - is what I used for all my console games - Ga
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Qualcomm Tumbles After Losing U.S. Antitrust Ruling(bloomberg.com)
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Here in Oregon the Democrats are further working to create a divide. Oregon allows electronic signatures for ballot measures and petitions - which benefits rural areas and marginalized neighborhoods. But the Democrats are going to outlaw th
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There is an EconTalk with a Broadway producer. And he talks about the history of why Broadway unionized but essentially people were so willing to work that producers wouldn’t even pay them. The fashion industry is much the same today. Model
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They are a sign of urban failure. If your city needs cars your city has failed. Go spend some time a city without cars - or sections of a city that don’t allow cars - I’ll wager you like it. Unfortunately in the US many criticize such effor
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Sometimes this is true, sometimes this is not. The mess that is Penn Station comes to mind. The buildings and neighborhoods torn down for freeway projects come to mind. Sometimes the new is all that is required to be better than the old.
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The author mentions the World and the Machine by Michael Jackson, I am guessing that is a reference to this paper? http://mcs.open.ac.uk/mj665/icse17kn.pdf
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Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica - Isaac Newton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophi%C3%A6_Naturalis_Pri...
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You are absolutely correct. Using both is a very valid options. We use ActiveRecord a lot, and then have custom SQL queries using `find_by_sql` for very complex, optimized joins. It works very well. Rails gets out of the way when we need

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