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by lowry 8y ago
Societal harm? Sounds like a clear agenda.
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Why don't job descriptions explain what the company does, and how?
31 points by lowry 8y ago|23 comments
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by lowry 8y ago
Lua. It's has everything a good C project should have: small size, simple build system, portability by using the simplest constructs and not ifdefs, a clear and well define scope that none dares trespassing.
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by lowry 8y ago
Thank you! So, Michelle is Sharlene.
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by lowry 8y ago
This is why this text did not land in the book.
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by lowry 8y ago
WAT?
37.
by lowry 8y ago
I am reading HN through RSS, what demise?
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by lowry 8y ago
It will be remembered as well as Shakespeare play.
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by lowry 8y ago
Why not Hetzner or Leaseweb or Rackspace? There are lots of choice among big EU-based bare metal hosting services.
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by lowry 8y ago
OVH is probably a bad example, they targeted mostly French and East Europeans willing to setup file sharing among friends. They are still rebooting your servers if you happen to block ICMP requests, in an attempt to bring them back to live.
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by lowry 8y ago
How did Bellingcat obtain those passport application files?
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by lowry 8y ago
There is lack of decently read audiobooks in English at any price, and the situation changes little over time. Dictors are horrible and even blockbuster titles like "The Name of the Wind" have poor recordings. On the other hand, I
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by lowry 8y ago
How can a single guy computerize the whole IRS? It probably just "happened" while he was its head. It would have happened anyway. Because progress.
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by lowry 8y ago
Yes! I am pretty sure my photos were on Panoramio only. I never published them elsewhere, not even uploaded to Google Photos.
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by lowry 8y ago
Same for me, but they took my 2009 photos from an old OSM-based website with panorama in its name that I used back then. Can't remember the exact name of the website, though.
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by lowry 8y ago
Same for Belgium.
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Any new laptop with traditional docking station?
3 points by lowry 8y ago|1 comments
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by lowry 8y ago
The author exposes his agenda by downplaying Oracle's decisions that impact Java availability to businesses and FUDing other options, e.g. he says that RedHat will push security fixes to OpenJDK first and repackage afterward, as if it
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by lowry 8y ago
Belgian eID is similar. But the state crippled the ability to sign with it, because they wanted to have control over authorisation.
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by lowry 8y ago
While sipping Schnapps.
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by lowry 8y ago
Hey, The page you refer to has a section "NHTSA and NASA Investigation Verdict" and it says nothing about the software bugs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle...
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by lowry 8y ago
Is it what people call fake news nowadays? I once had a project with a major lobbying organisation with links throughout the automotive industry. The one that published regular reports on real vs declared emissions discrepancies long before
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by lowry 8y ago
It is common knowledge that Toyota uncontrolled acceleration bug was completely imaginary, see for example http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/08-blame-game
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by lowry 8y ago
What a crap...
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by lowry 8y ago
Dexia and Belfius are state owned in Belgium since the state bailed them out in 2008. Same for Ethias, an insurance company.
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by lowry 8y ago
There are cool electric buses running in the streets of Minsk, Belarus since a couple of years. IIRC, they have nikel-iron batteries with have limited capacity but good lifetime, and they recharge quickly. An electric bus runs for 30-40 min
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by lowry 8y ago
It is more nuanced than that, I guess.
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by lowry 8y ago
I would agree with you if only Signal would not ask for so many permissions on my phone.
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by lowry 8y ago
It's funny how examples of discouraged posts are clear and concise while their alternatives are verbose and harder to understand.
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by lowry 8y ago
I ordered a new one from https://pexonpcs.co.uk/products/filco-cables but you can also make your own USB cable yourself if you manage to get the right connector. FYI, the female socket on the Filco keyboard breaks apar

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