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901.
by njharman 11y ago
> atmospheric lead from gasoline additives was a major source of lead There's such a direct correlation with leaded gas and violent crime in USA. That it was likely a large if not the largest factor in the rise and fall of crime rat
902.
by njharman 11y ago
Yes, but the land and any rights appreciates . Only the building and some other improvements may be depreciated. In many markets a large percentage of the property is in first category. Also you generally only realize any gain / los
903.
by njharman 11y ago
TIL I learned my laptop has a fan. [for cooling off CPU taxed with rendering confetti]
904.
by njharman 11y ago
They feel just as threatened as book publishers, MPAA, RIAA and all the short-sighted content producers who have been relying on quirks of technology that allowed them to monopolize distribution of content. Quirks that no longer exist in In
905.
by njharman 11y ago
> What "battle" did the US win? As a military exercise it was a debacle from start to finish. No it wasn't. It was a political, moral, social debacle from the start. But not a military one. Read some history and understa
906.
by njharman 11y ago
Because not everything is an Object. Not every program uses Objects. OO is only one (an overused one) of several software paradigms. RDBMS <-> Objects are a poor match. So much so, many pursued NoSQL to find relief from the pain.
907.
by njharman 11y ago
[edit] despite negative expectations, I still upvoted OA cause even "wrong" innovation is better than stagnation. pyscopg2 is pretty great. Every lib I've seen is based on it. Many apps use it directly. It is the lowest, com
908.
by njharman 11y ago
Nothing to do with industry. I was in a more or less dead end devops role. I wanted more of a pure programming role.
909.
by njharman 11y ago
Be enlightened http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
910.
by njharman 11y ago
Tell me in 3 years if it was a mistake. Until then you're guessing out your ass, hoping to drive traffic to your blog.
911.
by njharman 11y ago
What kind of performance? Consumer Reports rated so highly they had to redo their test (it got over 100%). It's acceleration is near supercar territory or just "really fucking fast" with out ludicris. 98% of owners said they&
912.
by njharman 11y ago
If you think ostentatious is a problem in the luxury market you don't know the luxury market. Also why do you imagine bay area is X or Tesla's biggest market?
913.
by njharman 11y ago
I've already made $60k on $20k investment. Not recently though.
914.
by njharman 11y ago
The company makes batteries . Partnerned with one of biggest battery suppliers on giant new battery factory. That it's batteries currently go into cars, and home/industrial storage systems is happenstance of the moment.
915.
by njharman 11y ago
Moving from engineer in financial industry to engineer in "regular" industry (same city) I just accepted and told potential employers I expected a pay cut. Sooo much money in finance, everyone is "over" paid.
916.
by njharman 11y ago
I resolved to use print debugging less and pdb more. This makes that even harder, thanks a lot. :)
917.
by njharman 11y ago
I'm pretty sure they hunt and render children into bio-fuel.
918.
by njharman 11y ago
Sure, but we've allowed "The Content Oligarchy" to expand Copyright so ridiculously that there is a thing called "Contributory Infringement". If you enable or even don't actively inhibit someone's ability
919.
by njharman 11y ago
Minor point of clarification re title; Python 3 has been here, it's Scrapy that has (finally and good for them) come to Python 3.
920.
by njharman 11y ago
Really?, Really! Because every other output method was a function the statement is annoying as all hell. Swapping between print and fh.write() log.error(), stringio.write(), sys.stderr.write(), mycustom_thing_that_suppresses_print_when_qui
921.
by njharman 11y ago
dub dub dub ?
922.
by njharman 11y ago
I mean programmer documentation, how to build this thing, why was this choice made, what ideas were attempted and abandoned and why, what gotchas, what shortcuts were taken/tech debt incured. A lot of this should be in commit messages
923.
by njharman 11y ago
I believe author means things like code, build system, etc when they say "inputs are beautiful". Cause In my experience one of the major inhibitors of beautiful code, what takes many tests, and what makes dev hard is how fucked up
924.
by njharman 11y ago
Too many guys like this are what makes software dev hard. Too many yahoos who think its just about code. Code is only an implementation detail of how most dev is done today. Even today, code isn't about the code. It's about expla
925.
by njharman 11y ago
>code that produced it should be cleaned up and documented before the next project was started. A major why waiting to the end to test document and clean up code is a failure. Write beautiful, tested code from the start. Even throwaway c
926.
by njharman 11y ago
> Annoyance the 5.1beta3 – Version incompatibility That makes no sense. Yes, version X+1 is incompatible with version X. That's why we upped the version number!!! I wonder if author never had to deal with API/Service that chang
927.
by njharman 11y ago
"alive", life has deferent meaning (and defined requirements e.g self-reproduction) than "consciousness", "sentience" or "mind". Unless you belief in a mystical soul component (I do not), there is not
928.
by njharman 11y ago
Not correct. Like many things in Python import is actually just syntactic sugar for a dunder function. https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#__import__
929.
by njharman 11y ago
Compared to age of Galaxy, Life on this planet has been brief. Also, aren't something like 99.99% of all species extinct?
930.
by njharman 11y ago
Probably because NSa can break most encryption.

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