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by nathan_long 7y ago
Sounds right, but she wasn't purely mercenary like her friend Charlotte, who admitted to marrying Mr. Collins for his money, which filled Elizabeth with horror.
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by nathan_long 7y ago
Depends highly on the employee's value to the company. Also, if the employee has very marketable skills, they may be happy to leave a job whose hourly rate has suddenly dropped.
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Phoenix Phrenzy: Build Demos Using Phoenix LiveView(phoenixphrenzy.com)
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by nathan_long 7y ago
> Unfortunately for us front end engineers we can't rely on the user having any internet connection let alone a good one. Surely some web apps need to work offline. But most web pages do not, and I don't want most sites I visit
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by nathan_long 7y ago
> I agree that JSON could lead to less data being transferred over the wire I haven't benchmarked the difference, but I bet HTTP compression removes most of the difference > but that assumes your client already has cached the me
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by nathan_long 7y ago
> It seems to be a fast and responsive site when it works, though. LOL. Y'all, I love speed as much as anyone, but your development priorities should be 1) it works and 2) it's fast. Using HTML links where 1) is never in doubt
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by nathan_long 7y ago
I probably wouldn't migrate a project, but I switched my default db to PostgreSQL after seeing the many ways MySQL can silently screw up data. Truncating strings, truncating numbers, allowing NULLs in a NOT NULL, etc. Much (all?) of th
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by nathan_long 7y ago
> My search for a bookcase starts on ikea.com, where I navigate to the bookcase section, in the hope to get an overview of the different series. I find instead a listing of all 257 bookcase products, including accesories, such as hinges
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by nathan_long 7y ago
How many people can you have in a single meeting?
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UX Testing for Code(medium.com)
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by nathan_long 7y ago
> A great example is when Henry Moore saw Michelangelo and started to cry and confessed the only reason he makes such statues is because he knows "he will never be able to create anything as beautiful as that" Interesting. Cita
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by nathan_long 7y ago
CDs that you burned chemically with a laser at home were much less durable than those physically pressed in a factory from a glass master.
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by nathan_long 7y ago
This assumes an unbroken chain of people devoting time and resources to migrating the data. Any gap would mean that data is lost or requires much more expense to recover. Find a 3.5" floppy disk from 1995 with WordPerfect files on it a
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by nathan_long 7y ago
Fred Hebert was on the ElixirTalk podcast and mentioned speed of deploys as one advantage - no need to rebuild a bunch of VMs. > From experience, we could deploy to a 70-node cluster in something like under 5 seconds by doing it in paral
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by nathan_long 7y ago
I share your concern about how Youtube influences society, and it's likely that content I consider good will be taken down by Youtube in the future. I don't like that. But it still sounds to me like you're demanding that, aft
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by nathan_long 7y ago
> If a private developer were to take over most residential areas in a section of town There is a finite amount of land in a town, so a monopoly can exclude people. This is not true of video hosting - there can be as many video hosts as
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by nathan_long 7y ago
> If they don't want the government forcing them to host content and uphold free speech then they have to take responsibility for the content in the eyes of the law. Currently they're having it both ways, free to ban ideas they
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by nathan_long 7y ago
Somewhat tangential, but unless you have a goal of using a product as much as possible, any algo that optimizes engagement is not your friend. It's like a waiter who always wants you to order more food.
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by nathan_long 7y ago
> If bees can do this, how smart are we really? Well, bees don't invent controlled experiments to test our symbolic reasoning, think through the results, form philosophical questions using arbitrarily complex language structures, an
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by nathan_long 7y ago
I think the "abstract" part here was the concept of "three-ness" or "two-ness" - that the bees could see something that represents 3 and correctly choose the path with three shapes, regardless of what the shape
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by nathan_long 7y ago
Established car makers have established themselves so well by not paying for the health and environmental damage their products cause. We have all subsidized them by paying to deal with their mess (in cash and in consequences). To frame thi
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by nathan_long 7y ago
A dictatorship is just more extreme than a democracy because the whole society moves in sync by necessity - they do or die. Whether it's a smart industrial move or a dumb one, a benevolent program or a genocidal one, if the leaders cal
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by nathan_long 7y ago
Competing restaurants and whoever is in charge of the park cleanup budget would disagree with you quite strongly
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by nathan_long 7y ago
Yes. If an email is bigger than 102KB (excluding attachments), there's a 99% that I don't want it.
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by nathan_long 7y ago
LOL
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by nathan_long 7y ago
Exactly. Evangelical Christians have also denounced this kind of con many times. Eg via a documentary: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/american-gospel-b... A sermon clip with more than a million views: http
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by nathan_long 7y ago
If a town allowed a restaurant to dump their trash in a public park for free, would you consider that a subsidy?
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by nathan_long 7y ago
depesz has a nice series of posts about new features: https://www.depesz.com/tag/pg12/ "Generated columns" and "foreign keys to partitioned tables" are two that caught my eye.
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by nathan_long 7y ago
The company making these self-driving trucks - enormously complex products which could kill people if they go wrong - is called "TuSimple"? Really?
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by nathan_long 7y ago
Your comment sounds more like a soap box than interacting with the actual article. > In one study, participants who read that an artist was strongly passionate about his job said it was more legitimate for the boss to exploit the artist

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