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by mdpye 7y ago
While I also found the title disappointing, you cut a key part of that quote, changing the meaning entirely... was at the forefront of culture, religion and exchange with other countries across the North Sea . I noticed because I had to do
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by mdpye 8y ago
NixOS kind of fits the bill (it can generate complete OS images from a recipe which is IIRC statically typed and "compiled") If it looks waaaay different to puppet, ansible and chef, there's a reason for that :) Doing provisi
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by mdpye 8y ago
The government provides a ration , you can buy more food. I'm not saying food in Cuba was available in the same kind of quantities and choices as in the states, but portions were almost on par (which is to say, enough to floor a Europ
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by mdpye 8y ago
That's the whole point of the survey, as I read it. You can't look at it and say it's fine, but they do. That is important to understand. As a counterpoint, the US polls the lowest concern in the world for poverty and inequal
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by mdpye 8y ago
I'm unconvinced by the max-version part, I can't see how it doesn't require either A) being overly restrictive, and declaring the current released version as your max, breaking for a short time on each new lang version B) bei
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by mdpye 8y ago
Nitpick: C is weakly typed, Ruby is strong. C is statically typed, Ruby is dynamic. Strong typing is about objects having a definite type. In Ruby, you cannot cast a String to a Fixnum, an exception will be raised. But in C you may cast any
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by mdpye 9y ago
So, your spec house is the yet-another-crud-webapp, where the spec is clear and the tech mature... Engineers do those too, but they aren't so much entrepreneurs as jobbing contractors or agencies
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by mdpye 9y ago
"Protagonist is poor" doesn't come close to what they are advocating. From the article: Take The Same Kind of Different As Me, a movie that presents itself as being about a homeless black man, but is most interested in a ric
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by mdpye 9y ago
There is no such thing as jaywalking in the UK, it's neither an offence (with the exception of motorways, which also regulate the type of vehicle which may enter), nor a term that's widely used or understood. Outside of cities, th
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by mdpye 9y ago
At several points, the wording also appears to suggest that being homeless is in itself a criminal act. There may well be a big problem, but this active seems quite callously written.
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by mdpye 9y ago
I've left all of my previous posts without anything lined up and taken a few months. Even once in to the interview cycle at the end, it's a lot more relaxing (and flexible) than doing them while employed!
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by mdpye 9y ago
In the UK, you tend to get an offer conditional on references, and you only provide them once you've given notice to your current place.
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by mdpye 9y ago
The sysadmin in the CS computer labs at my uni (Leeds) was doing this in 2002. Changing cracked passwords was compulsory, you got an email that just said (paraphrasing) "Your password is crap" and then were forced to change it at
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by mdpye 10y ago
You were completely correct and idiomatic, goatlover just wanted to throw in the pun.
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by mdpye 10y ago
London and Paris both have metro systems which can carry you significantly further than a car significantly faster. In London there are not significant numbers of people driving to work compared with public transport.
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by mdpye 10y ago
You are correct. A black bar at the bottom of the screen is a nostalgic trigger for me! (When playing games which were designed for NTSC resolution on PAL screen. This was a generation later on the Amiga)
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by mdpye 10y ago
While the title could be better, celiac's is not a sensitivity, it's an allergy - an autoimmune disorder. That's an entirely different class of complaint.
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by mdpye 10y ago
Just sounds dumb to me. I don't really understand how reducing any population of millions to two or three characteristics qualifies as humour. We can do much better!
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by mdpye 10y ago
We are not a country accustomed to, or we'll prepared for, referendums on complex subjects (I don't know of any that are except Switzerland, which is built on them). If the question were posed again tomorrow, the results might be
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by mdpye 10y ago
I read it during my commute. I had ~40 minute uninterrupted on a train each way, each day. It was problematic. During that period were the only times I ever missed my stops, both going to work and home. And that's with 2 voice announce
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by mdpye 10y ago
I understand that they are. And the cars (and engines) are much older than would be preferable because updating the regulations to mandate newer vehicles gets a lot of push back. The vehicles are privately owned, the drivers do not want t
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by mdpye 10y ago
Because it's still a way of being singled out, even if well intentioned. Do you think they flocked for the lone woman's benefit?
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by mdpye 11y ago
All the devices are the same (across customers and banks), so your card is the second factor, the device is just a reader for it.
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by mdpye 11y ago
Thanks, I'll pass it on to the author!
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by mdpye 11y ago
This one, I imagine: https://blog.pusher.com/porting-the-pusher-integration-tests...
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by mdpye 11y ago
None of it sadly, though the application fetches its config from a haskell service. The bits we are preparing for the main service are quite large (architecturally) but we hope to be beta testing them soon.
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by mdpye 11y ago
It will be a long time before we're rid of EventMachine. It's served (relatively) well considering, but I wouldn't say any of us are fans or would recommend it for new projects.
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by mdpye 12y ago
God, I hope that second paragraph is intended to illustrate the irony (or you don't fall in the native speaker category!) :P
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by mdpye 12y ago
If you want to talk about the phrasing, I think you're missing a subtle distinction. He disagrees IN principle, not ON principle. As in, he disagrees in principle, but not in practice. As I understand it, "on principle" is th
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by mdpye 12y ago
Fair point, I guess. I very rarely work with a non-virtual terminal, but when I do I take a photo before typing anything . Perhaps that's only practical for me because it's pretty rare.

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