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by njs12345 10y ago
It occupies a slightly different niche to Rust as it has a GC. If you can live with that, it's probably going to be more productive than Rust for you. It's definitely worth playing around with a language from that family. OCaml is
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by njs12345 10y ago
How about the property 'this variable is never null'? You might call this trivial but it seems to be useful given that real-world programmers get it wrong frequently: http://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=newest&
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by njs12345 10y ago
They will still check bags most of the time - if the flight is full and everyone has brought a bag with them there won't be enough locker space.
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by njs12345 10y ago
That sounds interesting - have you got any more details on exactly how they set this up?
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by njs12345 10y ago
A 1 hour run for me burns 1000+ calories: https://www.strava.com/activities/800853045 Of course it's possible to eat 1000 calories' worth of food in one sitting, especially if you're eating something wit
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by njs12345 10y ago
> For instance, a prison can't be too nice, lest it turns into a free vocational school and people will find committing crimes and getting caught to be an excellent way to get education. If this turns out to be a serious problem the
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by njs12345 10y ago
We have a lot of fibre-to-the-cabinet in the UK, which means you may only have copper for a few hundred metres. It's obviously nowhere near as good as fibre to the home, but I think lumping it in with plain old DSL is a bit unfair - a
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by njs12345 10y ago
An example of BRT - there are quite a few of them now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_rapid_transit
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by njs12345 10y ago
Antitrust isn't exactly an issue until you have a significant amount of market power. It's not like it's likely to affect most people who start businesses. Hostile to big business maybe, but not so convinced that's a bad
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by njs12345 10y ago
No, the migration itself will cause transactions to stall. For example, if you have a table with 1M user records, and you run a migration to add a column in MySQL, then any updates to the table will be stalled while the table is rewritten t
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by njs12345 10y ago
From the MySQL docs: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/alter-table.html > Updates and writes to the table that begin after the ALTER TABLE operation begins are stalled until the new table is read
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by njs12345 10y ago
You can compare the maps for e.g. PM2.5 in New Delhi and LA quite easily: http://aqicn.org/map/delhi/mandir-marg/#@g/28.6188/77.2405/1... http://aqicn.org/map/losangeles&#x
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by njs12345 10y ago
With regard to deposit scams, the system we have in the UK works pretty well - the landlord must put the deposit in a government-approved escrow scheme, which then decides any disputes over how much of the deposit should be held back (anecd
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by njs12345 10y ago
Government policy determines the price of land. Land is a major component of the cost of housing, so it stands to reason that government intervention in housing policy can make housing less expensive. For instance, imposing a very high land
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by njs12345 10y ago
More or Less is also an excellent radio program he narrates on economics and statistics, definitely worth a listen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd
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by njs12345 10y ago
It's difficult - I have more of a fairness problem with this (such a deal would probably not be available to researchers or smaller companies) than a data privacy concern. As others point out downstream, I think it's not really in
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by njs12345 10y ago
The world's 5th largest employer (just after McDonald's)..
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by njs12345 10y ago
As a counterpoint to this post, I have free private insurance with work and never bother using it because the NHS works so well for day to day things.
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by njs12345 10y ago
The operator also has no control over fares and branding, I'd argue that's a big difference too.
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by njs12345 11y ago
> Immediately writing a public blog post is not negotiating in good faith. Yet this seems to have been quite effective, given that the head of Developer Relations at Twitter is replying to this story on HN..
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by njs12345 11y ago
I would second that. Not in SV, in London, but I had a similar experience with an abusive work environment. Stayed way too long and some of my shares vested. Now they're worth some money on paper, but it wasn't worth it - my advi
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by njs12345 11y ago
Luckily, in much of Europe, overly broad non-competes aren't enforceable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#Europe
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by njs12345 11y ago
The Barbican is definitely amazing — another favourite of mine is the Preston Bus Station: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Preston_...
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by njs12345 11y ago
Sshuttle is awesome. Comparing the ease of use to openvpn, it's night and day..
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by njs12345 11y ago
I haven't read George's original works, but his philosophy allows for private ownership of land - it's just that the 'rent' of the land - the value derived solely from e.g. its location - will be taxed at a very hig
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by njs12345 11y ago
You might find the Wikipedia articles on international economics interesting - e.g. the "impossible trinity": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
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by njs12345 11y ago
The other name for this kind of abstraction is a 'lens' (as touched on at the bottom) - I found this library pretty quickly: https://github.com/DrBoolean/lenses
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by njs12345 11y ago
Probably the paywall - try Incognito Mode?
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by njs12345 11y ago
I think there were bagels in Brick Lane before they were in the US, so in that sense it's a very traditional bagel indeed.. Not sure how long the shops there have been going though (white or orange).
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by njs12345 11y ago
Phabricator is great, can't recommend it enough.

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