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by polemic 13y ago
That's all true, and yet, not as terrible as LAX by a long shot. I've transited through Frankfurt around 20 times. It's certainly not a top airport, but for an airport of it's size it's efficient, clean and relative
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by polemic 13y ago
> "Donald Trump, billionaire and professional asshole, recently referred to American aiports as “third-world” compared to Qatar and Abu Dhabi. Mr. Trump failed to realize that most Americans will never be able to afford to go to Qa
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by polemic 13y ago
Also: "ROM"?
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by polemic 13y ago
The desire to pull down the entire patent system because of failures in the software industry is understandable, but misguided, and the proposed solution is completely unworkable. Patents [should] exist to recognize and reward real and subs
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by polemic 13y ago
> "Last weekend my baby had a fever, and we contemplated taking him to the ER, and my first thought was - had to be - “Oh God, that could wipe out our bank account!" For the sake of your family, consider moving somewhere in t
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by polemic 13y ago
That's true, although perhaps missing the point of the article. The example lets you used any particular image, rather than having to (for example) pull GeoJSON of the extent area, etc. It's a sweet hack.
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by polemic 13y ago
AFAIK 2.5% - 4% is about normal. A lot of that goes into marketing, bidding on projects, etc. It's not actually that shocking when you look at where the cost goes: it's not just "your time * multiplier", more like "
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by polemic 13y ago
> "He will know exactly what I charge the client and what I give to him out of that." In my experience this is exactly how traditional engineering firms work. It seems to work for them, I'm not sure why a software consul
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by polemic 13y ago
As the parent of two young children who are terrible sleepers I LOLed, then cried a little bit, then what was I talking about again?
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by polemic 13y ago
The point of the post was not to try to give you examples of discriminatory behaviour (and if you think that's the point of the blog post, you've missed the point entirely). When we, as an industry, create an atmosphere that degra
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by polemic 13y ago
Yes, people are actually outraged. Because it's outrageous. This isn't "political correctness", this is "how not to shit on the fellow members of our profession". Telling people to Lighten Up[1] is not an adequ
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by polemic 13y ago
Please read and understand this: http://therealkatie.net/blog/2012/mar/21/lighten-up/
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by polemic 13y ago
> "Sexism aside..." Well, there's your problem.
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by polemic 13y ago
"The crux of it is Microsoft is not good at R&D today." Where on earth did you hear that? Both Nokia and Microsoft are known for producing high quality products and investing heavily in R&D. The don't have a techn
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by polemic 13y ago
Going "off the rails" is, I believe, a fair response. It's easy to call out anger when it's a response the relentless passive oppression. But anger is the correct response. Often it's the only way to break through t
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by polemic 13y ago
> "...I think Microsoft ought to abandon Windows Phone. The war is over, and iOS and Android won." That's remarkably short-sighted. The first iPhone was released only 6 years ago, Android 5 years ago. You really think th
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IceCube Neutrino Observatory(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by polemic 13y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 13y ago
Love it. I know a bit of Finnish, and I can imagine that a programming language built on the principles of Finnish grammar would be beautifully expressive as well as extremely terse. For example, maybe '-ss' denotes 'class&#x
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by polemic 13y ago
Seems to me that a significant advantage of 'space solar' is that you can ditch a significant amount of ground based distribution infrastructure. Transformers are pretty efficient but lose about 2% per step up/down[1], power
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by polemic 13y ago
I don't buy it. You're exposing your users to massive risk in order to detect fraud on a product that effectively costs $0 for you to provide. I might understand it for a retailer that gets chargebacks for physical items shipped
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by polemic 13y ago
Anyone else thing this is ironic coming from Google, a company notoriously difficult to get assistance with their own products?
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by polemic 13y ago
> "approximately 120,000 transaction records from 2011 that contained hashed and salted credit card numbers have been accessed" Why oh why would you store the number. Utterly unnecessary for recurring billing.
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by polemic 13y ago
Courier companies are going to have to wise-up pretty quickly and realise that the operational benefit to accurate GPS tracking is far too important to risk using as an HR tool. At the end of the day, route optimisation can make or break a
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by polemic 13y ago
The death of Manifest Destiny... ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny )
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by polemic 13y ago
It's insane that a privacy policy is 3000 pages, yes. It's not insane that they should comply.
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by polemic 13y ago
It's amazing that intelligent people can assume that questions of memory, consciousness and thought cannot be answered by the natural sciences. Given our species long history of pushing back the boundaries of mysticism, fear and unce
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by polemic 13y ago
Also used in New Zealand: http://fyi.org.nz - it's awesome :D
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by polemic 13y ago
And: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/QR.rb This project isn't code, it's art. Edit: Heh, Brainfuck, Whitespace, Logo... and notice they're all in alphabetical order?
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VP of Engineering - "best of the best" = no more than 12 years experience?(jobscore.com)
116 points by polemic 13y ago|143 comments
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by polemic 13y ago
> "In the old days, a pilot had to do at least three takeoffs and landings in an empty airplane before being allowed to fly with passengers but that rule was relaxed due to faith in the fancy full-motion (Level D) sims and the stag

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