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by nwatson 8y ago
> " I've never heard Yanny neither as a name nor a regular word" Fortunate soul has been spared from Yanni the musician: https://youtu.be/Xw7HeJ781Do (actually not so bad I guess)
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by nwatson 8y ago
I assume HN readership has grown, with readers probably giving out roughly on average the same number of up-votes they used to for story submissions per any time unit (maybe some variability). The number of points it takes for a story to b
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Conspiracy (2001 film)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nwatson 8y ago
The HBO film "Conspiracy" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(2001_film) ) is a great example of (domestic) diplomacy, diplomatic language, persuasion vs force, using language to steer actions that wi
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by nwatson 8y ago
Hmmm ... * governments want to improve public health * parents in a given geographic region can opt-in on birth of a child to enroll their child in a longitudinal data-gathering regime * parents' and child's PII (personally identi
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by nwatson 8y ago
I imagine the most interesting and relevant parts of Fluree-based applications will be in the data apart from the PII, the data visible to anybody who wants to view or update that info.
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by nwatson 8y ago
The GDPR question and "right to be forgotten", consent, etc., gets asked around this time in the Epicenter podcast with the founders: https://youtu.be/fdne9EvFNaw?t=3147 * Brian Platz addresses the question * fir
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by nwatson 8y ago
If I understand properly, Fluree will partner with various "federated" enterprises to all run a Fluree ecosystem where everyone's data can be replicated, and queries can be served via multiple gateways ... in that sense Flure
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by nwatson 8y ago
Getting paid to satisfy others' frivolous pursuits is the future of work. With more real-world work being automated away, we'd better hope there are jobs like "World of Warcraft Concierge" and "Sim City Colorist.&q
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by nwatson 8y ago
Looks like a sibling comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16968312 , discussing the new "Modular Repos" feature, has an answer -- looks like Fedora 28 lets you switch easily between different versions of
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by nwatson 8y ago
I was always struck from the mid-90s till I left the bay area 5 years ago by that one block of awesome downtown Sunnyvale CA , Murphy St, and the dismal shopping center next to it that must have destroyed 10 or more similar blocks. The sho
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by nwatson 8y ago
"As a baker it is your job to ensure that [the yeast and bacteria] feel happy and enjoy their home." ... until you impose hell upon them in the form of an oven. That is one awkward "light-hearted" sentence.
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by nwatson 8y ago
Yes ... he participates in a classical choral group, and has sung in and/or led church choirs until they inevitably get cut from the priorities and budget as "worship bands" become the sole musical style in middle America pro
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by nwatson 8y ago
That's not a "fixed-rate" mortgage (at least in the U.S.), because fixed-rate mortgages set a fixed interest rate until the entire mortgage principal is paid down to $0. It seems like you're describing a https:/&#x
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by nwatson 8y ago
My younger older brother wanted to be an opera singer and majored in vocal performance, doing a variety of jobs like landscaping, manual labor, selling insurance, directing church choirs (doesn't pay well at all but was tied with his s
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by nwatson 8y ago
I imagine the Koch Brothers follow through on their commitment to "ban the box" ( http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/koch-brothers-donors-ban-box-... ) and not ask about felony convictions in job applications. The
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by nwatson 8y ago
Doin' it from the North Carolina piedmont area, for a MV, CA company (not Google-affiliated). Works out very well, I'm happy, they're happy.
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YouTube Remix Will Bring the End of Google Play Music(droid-life.com)
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by nwatson 8y ago
An automated test causes the tested product to send an email to the user? So ... my docker local deployment has a DNS server with the proper MX records, an SMTP server to receive the emails, an IMAP server to expose and serve up the receiv
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by nwatson 8y ago
With Docker I can run my E2E "offline".
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by nwatson 8y ago
I'd prefer that all testing be done with live data in a real database ... maybe not at the very beginning but as soon as practicable. I came into a project recently with so many issues around differences between real data and assumed
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by nwatson 8y ago
Bitbucket. It's cheap.
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by nwatson 8y ago
Brian Platz, Fluree CEO, is an entrepreneur and engineer. I know Fluree's written mostly in Clojure, and he wrote the core. (He worked out of the same co-working space I'm in but recently the company graduated to their own space
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Fluree DB – A scalable blockchain database(flur.ee)
71 points by nwatson 8y ago|71 comments
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by nwatson 8y ago
New DB with similar time snapshots and immutability ... https://flur.ee ... haven't fully investigated. Whitepaper at https://flur.ee/assets/pdf/flureedb_whitepaper_v1.pdf .
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by nwatson 9y ago
The newest pattern I'm trying to learn ... on macOS whenever I copy text then switch to Chrome and click on a field ... I need to wait 3 seconds before pasting otherwise Chrome freezes 15% of the time. Since it doesn't happen all
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by nwatson 9y ago
I work on a huge codebase and SourceTree handles it quite well on macOS. A year ago I'd occasionally see updates that were occasionally broken (solvable with a downgrade) but it's been pretty solid lately.
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by nwatson 9y ago
I sat through too many 3 hour cfront compiles.
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Sun NeWS Postscript-based graphics and windowing system(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nwatson 9y ago
An uncle who designed jet engines at General Electric said one advantage GE had over European counterparts was the greater diversity in sheet metal gauges/thicknesses used to build the engines; they could maintain required strength thr

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