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by mVChr 13y ago
Because you have inaccurate cones[1], son [1] http://physicsfaq.co.uk/General/BlueSky/blue_sky.html Section: Why not violet?
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by mVChr 13y ago
> Interestingly, in order to keep atomic time in agreement with astronomical time, leap seconds occasionally must be added to UTC. Thus, not all minutes contain 60 seconds. A few rare minutes, occurring at a rate of about eight per decad
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by mVChr 13y ago
Exactly, I'm just waiting for a greenfield project where I can try Knockout + React.
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by mVChr 13y ago
あああ... なるほど... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaOF6lDnRUk I was hoping they'd show what it sounded like on the 4th-8th floors. Can't be optimal working conditions.
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by mVChr 13y ago
I have been a front-end engineer for over a decade, and if I were hiring for a position a decade ago I would understand and agree with your points. However, with the breadth and depth of skills required for great front-end engineering today
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by mVChr 13y ago
And I don't because I hate British humor (so much that I refuse to add the second 'u').
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by mVChr 13y ago
Excitement builds as more of the article is read until near the end... > Neither of the model universes explored by the Japanese team resembles our own, Maldacena notes. ...way to hide the disclaimer guys.
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by mVChr 13y ago
True, but Dart almost fits as well. Verb: move or run somewhere suddenly or rapidly. Game: darts.
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by mVChr 13y ago
Agreed. And Udacity's perceived failure doesn't necessarily correlate to Coursera or edX or other MOOC systems. I'm currently taking the Programming Languages course on Coursera with Dan Grossman and have found it to be on pa
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by mVChr 13y ago
I avoided clicking this link at first as I was expecting to groan at the shmoozy BS inside. I was pleasantly surprised to find a concrete technique that I can easily remember and apply. Thanks.
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by mVChr 13y ago
Does "embeddable programs everywhere" [paraphrase] sound like a maintenance nightmare to anyone else?
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by mVChr 13y ago
These are good questions, but many seem to be applicable to 100+ person companies only.
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by mVChr 13y ago
> I am in the fortunate position of writing an in house Django app, so basically it is in a constant beta state, and I have around 40 beta testers to tell me when things go wrong. And I'm sure you can see that if you were in a posit
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by mVChr 13y ago
I'm getting similar: Ray ID: c6aa828c05b07d9 Your IP address: [redacted] Error reference number: 502 CloudFlare Location: Los Angeles
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by mVChr 13y ago
Am I the only one here who thinks Martin (and others) are being way too sensitive? Here is Mark's comment that (I believe) Martin is so upset about: > Mir is really important work. When lots of competitors attack a project on purely
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by mVChr 13y ago
I know it's a public-private partnership, and I know the key point is "hey, it's faster/better," but after all the NSA revelations, do we really want the government to have direct control over our network access?
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by mVChr 13y ago
Seriously, the orbit visualizations are pretty cool: http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com/system.html?id=KOI-351...
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by mVChr 13y ago
Agreed! What I found most interesting about this article is that our own solar system seems fairly unique (I know, small sample size). Kepler 62 is the only one that has an Earth-like planet at about the same distance from the central star,
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by mVChr 13y ago
One purpose of getting users to sign up 5 friends for a free account is to get more people using the service. One purpose of allowing the scammers to get away with it is to be able to write a blog post about their novel approach that will i
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by mVChr 13y ago
All that time, thought and work and they ended up choosing Freight Micro? http://www.cucumbertown.com/craft/wp-content/uploads/2013/10... Look at that 'a' and the 's' (among other ass
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by mVChr 13y ago
This is great! I just made a pull request to add the ability to see the forecast for the upcoming week as well: https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather/pull/11/files
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by mVChr 13y ago
Nice looking idea, but it really needs an About page. I tend not to sign up for things without knowing what I'm supposed to use them for or what they're going to use me for.
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by mVChr 13y ago
My second computer was an IBM XT 8086. That was the first time I played and fell in love with Rogue. Every time I grab a copy of Rogue nowadays for nostalgia's sake I'm left disappointed because I can never find the version of R
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by mVChr 13y ago
I feel the exact same way about Javascript.
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by mVChr 13y ago
Interesting read. Also, good on Amazon for the P.S at the end: "Amazon was nice enough to refund the bandwidth charges [...] as they considered this activity accidental and not intentional."
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by mVChr 13y ago
Also, how well can you tell which search engine you prefer based solely on the results page itself without investigating how well the content of the individual URLs suggested in the results page satisfy your query on a one by one basis?
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by mVChr 13y ago
I'm preferentially a Python programmer who is currently working on a large well-known high-Alexa-ranked website that uses the LAMP stack. The site has been around for a while and is a behemoth, so I understand why it has stayed with t
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by mVChr 13y ago
Agreed on the lowercase r. Tried replacing the Source Code Pro with Fira Mono in Sublime and this immediately stuck out as annoying to me.
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by mVChr 13y ago
Small stakes, but completely passive. About ~$500/mo from Adsense on what are essentially niche long-tail SEO targeted yellow-page-like regional sites for very specific verticals. Not a lot of money, but I haven't touched them s
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by mVChr 13y ago
Yes, I thought so too when I first was looking into AngularFire. However, the point of OPs article seems to be that it's great for prototyping, not production, and that was an 'aha!' for me as to its usefulness.

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