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by philbarr 8y ago
Google has the same problem. I was searching for information about Apache Chainsaw the other day, and at one point forgot to put the word "apache" in as a search term. Ended up with adverts for actual chainsaws for like a week.
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by philbarr 8y ago
tldr is really handy for that: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
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by philbarr 8y ago
A friend of mine used the "return home" feature of his drone and instead of returning home, it drifted off over the fence of the nearby BAE Systems establishment. He couldn't do anything except go home. Later in the pub he to
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by philbarr 8y ago
For Go, what are those means? (I'm just starting with Go so it would be useful to see how we get all that stuff)
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by philbarr 8y ago
For a start, you have a market because people are willing to wait in line for free furniture. Stop giving it away and clearly people will pay for it.
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by philbarr 8y ago
googling for "india death beef" gives you quite a few similar stories to choose from.
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by philbarr 8y ago
Those who can, do Those who can't, teach Those who can't teach, write Those who can't write, write man pages
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by philbarr 8y ago
Say what you want about Trump, he loves himself.
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by philbarr 8y ago
> EasyJet is like Ryanair but not crap Exactly - I've only been on two Ryanair flights and they were dreadful. It's like they were going out of their way to make it feel shit.
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by philbarr 8y ago
I would be surprised if Ryanair could keep going. Anecdotally, I know a number of people that will never use them again - either because they themselves have had problems or they know people that have. There's some real animosity growi
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by philbarr 8y ago
Are there sets of cards for known problems, such as learning language X, or is making the cards part of the learning process?
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by philbarr 8y ago
What? In what way did you manage to infer that I treat her like some kind of untamed beast? What a completely ridiculous and unnecessary personal attack.
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by philbarr 8y ago
The pull is pretty strong, and you can feel it pulling you out. When it's not pulling at you any more you can feel it. You can be quite a long way offshore before you're out of it.
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by philbarr 8y ago
a) I don't apply this philosophy to my entire life. b) It was mostly a joke - but I do happen to be exceptionally bad at this. I get frustrated about half an hour in and panic. I do other chores instead.
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by philbarr 8y ago
This is fairly good [0]. Note that knowing the "swim parallel to the shore" advice is solid, but that doesn't stop it being seriously scary if you get caught. You still need to be a good swimmer and you can still panic. I usu
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by philbarr 8y ago
I would think if you said, "I don't know how to swim, so I'm going to learn," good friends and acquaintances would be massively supportive?
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by philbarr 8y ago
I highly recommend learning to swim. It's an experience you don't get anywhere else. Just like learning programming though, it's frustrating to start. I know one guy who couldn't swim, took lessons, and now does scuba di
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by philbarr 8y ago
The trick to this is, just be exceptionally bad at it. My wife doesn't ask me for things anymore after I did the shopping and came back with almost nothing on the list, but with things I thought were probably reasonable replacements. &
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by philbarr 8y ago
"Carbon offsetting on the blockchain"...
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by philbarr 8y ago
Could you point us to any good resources you've come across?
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by philbarr 8y ago
Except you can still change something if it's on the blockchain, it's just that now you have an immutable record that it was changed. So now if things go wrong, the other party suddenly decides they liked the old contract (which y
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by philbarr 8y ago
That's interesting - what's the process there? Do you have to provide proof that they are used? Let's say they are accepted, do you then have to convince someone to create the glyphs? Do you have to add them to a current font
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by philbarr 8y ago
ah ok I see - you actually have to type "0". doh
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by philbarr 8y ago
ok, maybe dark pattern is a bit strong, but I clearly clicked the button thinking I could just download it, and instead was presented with a form to buy it. It's a least a little disingenuous.
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by philbarr 8y ago
not when I try it it doesn't
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by philbarr 8y ago
Highest professional enterprise standards my arse. Where's the message queues? Why isn't there a Fizz microservice and a Buzz microservice that live behind an API Gateway and receive messages from an event driven architecture?
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by philbarr 8y ago
Whilst this is pretty handy, I balked at the "let us submit for you for $89". Like - eek! Really?! Also - the "get the pdf version" is really a dark pattern since you're not allowed to download it without first payi
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by philbarr 8y ago
> Anyway everyone knows you don't find acid, acid finds you. What does that mean?
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by philbarr 8y ago
How about ranking posts by latest submitted comment? Excluding people that have already commented on the post and the submitter themselves.
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by philbarr 8y ago
Link for the curious: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44737793

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