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by novaleaf 10y ago
keep in mind though, that was in part a geopolitical security strategy (energy security), as the USA was deeply reliant on foreign oil. (This was before the Alberta oil sands was viable, and fracking wasn't even a known option) Of cou
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by novaleaf 10y ago
Crazy, if you are primarily interested in salary, and you are a good PM. Not crazy if you hate PM'ing, or you are not good at it, or are not motivated by climbing corporate ladders.
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by novaleaf 10y ago
Typescript + React + Webpack. Follow the quickstart here: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/react-&-webpack...
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by novaleaf 10y ago
Forcing the party line of callback hell as a high quality "Production Practice" is an incredible disservice by not introducing the user to the concept of Promises. It already assumes a basic knowledge of exception handling, so a
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by novaleaf 10y ago
i would imagine as some sort of secure-boot or trusted hardware process.
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by novaleaf 10y ago
and still no ability to have comments. one reason I strongly prefer JSON5 http://json5.org/
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by novaleaf 10y ago
Resharper is great, totally awesome features for C#... unless you have a large professional project. The performance tanks and features become unreliable the larger the project gets. This has been a problem with every resharper versio
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by novaleaf 10y ago
yeah, and break all apps that use the old 255 char win32 api's. another thing to note is that it requires the windows insider preview, which in my experience required auto reboots every few days. very frustrating so I had to revert...
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by novaleaf 10y ago
Worth thinking about: Corporations. in my mind, that gives every national union (EU included) the "strength through division" you are talking about, but without all that other geopolitical risk.
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by novaleaf 10y ago
As you said, It might be racism, however I think people use the "racism" card too quickly to explain what might actually be a dumb/lazy/antisocial teacher. My related experience anecdote was as a 2nd or 3rd grader. I
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by novaleaf 10y ago
"No user serviceable parts inside"
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by novaleaf 10y ago
Webpack + Typescript works as a replacement (without Gulp, Babel, eslint, or flow) if you are interested in giving typescript a go.
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by novaleaf 10y ago
I think people are forgetting that most people (in the usa or globally) don't have the disposable income to (re)wire a house with ethernet. From a "humanity" perspective I stand by my point. Now for the average HN reader, s
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by novaleaf 10y ago
we survived wired home networks because they are expensive, and a superior IO solution (wifi) caught up quickly. Re usb-c: good luck not using the (only) io port on your device.
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by novaleaf 10y ago
If you think the USA had bad standards, In Thailand it's common (even today!) to build skyscrapers out of cement and single-pane glass. To bangkok office workers, it's pretty natural to blast the AC all day and have the office sti
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Leaked Pentagon video is science fiction about the future of cities(arstechnica.com)
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by novaleaf 10y ago
that's not what you are paying for. you are paying for a digital drafting table. As mentioned in another thread, purchasing the lcd panel itself ala-carte would cost more than the entire unit.
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by novaleaf 10y ago
when parsing human constructed JSON, use JSON5 for the win. http://json5.org/
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by novaleaf 10y ago
They arn't in a prime position to succeed with mobile. Not anymore. That ship sailed 3+ years ago.
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by novaleaf 10y ago
Pretty. Going after the mac market for media creation is a smart move, as that's a big driver of the mac's appeal over windows
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by novaleaf 10y ago
keep in mind the subtext beneath the announcement: they are shifting to other technologies that require less physical infrastructure investment (wireless?)
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by novaleaf 10y ago
yes fire them! just act like it's your fault, not theirs
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by novaleaf 10y ago
at a minimum, this seems like something the HK gov should get involved in......
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by novaleaf 10y ago
also braking: it looks like the cars can only brake as fast as they accelerate. seems like this should be a different slider.
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by novaleaf 10y ago
"Not in my backyard"
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by novaleaf 10y ago
yes, and always stay courteous even when they are total asses
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by novaleaf 10y ago
My first employer (Visio!) had aeron chairs for everyone. I fell in love with it then. The most important part (indeed, all I care about): The wire mesh seat. No more sweatty butt!!! I bought some imitations in Thailand for about USD $20
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by novaleaf 10y ago
to brute force the top 100 passwords, only the usernames were really required. can easily bruteforce the top 100 passwords on a live site. you are right that it's now very easy to use dictionary attacks now, on all the credentials of
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by novaleaf 10y ago
that was my main problem with "The Lean Startup" too. it was really really hard to finish it when only 10% of the content was actionable (the rest anecdotal)
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by novaleaf 10y ago
i'm not an AWS customer, but from what I have heard, you would be financially responsible for the DDoS traffic bill. Amazon might wave the fee, but you are the first party responsible.

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