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by koliber 7y ago
It should be possible in most practical situations. This is assuming you are storing the timezone correctly. You can always look at the date component of the timezone, look it up in a DB like the Olson DB to see what the UTC offset was on t
902.
by koliber 8y ago
Möbius ferret
903.
by koliber 8y ago
I want to create a lobby group / PAC that will promote the idea and lobby US lawmakers to make lobbying illegal. Once it is successful enough to be unable to do it's job, it will dissolve, distributing its money to pre-appointed
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by koliber 8y ago
Also, remember when they - removed the SCSI port - removed the floppy disk drive - removed the CD ROM It hurt EVERY time. The pain does not get less when they do it over and over again.
905.
by koliber 8y ago
Why climb Everest? Because it was there! Pursue your passions, whether it is climbing a huge mountain or finding identical packs of skittles. It is what makes the world great and interesting.
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by koliber 8y ago
15Five Inc. | Senior Frontend Engineers + others | FULL-TIME REMOTE 15Five ( https://15five.com ) is a San Francisco based SaaS that helps companies create a culture of feedback, having employees feel heard, and providing their
907.
by koliber 8y ago
https://logicmag.io/06-money-machines/ How algo trading works. It's a really well-rounded analysis into a usually jargon-filled, marketing-heavy, and difficult to understand world.
908.
by koliber 8y ago
The same is true for a whole freshly slaughtered chicken, sans venom.
909.
by koliber 8y ago
It is used in finance systems a lot. Event-based systems that run on message queues are the backbone of money. These often co-exist with batch systems that process huge files (which also can be thought of as a journal of events to be proces
910.
by koliber 8y ago
Preventing race conditions in message-queue based architectures is a neat challenge. Depending on your problem domain, there are some approaches that work really well. It is likely that these don't work for all cases though. The approa
911.
by koliber 8y ago
Be smart, write DRY code, but leave room for hooks to implement special cases. Make code readable, maintainable, and extensible. Write for maintainability and extensibility. I know you can solve the given problem better, with more succinct
912.
by koliber 8y ago
I am dealing with this right now at my job. The company has entered a growth stage, and sales is killing it. Every update is about this quota exceeded, that deal closed, or that person bringing in another stellar contract. Overall, it is a
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by koliber 8y ago
Coin miners use lots of electricity and release a lot of heat. Electrical heaters use lots of electricity and release a lot of heat. Would it be viable to start a company that sends attractive-looking coin miners to people who heat with ele
914.
by koliber 8y ago
There are many ways of stating what is happening and reasoning why. I tried to shy away from controversy and wanted to point out that there is nothing inherent in scooters that brings bad behavior out. It's just that the scooters arriv
915.
by koliber 8y ago
I didn't realize that they are keeping them hostage for that long, through multiple recharge cycles. I thought that people are scooping up scooters, holding them in their garage until the price goes up, recharging them, and freeing the
916.
by koliber 8y ago
One possible solution is to look at the place where the scooter was charged. Next, look at the place it has spent waiting to be charged. If the distance is less than 100 feet, don't give a payout. This can also be gamed, but more elabo
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by koliber 8y ago
I came to believe that these negative forces are all around us. They are constantly at play. As the landscape changes, they adapt to the new realities, but are mostly invisible. When a big company comes is with a sudden alteration to the &q
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by koliber 8y ago
My best advice is: ignore the people who say "it used to be nice, but now it is ruined." Go and travel, and experience it yourself. In 20 years, you'll be saying "it used to be nice, but now it is ruined." I hope so
919.
by koliber 8y ago
In my experience, the answer to each of those questions is "sometimes yes, sometimes no." Our software does not exist in isolation. If I don't ask you to separate your first name and your last name, and a need comes up to int
920.
by koliber 8y ago
I like reading these lists and find them very interesting. At the same time, I would caution anyone from building software that blindly tries to accommodate every point in these lists. Every software has a set of requirements, and a target
921.
by koliber 8y ago
Absolutely. It's interesting how it engrained itself in the human psyche, even after almost three decades have passed.
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by koliber 8y ago
In Poland, during communist times, there were often shortages of basic necessities at stores. Long lines of people were a signal that something rare was on sale. This led to people getting conditioned that if there is a queue, you get in an
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by koliber 8y ago
When I was staying in southern Spain in February, the home had a fireplace. The local gas station sold olive tree firewood. This points to the conclusion that some pruning of olive trees is going on on a regular basis. At the same time we s
924.
by koliber 8y ago
Every UI presents an opinion. In many cases, that opinion is unclear, muddled, or counterintuitive. As developers and designers pay more attention to the UX, that opinion becomes more clear and unilateral. In the end, the decision to like a
925.
by koliber 8y ago
If that is the case, then it makes sense that they did not lose weight. However, from a layman perspective, it seems like it would be nice to be able to collaborate the measure of increased metabolism not only through one method (doubly lab
926.
by koliber 8y ago
Depends where the fats come from. It takes a lot more resources to grow 100 calories of animal than 100 calories of plant. I imagine there is still a significant difference of resources needed to produce 100 calories of plant-based fat and
927.
by koliber 8y ago
I am interested in what the article did not say, as it may shed some light on this critique. Specifically, the weight differences between the groups at the end of the second phase of the study. The second phase of the study involved breakin
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by koliber 8y ago
One thing that spanking does not require while the types of consequences you talk about do is parents' time and engagement. Proper discipline takes time! I did not realize how much of my time and effort it will take to put in place pro
929.
by koliber 8y ago
Excellent! Building tools to automate and solve your own problems is such a satisfying endeavor. Unfortunately, the majority of people lack the skills you have and remain frustrated.
930.
by koliber 8y ago
I tried to correct some of these mistakes with my latest venture. In the past, I would build something that I thought was a pervasive problem with a demand, only to learn later that I was wrong. Ideas are worth very little until they are

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