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by peterbraden 7y ago
Why do you think this reflects badly on him? He deleted some repositories that he made in his spare time? It wouldn't affect my decision to hire him negatively, and the experience that he demonstrated with the project is still a massiv
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by peterbraden 7y ago
How do you work with text files on a mobile device? What do you use to synchronize the files?
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by peterbraden 7y ago
This is nonsense. Even if you do everything right, you can have bad luck. Illness can happen to anyone. Of course you can improve your odds, but acting like sickness is some sort of personal failing is a bad mentality, and one of the reason
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by peterbraden 7y ago
In most mountain huts it’s instant which sucks. But where is this stigma that the only true coffee is espresso coming from ? I far prefer good filter.
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by peterbraden 7y ago
> Anna recalls the change. “When we were in the tenements, you’d shout up to the window: ‘Mammy, I want a piece of jam!’ Before you knew it there was a dozen of them being thrown out of the window.” In the tower block, she did not let he
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by peterbraden 7y ago
The family get the joy of the work. It's worth noting that copyright here is only talking about the monetary legacy of the work. Value exists in many dimensions. There's also value in work that society owns.
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by peterbraden 7y ago
For a Math.max function you would normally have generic comparables and implement on that. Go makes you implement max and min in all your codebases.
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by peterbraden 7y ago
Except there’s a big difference in people that go to food banks, and giant corporations that benefit from open source
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by peterbraden 7y ago
It's still a critical piece of the financial gateway into China.
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by peterbraden 7y ago
This is the American mentality - it's accepted that you will break the law, because it isn't being law abiding thats important, it's not getting caught. It's quite a different attitude to many places in Europe, where obe
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by peterbraden 7y ago
Chrome is getting more and more user hostile. At the moment you can't inspect a site's certificate without going into developer tools. Terrible decisions, the developers should be ashamed.
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by peterbraden 7y ago
They’ve already run out in some, and truck in water. Those with money are able to pay for fresh water.
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by peterbraden 7y ago
The problem here isn't Everest, it's poverty. Nepal is a very poor country. As much as everyone likes to hate on the rich people climbing mountains, they miss the fact that without the mountain, the people would be even worse off.
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by peterbraden 7y ago
There are other routes on Everest, they are just considerably harder and you won't be able to be dragged up them by a guide. Of course if you need to be dragged up by a guide you shouldn't be there to begin with.
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by peterbraden 7y ago
What makes you think that? The world is smaller than people think - I don't see anything unlikely about this sort of outdoor gear making it to Kenya or Peru.
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by peterbraden 7y ago
It's not double buffering - double buffering is just calculation into memory and then a memory update. VDOM is essentially calculating the buffer once in a scripting language, and then again in a fast way if necessary. Despite that, it
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by peterbraden 7y ago
Wrong, you owe the stock, not the purchase price.
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by peterbraden 7y ago
This is nonsense, I grew up in Scotland and travelled widely and I’ve never seen such a notice.
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by peterbraden 7y ago
I hope they don't. Having seen the jarring modern takes on stained glass inserted anachronistically into old church settings, I have little faith that 'new takes' are able to blend into old surroundings. There is beauty in re
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by peterbraden 7y ago
Do you have a spreadsheet template? Finding the efficient frontier and the relevant numbers seems hard?
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by peterbraden 8y ago
Remote work is a rounding error compared to the overall migration trends. Many jobs require presence, and this isn't going to change anytime soon.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
Because the migration to cities has been a large proportion of the increase in productivity over the last few centuries. It is more efficient to have urbanised populations. Rural life is already over-subsidized by urban centers.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
Some feedback - your website is very lacking in information about what your app actually does, what devices it works with etc. The blue "personal healthcare assistant" looks like a link but isn't. I'm curious about your
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by peterbraden 8y ago
Prefetching is going to waste data in a lot of the world where you pay by the megabyte. Everything is a tradeoff.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
Learn to use grep well.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
SBB in Switzerland is also profitable
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by peterbraden 8y ago
Of course, but pumped storage is about energy storage, not generation. It allows energy to be stored when generation is cheap, and then released at peak hours. It's remarkably efficient compared to most other storage systems.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
The API of a unix tool _is_ it's output.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
Russian roulette often refers to when a Ray has a random chance of terminating (being absorbed)
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by peterbraden 8y ago
Maybe I'm wrong, but the terminology isnt that clear. Path tracing is a sub field of Ray tracing - Ray tracing refers to the camera into scene Ray generation. What he describes as raytracing sounds like the whitted recursive algorithm.

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