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Rails was a massive innovation [1] because making a CRUD webapp in other contemporary mainstream environments, like Struts, ASP, PHP4, or fresh PHP5, was either unnecessarily repetitive, or filled with having to tinker with external config
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Wealth correlates well with opportunity and choices; students coming from wealthier families can better afford to acquire other compensating controls -- like private tutoring, or simply eating the fail on the exam and relying on social capi
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Perhaps you mean "has anybody considered having formal, hierarchical namespaces", an orthogonal concern to having or not having a single global repository (although the two can be coupled together by the community if they so choos
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Lack of focus, despite many years of research, literature, and attempts; interference with problematic techniques that have become really popular when alternatives sucked, like JSONP before CORS was ready, and before C-S-P was even thought
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That's the Dumbarton Rail Bridge, built in 1910 and closed in 1982. The western trestle burned down in the 90s [1] and the swinging part of the span has been welded into a perma-open position. Several studies were done in the 90s and 2
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Funny that BART got to SJ via the East Bay first, but I hope they make the most of it. This does complete a missing (edit: rail ) link around the Bay -- though sadly across three different transit systems. Some time ago I wrote that the ge
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You can find the tail numbers for Volga-Dnepr's A124 fleet on various flight tracker sites, like FlightRadar24 [1]. Four of their planes have been in SFO in the past week: RA-82081 was in SFO on April 28 and flew to Kinston, South Caro
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Qualcomm Said to Seek U.S. Import Ban for iPhones(bloomberg.com)
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I realize that much of the Go community is hesitant about the sort of third-party code that intentionally constraints the problem-space by restricting choice and then calls your code at a few well-defined points; preferring to call out to l
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IANAL either, but it sounds like Thomas is saying that the Colorado Exoneration Act was carefully written to specifically cover cases like this in that it enumerated the rights and entitlements of those exonerated who follow that process, a
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It helps them report a higher number of ad impressions, from preroll and overlay ads that are on the next video, as people are scrambling to hit pause. On the other hand, plenty of people do watch YouTube semi-passively, and autoplay enable
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Shipbreaking has some similarities with electronics recycling in that it's hard work ideally requiring some significant precautions, but if you forego those precautions and employ hordes of desperate people in a jurisdiction that eithe
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Like issues arising in most multiparty content aggregators, whether they're social networks or marketplaces, Etsy's seller situation reduces down to a discovery and reputation problem. - How do you highlight "genuine" ar
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They increased the size of some of the touch targets, which is probably the right call on a small mobile touchscreen, but needs to be carefully balanced with content density, as the negative spaces have been increasing over time and there&#
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As of writing, this links to university news release. The actual paper is doi:10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000354 [1]. Abstract Predictions of the risk to built infrastructure posed by climate and land-use change have suggested that
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AMD has shipped AES-NI in every processor family starting with Bulldozer in 2011. Intel started in 2010 with Westmere, but kept it out of the lower-end models like Pentium, Celeron, and i3 for several generations. Only since Skylake (2015)
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Paradise, Nevada -- an unincorporated town [1] under Nevada law in Clark County, which host all of the famous casinos of the Strip between Sahara and Mandalay Bay, as well as over 200000 people -- is definitely a real place, yet all domesti
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Is your concern the same whether a single static key used for the entire message vs. a cryptosystem that offers forward secrecy; or solely based around the idea that having the (encrypted) content publicly disseminated in the first place is
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Due to network effects and the 'discovery' problem, content on the Web will likely continue to need content silos and content aggregators to expand reach. This alone isn't a problem -- or maybe it is, depending on your point-
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> what would stop local grassroots efforts from installing their own community-based ISPs High meatspace costs (digging, permits), obstruction of easements by incumbents (like pole access [1][2]), and in 19 states, state laws [3], are so
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There is no irony here. Today, with net neutrality, the author can choose to publish on Medium, where some publishers and readers congregate for particular types of content, and anyone on the Internet who wants to read Medium can, without h
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What's the relation (if anything) of [1] https://github.com/developerdizzle/react-virtual-list to [2] https://github.com/OutSystems/react-virtualized-list , who blogged [3] about their compone
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I haven't watched the 55-minute talk yet, but the 82 slides can be clicked through (ironically, the embed in the article didn't work for me on /any/ browser, but here's a direct link: [1]). The slides channel an upl
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> Do you have any information on the prospective volume of trade? Not really, though COSCO (a top-5 shipper by capacity and market share [1]) expressed interest again in 2016 [2], sending 5 ships through; they were the first Chinese ship
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On a sobering note, the Arctic is a tremendous shortcut for shipping, and despite its vast and remote coastline, it's surrounded solely by states with a strong rule of law, making piracy unlikely. Cargo traffic between will re-orient f
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Harper's administration, though losing focus on the issue by the end, was keen on enforcing the Canadian Internal Waters claim [1][2]. Trudeau, not at all [3]. To the detriment of Canadians, major players around the rest of the world c
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It's not hypocrisy, it's offloading traffic to a company who hasn't quite figured out how to make money, but is willing to provide the author with analytics and hosting in exchange (... for what exactly???) In other words, it
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The Surface line is intended as a flagship device to show off Windows' strengths as an OS from the makers themselves. It fulfills the same purpose as Pixel for Android, and, y'know, all of Apple's lineup. It's not intend
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Oh, this is you! [1] Grats on release! The last big thread on Gopher here was pretty entertaining, nostalgic, and informative [2] -- including posts by the creators -- and it's the one where OP posted that they're working on a new
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Moreover, what's driving low natgas prices in the US is the use of hydraulic fracturing -- 'fracking' -- which injects some fluid, often water, horizontally along an entire layer of shale to free the trapped gas. This techniq

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