mollmerx

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by mollmerx 10y ago
I'm an avid FT reader and like that description, but have never seen it before. Any chance you can provide a reference?
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by mollmerx 10y ago
blink = indicate
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by mollmerx 10y ago
Particularly in London, houses are overvalued to the extent that rents are comparatively cheap vs. the rest of the country. Rental yields in London are significantly lower than they are in e.g. Manchester.
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by mollmerx 10y ago
The problem is what the question implies, which is that in this workplace the interviewer has until now found it impossible to to convince his manager. This doesn't look good for the interviewer or his manager. Note that he does not sa
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by mollmerx 11y ago
They never had control or they never lost it?
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by mollmerx 11y ago
Your experience will depend very much on which Terminal you're at (there is a big difference in age and layouts of individual terminals) and, in particular, whether you're forced to switch terminals when transiting. A good airport
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by mollmerx 11y ago
Essentially you are being given a copy of a VM that has a copy of Windows pre-installed. It's unlikely (but possible) that Microsoft has granted a license for this. I imagine this is technically not legal, but as you say, unlikely to m
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by mollmerx 11y ago
In some jurisdictions penknives are explicitly allowed, due to their blade typically being just under 60mm long.
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by mollmerx 11y ago
If you're interested in using a js bookmarklet to bypass, search for "froomens".
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by mollmerx 11y ago
I think that's a very interesting question, to which the answer probably depends on how you define 'thrive'. It seems unlikely to me that any language could become mainstream without being open source. The expectation that a
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Timestamps done right(getkerf.wordpress.com)
64 points by mollmerx 11y ago|71 comments
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by mollmerx 11y ago
The passwords are generated on the client.
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by mollmerx 11y ago
This. I find it surprising that the offender wasn't terminated and incomprehensible that the victim was required to continue reporting to him.
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by mollmerx 11y ago
My girlfriend started watching Reign on Netflix when we were visiting the US. She is able to watch it when she visits me in the UK. At her home in Germany it is unavailable.
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by mollmerx 11y ago
Absolutely! Also, the inclusion of non-ASCII operators harkens back to APL. Mind mind isn't yet made up on whether I like this. I anticipate code being easier to read and harder to type. Given perl5's reputation in this regard, I&
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by mollmerx 11y ago
A "good" language might let you run "5 < x" when x is a list and return a list of booleans. This is what languages in the APL family do.
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Airbnb introduces dynamic pricing to meet surging demand(ft.com)
19 points by mollmerx 11y ago|12 comments
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by mollmerx 11y ago
Thanks for that - I'd never heard of the Igon Value Problem and love the concept.
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by mollmerx 11y ago
Why do you not find this believable? In the UK there is a 24.2 year difference between the life expectancy for men in the Calton area of Glasgow and the national average . I think 33 years for the difference between longest and shortest ex
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by mollmerx 11y ago
Malta has the reputation of being the easiest to acquire EU citizenship. It's unlikely that Germany would be one of the easiest, as it requires 8 years of permanent residence to become a citizen. After living in Germany for 8 years it&
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by mollmerx 11y ago
Yes, ideally those human rights would be provided for by the government. However, there is too much food poverty and lack of medical insurance, even in developed nations, for me to accept this to be the case.
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by mollmerx 11y ago
I have a hunch that this may play out in a similar way the Scottish Independence Referendum did last year. It is in the interest of business and the elite to stay in, while there is significant popular opinion and some small businesses that
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by mollmerx 11y ago
Insider information is known but non-public. I think it's more appropriate to describe this as forward-looking. I.e. we are getting an insight into things that haven't even happened yet!
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by mollmerx 11y ago
If the list is known in advance, what about a strategy of sorting the items by absolute value and then summing from smallest to largest? Would this improve accuracy? If so, by how much?
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by mollmerx 11y ago
I agree that doors of parked cars in cities may be a frequent and painful source of cycling accidents. They are not, however, the most dangerous. The most dangerous source of accidents for cyclists in cities is from passing turning HGVs (tr
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by mollmerx 11y ago
I had to look that one up: DWIM = Do What I Mean
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by mollmerx 11y ago
In addition, sins are often easy to tax because consumption is rather inelastic, due to there being few alternatives. Thus, taxes on sins can produce higher revenues than taxes on more price sensitive goods or activities would.
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by mollmerx 11y ago
I don't believe it is the case that keeping a property empty of furniture absolves the owner of have to pay council tax: [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_Tax#Exemptions] ]
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by mollmerx 11y ago
Do J and K really do away with notation as a tool of thought? I don't know much J, but my understanding of K is that it simply maps APL's functionality onto ASCII - and imo this transformation doesn't impact notation, especia
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by mollmerx 11y ago
I believe it's more likely to be partly related to the small console sizes that were typical at the time. I don't think typing was slower then. And most programming time isn't spent typing.

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